Cryptocurrency

Researchers earn credibility by surviving peer review. When scientists submit papers to journals, experts read them and hunt for mistakes. If the work withstands that scrutiny, the journal publishes i

Brave New Coin polled Bitcoin users today about the block size question that's consumed the community for months. The survey tilted toward American respondents, and most bought Bitcoin as an investmen

Blockstream President and co-founder Adam Back recently appeared on the Epicenter Bitcoin podcast to tackle Bitcoin's centralization challenges. Whereas many in the Bitcoin ecosystem focus their conce

Bitcoin has not gained traction in Africa. Francois Harris, who runs Bitcoinzar, a South African site for bitcoin enthusiasts, puts the number of real users in stark terms. \"Real bitcoin users, who ar

CardCash.com now lets users buy discounted gift cards using bitcoin, with BitPay handling the transactions. The company describes itself as the web's largest secondary gift card marketplace. It buys a

Venture capital flowing into bitcoin this year has matched the previous record, set in 2014. When investors of this caliber concentrate capital in an emerging sector, it signals conviction. These firm

Adam Back proposed privacy enhancements to Bitcoin, but Bitcoin Core developers wouldn't implement them. Back responded with a different idea: sidechains. Back discussed his thinking during an interv

Bitcoin's most cited vulnerability centers on the 51% attack, a scenario where one miner or pool controls enough of the network's hashing power to manipulate the blockchain. While mining power consoli

Last weekend Barclays worked the press circuit on Bitcoin and blockchain. The Sunday Times broke the story first, then the Daily Mail, Arstechnica and outlets across the web picked it up. Through mult

Sync, a Canadian cloud storage company, started accepting Bitcoin payments this week through BitPay. The move addresses growing customer concerns about storing sensitive files online. Cloud storage s

Last week, executives from major Bitcoin firms put their names on a document backing larger block sizes and Gavin Andresen's BIP 101 proposal. BitPay's top payment officer Stephen Pair was among the s

Bitcoin's lead developer Wladimir van der Laan offered new insights into the block size debate when speaking with MiningPool, clarifying his position as the scaling dispute continues to fracture the

Gavin Andresen, the Bitcoin Foundation's Chief Scientist and a leading Bitcoin Core developer, recently explored the merits of centralized leadership during an appearance on Epicenter Bitcoin. Co-host

Coinbase expanded operations into Canada on August 31, making the exchange accessible to Canadian citizens and enabling them to trade CAD/BTC pairs. As part of the launch, Coinbase is waiving retail c

After leaving CoinTelegraph, I disclosed information about the publication's practices. The current CEO and co-founder, who arrived after the site's founding, attacked me on ZapChain. She characterize

CoinDesk has partnered with the MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative to make their Consensus conference more inclusive. The initiative distributes 50 complimentary passes to women and underrepr

Entrepreneurs have built some substantial companies around Bitcoin, yet the network itself remains too fragile for widespread adoption. If the world's population tried to use Bitcoin tomorrow, the sys

Augur's fundraising push exceeded three million dollars, despite Bitcoin's sliding price. The decentralized prediction market struck a chord across the cryptocurrency world, drawing far more attention

Bitcoin has been around for six-and-a-half years, but questions still remain when it comes...

PayPal has expanded its mobile commerce arsenal through the acquisition of Modest, a startup dedicated to bringing frictionless shopping experiences to smartphones and tablets. The company will integr