Tech

Bitcoin Protocol

Grasping Lightning: Mapping the Key Players in Bitcoin’s Next Phase

All kinds of groups are developing for lightning, the likely future of bitcoin payments. Here's a guide to notable players and projects.

Tech  ·  17 January 2020
EOS

Block.One Will Not Launch Its Social Network on EOS

In a departure from earlier announcements, the company now says its Facebook rival, Voice, "will be run on a purpose-made EOSIO blockchain."

Tech  ·  17 January 2020
Developers

Ripple-Backed Crypto Wallet BRD Launches Blockchain Toolbox for Enterprise Apps

The mobile wallet provider is launching a suite of tools aimed to allow blockchain developers to more easily and cheaply build apps for enterprises.

Tech  ·  17 January 2020
Wallets

Watch Civic’s CEO Talk About His New Cross-Border Payment System

The Civic Wallet is a noncustodial money transfer system that uses your face instead of complex keys.

Tech  ·  17 January 2020
Artificial Intelligence

Fake News on Steroids: Deepfakes Are Coming – Are World Leaders Prepared?

What 2018 and 2019 were to blockchain and cryptocurrencies on the WEF stage (met with a healthy mix of intrigue and skepticism), 2020 will be to synthetic media, also known by the ominous-sounding euphemism “deepfakes.”

Tech  ·  16 January 2020
Bitcoin

JPMorgan Veterans’ Kadena Launches Public Blockchain, Integrates Wallet to Cosmos Network

Kadena, a startup spun out of JPMorgan’s blockchain center, has taken a step toward its vision of creating interoperable, scalable public blockchains with a full launch Wednesday.

Tech  ·  15 January 2020
Ethereum

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Launches Testing Ground for Blockchain Interoperability

The EEA is launching testnet to iron out interoperability issues between commercial ethereum projects.

Tech  ·  15 January 2020
Factom

Off-Blocks Launches US Government-Tested Digital Signature Service in Beta

Digital signature platform Off-Blocks is bringing its Department of Homeland Security-tested file verification tool to the public.

Tech  ·  14 January 2020
Hard Forks

Ethereum Classic Successfully Completes ‘Agharta’ Hard Fork

Similar to the network’s last backwards-incompatible upgrade in September, Atlantis, Agharta makes ethereum classic more interoperable with sister-chain ethereum.

Tech  ·  12 January 2020
Security

Hardware Is Hard: Two Blockchain Devices Win Plaudits at CES 2020

A blockchain-secured smartphone and home security camera won Innovation Awards at the annual trade show in Las Vegas. But don’t call the startups behind them hardware companies.

Tech  ·  11 January 2020
Bitcoin

Is Bitcoin in 2020 Really Like the Early Internet?

Bitcoin may be behind the internet’s timeline in terms of commercial use cases, but it has already achieved comparable social functions.

Tech  ·  11 January 2020
Collectibles

WatchSkins Is Creating Digital Collectibles for Your Wrist

A company called Watch Skins wants to turn digital wearables into new ways to express yourself – and let you own a piece of unique digital property, too.

Tech  ·  10 January 2020
Hacking

AT&T’s Cybersecurity Branch Breaks Down Crypto Miner Threat to Email Servers

A new technical analysis from AT&T Alien Labs offers an inside look at how a pernicious form of monero mining malware infiltrates email networks.

Tech  ·  9 January 2020
Mining Malware

Interpol Leads Operation to Tackle Cryptojacker Infecting Over 20,000 Routers

The international crime fighting agency led an operation to stem a plague of cryptocurrency mining malware afflicting computer routers across Asia.

Tech  ·  9 January 2020
Trading

Crypto Trading Privacy Gets a Boost as $15M of Tether Moves to Liquid Sidechain

Innocuous at first glance, the transfer of $15 million worth of USDT from ethereum to Liquid has big implications for the tether market and digital asset trading more broadly.

Tech  ·  8 January 2020