Thiel's comments about China “weaponizing” bitcoin to hurt the U.S. are a warning about the cost of inaction.
Twelve years after its creation, regulating bitcoin is still complicated in most countries. That's just one of the investment risks.
"One thing is clear: this is a serious project now, and we need to start taking decentralization seriously," said Wladimir van der Laan.
Bitcoin price spikes grab headlines, but the asset's long-term value depends on its developers – and what drives them.
The bug sheds light on the challenges of Bitcoin's decentralization. At least we've got 86 years for the community to join together and implement a fix.
All kinds of groups are developing for lightning, the likely future of bitcoin payments. Here's a guide to notable players and projects.
Bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille unveiled two proposals today that offer new plans for bitcoin's possible next big upgrade.
The bitcoin community is currently immersed in an experiment called the “lightning torch," and it's reached 37 countries so far.
Spongebob Squarepants term "wumbo" has been appropriated to describe one of the next milestones for bitcoin's lightning network.
Conflux, a scalable blockchain project with a Turing Award-winning co-founder, has raised $35 million from backers including Sequoia and Baidu.
The SEC would like to establish jurisdiction over crypto assets but this is only appropriate where there are legally enforceable contracts between legal entities, argues Edan Yago.
Developers have proposed testing the Dandelion privacy mechanism on large number of active nodes.
It's time to get rid of your bitcoin "dust," some developers argue. CoinDesk explains why.
Bitcoin Core developer, Alex Morcos has been working for years to make sure bitcoin transaction fee estimation tools are smarter.
When SegWit finally activated last week, the code change didn't immediately make its benefits possible. So, when can we expect to see some benefits?