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Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s True Stress Test Is Yet to Come

What happens if there's another 2008-scale financial market crisis? Will diehard HODLers still resist liquidating their bitcoin assets?

Markets  ·  5 November 2018
Regulation

No, Bitcoin Isn’t Secretly Messing with the Mid-Term Elections

Take it from someone who's actually received crypto campaign donations.

Policy & regulation  ·  5 November 2018
Ethereum

Ethereum Energy Project Now Powers 700 Households in 10 Cities

Little-known ethereum project Lition is live and quietly helping German citizens hunt down cheaper energy options.

Tech  ·  5 November 2018
Bitcoin

Builders on Wall Street: Bitcoin Devs Host Lightning Hack Day

At the Lightning Hackday, it was hard to keep up with all the futuristic ideas for bitcoin's layer-two, but some devs are focusing on the basics.

Tech  ·  4 November 2018
Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoin Brought Us a New World We Could Have Only Imagined

It's been 10 years since bitcoin's white paper appeared and opened up a whole new world of possibilities, says BitGo's Mike Belshe.

Tech  ·  3 November 2018
Exchanges

Binance Signs Up 40,000 Crypto Traders in Its First Week in Uganda

Unlike its parent company, Binance Uganda handles fiat currency (in partnership with a local mobile payment provider) and requires full customer ID.

Markets  ·  1 November 2018
Exchanges

Coinbase’s Emilie Choi: $300 Million Raise Was ‘For a Rainy Day’

Coinbase's $300 million Series E was about a "war chest" for expansion, not necessity, says Emilie Choi, its VP of corporate and business development.

Business  ·  1 November 2018
Bitcoin

Planting Bitcoin Part Four: Gardening

Once Satoshi's design for Bitcoin's genetic code was planted, it became time to nurture its development as a wholly new form of money.

Tech  ·  31 October 2018
Privacy

Promise: A Startup Based on an Anonymous Paper Plans to Replace ACH

With $47 trillion flowing through it every year, ACH is a juicy target for blockchain disruption. Can a new startup called Promise pull it off?

Business  ·  31 October 2018
Bitcoin

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword? Bitcoin’s White Paper Proves It

The pen is mightier than the sword, or so Satoshi Nakamoto proved with bitcoin.

Tech  ·  31 October 2018
Tether

Crypto Wallet Maker Ledger to Expand Support for Stablecoins, Including Tether

Benjamin Soong, Ledger's newly hired head of Asia-Pacific operations, says tether remains popular in the region despite the token's recent troubles.

Business  ·  31 October 2018
Ethereum

This New Ethereum Software Client Is Built With Enterprises in Mind

Unlike other enterprise versions of ethereum, ConsenSys' new Pantheon has a less-restrictive software license and uses Java as a programming language.

Business  ·  30 October 2018
Polkadot

Parity to Help Zcash (the Currency) Gain Independence From Zcash (the Startup)

The Zcash Foundation is partnering with an ethereum startup on a project that could boost interoperability across the crypto ecosystem.

Business  ·  30 October 2018
Bitcoin

The New Effort to Get Bitcoin’s Lightning Network In Every Browser

Devs are looking to make bitcoin's layer-two lightning network compatible with a payment standard used by all major browsers – and so far, so good.

Tech  ·  30 October 2018
Bitcoin

Planting Bitcoin  Part Three: Soil

The bitcoin white paper wasn't written for no one. It was a carefully targeted message designed to bootstrap growth.

Tech  ·  29 October 2018