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Bitcoin

Thomson Reuters Is Using Your Feelings About Bitcoin to Make Investors Rich

Thomson Reuters has launched a bitcoin analysis product that uses AI to analyze how industry insiders feel about the cryptocurrency.

Markets  ·  12 March 2018
Bitcoin

Why the ‘Worst’ Crypto Networks Will Be The Biggest

From a network design perspective, bitcoin is ugly. As with as city, you have to experience it from a bottom-up perspective to understand its allure.

Tech  ·  12 March 2018
Bitcoin

Ponzis and Death: The Stranger Ways to Lose Crypto

Scams, death, network takeover attacks. There's no shortage of strange ways users can lose money in the cryptocurrency wild west.

Tech  ·  12 March 2018
Zcash

Overwinter Is Coming: Zcash Moves Closer to First-Ever Hard Fork

A new software release prepares zcash for its upcoming hard fork that is set to activate in June.

Tech  ·  2 March 2018
Bitcoin

‘Bitcoin Private’ Is Here, But What’s It Worth?

A fork of a fork of a fork? A new cryptocurrency just launched that's nearly identical to zcash, but commentators are questioning its value add.

Tech  ·  2 March 2018
Governance

No Blockchain Is an Island

Blockchain governance is shaped by much more than protocol rules: the underlying internet rails, social norms, markets and laws all have an influence.

Tech  ·  28 February 2018
Markets

Litecoin Cash Has Forked But It’s Hardly Trading

A scheduled plan to launch a new cryptocurrency by forking the litecoin blockchain is finding little love from major data aggregators and exchanges.

Markets  ·  22 February 2018
Mining

In 10 Years We Won’t Have Blockchains

Instead, we may have something that does what a blockchain does, only faster, cheaper and scalable. It'll look more like a graph than a linear chain.

Tech  ·  17 February 2018
Hard Forks

No, ‘Litecoin Cash’ Isn’t Bitcoin Cash All Over Again

Litecoin cash, that's like bitcoin cash, right? As always in crypto, branding might be deceiving when it comes to a new upstart project.

Tech  ·  16 February 2018
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Isn’t the Only Crypto Adding Lightning Tech Now

A spate of major cryptocurrencies are looking to lightning network-like systems as part of an effort to scale their platforms for more transactions.

Tech  ·  15 February 2018
Bitcoin

Blockstream Devs Depart for New World Computer Project

Sounds like ethereum? A new idea being explored by two Blockstream veterans could stand to make a distributed blockchain web more accessible.

Tech  ·  5 February 2018
Exchanges

Red Tide: Double-Digit Losses Sweep Crypto Asset Market

The cryptocurrency markets are a sea of red today, with all the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap reporting double-digit percentage losses for the last 24 hours (at press time). Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped 16 percent over the same period to 10-week lows below $8,000, and is heading towards its worst weekly loss (more than […]

Markets  ·  2 February 2018
Bitcoin

I Don’t Hate Cryptocurrency, But…

Angel investor and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis argues that the cryptocurrency boom will end badly for most investors.

Markets  ·  31 January 2018
Zcash

Latest Zcash Ceremony Used Chernobyl Waste

Zcash's latest private Powers of Tau ceremony used nuclear waste in a small aircraft to generate random code, helping to ensure the network's privacy.

Tech  ·  28 January 2018
Tokens

The Opportunity for Interoperable Chains of Chains

Just THE blockchain? A world of blockchains for blockchains is coming, and it might be closer than you think.

Tech  ·  27 January 2018