Fiat Currencies Are About to Become Essential to Public Blockchains
If we want blockchains to deliver upon their promise, we must be able to transact using traditional fiat currencies, EY's blockchain lead writes.
If we want blockchains to deliver upon their promise, we must be able to transact using traditional fiat currencies, EY's blockchain lead writes.
Early results from elections on the neo blockchain suggest the world's 12th largest cryptocurrency may be struggling to deliver on promised claims.
Civic secures a high-quality URL from a longstanding internet company, raising the profile of the whole blockchain industry.
What began as a parody quickly became a coin. Soon it might – might – become its own blockchain. What is happening?
Data shared with CoinDesk shows a rapid spike in betting on Augur, a decentralized platform that's been live for just a few days.
The much-publicized partnership that would have resulted in digital media brand Kodak's name appearing on a series of bitcoin miners is no more.
Highly-respected bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille unveiled a draft document outlining the technical makeup of bitcoin's likely next major upgrade.
A much-talked-about deal between a cryptocurrency non-profit and a bank saw cheers and jeers this week, and all sorts of reactions in between.
CoinList, arguably the top site for listing token sales, has chosen TrustToken as the fifth ICO to be hosted on its website.
Tether, the company behind the dollar-tied USDT, has hired a chief compliance officer from the eighth-largest bank in North America.
Charles Hoskinson explains cardano's iterative approach to security, and how its interaction with academic gives it an advantage over other designs.
The results of a nationwide bitcoin survey conducted December by the Bank of Canada are now in.
Kik CEO Ted Livingston created the kin token so people could easily buy and sell digital stuff online. Now he's paying devs to make the stuff.
Torrent website The Pirate Bay is doubling down on its plan to use visitors' processing power to mine crypto.
A platform for creating decentralized prediction markets, which held one of the first-ever ICOs, has gone live. Finally.
The second half of the Neo Council's airdrop of ONT tokens is finishing up. Now NEP-5 ONT holders need to migrate to Ontology's mainnet.
Completing small tasks by "bounty hunting" for cryptocurrency is becoming a lucrative career for users in less advantaged regions of the world.
The long-awaited reveal of the private keys, once able to trigger a bitcoin alert system, occurred Monday via an email from Bitcoin Core devs.
The ambitious project thinks token-based governance can tackle not just censorship, but fake news, echo chambers and journalism's other crises.
The ethereum network is seeing new levels of congestion with rising use, a development that is spurring proposals for technical improvements.
Chinese bitcoin mining giant Bitmain has reportedly closed a Series B round funding, which values the firm at approximately $12 billion.
Technologists unveiled a foundation dedicated to rewriting bitcoin's underlying tech, giving the long-controversial idea new wings.
Bitcoin will eventually come to replace government-backed fiat currencies, Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees argued at a debate Monday.
A recent magazine cover attracted international commentary. After all, it isn't every day that relative unknowns are touted as "Bitcoin Kings."
The creator of zcash has prompted controversy after revealing details about his salary at a conference focused on the privacy-centric blockchain tech.
Tron is in the process of electing "super representatives," but who's behind the wheel until the votes are in?
Attempts to sort out the results of hacks and scams have resulted in a constitutional crisis.
Members of the zcash community have voted not to prioritize ASIC resistance.
Developer Jonathan Wheeler plans to airdrop bitcoin across Venezuela, in an ambitious attempt at quelling the country's ongoing economic crisis.
The most popular dapps face unique barriers to full decentralization that don't have much to do with the normal scaling complaints about ethereum.