Programming Blockchain Can Change How You See Bitcoin
Jimmy Song's Programming Blockchain workshop taught me about a lot more than bitcoin.
Jimmy Song's Programming Blockchain workshop taught me about a lot more than bitcoin.
However distant it may seem, powerful quantum computers have the potential to ruin cryptocurrency, and developers are already devising solutions.
Giving away free money isn't as simple as it sounds in crypto. In fact, an upcoming plan to do just that is being labeled an attack by some.
Little-known startup Loom Network claims it's ready to take on ethereum's thorny scaling problems with a centralized version of sidechains.
Big investors are lining up to back the startup behind the most advanced implementation of bitcoin's in-development Lightning Network.
Upcoming legislation in the U.S. could have an impact on cryptocurrency use in the sex industry, and those affected are speaking out.
You've probably heard of "forks," a way of making changes to cryptocurrencies. Now researchers are realizing there's a new kind.
Chinese telecoms and electronics giant Huawei has been secretly working on a project designed to gauge the abilities of various blockchains.
An ethereum event provided evidence that when it comes to a path forward on governance, the world's second-largest blockchain is going its own way.
ZhongAn Technology, a subsidiary of Chinese online insurer ZhongAn, hopes to patent a blockchain solution for protecting digital media against piracy.
In a keynote speech at an ethereum developer meetup last week, JP Morgan's blockchain lead opened up about her thinking on the tech and its future.
One of Japan's largest electric companies is intrigued by bitcoin's early-stage Lightning Network, so much so they're testing it out.
Comedian John Oliver rightly warned his audience about the risks of cryptocurrency, but his comparisons to Beanie Babies and gambling missed the mark.
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.
Scams, death, network takeover attacks. There's no shortage of strange ways users can lose money in the cryptocurrency wild west.
What is XRP? How is it different from bitcoin? CoinDesk looks at the tech behind the crypto market's third-largest asset.
A years-long intellectual debate on bitcoin's technological roadmap has spilled over into Twitter, resulting in a wave of suspicions and shadowbans.
Vitalik Buterin discussed a new idea Friday for a scaling solution that envisions how the capabilities of the ethereum blockchain might be expanded.
The promise of private ethereum smart contracts remains undiminished, though a conference this week showcased that challenges that persisting today.
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has said it plans to compensate victims of its January hack starting next week.
The non-profit dedicated to advancing ethereum has awarded $2.5 million in grant funding to various projects looking to improve the ecosystem.
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has revealed a new technology that it says could help to mitigate problems with ethereum's smart contracts.
An experimental San Francisco service is seeking to entice bitcoin users to explore the its in-development Lightning payments network.
The crypto mine launched by Japanese IT firm GMO Internet has generated more than $3 million in revenue over the past three months.
Researchers wade into the centralization debate, setting out data analysis they think could help shed light on the issue.
A top computer science researcher took aim at one of ethereum's biggest expected future upgrades Friday calling it "fundamentally vulnerable."
A new software release prepares zcash for its upcoming hard fork that is set to activate in June.
Competition is heating up in the ethereum ecosystem, now that scaling project Liquidity.Network has launched in test mode.
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.
Blockchain governance is shaped by much more than protocol rules: the underlying internet rails, social norms, markets and laws all have an influence.
