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Salon announced this week that it would allow users to run a cryptominer instead of viewing ads as part of its revenue-generating efforts.
Schnorr signatures are seeing renewed interest from bitcoin developers. But what is the technology and why is it seeing so much attention?
The crypto industry may be struggling to move past all the emphasis on price alone – but tangible progress is being made on the technology today.
A controversial proposal that would seek to alter how ethereum's developers approach software changes saw debate at a meeting Friday.
After leaving the startup he co-founded, Greg Maxwell is focusing his energy on developing more efficient and more private bitcoin smart contracts.
Speculation on utility is a bad idea, but ICOs can be an appealing alternative to venture capital, argues the head of blockchain R&D at Santander.
Ethereum's developers are once again grappling with the issue of how to solve major fund losses on the world's second-largest blockchain.
Sounds like ethereum? A new idea being explored by two Blockstream veterans could stand to make a distributed blockchain web more accessible.
The researchers behind the SPECTRE project have developed another blockchain scaling solution called the PHANTOM protocol.
After a year in which the company suffered a high-profile hack, ethereum startup Parity is now moving forward on key project development.
The president of Venezuela has said the pre-sale of the country's proposed oil-backed cryptocurrency will launch next month.
Samsung is manufacturing bitcoin mining chips in partnership with an unidentified Chinese firm, according to an Asian news report.
Intel-contributed Sawtooth blockchain software has become the second code base to graduate from incubation by the Hyperledger blockchain consortium.
Ethereum Capital aims to raise $50 million to purchase controlling shares of ethereum-based startups and tokens.
A small Japanese startup is paving the way in ideating how bitcoin's experimental Lightning network could take shape on two fronts.
How likely is an end-of-days scenario for bitcoin? Not very, according to investor Sebastien Meunier in a piece that outlines the possibilities.
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.
Defining criteria for digital asset will move forward the whole industry and simplify the jobs of investors and regulators, says Pavel Kravchenko.
Just THE blockchain? A world of blockchains for blockchains is coming, and it might be closer than you think.
Ethereum is getting closer to deploying new technology that would allow the network to scale, its founder Vitalik Buterin said.
China's central bank is considering its own digital currency, but it may not be built with blockchain technology, according a senior official.
Early use of the Lightning Network is catching bugs, but developers are concerned that it could also slow down the building of bitcoin's second layer.
Mobius Network has raised $39 million in its token sale, opting to use the Stellar network instead of the more popular ethereum.
New academic papers dive into just how decentralized the most popular blockchains are, and how resistant they'd be to takeover by controlling force.
Even with a tumultuous past and harsh critics, stablecoin projects keep popping up, aiming to relieve some of the volatility in the crypto markets.
Transaction fees are the talk of the bitcoin ecosystem, with many users upset by the rising cost to send funds, but there are simple ways to cut fees.
The National Research Council of Canada is trialing the ethereum blockchain for recording government contracts.
The Opera web browser is now protecting smartphones from cryptocurrency miners embedded in websites, the company says.
It isn’t possible to have decentralization, a fixed money supply and sufficient liquidity for an efficient payments system, says Frances Coppola.
Organizers hope a new competition will spur security advances for Lightning, but also steer bitcoin debates in more constructive directions.