Kleiner Perkins is Using Blockchain Tech to Incentivize its Founders
Investment firm KPCB Edge has gone public with Edgecoin, a private blockchain it’s using to reward its startup founders.
Investment firm KPCB Edge has gone public with Edgecoin, a private blockchain it’s using to reward its startup founders.
A newly introduced proposal for how the bitcoin network can be scaled to handle greater transaction volumes is gaining traction among developers.
Microsoft has issued an update to its blockchain toolkit offering, revealing it is exploring how to add Ripple's Interledger protocol.
Highlights of day two of Scaling Bitcoin included the debut of segregated witnesses and a roundtable discussion between developers and China's miners.
Bitcoin mining firm BitFury is currently being sued by its former chief financial officer (CFO), according to court documents obtained by CoinDesk.
Blockchain technology startup Chain will be shutting down its free bitcoin API service at the end of this year.
Dogetipbot has announced it will go open-source just over one year after raising $445,000 from investors including Blackbird Ventures.
West Virginia University’s Student Government Association is debating whether to use a blockchain-based voting platform for its upcoming election.
Visa Europe discusses why it is using the bitcoin blockchain as part of its new proof-of-concept for the remittance market.
Microsoft has added a new decentralized application to its Ethereum blockchain-as-a-service toolkit introduced in October.
CoinDesk goes under the hood of Nasdaq's first blockchain product Linq, a platform for private shares trading.
Bitcoin Core developers including Gavin Andresen expanded on their larger vision for bitcoin development at an MIT event yesterday.
A $50m venture fund backed by Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang has announced a new blockchain-focused grant program.
The Plantoid, debuted at last month's Ars Electronica festival, relies on bitcoin to stay alive and – once it has enough – even reproduce.
San Francisco's new software engineering school, Holberton, has announced it will tackle fake degrees using bitcoin technology.
The number of reachable nodes has declined further following an 'attack' that overloaded the bitcoin network.
Ripple has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Kefi Labs, the makers of a social photo-sharing app called Ripple.
Nearly one year after the release of its white paper, bitcoin technology startup Blockstream has released its first commercial sidechains application.
CoinDesk breaks down Multichain, a private blockchain solution for banks that has seen a growing number of downloads.
CoinDesk speaks to Ripple about Interledger, its new protocol aimed at connecting bank and blockchain ledgers.
CoinDesk speaks to developers seeking to update the functionality of bitcoin's technology to allow for cost-effective micropayments.
Alternative blockchain project Ethereum has released new details about the state of funding collected during its initial crowdsale.
A new proposal called Bitcoin-NG is envisioned as a solution to "inherent problems" in blockchain design, both in bitcoin and alternative ledgers.
A California politician has become embroiled in a growing controversy surrounding an altcoin and investors who say they’ve been duped.
The Connecticut Technology Council has partnered with blockchain startup Tierion for a trial that finds it using the technology for recordkeeping.
ItBit has hired former NYDFS general counsel Daniel "Danny" Alter as its general counsel and chief compliance officer.
BitFury has announced it has completed the tape-out for its 16NM ASIC bitcoin mining chips.
More than 30 bitcoin developers and contributors have signed a letter that discusses how the project aims to achieve consensus for scalability.
CoinDesk previews developer Ryan X Charles' forthcoming decentralized Reddit project, now known as DATT.
Jeremy Almond, CEO of payments-as-a-service platform PayStand, examines whether blockchain technology can rescue the last bastion of analog payments.
