Pan-African Insurer Old Mutual Will Not Insure Mining Rigs
South African insurance company Old Mutual has refused to insure mining rigs in Africa, making it harder to protect cryptocurrency gear there.
South African insurance company Old Mutual has refused to insure mining rigs in Africa, making it harder to protect cryptocurrency gear there.
One of Canada’s leading research universities is launching a blockchain tech training path for graduate students.
The plaintiff alleges Zerocoin did not have authority to issue common stock to employees when he was hired.
For Breaking Bitcoin 2019, technologists gathered in Amsterdam to explore the future of bitcoin.
Outspoken blockchain analyst Tim Swanson is joining Clearmatics, one of the top rivals to his former employer R3.
Ethereum developers can now start coding specialized smart contracts called "secret contracts" that leverage the Enigma protocol for data privacy.
Visa's B2B Connect payments service, in part built with Hyperledger Fabric, has officially gone live.
Blockchain payments company Ripple has launched in Brazil as the first stage of its planned expansion across South America.
The Nasdaq-owned financial data platform for institutional investors is adding cryptocurrency reference prices from CryptoCompare.
KB Kookmin, the largest bank in South Korea, is partnering with a blockchain startup to launch a digital asset custody offering.
Telegram's gram token, previously sold to accredited investors in one of the biggest-ever ICOs, is to be offered to the public via a third party firm.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will continue to regulate cryptocurrency use in the country, senior officials have said.
Insurance brokerage Aon has lined up coverage for institutional clients of crypto custody tech provider Metaco.
So-called lightning network "watchtowers" – a much-anticipated next step for securing the network – are coming soon.
Sixteen million in Series A for a crypto upstart that has already courted Galaxy Digital and Genesis Global Trading.
Programmed to boost rankings, increase liquidity of tokens, and sabotage competitors, bots are challenging the integrity of Dapps.
Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project.
The startup behind the privacy-centric bitcoin app Wasabi Wallet recently brought together 100 people to collectively execute a "CoinJoin" transaction.
Over 500,000 tourists visited Western Siberia in 2018, according to regional authorities, who are hoping a digital ecosystem will attract more.
Fresh on the heels of the addition of EOS, Coinbase is adding ethereum stablecoin DAI to its Earn program.
The six-year-old site suffered after a change in Google's search rankings. Today it shut down.
Employers can now pay their workers' salaries in ether through crypto payroll startup Bitwage.
The venture capital arm of the U.S. National Association of Realtors has invested an undisclosed amount in blockchain real estate startup Propy.
Retail giant Target has quietly entered the blockchain space, working with Hyperledger on supply chain solutions.
"Next-generation" cryptocurrency Zilliqa has announced the launch of smart contracts on its platform.
The G20 has reaffirmed it will apply standards to counter money laundering and terrorism funding, soon to be finalized by the Financial Action Task Force.
A new hardware partnership is helping the team behind Samourai Wallet extend their obsession with privacy to the world of bitcoin nodes.
Low electricity costs make Iran a popular mining destination. That could change.
Cryptography advances are converging to help developers bring blockchain uses to their core decentralizing principles, writes Michael J. Casey.
For academics, bitcoin, and more broadly crypto, is an exciting space where the ideas they write up in papers actually get built and tested.
