Korea Exchange Talks Top-Down Approach to Blockchain Innovation
The Korea Exchange opens up about its strategy on blockchain tech and why it is investigating how it could be used to open new markets.
The Korea Exchange opens up about its strategy on blockchain tech and why it is investigating how it could be used to open new markets.
In this opinion piece, one bitcoin CEO argues that Satoshi Nakamoto's identity does matter, despite claims otherwise from the community.
Half of the proceeds from an apparently errant bitcoin transaction have been donated by the recipient mining pool.
As Silvergate Bank prepares to give its 16th bitcoin account its CEO talks about how he got in the business of working with digital currency startups.
The Obama administration should move quickly to embrace bitcoin and blockchain technology, a former government regulator has argued in a new op-ed.
The Australian government has officially responded to a Senate report that offered regulatory recommendations for digital currencies.
CoinDesk has released its latest "State of Blockchain" report, analyzing news and events from Q1 2016.
Financial institutions may have more limited ways to harness the technology than previously thought, one researcher argues.
New details have emerged in the ongoing class action suit against the now-defunct digital currency exchange Cryptsy.
Fidor Bank CIO Patrick Gruban takes CoinDesk inside a recent tech trial it conducted using the Ethereum blockchain.
Distributed marketplace OpenBazaar pubished its plan to integrate with the Tor browser, IPFS, and to build a mobile app with chatbot integration.
NATO is on the lookout for military-grade blockchain proposals in a technology innovation contest.
Speakers from all over the world stole the show at the Consensus 2016 blockchain conference last week. Here are 10 quotes that defined the show.
Fluent, a startup focused on supply chain applications of the blockchain, has raised a new seed funding round.
Ether prices experienced only modest movements on 9th May despite its listing on a major US exchange.
The founder of Liberty Reserve, a private digital currency system that was a predecessor of bitcoin, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The research arm of SWIFT released a new report today which argues that blockchain won't replace all third parties in securities trade.
The city of Zug, Switzerland, will pilot a bitcoin payments project that will allow local citizens to pay fees using digital currency.
Blockchain industry startups are attempting to capitalize on a growing disillusionment with traditional social media platforms.
After months of testing, bitcoin's long-sought scaling solution Segregated Witness is moving forward to launch.
Bitcoin may now have a fee market, but that reality doesn't mean the network has optimized for this environment, developer Jameson Lopp argues.
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From lodging to lip balm, the decentralized bitcoin marketplace OpenBazaar is already home to a surprising variety of wares.
Bitcoin has had a quiet week, experiencing low trading volume and rather modest price changes despite the Craig Wright controversy.
CoinDesk speaks with a senior researcher from Imperial College London's cryptocurrency R&D efforts.
The Austrian and German governments are funding a research effort focused on the use of digital currencies in organized crime.
With cell phones and blockchain technology, the creation of a self sovereign identity becomes a reality which individuals can control themselves.
In this opinion piece, investor and Civic founder Vinny Lingham offers a bullish outlook for bitcoin, reversing his predictions from two years ago.
Daniel Cawrey looks at how Ethereum's potential in blockchain experimentation will help bring about a new digital asset-based economic paradigm.