Blockchain

Telegram was founded in 2013 by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who previously launched Russian social network VK (vKontakte). The messaging service has grown from strength to strength and currently has around 300 million users. However, Telegram is increa…

Genvid Technologies has raised $27 million in funding for its interactive streaming engine. Galaxy Interactive, the division of merchant bank Galaxy Digital led the round, which brings the startup’s total funding raised to $47 million. New York-based Genvid‘…

Bitcoin fell below the $7,000 mark on Sunday for the first time since May. The price of bitcoin BTCUSD, -4.45%   was last around $6,850, according to Coindesk, after slumping about 24% over the past month. In June, the leading cryprocurrency topped $9,000…

Inside the collapse of Quadriga crypto exchange, as law enforcement, accountants, and Reddit sleuths try to figure out if it was a legit operation, or a scam (Nathaniel Rich/Vanity Fair)

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be…

The fintech world is big, and funding is flooding into startups like robo-advisors, neobanks, and alternative lenders.  In the third quarter this year, total fintech funding topped $8.9 billion, a record when adjusted for Alibaba's fintech Ant Financial's $1…

November 21, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Financial technology (fintech), for all of its faults, helps us get more things done more efficiently. Artificial Intelligence (AI) takes it even further, allowing…

Halsey Minor, founder of Cnet, has a new startup called Live Planet that hopes to use decentralized technology to disrupt pay-per-view programming in the U.S. The Los Angeles-based company is announcing today that it has a partnership with InDemand, a big tr…

Newsbrief: Mythical Games, the blockchain-based game studio established last year by a group of former Activision devs, has raised $19 million in venture funding.  The company specializes in creating digital ecosystems around player-owned economies, and want…

Blockchain startup Bison Trails, a founding member of Libra Association, raises $25.5M Series A led by Blockchain Capital with Coinbase, Consensys participating (Robert Stevens/Decrypt)