Blockchain

French tobacconists are getting another chance to sell Bitcoin BTC coupons after the scheme had to be suspended earlier this year. Local media has reported that the scheme will restart today, allowing 5,200 tobacconists to sell coupons that can be redeemed f…

A Singaporean man faces over 30 years in prison for masquerading as a Californian games developer to illicitly obtain cloud computing power to mine cryptocurrency, an FBI investigation has revealed. US authorities indicted Matthew Ho, 29, with 14 counts rela…

Sextortion phishers are pivoting away from Bitcoin BTC to alternative cryptocurrencies to avoid being caught by email filters, ZDNet reports. In particular, some sextortionists now rely on Litecoin, as major email providers automatically flag suspicious emai…

In fact, Gartners Hype Cycle a graphical representation of the life cycle stages a technology goes through from conception to maturity and widespread adoption shows most blockchain technologies are still five to 10 years away from transformational impact. So…

The total transactional volume of blockchain apps (dapps) across the six major dapp-centric networks hit just $2.03 billion last quarter, down by nearly 40 percent. More troubling, just 148 dapps launched in Q3 of this year. Thats less than the monthlyaverag…

Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency has hit the front page; accordingly, President Donald Trump is hitting back. Rather than embracing cryptocurrency and blockchain, hes sounding the Twitter alarm. Despite being a free-world leader, his stance is hardly free-think…

Vanguard Group, the investment advisor with assets under management (AUM) in excess of $5 trillion and the largest provider of mutual funds in the world, is testing a new currency trading platform, reports Bloomberg citing a person familiar with the matter. B…

Since its inception in 2009, Bitcoin has made and ruined fortunes, helped sell fentanyl and books about cryptocurrency, withstood literally millions of jokes and just as many predictions of imminent collapse, andthrough a process opaque to most people, myself…

When you buy The Other Bar, an experimental new chocolate bar designed to fight global poverty, the candy comes with a choice: Inside the package, you can scan a code to donate a blockchain token to the farmers in Ecuador who produced the cocoa, or use it to …

PayPal is the first company to walk away from Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency. PayPal’s decision to take its ball and go home was first reported by The Wall Street Journal . “PayPal has made the decision to forgo further participation in the Libra Associati…