Blockchain

A developing technology called blockchain has gotten attention from election officials, startups, and even Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang as a potential way to boost voter turnout and public trust in election results. I study blockchain techno…

TLDR: The Complete Blockchain and Ethereum Programming Bundle help you understand cryptocurrencies and its root technology for under $30. Everybodys got an opinion about cryptocurrencies and their future place in international finance. As leading cryptos con…

Say it with me: Bitcoin is not anonymous.  Three hundred and thirty-seven alleged members of a massive dark web child pornography website were reminded of that fact last year when they were arrested by a global coalition of law enforcement. According to a De…

Those who follow me on Twitter (and you should, because Im funny) know I have some strong feelings about the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. In short, I think its the equivalent of Herbalife for nerds, with bad technology thats propagated by a Dickensian…

Buying tickets for a Broadway show can involve an awful lot of unwelcome drama, so it’s not surprising that some of the theater industry’s biggest players are looking for ways to make ticket buying more secure. One possible solution to ticket fraud is blockch…

Facebook sent the world into a frenzy when it announced its intention to enter the paymentsspace with the launch of its controversial cryptocurrency Libra earlier this year. Initially, Facebook said it had garnered support from 28 companies, including some o…

One of the victims of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam is receiving death threats for her actions against the con artists. According to the BBC, Jen McAdam from Glasgow is receiving messages threatening sexual violence and death from people whom she believes …

Libra could use a return to balance. Even by Facebook standards, its been a tumultuous few weeks for the companys nascent cryptocurrency effort. First came the departure of PayPal, the old haunt of Facebook blockchain guru David Marcus, from the Libra Associa…

Criminals who distributed the Sodinokibi ransomware threat earned a huge payday from victims who paid the requested Bitcoin ransom. According to researchers at McAfee, who tracked down several posts published on underground forums, one particular distributor…

Announced at Ethereum Foundation's Devcon 5 conference in Osaka, Japan, OpenLibra is described as an "open platform for financial inclusion," with a telling tagline: "Not run by Facebook." OpenLibra aims to be compatible with Libra in a technical sense, meani…