Blockchain

Facebooks cryptocurrencyLibra is reportedly on the verge of losing another one of its partners after Paypal pulled out of a key meeting in Washington on Thursday. According to the Financial Times, all 28 supporters of Facebooks digital currencyproject were s…

A lot of talk has been made about verifying valuable items on an immutable blockchain, but the main pioneer in this space has been Verisart, which appeared a few years ago to use a blockchain to create certification for the fine art and collectibles market. B…

MakerDAO, the decentralized organization that runs on Ethereum, ETH has disclosed an enormously dangerous security flaw that couldve allowed an attacker to steal all of the collateral powering its Dai stablecoin with a single transaction. The bug, if exploit…

October 2, 2019 9 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. According to McKinsey, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture and Bain, the biggest opportunities for investment, jobs and new opportunities are in five key emerging mark…

Interest in Bitcoin, the censorship resistant cryptocurrency, often spikes during times of political or economic unrest. Its no accident that Satoshi Nakamoto embedded a reference to the financial crisis in Bitcoins genesis block. Indeed, Bitcoin volumes hav…

The trustee in charge of recovering funds for investors affected by the iconic collapse of Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox is now seeking more information about Alexander Vinnik, the alleged former owner of defunct exchange BTC-e. The news was announced yesterday fo…

Skale Labs, parent to Skale Network, which develops a scalable and elastic blockchain network, raises $17.1M from Arrington XRP Capital and others (David Pan/CoinDesk)

The firm behind blockchain-powered cloud computing service EOS EOS must pay $24 million for violating US securities law with its initial coin offering (ICO). Block.one did not register its ICO as a securities offering pursuant to the federal securities laws,…

Two men have pleaded guilty for conspiring to launder money using Bitcoin after selling marijuana on the dark web. Connor Brooke and Aidan Curry, 25 and 23 respectively, gave their plea in federal court yesterday. The pair agreed to forfeit tens of thousands…

Pope Francis urged Silicon Valley giants on Friday to make sure technological advances such as artificial intelligence do not lead to a new form of barbarism where the law of the strongest prevails over the common good. Francis made his comments in an addres…