Blockchain

Cryptocurrency and blockchain were built to usurp centralized authorities like governments and banks. And then came Ripple, XRP a corporate and institutional reimagining of what a digital currency should be and do. Ripple has managed to make cryptocurrencies…

Enlarge/ An AT&T store in New Jersey. 4 with 4 posters participating When Michael Terpin's smartphone suddenly stopped working in June 2017, he knew it wasn't a good sign. He called his cellular provider, AT&T, and learned that a hacker had gained c…

Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler partners with blockchain company Riddle & Code to create a hardware crypto wallet for the auto industry (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)

The land registration process is still mostly complicated and inefficient in many countries of the world. There are three major problems associated with land registration at the moment: time delays, fraud, and human error. First, it can take an extremely lon…

Horizon Games, developer of a blockchain game distribution platform and an ethereum-powered game, raises $3.75M seed led by Alexis Ohanian's Initialized Capital (Brady Dale/CoinDesk)

I am starting to wonder if choosing a blockchain or a Web 3.0 approach is as much a lifestyle choice as a technological choice. Leaving aside the naming challenge (are we calling this blockchain, crypto, or Web 3.0?), I think it represents a movement of peop…

The words "permissionless" and "regulated" don't exactly go together. But Facebook's cryptocurrency project, Libra, is promising to adhere to regulations and be open to everyone, which may turn out to be a tough if not impossible task.  That's assuming there…

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Best-selling speculative-fiction author Neal Stephenson hopes no one really thinks that he could be pseudonymous bitcoin inventor Satashi Nakamoto. Its flattering that anyone imagines Ive got the mathematical know-how needed to make something like blockchain…