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Blockchain has a usability problem. So much so that when a dapp does does manage to break through and attract any attention from consumers (see, CryptoKitties), it’s big news. Most dapps are d...
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Stellar is the cryptocurrency designed for cross-border transactions, that’s also being used by IBM. Yesterday, Stellar announced its new logo. And people are in love with it. The new logo rep...
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The Bitcoin Lightning Torch is on fire, literally. It has passed through the hands of Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and Fidelity Digital, the crypto branch of financial giant Fidelity Investme...
The popular Ethereum software wallet MyEtherWallet today launched its open-source block explorer called EthVM. It aims to provide a more comprehensive service for Ethereum developers and a sim...
Spacebit.live is an interstellar messaging service that lets you broadcast encrypted missives to the depths of space itself. The site, which integrates with satellites leased by Bitcoin develo...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is a big Bitcoin fan. He has been bullish on the cryptocurrency’s chances of becoming the native internet currency, and bearish on the prospects of others. Bitc...
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PARIS—The second annual Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) opened its doors today, and, in the afterglow of Thursday’s successful hard fork, the atmosphere was positively buoyant. With hun...
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Late last week, the New York Times reported that Facebook has been leading discussions with crypto exchanges about listing its own cryptocurrency. That news came a scant three weeks after JPM...
Through landmark blockchain legislation over the last two years, Wyoming is doing everything it can to lure blockchain companies to head west—with several established players such as Cardano, ...
It was like just like New Year’s Eve, except the Ethereum Community on Twitter and Gitter were counting down with blocks instead of clocks. And, instead of champagne, popcorn flowed over compu...
Critics say that Augur—the crown king of smart-contract-based prediction markets—has a major flaw: outcomes of bets must rely on human “reporters” for verification. And humans, as we know, are...
Revolut and Monzo are bitter rivals. Recently, fintech startup Revolut got one leg up on its competitor by adding cryptocurrencies to its mobile platform. But despite calls for Monzo to do the...
A browser extension built on the Lightning Network that lets Twitter users “tip” other users’ tweets has received around 13,000 downloads, according to the developer behind the app, marking an...
Will this crypto winter ever end? According to ConsenSys, one of the high-flyers in the crypto run up of 2017, it already has. In conjunction with the ETHDenver hackathon held earlier this mon...
“When you come to a fork in the road take it,” Yogi Berra famously quipped. The baseball legend wasn’t talking about blockchains (in fact, he was giving directions to fellow player, Joe Garagi...
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An already crowded field of public blockchains competing for app developers and elusive app users just welcomed another contender: The Internet of Services Token, or IOST. Headquartered in Bei...
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Bitcoin has caused quite the storm over the last ten years. Since its inception in October 2008, the crypto has been more controversial than Eminem, used to buy more drugs than Snoop Dogg and ...
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When Mariano Conti wanted a loan for a new Ford Focus, he didn’t go to a bank. Instead, he drew a loan from himself, leaving his assets with himself as collateral, before paying himself back o...
Earlier this month, Fold, a mobile application that enables anyone to use Bitcoin at major retailers such as Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Chipotle, ran a successful initiative using the Ligh...
NEW YORK—After a month of intense speculation, lead Ethereum developer Vlad Zamfir confirmed Friday that he would be joining New York-based startup CasperLabs, in a paid role, to work on a new...
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