Bitcoin's main development team is taking its first steps toward democratizing and lower barriers to entry to its ongoing tech efforts. | Continue reading
This opinion piece explores possible blockchain applications in the healthcare space beyond hospitals and clinics. | Continue reading
Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange Gatecoin has reportedly experienced a hack, resulting in losses from its connected wallets. | Continue reading
Local authorities in Taiwan are said to have arrested a man believed to have orchestrated a bitcoin trading platform scam. | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices fluctuated little in the week ending 13th May, staying largely between $450 and $460 amid lackluster trading volume. | Continue reading
The New York Police Department winning an award from the Financial Crimes Enforcement network after tracing a series of bitcoin transactions. | Continue reading
A Bank of Japan official said this week that central banks should watch developments surrounding bitcoin and blockchain "closely". | Continue reading
A Japanese blockchain startup has reportedly raised $6.2m in a new Series A funding round. | Continue reading
CapGemini took its latest step on its bid to dramatically increase its investment in blockchain tech this week, announcing a retail payments trial. | Continue reading
A leaderless, distributed organization raised $50m worth of ether to invest in sharing economy projects, but how it came to be is largely a mystery. | Continue reading
Big data company Palantir says it has no involvement with a Hong Kong cloud mining service that claims to be owned by it. | Continue reading
A representative for a US think tank spoke before a Congressional committee yesterday on blockchain's role in health care. | Continue reading
The Korea Exchange opens up about its strategy on blockchain tech and why it is investigating how it could be used to open new markets. | Continue reading
Half of the proceeds from an apparently errant bitcoin transaction have been donated by the recipient mining pool. | Continue reading
As Silvergate Bank prepares to give its 16th bitcoin account its CEO talks about how he got in the business of working with digital currency startups. | Continue reading
The Obama administration should move quickly to embrace bitcoin and blockchain technology, a former government regulator has argued in a new op-ed. | Continue reading
The Australian government has officially responded to a Senate report that offered regulatory recommendations for digital currencies. | Continue reading
CoinDesk has released its latest "State of Blockchain" report, analyzing news and events from Q1 2016. | Continue reading
New details have emerged in the ongoing class action suit against the now-defunct digital currency exchange Cryptsy. | Continue reading
Fidor Bank CIO Patrick Gruban takes CoinDesk inside a recent tech trial it conducted using the Ethereum blockchain. | Continue reading
Distributed marketplace OpenBazaar pubished its plan to integrate with the Tor browser, IPFS, and to build a mobile app with chatbot integration. | Continue reading
NATO is on the lookout for military-grade blockchain proposals in a technology innovation contest. | Continue reading
Speakers from all over the world stole the show at the Consensus 2016 blockchain conference last week. Here are 10 quotes that defined the show. | Continue reading
Fluent, a startup focused on supply chain applications of the blockchain, has raised a new seed funding round. | Continue reading
Ether prices experienced only modest movements on 9th May despite its listing on a major US exchange. | Continue reading
The founder of Liberty Reserve, a private digital currency system that was a predecessor of bitcoin, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. | Continue reading
The research arm of SWIFT released a new report today which argues that blockchain won't replace all third parties in securities trade. | Continue reading
The city of Zug, Switzerland, will pilot a bitcoin payments project that will allow local citizens to pay fees using digital currency. | Continue reading
Blockchain industry startups are attempting to capitalize on a growing disillusionment with traditional social media platforms. | Continue reading
After months of testing, bitcoin's long-sought scaling solution Segregated Witness is moving forward to launch. | Continue reading
Bitcoin may now have a fee market, but that reality doesn't mean the network has optimized for this environment, developer Jameson Lopp argues. | Continue reading
Interested in trading ether? Here are some basics about the Ethereum market you should know before buying in. | Continue reading
Is the blockchain community too focused on futurism? In this opinion piece one developer argues the answer is yes. | Continue reading
From lodging to lip balm, the decentralized bitcoin marketplace OpenBazaar is already home to a surprising variety of wares. | Continue reading
Bitcoin has had a quiet week, experiencing low trading volume and rather modest price changes despite the Craig Wright controversy. | Continue reading
CoinDesk speaks with a senior researcher from Imperial College London's cryptocurrency R&D efforts. | Continue reading
The Austrian and German governments are funding a research effort focused on the use of digital currencies in organized crime. | Continue reading
With cell phones and blockchain technology, the creation of a self sovereign identity becomes a reality where individuals control of themselves. | Continue reading
In this opinion piece, investor and Civic founder Vinny Lingham offers a bullish outlook for bitcoin, reversing his predictions from two years ago. | Continue reading
Daniel Cawrey looks at how Ethereum's potential in blockchain experimentation will help bring about a new digital asset-based economic paradigm. | Continue reading
The Australian government has proposed several ways to address issues related to the application of goods-and-services tax to digital currencies. | Continue reading
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have invested in ether as part of the lead-up to the launch of Ethereum trading on their Gemini platform next week. | Continue reading
The last day of Consensus 2016 featured a workshop discussion on standards for blockchain development. | Continue reading
New York bitcoin exchange Gemini has officially added its second digital currency, ether, the token that powers the Ethereum network. | Continue reading
CoinDesk interviews Abra CEO Bill Barhydt on why he believes his startup is poised to be the "WhatsApp for payments". | Continue reading
This blockchian startup is helping BNP Paribas build a foundation for open source law. | Continue reading
In a stunning reversal, Craig Wright says he will not provide any more proof that he is the creator of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. | Continue reading
Bitcoin markets experienced little change on 2nd May in response to Craig Wright’s claim that he is the digital currency’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. | Continue reading