Tech giant Microsoft is once more accepting bitcoin payments after it halted transactions in the cryptocurrency last week. | Continue reading
Venezuela's opposition-run congress has declared that a planned new oil-backed cryptocurrency called the petro is illegal. | Continue reading
Mason Borda is a tech entrepreneur focusing on blockchain infrastructure and security. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of TokenSoft Inc, a crypto treasury management and white label token sale platform. The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk's 2017 … | Continue reading
Cheap and abundant electricity, cold weather and a stable political climate are making the Canadian province attractive to bitcoin mining operators. | Continue reading
Not only in size, but also in scope: the messaging app provider wants to bring crypto payments to the masses and decentralize online communication. | Continue reading
Finance regulators in South Korea are reportedly looking to cooperate with authorities in China and Japan on new rules for cryptocurrency trading. | Continue reading
Several firms seeking to list exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to bitcoin have withdrawn their filings at the request of officials from the SEC. | Continue reading
A long-standing proposal to bring "smarter" smart contracts to bitcoin's main net has just taken one step closer to implementation. | Continue reading
U.S. technology firm Kodak has announced that it will launch its own cryptocurrency, with plans to host an initial coin offering (ICO). | Continue reading
A lawmaker in Nebraska has filed a trio of bills focused on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. | Continue reading
Malaysia's securities market watchdog has issued a cease-and-desist to a startup ahead of its planned initial coin offering (ICO). | Continue reading
The Swiss government has launched a new initiative to cement its regulatory framework surrounding blockchain startups and ICOs. | Continue reading
The price of ether, the native token of the ethereum platform, is bucking the downtrend seen across the top 10 cryptocurrencies. | Continue reading
JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon now reportedly regrets calling bitcoin a "fraud," though he is still not a fan of the cryptocurrency. | Continue reading
Smart contracts provider Mobius has successfully raised $35 million in a token presale based on the Stellar network. | Continue reading
With ether price reaching all-time-highs, fundamental issues that relate to the most basic operation of ethereum's blockchain are popping up. | Continue reading
Bitcoin is on the back foot today, despite yesterday's sharp recovery from $14,000 levels. | Continue reading
Investment services firm TD Ameritrade sees cryptocurrencies as the "greatest opportunity" to get millennials to trade, says its chief strategist. | Continue reading
The deputy governor of Israel's central bank has said that digital currencies like bitcoin are more of a financial asset than a currency. | Continue reading
Long-term, the incentives bitcoin creates may drive efficiency and green energy solutions in the crypto world and even spur them in the wider economy. | Continue reading
GPU maker Nvidia has tweaked its software license agreement to limit the use of its products by data centers – unless they're mining cryptocurrencies. | Continue reading
Pharma heavyweights open up about how they envision a blockchain system improving the research and development process of new drugs. | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies may be in a market mania, but that interest will spark a new wave of blockchain growth according to Deloitte's top blockchain lead. | Continue reading
South Korea's financial regulators began inspecting commercial banks to monitor their compliance with new cryptocurrency exchange rules. | Continue reading
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Fort Worth branch joked about the recent fad of companies adding "blockchain" to their names on Twitter. | Continue reading
Chinese bitcoin mining pool ViaBTC has announced that it will close its marketplace for mining contracts this week. | Continue reading
A state legislator in Vermont has proposed a bill to create a regulatory framework for blockchain tech, including a transaction tax payable in crypto. | Continue reading
CoinMarketCap, perhaps the go-to source for cryptocurrency market data, has sparked an uproar after it moved to exclude South Korean exchanges from its price average calculations. The unannounced move to remove data from Bithumb, Coinone and Korbit from its average calculations s … | Continue reading
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has halted trading of a Hong Kong-based firm UBI Blockchain. | Continue reading
Ripple's XRP token is down more than 30 percent today, amid losses across the wider cryptocurrency market. | Continue reading
Banks excited about their blockchain work may do well to monitor their signal-to-noise ratios in 2018. | Continue reading
The founding director of the government-backed Delaware Blockchain Initiative has departed for a consultancy based in the state. | Continue reading
Medici Ventures, a subsidiary of online retail giant Overstock.com, has led the seed funding round of mobile voting platform Voatz. | Continue reading
Bitcoin is looking weak today after prices failed to hold above $17,000 levels at the weekend. | Continue reading
An Indian lawyer has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to force action on the regulation of cryptocurrencies in the country. | Continue reading
IBM and Comcast Ventures are backing a blockchain investment fund aiming to scale early stage start-ups focused on enterprises. | Continue reading
The lawyer who's filed more crypto class actions than any other speaks out on his outlook on the blockchain industry. | Continue reading
The crypto markets may be divorced from fundamentals, but that doesn't they're devoid of patterns and rhythms you can read. | Continue reading
There's never enough eyes out there looking for threats against internet users. Take the recently disclosed Specter and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities, which showed how threats can linger for years undetected. Though as much as such giant engineering failures get attention, e … | Continue reading
We've bought in, but how much are these assets really worth? Turing Group's top quants talk about a major token challenge ahead. | Continue reading
Last year, lawyers and law firms finally got over themselves and worked together in the blockchain space. In 2018, such teamwork will be critical. | Continue reading
If the U.S. government just tries to go after each problematic example of crypto on an ad-hoc basis, it'll never get ahead of the issue. | Continue reading
Ripple's recent price rise could lead to a self-fulling cycle of appreciation for the cryptographic asset. | Continue reading
The cryptocurrency market may have exceeded expectations in 2017 – but there's plenty of goals left on the industry wishlist. | Continue reading
Newly discovered computer vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre could have an impact on cryptocurrency users. | Continue reading
The Texas State Securities Board ordered BitConnect to halt its upcoming token sale, which the regulator deemed an unregistered securities offering. | Continue reading
Overstock.com just got a fat chunk of change from a big-name investor, and CEO Patrick Byrne says much of it will fund the company's blockchain work. | Continue reading
The former beverage company is buying $4.2 million of AntMiner gear and setting up a mining facility in a Nordic country, according to an SEC filing. | Continue reading