From Banking to Voting: How Bitcoin’s Blockchain Is Expanding Beyond Digital Currency
While Bitcoin trades steadily around $414 this March, the real story isn’t the price — it’s the technology underneath. The […]
Bank of England Deputy Governor Champions Blockchain as Revolutionary Financial Infrastructure in Landmark LSE Address
On March 2, 2016, Bank of England Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent delivered a groundbreaking speech at the London School of
Five Blockchains, Forty Banks: R3 CEV’s Enterprise Trial Puts Distributed Ledger Tech Head-to-Head
The blockchain industry is witnessing a pivotal moment as R3 CEV, the New York-based fintech innovation company, completes what it
Hong Kong Consensus Meeting Brings Bitcoin Miners and Developers to the Table as New Research Exposes Scaling Limits
The Core Concept On February 20, 2016, a pivotal closed-door meeting takes place in Hong Kong that brings together Bitcoin
Decred Mainnet Goes Live With Revolutionary Stakeholder Governance Built Into Consensus
The Core Concept On February 7, 2016, a new cryptocurrency project called Decred released its mainnet binaries under version 0.0.1,
Bitcoin Drops Below $380 as Developer Exit Sparks Sell-Off Across Early Crypto Markets
TL;DR Bitcoin fell to $380.29 on January 28, 2016, down over 11% from the start of the month Mike Hearn’s
Bitcoin Classic Emerges as New Contender in the Block Size War — What It Means for the Network
TL;DR Bitcoin Classic launched as a new client proposing a 2 MB block size increase, splitting from both Bitcoin Core
BIP 9 Proposal Could Streamline Bitcoin Protocol Upgrades With Parallel Soft Fork Deployment
A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal is gaining attention across the cryptocurrency community as developers search for better ways to upgrade
Lightning Network Whitepaper Ignites New Hope for Bitcoin Scaling Amid Growing Block Size Crisis
The Core Concept On January 14, 2016, while the cryptocurrency community reels from Mike Hearn’s dramatic exit and declaration that
Bitcoin Defies Critics With 40% Annual Gain as Best-Performing Currency of 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, Bitcoin has silenced its skeptics by emerging as the best-performing currency of the year.