Crypto Tech

Blockchain is hard enough to understand and talk about, let alone build. But in a surprise announcement, the creator of the proof of stake (PoS) consensus algorithm, Sunny King, says the sector needs to make it easier for anyone, even those…

If there’s one thing the mainstream business media and their allies in banking managed to achieve in 2018, it was to throw shade on the entire blockchain industry. There’s no proven use-case. It’s a work-in-progress. It’s better-handled…

ConsenSys Developers, take note: if things don’t work out with the blockchain, there’s still  plenty of money on the Tangle. The IOTA Foundation is offering bounties totalling over 200,000€ to anyone who can crack their new trinary hashing…

How often has the average cryptocurrency investor heard “blockchain, not bitcoin” ramble across their feeds? Or now, “bitcoin, not blockchain?” Often cryptocurrency is heavily associated with blockchain, but there are other protocols and…

Dash (DASH) has surged nearly 12% over the past 24 hours after the No. 12-ranked cryptocurrency project announced rollout of mobile- and merchant services in Latin America where it's seeing increased adoption. Dash's price increased from…

Ever wanted your own digital coin for a social club or business? Enjin (ENJ) on Thursday launched Mintshop, a digital minting platform that creates customizable tokens based on Ethereum's ERC-1155 standard. The Singapore-based blockchain…

Ten years ago, on October 31, 2008 an unknown person or entity called Satoshi Nakamoto published the revolutionary whitepaper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" which birthed a $200 billion crypto industry and game-changing…

What Is Holochain? Holochain is a distributed computing network that may perform faster than blockchain technology. It is claimed to have infinite scaling capacity through peer-to-peer networking, so that as distributed applications are…

It's been a big week for Blockfolio, the most popular cryptocurrency portfolio tracker in the world. First they announced their Series A funding - an $11.5M VC boost led by Pantera Capital. Now they're unveiling their completely reworked…

A project with ambitions to become the world's leading tools provider for front-end blockchain designers will fully integrate with the ICON (ICX) and Aion (AION) blockchains. Blockchain product and service provider, CryptoCurve,…

What Are Grin And MimbleWimble? Grin coin is an implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol. Grin aims to be a scalable privacy coin that has no addresses, no amounts, and is therefore less storage intensive than other privacy coins and…

Here’s a fun bit of trivia: which company runs the largest cloud computing network for rendering graphics? Is it Pixar, whose 24,000-core-data center qualifies as one of the world’s top supercomputers? Or Amazon Web Services, with an…

With investors scattered all over the world, communication is essential in the cryptocurrency sector. Companies in the space want news about them to be accurate and fair.  Teams update followers through a variety of different media, but…

Daisy AI has taken a step towards becoming the stock and cryptocurrency forecasting tool of choice by signing a deal with Streamr Marketplace. The partnership will make Streamr the exclusive provider of real-time data for Daisy AI's deep…

"What's in a name?" Juliet asks in her famous balcony scene. The answer is, quite a lot. No one's going to buy tickets for a Robert Zimmerman* concert, and Maurice Micklewhite** just doesn't seem like a name for the movies. And it's a lot…

BlackBerry used to be a name on everybody’s lips, but the former king of instant messaging has changed direction. The company has recently revealed a new blockchain platform that can store and share medical data. They've already started…