By Laura Desmond How major Bitcoin narratives changed over time Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself I am large, I contain multitudes. – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Perhaps the most enduring source of conflict within the Bitcoin community derives from incompatible visions of what Bitcoin is and should become. Businesses building on […]

By Milenna Miller FOMO3D is a blockchain game that currently has $12 million in ETH at stake, with all of it locked up in a very bizarre-looking set of rules. But upon closer inspection, the rules aren’t so strange. In fact, it turns out to resemble a scaled-up version of a classic game in behavioral […]

Tickets for the first music festival set to be powered by blockchain technology are now on sale. Scheduled for this fall, the Our Music Festival is launching its own virtual currency — the OMF token — at its inaugural event in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. It will be the first musical entertainment experience to process booking […]

Malta continues to be the center of attraction for innovative solutions in the crypto space with yet another announcement that promises to provide a solution for cryptocurrency exchanges to provide fiat withdrawal solutions. This time it will be a partnership between the Berlin-based Neufund company and the Polish cryptocurrency exchange Bitbaywho have teamed up together to set up […]

The players’ union for the National Football League (NFL) is partnering with a blockchain startup to help athletes license products on a decentralized network. Announced Tuesday, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) plans to encourage its members to provide commentary, livestreams and other content for the FanChain platform, thereby earning revenue for themselves outside […]

By Laura Desmond Ethereum co-founder Buterin Vitalik believes that the crypto community has focused too much on ETFs rather than making cryptocurrency easier to use as a method of payment for everyday purchases via payment cards, according to a recent tweet. An ETF will benefit cryptocurrency prices, he believes, but making it easier for people to […]

Tezos may be one of the most controversial cryptocurrencies out there, and not because of the disruptive power of the coin, but because of how it has been run as a company. High Aspirations Tezos was originally developed with the goal of creating a “self-amending” cryptocurrency that wouldn’t end up becoming fragmented by hard forks […]

Will social media empress Kim Kardashian help bring more users to bitcoin? Matthew Roszak, co-founder of Bloq and other cryptocurrency initiatives, must have thought so when he presented the social media titan a physical bitcoin during the First Annual “If Only’ Texas Hold’Em Charity Poker Tournament,” an event he announced on Twitter. Kardashian was among the celebrities that hosted tables […]

Price Watch: Bitcoin increased nearly 9% this week after a non-trivial gain of 18% last week. The price was all over the place this week, increasing by nearly 5% overnight to the $7,700 level. Other coins, including the recently launched Augur, suffered as bitcoin’s price continued to rise. The prices further rose on Tuesday to nearly $8,300 as altcoins continued to […]

Google has now joined Apple in banning cryptocurrency mining applications from its mobile app store. According to a report from a industry media outlet Android Police on Thursday, the internet giant revealed its shift in stance in a recent policy update for Google Play developers. “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices. We permit apps […]