By Laura Desmond The hype around blockchain is massive. To hear the blockchain hype train tell it, blockchain will now: Solve income inequality Make all data secure forever Make everything much more efficient and trustless Save dying babies   What the heck is a blockchain, anyway? And can it really do all these things? Can […]

A bitcoin ATM manufacturer based in Prague says it has installed 10 new cryptocurrency-dispensing machines throughout the European city’s subway system. The company, General Bytes, posted a map on its website showing where the bitcoin ATMs are located in 10 different metro stops in the city of 1.3 million in the Czech Republic. The machines can be used to […]

By Alex Mardikian With digital signage, you can reach out to potentially thousands of people. You don’t want the communication to be sabotaged in any way. Not just your communication with an audience, a security lapse or hack can place sensitive data at risk and seriously impact not just a brand’s value but also its finances. […]

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported today, May 2, that Telegram’s plan to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) has been scrapped. The fact that the messaging app raised enough money already through their two private ICO rounds was cited as the reason for the decision. An unnamed source told the WSJ that Telegram has decided not to hold […]

The Delaware State Legislature recently passed Delaware State Senate, 149th General Assembly, Senate Bill №69: An act to Amend Title 8 of the Delaware Code Relating to the General Corporation Law, henceforth referred to as ‘The Act’. As a result, Delaware General Corporation Law now explicitly allows for the use of blockchains to maintain corporate share […]

America’s most popular destination for company incorporation has updated its laws to allow for the tokenization of public or private stocks and shares. Two-thirds of all members elected to each house in the state of Delaware have passed a number of amendments that legally allow for the use of blockchain technology to maintain corporate share registries. […]

Bitcoin’s (BTC) bulls have staged a defense after nearly a month of losses, but a short-term bullish trend reversal is not yet confirmed, the technical charts indicate. As of writing, the cryptocurrency is up 5 percent at $7,487 on Bitfinex, having clocked a four-day high of $7,560 earlier today. A minor corrective rally had been […]

After a year-long initial coin offering (ICO), what has perhaps become the most hotly anticipated blockchain is scheduled to launch on June 2. That blockchain is EOS, which has raised more than $2 billion in its token sale for Block.one, the company that created what’s being touted as a dramatically more scalable and user-friendly version of […]

Austria’s Financial Market Authority has barred a cryptocurrency mining firm from operating, alleging that the company violated the nation’s banking laws. The regulator announced Tuesday that it had “prohibited the business model of INVIA GmbH,” a mining firm, claiming that it was offering an unauthorized Alternative Investment Fund in violation of the Austria Banking Act. […]

Ethereum classic (ETC) is set to fork in the coming days as part of a bid to diffuse a so-called ‘bomb’ in its code. Set for block 5,900,000, the change, in which all users of the original ethereum blockchain will need to update their software, is meant to disable a feature that is designed to increase the difficulty […]