The number of wagers being placed in cryptocurrency has seen a significant rise this year according to a report by US Racing. Considering the benefits that it can offer the sector, punters and bookies alike might look more to cryptocurrency bets as a means…

Every time someone holds up an example of a *bad thing* associated with Bitcoin, shaking their head sadly at my life choices and telling me that criminals love crypto, I feel like giving them a good wake-up slap. Healthy skepticism about a new technology…

CoinMarketCap mobile app. The cryptocurrency price-tracking website, CoinMarketCap, has released a new mobile app and logo ahead of the site's fifth anniversary of operations. One of the most popular sites visited in 2018, CoinMarketCap has had 60m unique…

Like NEO and Ethereum, Lisk is a dApp platform that uses smart contracts powered by LSK tokens to provide developers with a foundation to create magic. Lisk has many admirers in the blockchain industry, and has created strategic partnerships with major players…

A Coinbase Chicago move way well be in the cards as the crypto exchange, known for its fiat-to-crypto trading pairs, looks to attract more talent to help develop the technology used in its professional trading arm, GDAX. Coinbase has already attracted a former…

The Merculet ICO (MVP Token) offers a new protocol suite that leverages blockchain to capture and monetize consumer attention. Although the team is very strong, and enterprises love new customers, the roadmap for a two-sided market that depends on mass consumer…

Today, let’s look at bloXroute, a network abstraction layer for blockchains (plural). Their focus is to create an agnostic infrastructure that can be leveraged by all blockchains. They basically claim Immediate 100x scaling. All blockchains. No protocol changes.…

Steem stands out among social aggregation sites. Not only is Steemit blockchain-based, it also has a sizable (and knowledgeable) user base of content creators. The Steem model - which rewards creators for sharing their work - has already led to a top-1500…

Telegram cancels ICO: the encrypted messaging service reportedly decided to scrap plans for a public offering for its cryptocurrency, known as grams. Highly anticipated, the decision was apparently taken after two private sales managed to raise $500m more…

Slowly but surely, the investment banks are creeping toward the grudging acceptance that Bitcoin is, in fact, a thing, and that it may well remain a thing for a long time to come. Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street bank, is opening a Bitcoin trading desk. Is…

Our nOS ICO preview reveals a highly anticipated NEO-based project offering a virtual operating system and gateway to the decentralized internet. The nOS ICO places the principle of transparency at the heart of the operating system. nOS tokens confer authority…

Although there are concerns that privacy coins could be used for illegal activity, there is a real need for users to be able to separate their identity from their transaction history. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was bad, but it could represent just the…

A Coinbase listing is the crypto equivalent of the Holy Grail for the community behind a token. Aside from the obvious benefits - including an exponential spike in the price and volume - Coinbase listings expose tokens to a much wider audience, increasing…

Zcash is a cryptocurrency just like Bitcoin and Litecoin, but with a few improvements. It uses cryptography and shielded transactions to control user privacy on a public ledger. Journalists and doctors and teachers and lawyers and aid groups need anonymity…

Phantasma wants to do something several people have considered before now: they want to create a decentralized system for emails, and content distribution so that artists can get paid properly, and do it all securely and with encryption and so on and so on.…

As cryptocurrencies continue to swing upwards, is the possibility of a trillion dollar crypto market more than just wishful thinking? As projects move away from the whitepaper phase to real utility, so can their value be expected to rise.

Jeopardy! is full of tough questions, but one clue last night had millions of crypto-investors yelling into their screens. The answer was: “In December 2017 one unit of this cryptocurrency was worth 15 times more than an ounce of gold.” Any clue what the…

The Solana ICO is a yet another addition to the race of high-throughput blockchains. On the homepage, visitors are greeted with a figure showing Solana will support up to 710k transactions per second (TPS) on a 1gb network without data partitioning. No wonder…

Singapore residents may soon be lining their pockets with digital currency—literally. Tangem,  a Switzerland-based technology firm, has begun selling preloaded Bitcoin “smart notes” to the Island country, allowing residents to interact with cryptocurrency…

Coinbase News. The popular American exchange has said in an open letter that it is planning to double its transaction capacity. In an open letter to New York's Attorney General, the exchange disclosed it had also doubled the size of its full-time engineering…

Bitcoin is big money for credit card companies, or so Mastercard seems to think. In its earnings call this week, the world’s second largest credit card issuer admitted that its quarterly growth was lower than expected, due to a drop in cryptocurrency purchases.