In an exclusive interview, Yassin Hankir of Savedroid explains the reasons for his exit scam PR stunt, and details how it happened. From his anger over scammers who tried to hijack his ICO, to faking a $50M heist, to a global manhunt and a visit from the…

Blockchain ideas are a dime a dozen right now, and entrepreneurs have scrambled to fill every available niche. There’s blockchain insurance, a bitcoin pawnshop, and various contrivances to chain up anything you can imagine—including a few really, really strange…

Arweave ICO (AR Token) is looking to enter the crowded storage space with a new blockchain consensus model, Proof of Access. Despite (or perhaps because of) a team new to the startup world, their progress is strong, they have partnerships in place, and Arweave…

Arweave code review by Andre Cronje - investigating this young team's contention that they have 'solved' the problem of permanent data storage using a new blockchain consensus mechanism called 'Proof of Access'. Can the Arweave ICO live up to their bold claims?…

The possibility of 51% attacks is far likelier than ever before. According to Husam Abboud, shared hashing algorithms, large mining pools and the ability to profit from a price decline has brought the security of PoW fundamentally into question. The days…

London-based Populous differs from other cryptocurrencies in that it focuses on the niche of invoice financing. Its beta, which launched May 1, 2018, combines blockchain technology, XBRL data, and the Altman Z-score for an in-house credit rating system to…

Verge is much more centralized than it appears - mainly because the 'Brain Trust' behind it could fit comfortably in a fairly small closet. The impossible trilemma - scalability, security and decentralization - is exposed again and again through hacks and…

The Coda code review here examines a protocol that basically aims to keep cryptocurrency decentralized and inexpensive so that blockchain verification is available to anyone. Here we go, decentralization, scalability, security all in one? They claim a "constant…

Trademark law is no laughing matter, and a UK-based store has been ordered to stop infringing on another company’s trademark. The offending material? T-shirts with the word “Bitcoin.” But some attorneys consider the Bitcoin trademark indefensible, as Bitcoin…

Marx might not have liked Bitcoin, but one socialist titan is betting hard on Blockchains. In a speech, President Xi Jinping elaborated on the country’s “grand blueprint," and singled out several frontiers for technological research—among them space travel…

Crypto mining explained. Mining is something of anathema in the crypto community: it is widely known about but what exactly it is, is a different story. This article hopes to give as comprehensive a run-down of what mining is for reference in the future.

Binance has introduced a new way to deal with the Tether Bomb - an affectionate term for the fact that nobody really knows if the fiat currency to back a couple of billion dollars is actually there or not. You can now exchange Tethers (USDT) for True Dollars…

Ripple just lost half a billion dollars in market cap, at least until someone finds Matthew Mellon’s key. His unexpected death left hundreds of millions of dollars in blockchain limbo, and his family is scrambling to find a way to access them. 

In partnership with the American Idol-affiliated Starmaker App, a platform designed to give musicians fair pay for their work, ICST, has announced the launch of its own blockchain talent competition: ISCT Idol. The winner will be announced at the end of June…

Quick Essentia code review, it's a data interoperability ICO, some funny terminology here - "Essences" are data owners, private or corporate, "Synergies" are the links designed to help data services operate. Sure, why not. But hey, they call their robot assistant…