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…

Online gambling Is a $52 billion global industry. The Augur Ethereum-based decentralized oracle and prediction market is seeking to disrupt this industry using its REP token. It’s been in development since 2014 and its beta is online, enabling bets on anything.…

Our Oasis Labs review focuses on Ekiden Protocol, a new blockchain built to address the issues of scalability and security without sacrificing cost. An impressive team of seasoned entrepreneurs leads the Oasis team: and the prototype boasted 100x less cost…

California has a history of eccentric candidates, from Ronald Reagan to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now there’s a crypto candidate too, a self-proclaimed 'technodemocrat', and he’s planning to rebuild the Tyranny of the Majority - wait, sorry - democracy, with…

There’s another contender for America’s wackiest presidential candidate, and he’s likely to gain the support of every Bitcoin hodler above eighteen. John McAfee—the drug-cooking, crypto-shilling, probably-own-dick-munching antivirus tycoon who spent half…