Crypto News
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Rootstock Raises $1M to Enable Smart Contracts on the Bitcoin Blockchain
Although smart contract projects on private blockchains such as Ethereum are gaining a lot of attention, smart contracts on the Bitcoin...
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Mediachain: Protect Digital Content With a Bitcoin-Based Metadata Protocol
Mine Labs , a New York-based blockchain startup has announced the development of Mediachain, a Bitcoin blockchain-based decentralized metadata...
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Deloitte Predicts Rise in Blockchain-Based Payments
Deloitte’s Center for Financial Services has released a report forecasting transformation of the banking industry over the coming decade due...
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Coinbase's Fred Ehrsam: Bitcoin Turns Finance Into a Software Problem
On a recent episode of the 1776 Podcast , Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and 1776 co-founder Evan Burfield discussed the concept of...
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Japan Debates Regulating Bitcoin as Currency; Banks Eager to Study Blockchain
Japan recently made headlines by announcing that its government was considering defining Bitcoin and other digital currencies as currency...
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The Winklevoss Twins on Bitcoin Industry Growth: "Let's Build That Bridge to the Legacy World"
The Winklevoss twins recently made an appearance at SXSW Interactive 2016 , where the early Bitcoin adopters discussed how the industry...
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Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail Opens to the Public, Accepts Bitcoin Payments
ProtonMail, the world’s largest encrypted email provider, announced that the service is leaving beta and will be allowing open registrations....
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Bitcoin RBF, Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Addrindex: Three Core Forks That Don't Break With Consensus
Bitcoin Core , descendant of the original Bitcoin software launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, has always been Bitcoin's reference client....
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NeuCoin Reaches 275,000 Users After Launch of Facebook Game and Jango Radio
In early February, NeuCoin launched a series of consumer applications aiming to offer its users and digital content providers effective...
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21 Inc’s Bitcoin Vision Becomes Clearer With Announcement of Ping21
21 Inc has announced the launch of ping21, a service that allows users to check the uptime or latency of any given website from...
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PwC Report: While Fintech Disrupts Banks, the Blockchain Disrupts Fintech
A new report from PwC claims that 83 percent of financial services companies believe specific aspects of their businesses are at risk to...
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Bitcoin Industry Venture Capitalists Shift Focus to Non-Financial Applications and Ethereum Startups
Last year, Bitcoin and blockchain-related startups raised over $1 billion in total investment, a massive increase from the $347 million...