Ethereum Is Throwing Out the Crypto Governance Playbook An ethereum event provided evidence that when it comes to a path forward on governance, the world’s second-largest blockchain is going its own way.… Read More
Square Seeks BitLicense to Bring Bitcoin Buying to New York Square is in the process of applying for a BitLicense in a bid to expand its Cash App’s bitcoin option to New York residents. … Read More
OpenBazaar Raises $5 Million from Bitmain, OMERS Ventures OB1, the development company behind decentralized online marketplace OpenBazaar, has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round.… Read More
ZhongAn Wants to Identify Media Pirates with Blockchain Tool ZhongAn Technology, a subsidiary of Chinese online insurer ZhongAn, hopes to patent a blockchain solution for protecting digital media against piracy.… Read More
JP Morgan’s Amber Baldet On What Enterprise Wants from Ethereum In a keynote speech at an ethereum developer meetup last week, JP Morgan’s blockchain lead opened up about her thinking on the tech and its future.… Read More
China’s IT Ministry Moves to Create National Blockchain Standards China’s information and technology ministry aims to establish a standards committee to boost the development of blockchain in the country. … Read More
Japan’s Third-Largest Electric Provider Is Testing Bitcoin On Lightning One of Japan’s largest electric companies is intrigued by bitcoin’s early-stage Lightning Network, so much so they’re testing it out.… Read More
What’s Wrong With John Oliver’s Bitcoin-Beanie Baby Comparison Comedian John Oliver rightly warned his audience about the risks of cryptocurrency, but his comparisons to Beanie Babies and gambling missed the mark.… Read More
Why the ‘Worst’ Crypto Networks Will Be The Biggest From a network design perspective, bitcoin is ugly. As with as city, you have to experience it from a bottom-up perspective to understand its allure.… Read More
Ponzis and Death: The Stranger Ways to Lose Your Crypto Scams, death, network takeover attacks. There’s no shortage of strange ways users can lose money in the cryptocurrency wild west.… Read More