Bitcoin is a proverbial drop in the bucket. Ever wonder how much money there is in the world? The answer is complicated, which you might expect, but not because of the difficulty of tallying up all the

We are creating an intelligence that is external to humans and housed in the virtual economy. This is bringing us into a new economic era—a distributive one—where different rules apply. How did we get

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering some students the option to be awarded tamper-free digital degree certificates when they graduate, in partnership with Learning Machine. Selected students

A partnership has been set up to develop and implement emCash, an encrypted digital currency, which people can use to pay for various government and non-government services in Dubai. According to state

On Wednesday morning, the Bitcoin Core development team released a rare statement concerning the safety of Bitcoin users’ coins during the potential hard fork for Segwit2x, which is scheduled to occur

Earlier this week, Vanuatu became the first sovereign nation to accept bitcoins in return for granting citizenship through its DSP Citizenship Program. The Chairman of the Vanuatu Information Center (VIC)

Due to high load on the network, Ethereum cannot keep up with the pace and scale. As a result, Ethereum foundation implemented updates to the Ethereum Miner software under the name Metropolis. Accordingly,

In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet

Hackers are using old tricks and new cryptocurrencies to turn stolen computing power into digital coins. Have you visited Showtime’s website recently? If so, you may be a cryptocurrency miner. An observant

The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) has released a list of the first 11 companies permitted to operate exchanges that trade fiat currencies against digital currencies such as bitcoin. Since the

At US$3.4 billion, NEO (NEO), is now the sixth largest among cryptocurrencies and assets. Formerly know as Antshares, and dubbed by many as the “Ethereum of China,” NEO has risen sharply since its ICO,

"The most difficult way of reaching the World Cup finals is via the South American group," says Ecuador captain Antonio Valencia. "You can play in Barranquilla in the north of Colombia by

The Seattle start-up Unikrn has already raised $25 million for an initial coin offering Unikrn will sell virtual tokens for use on its platform to bet on sporting events Some big names are participating

According to a newsletter from The James Altucher Report, Amazon will soon begin accepting Bitcoin, which they will officially announce as early as October 26th during their earnings conference call. James

Distributed ledgers could help public health workers respond faster to a crisis. If someone in your home state contracts hepatitis A, a dangerous disease that attacks the liver, the Centers for Disease

While America closes its borders, its northern neighbor is poaching some of the best tech talent in the world. It’s no secret that the United States has long dominated cutting-edge technologies, from personal

KPJ Reddy, a professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, will soon be growing forests with the help of seed-bombing drones. Alarmed by how fast natural habitats and wildlife are

We’ve officially hit peak ICO. Estonia, a small country in Northern Europe, just floated the idea of potentially raising money by issuing a token called “estcoins“. So why Estonia? The country is pretty

In some sense, the first automatic music came from nature: Chinese windchimes, ancient Greek wind-powered Aeolian harps, or the Japanese water instrument suikinkutsu. But in the 1700s music became

"When one party’s drones are destroyed by drones of another, it will have no other choice but to surrender.” AI development “raises colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict