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Head First Mining is a trick proposed by former Bitcoin Core lead developer Gavin Andresen. With Head First Mining, miners don’t wait for the complete block to arrive before they start mining a subsequent block. Instead, they immediately mine on top of the block header as soon as they receive it, and also forward the header to other nodes. This obviously saves time.

Urbit, the computing platform described as a “city in the cloud” by its inventors, raised more than $200,000 in four hours through a crowdsale...

The Exponential Finance 2016 conference, organized by Singularity University and CNBC, was held in New York on June 7 and 8. Once again, distributed...

Synechron, a global consulting and technology innovator in the financial services industry, has released the results of a survey conducted by the TABB Group...

Traffic over the Bitcoin network has always been unencrypted. Transactions and blocks are sent from node to node in plain sight, as are Bloom filters, which are often used by Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes. All this data can, therefore, be seen by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), open-WiFi providers and anyone monitoring the Bitcoin network.

Gem, a provider of enterprise blockchain development and operations tools, is entering Nashville’s booming health care sector. Micah Winkelspecht, the founder and CEO of...

The Australian computer scientist Craig Steven Wright is sending shock waves throughout the Bitcoin world, as he once again claims to be the man...

This is a guest post by Jim Harper and the opinions reflected are those of the author.If triumphalism drove adoption, Bitcoin use would already...

The rising price of Bitcoin, reaching $450 at press time, follows several months of steady growth in Bitcoin price and transaction volumes, growing trade...

Having been in development for more than two years, what promises to be the first proper decentralized Bitcoin exchange is set to officially launch...