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Sweatcoin Pays Brits Blockchain-Based Digital Currency to Get Fit

If you’ve ever needed an incentive to get fit, a new app launched in Britain could give you the boost you need. The new...

OpenBazaar Celebrates 100,000 Downloads of Bitcoin-Powered Social Marketplace

The distributed ecommerce platform OpenBazaar (OB) soft-launched in April and has received $1 million in venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures....

The Bitcoin Ecosystem’s Communications Deficits

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...

Fold Relaunches Card for Cash: Trade Gift Cards for Bitcoin

Matt Luongo, the founder of Fold, and his team are known for helping their app participants spend bitcoins at large retailers such as Starbucks,...

Jonas Schnelli on Why Elected Officials May Not Be Good for Bitcoin

Bitcoin Core contributor Jonas Schnelli was recently featured in a panel discussion about improvements to Bitcoin at the 2016 MIT Bitcoin Expo. During the...

The Power of Schnorr: The Signature Algorithm to Increase Bitcoin’s Scale and Privacy

Segregated Witness has entered its  final testing stage before roll-out on the Bitcoin network. That is  good news, most importantly because the innovation introduces...

US Comptroller of the Currency Calls for Innovative Regulations on Digital Currencies and FinTech

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry, who heads an independent department in charge of supervising all U.S. national banks, stated in a speech...

How Bitcoin Revived the Cypherpunk Revolution

Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn found the cypherpunks mailing list when he was 19. Since then, he has been lucky enough to work on cypherpunk-oriented technologies for...

Overstock Invests in Bitt to Launch Official Digital Currencies in the Caribbean Islands

Overstock announced a strategic investment in Bitt, a Caribbean-based fintech company whose goal is to persuade Caribbean island nations to adopt digital national currencies....

Brock Pierce: Bitcoin’s Scalability Issues Are a Sign of Its Success

While many people take the view that Bitcoin is dying or failing due to its current issues with governance and scalability, Blockchain Capital founder...
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