Did the BBC Just Call Blockchain Vaporware?
Blockchain has been promised to disrupt a multitude of industries by disintermediating trusted third parties in a variety of roles, across many different businesses. The problem is...
Interview with Ethereum Express CEO, Vlad Miller: Why Community Plays an Essential Role in any...
Recently Bitcoinist caught up with Vlad Miller, CEO of Ethereum Express (EEX), the ‘world’s first community-driven ecosystem on the blockchain’. We discussed the differentiating...
RIFT Protocol: the Future of the Blockchain Solving the Scalability Problem
As the cryptocurrency space is continuously growing, the attention blockchain technology gets is rising significantly. And it’s no surprise because the tech provides numerous...
Germany’s GDP Drop Ignites Fears of Economic Contagion
Germany’s economy shrinks, fuelling risks of a recession and fears of economic contagion throughout Europe. Unfortunately, central banks have limited resources to reduce the...
Feared Run on British Banks Supports Calls For Decentralization
A prominent government minister in Britain has proposed the idea of closing banking institutions in order to mitigate the impact of an unstructured exit from the European Union...
ICON’s P-Rep Elections Booming; 40+ Applications Listed
It’s been over five months since the pre-registration for the first leg of ICONSENSUS began. The number of applicants continues to grow. Specifically, the nominees (there are...
Amazon Shares Drop 2.6 Percent As Centralization Alienates Suppliers
Amazon suppliers received a lesson in centralization on March 7 after the e-commerce giant abruptly began canceling huge numbers of orders in a profits push. Amazon: We ‘Saw...
‘Free Speech Money’ – Why Bitcoin is Ideal for Gab’s New Dissenter...
A new Reddit competitor called Gab Dissenter from Bitcoin-friendly social media network Gab.ai almost matched the daily active users on its first day of operations than all Ethereum...
Bitly Could Block 200 Links From Andreas Antonopoulos’ ‘Mastering Ethereum’...
Bitly (bit.ly) has come under fire from cryptocurrency circles as it looks poised to block all the links from Andreas Antonopoulos’ new book. [Update: The original title of this...
‘You Can Implement It And Stay In Business’: Crypto CEO Reassures Energy Sector On...
Hungary became the most recent country to turn its attention to Blockchain’s application in energy and electricity streamlining last week as the industry looks to shake up legacy...
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Businesses Aim to Scrape Perfection
Is it possible to for cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies to close in on perfection? One commentator notes that perfection is “utopic,” and difficult to define in...
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Ready to Drive Decentralization Forward
Berners-Lee gave us the web nearly 30 years ago, but it didn’t quite work out the way he expected. As blockchain proponents work to provide decentralization and remove the technology...