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Amber Baldet, former JPMorgan blockchain program lead (and current CEO of Clovyr), has expressed her doubts about the proliferation of blockchain protocols: “Each of these blockchains speaks a different language,” she said in April. Advertisements Getting different blockchains to talk to one another has become a pressing issue, as more and more protocols pop up – […]

A scandal around the fraudulent actions of a vaccine manufacturer in China has sparking a heated debate over the last week – and now the Chinese cryptocurrency community is suggesting blockchain as a potential solution. Advertisements The uproar followed a report from China’s State Drug Administration, which, based on a tip-off, launched an investigation of the […]

Zach Le, Managing Partner at Trinity Blockchain Management Retracing to a yearly low of $5,750, BTC is down 70% from its all-time high and is now back in its trading range of mid-2017. Trading volume has declined by almost 50% across all exchanges, and transactions are now down to roughly half of what it was […]

A new test network has been launched for Raiden, the ethereum payments channel project. Advertisements Announced at the Dappcon developer conference in Berlin on Thursday, the release features a minimal implementation of the scaling solution that will allow ethereum tokens to be traded on off-chain payment channels. Notably, this particular testnet will be the final one to […]

Augur, a decentralized platform for creating predictions markets, just hit a major milestone. Advertisements “The first markets have successfully resolved,” the project tweeted Wednesday. Payments of ether worth around $20,000 are now going out to the first brave crop of users, who used the betting platform without knowing for sure whether it would work as advertised. […]

Are Decentralized Exchanges the Solution? A decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, also known as a DEX, is a trading platform that does not hold investor funds. Instead, digital asset trades occur directly between the two transacting parties on a peer-to-peer basis and are settled on the blockchain. Advertisements Decentralized exchanges provide a degree of anonymity and personal […]

Parity, the ethereum software client, has announced some major changes, including the stripping away of its graphical user interface (GUI). Advertisements In effect, the changes mean that Parity’s “wallet” – that is, its repository of private keys – does not now exist for general, non-technical consumers. All “installers and operating-system specific packages” have also been […]

Prediction platform Augur is fast attracting fans, at least if new data is any indication. Advertisements Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, figures from Predictions.Global, a website that allows users to view Augur markets without installing the app, show the platform saw a spike in “open interest” from Sunday to Monday. A metric that denotes how much is […]

We examine the 14 stages of emotions that you might experience when entering the wildly volatile crypto market. The markets are wild — you don’t have to keep reminding us about it. When you punch your ticket for the rollercoaster ride known as the crypto market, it’s important to keep your emotions in check. What goes up must come […]

We hit the Pittsburgh Grand Prix car show to find out how much Bitcoin people had to sell to get their hands on those sweet Lamborghinis… Advertisements ICO Alert Block Talk is a collection of street interviews where we test the knowledge of the public on subjects like Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and ICOs. In this […]