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A new cryptocurrency called Chia, founded by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, is promising to make mining cryptocurrencies at home a whole lot easier.

New Cryptocurrency Kills Your Hard Drive to Mine New Coins

By Victor Tangermann

They were meant to revolutionize the art collection market — but the prices of non-fungible tokens or NFTs are crashing right now.

Not Very Surprisingly, NFT Prices Are Now Crashing

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto fan Cameron Winklevoss says that the NFT fad is going to "liberate art." This whole exercise is getting exhausting.

Crypto Titan Makes Grandiose, Nonsense Claim That NFTs “Liberate” Art

By Dan Robitzski

Brooklyn-based film director Alex Ramírez-Mallis's NFT called "One Calendar Year of Recorded Farts" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

A Man Just Sold Something Truly Horrible as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

Toilet paper maker Charmin decided to get in on the NFT trend and put up a series of uninspired JPGs and GIFs for sale.

Charmin Debuts Toilet Paper NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

Contemporary artist Krista Kim sold her "Mars House," a virtual piece of real estate, for 288 ether, worth over half a million dollars, as an NFT.

Architect Sells Rendered 3D House as $500,000 NFT

By Victor Tangermann

NFTs prove ownership over a piece of digital art. But will they survive when the exchange that sold them shutters?

NFTs Have a Huge Persistence Problem

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk isn't selling his song about NFTs in the form of an NFT after all.

Elon Musk Says His Techno Song NFT Isn’t For Sale After All

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk uploaded a techno track about NFTs to his Twitter account to sell it "as an NFT."

Elon Musk Says He’s Selling a Techno Song About NFTs as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers have already started stealing NFTs, the blockchain-based art credentials that give a buyer original ownership over a digital piece of art.

Hackers Are Already Stealing NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

Technology research group MERL Tech investigated the lofty claims of 43 blockchain startups. In a new report, the group claims none of them delivered.

Wait, How Do You Pronounce “NFT”?

By Tony Ho Tran

An original by world famous street artist Banksy was lit on fire during a livestream — and promptly sold for $380,000 worth of Ethereum as an NFT.

Blockchain Company Sets Priceless Banksy Painting on Fire to Create an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

A non fungible token by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, or "Beeple," has sold for an astonishing $69 million at world-renowned auction house Christie's.

An NFT Painting Just Sold For $69 Million

By Victor Tangermann

Nevada's governor wants to establish innovation zones that'll give tech companies the ability to establish laws—and one crypto frim is interested.

Nevada Just Letting a Crypto Firm Run Entire Town as “Innovation Zone” (?!?)

By Tony Ho Tran

The National Science Foundation is investing in a crypto startup that plans to explore ways to get Americans on the blockchain.

Science & Energy

The US Gov Is Paying a Crypto Startup to Explore a Digital Dollar

By Dan Robitzski

The government of Venezuela is urging people working abroad to send remittances back home through its new cryptocurrency payment platform.

Venezuela Is Seriously Pushing Its State-Run Cryptocurrency

By Dan Robitzski

A new crypto platform called SpankPay wants to become the go-to payment service for porn and adult entertainment, circumventing more hostile financiers.

Science & Energy

Finally, Porn Is on the Blockchain

By Dan Robitzski

Ex-beverage firm Long Island Iced Tea — now a blockchain company — is being investigated by the FBI for insider trading and securities fraud.

The FBI is Investigating Long Island Iced Tea’s Blockchain Pivot

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is already inundated with scam posts for its yet-unreleased cryptocurrency, Libra. It's a bad sign for a company trying to earn public trust.

Facebook Is Having Trouble Fighting Scams About Its Own Altcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's pivot to blockchain and its new Libra cryptocurrency could sow the seeds of the company's destruction, argues fintech expert Marc-David Seidel.

Fintech Expert: Libra Could Be Facebook’s Downfall

By Dan Robitzski

Shortly after Facebook annoucned Libra, its new cryptocurrency, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and European leaders called for strong regulations.

Senator Slams Facebook’s New Crypto: “Facebook Is Already Too Big”

By Dan Robitzski

With Near-Infinite Resources, Facebook Launches a Cryptocurrency

With Near-Infinite Resources, Facebook Launches a Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Swedish artists coded an ASCII penis and uploaded it to the Ethereum blockchain as part of an art project that they're calling digital graffiti.

Why Someone Hid a Giant Dong on the Ethereum Blockchain

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious group of individuals hid the keys to $1 million worth of bitcoin in a twisted game with no rules, CoinDesk reports.

Someone Hid $1 Million In Bitcoin and Left Clues to Find It

By Victor Tangermann

JP Morgan Chase is launching the first ever major U.S. bank approved cryptocurrency called "JPM Coin."

The First Major U.S. Bank Just Launched a Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Despite a plummeting cryptocurrency market, many young South Koreans are still dreaming of getting rich.

Low-Income Koreans Got Rich on the Blockchain, Then Lost it All

By Victor Tangermann

The founder of a crypto exchange, QuadrigaCX recently died, and his widow claims that the company's Bitcoin reserves are now stuck in an encrypted wallet.

Crypto Site Loses $137 Million in Dead Founder’s Encrypted Wallet

By Dan Robitzski

The idea is part of an ironic trend: banks want to leverage a technology that was invented to take power away from financial institutions.

A New Bank of America Patent Describes Blockchain-Powered ATMs

By Dan Robitzski

Congress just introduced a bill calling for sanctions against Iran's efforts to develop its own digital currency.

The U.S. Challenges Iran’s Attempt to Develop a Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Digital Currency Group's new branch, Metaverse Ventures, will invest exclusively in Decentraland startups that develop products for the VR blockchain world.

Virtual Reality

A New VC Fund Is Bankrolling Virtual Products in a Simulated World

By Dan Robitzski

Technology research group MERL Tech investigated the lofty claims of 43 blockchain startups. In a new report, the group claims none of them delivered.

Out of 43 Blockchain Startups, Zero Have Delivered Products

By Dan Robitzski

An activist group called Bail Bloc collects cryptocurrency mined from volunteers' computers. It's using it to free people from ICE custody.

How Crypto Mining is Getting People Out of ICE Custody

By Dan Robitzski

Mattereum wants to tokenize the whole economy and become the platform that brings digital smart contracts to tangible investments.

Why a Blockchain Startup Bought This $9 Million Stradivarius Violin

By Dan Robitzski

Cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns is building a blockchain city in the Nevada desert surrounding Tesla's Gigafactory.

A Millionaire Is Building a Blockchain Utopia in the Nevada Desert

By Kristin Houser

A pair of new cryptocurrency reports asserts that the asset class is still very risky for investors, but not much of a threat to the world economy.

Reports: Crypto Is a Threat to Your Savings Account, But Not World Markets

By Kristin Houser

A consortium of prominent energy and financial institutions say they'll soon start trading commodities on a new blockchain platform called Komgo.

All Our Stuff Is Gonna Be Traded on the Blockchain, Finance Companies Say

By Jon Christian

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What Even Is Blockchain? Trust Machine, a New Documentary, Has Answers

A federal judge argued today that digital currencies should be regulated like securities, paving the way for tighter regulation of cyprocurrency.

Crypto-pocalypse Soon-ish? Judge Rules ICOs Are a Security

By Jon Christian

Venezuela's president announced his government will tie the country's currency to the Petro. Will the move stabilize the country's economy?

Venezuela’s Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency Is Giving Blockchain A Bad Name

By Victor Tangermann

China Is Serious About Cracking Down on Cryptocurrency

China Is Serious About Cracking Down on Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

The First Trailer For A Hard-Hitting Blockchain Documentary Is Here [Sponsored]

The First Trailer For A Hard-Hitting Blockchain Documentary Is Here [Sponsored]

Some Americans Will Get to Vote via Blockchain This November

Some Americans Will Get to Vote via Blockchain This November

By Kristin Houser

The New Operating System for Digital Finance

The New Operating System for Digital Finance

By J. Todd Morley

Augur, a decentralized app where people wager crypto on world events, has given a platform for an assassination marketplace

The Rise Of An “Assassination Marketplace” Shows The Dark Side of Decentralized Networks

By Dan Robitzski

This Startup Is Trying To Fix Journalism By Putting It On the Blockchain

This Startup Is Trying To Fix Journalism By Putting It On the Blockchain

By Victor Tangermann

After internet monitors repeatedly removed an article detailing the unsafe vaccines in China, citizens added it to the Ethereum blockchain.

Chinese Citizens Are Using Blockchain to Warn Each Other of Unsafe Vaccines

By Kristin Houser

Malta has announced plans to created the world's first decentralized stock exchange

Malta Plans to Create the World’s First Decentralized Stock Exchange

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: A Wildlife Charity Is Auctioning off a CryptoKitty in a First-of-Its-Kind Fundraiser

The Digest: A Wildlife Charity Is Auctioning off a CryptoKitty in a First-of-Its-Kind Fundraiser

By Kristin Houser

Here’s Why The Blockchain Might Change the Future (And Why It May Not Live Up To the Hype)

Here’s Why The Blockchain Might Change the Future (And Why It May Not Live Up To the Hype)

By Victor Tangermann

How Scalable Blockchain Technology Can Bring Us Closer to Earth 2.0 [Sponsored]

How Scalable Blockchain Technology Can Bring Us Closer to Earth 2.0 [Sponsored]

By Rachelle Dragani

A Major EDM Festival Is Selling Tickets On the Blockchain

A Major EDM Festival Is Selling Tickets On the Blockchain

By Victor Tangermann

Putting Pokémon On The Blockchain Takes Microtransactions To Their Inevitable, Insufferable End

Putting Pokémon On The Blockchain Takes Microtransactions To Their Inevitable, Insufferable End

By Dan Robitzski

People Are Paying Insane Amounts of Real Money for “Virtual Real Estate”

Virtual Reality

People Are Paying Insane Amounts of Real Money for “Virtual Real Estate”

By Victor Tangermann

There’s Now A Religion Based On the Blockchain. Yes, Really.

There’s Now A Religion Based On the Blockchain. Yes, Really.

By Kristin Houser

Smartphone Tech Can Help Stop Food Poisoning Before It Happens

Smartphone Tech Can Help Stop Food Poisoning Before It Happens

Bitcoin Is Going To Use As Much Electricity As Austria By The Year’s End

Bitcoin Is Going To Use As Much Electricity As Austria By The Year’s End

By Dan Robitzski

Goldman Sachs Just Launched A New Cryptocurrency

Goldman Sachs Just Launched A New Cryptocurrency

By Dan Robitzski

FedEx Wants To Track Packages On The Blockchain, So You’ll Know Exactly Who Dropped Your Stuff

FedEx Wants To Track Packages On The Blockchain, So You’ll Know Exactly Who Dropped Your Stuff

By Dan Robitzski

The Next Blockchain Revolution? Crypto-Powered Beer Vending Machines

The Next Blockchain Revolution? Crypto-Powered Beer Vending Machines

By Victor Tangermann

AmeriCoin: This Idea To Tokenize the US Dollar Is Compelling And Thorny

AmeriCoin: This Idea To Tokenize the US Dollar Is Compelling And Thorny

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook Wants To Explore Blockchain Technology. Here’s What They Might Be Up To.

Facebook Wants To Explore Blockchain Technology. Here’s What They Might Be Up To.

By Dan Robitzski

Preview: The Ethereal Summit Is Coming for Brooklyn, and They Are Bringing Deepak Chopra with Them

Preview: The Ethereal Summit Is Coming for Brooklyn, and They Are Bringing Deepak Chopra with Them

Investors Sue Ripple for Allegedly Violating Security Laws

Investors Sue Ripple for Allegedly Violating Security Laws

By Kristin Houser

The First Blockchain Smartphone for the US is Here

The First Blockchain Smartphone for the US is Here

By Kristin Houser