Every day, the cryptocurrency industry makes headlines in the financial press. As the business side if the crypto world continues to disrupt the financial technology status quo, even stories that don’t have a direct relationship to bitcoin, ether, or other major tokens often end up having an indirect connection to the growing cryptocurrency payments industry. […]

Cryptocurrency isn’t exactly the most newcomer friendly topic. For most people, it’s the go-to joke for a technology that no one really seems to understand. Why is bitcoin worth so much? How do you “mine” crypto on a computer? What’s a blockchain, and why is it such a big deal? If you really want the […]

Seen from the outside, the world of cryptocurrency can be hard to understand. There’s a ton of technical jargon to learn — block confirmation, private/public keys, hash functions, mining ASICs — that can easily intimidate people who just want to understand what a bitcoin is, and why it’s worth so much. Thankfully, there are plenty […]

From a technology perspective, the biggest innovation to come from the publication of the original bitcoin whitepaper isn’t cryptocurrency. Instead, the real leap forward is the invention of the blockchain, which allows multiple parties to engage in trustless, decentralized, and immutable record keeping. Now 11 years into development, non-cryptocurrency blockchain solutions are radically reshaping how […]

For understandable reasons, most media coverage about cryptocurrency tends to focus on the daily ups and downs of the price. Behind the scenes, however, there is an entire ecosystem of companies driving demand, building new solutions, and solving technological challenges. The cryptocurrency industry is rapidly becoming one of the most important and innovative parts of […]

When viewed from the outside, the world of cryptocurrency can seem truly strange. It’s a market dominated by odd characters making crazy claims, huge unexplained price changes, and seemingly bizarre business decisions. This unpredictability is part of what makes the cryptocurrency industry such as fascinating topic for countless journalists, analysts, and pundits. The past two […]

In recent weeks, two big topics have utterly dominated the cryptocurrency media cycle: Facebook’s ongoing struggles to launch its Libra stablecoin, and China’s complete reversal of its once-hostile stance on all things crypto and blockchain. These are big stories, and they merit the extensive coverage they’ve received. But they aren’t the only stories that matter […]

On October 31st, 2008, a subscriber to an obscure cryptography mailing list going by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto published a link to a whitepaper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Within a year, the peer-to-peer payment system outlined on that whitepaper had become functioning software. Less than a year after that, the first […]

After years of resistance — and even outright hostility — to cryptocurrency investment and development, China’s government abruptly changed course earlier this month. The county’s contentious relationship with cryptocurrency dates back to at least March of 2014, when Chinese banks were banned from providing services to bitcoin-related businesses. Since then, Chinese lawmakers, regulators, and the […]

It took less than a decade for cryptocurrency to go from a deeply obscure cypherpunk experiment to a new class of investment that is completely rewriting the rules of finance, banking, and monetary theory. Bitcoin and its descendants — Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, and the rest — have created a market currently valued at over $230 […]