Bitcoin appears to finally be making headway with one of its less-appreciated, but critical challenges: recruitment. Simply put, the number of developers contributing to the cryptocurrency’s open-source code is…

Bitcoin appears to finally be making headway with one of its less-appreciated, but critical challenges: recruitment. Simply put, the number of developers contributing to the cryptocurrency’s open-source code is…
Michael J. Casey is chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor of blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a…
“Roger Ver deserves to go to (back to) jail for fraud.” For those not immersed in bitcoin’s byzantine politics, it might seem strange to see Ragnar Lifthrasir, a self-described “passionate…
Bitcoin’s limited supply is about to get a bit more limited. Barring an unforeseen event, the 17 millionth bitcoin is likely to be mined in the coming day, data…
Network tech giant Cisco won a patent on Tuesday that could be applied to the bitcoin mining process. Cisco submitted a patent application back in September 2015 for a…
TD Ameritrade planted an ASCII flag – that is to say, imprinted an advertisement – on bitcoin’s blockchain earlier this month. The online broker announced that it sent 68…
Imagine a way to expand bitcoin payments to millions per second. Now, imagine a clunky, command-line interface. That’s the extent of the divide between the vision enabled by bitcoin’s…
Imagine having a $100 bill in your pocket. Now, imagine $100 worth of pennies. Notice the difference? Bitcoin isn’t without its irritating kinks, and tiny bitcoin pieces called “dust”…