Cryptocurrencies have gone from being a nascent investment to entering the conversation among investors as a legitimate allocation in their portfolios. Whether you trade cryptocurrencies or not, you ...

With the rise of Bitcoin, corporate interest in the underlying blockchain technology has risen dramatically. Confusion arises, however, because much of the discussion centers on cryptocurrency, which ...

A blockchain is a kind of database invented in 2008 that stores and secures information in sequential blocks. Unlike the case with traditional databases, a blockchain’s contents are not kept on a ...

Do a Google Image search for Bitcoin. What you’ll see is a lack of imagination. Uniform stamped precious metal coins? That’s the opposite of what bitcoin is.You can’t flip a bitcoin. It has no heads ...

A blockchain is a network of decentralized and distributed data (ledger), meaning the users share the ownership and management of the network through computer nodes. As a database, blockchain stores ...

Proof of Work (PoW) is a consensus mechanism where miners use computing and compete to solve mathematical puzzles. When a puzzle is solved, transaction data is validated and added to the network, and ...

Solana witnessed four hours of downtime caused by a bug. The blockchain operations were eventually restarted by the validators who disabled a kind of transaction called ‘durable nonce transactions’, ...

What is a private blockchain? Private blockchains provide users with the absolute privacy they desire. Private blockchains (which are permissioned settings) establish rules governing who can see and ...

A subset of digital forensics called blockchain forensics uses blockchain data analysis to look into illegal transactions, fraud and other types of criminal conduct. Blockchain is a distributed ledger ...

Last year, we saw quite a bit of media attention paid to blockchain startups. They raised money from the public, then most of them vanished without a trace (or product). Ethics and legality of their ...