Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a type of digital currency that relies on cryptography and blockchain technology to enable users to send and receive the currency without a trusted third party. The most popular cryptocurrency out there, Bitcoin, works by having numerous computers running a complex math puzzle in order to verify blocks (hence: blockchain) which contain all the new transactions made on the network. Once they do, they get bitcoins as reward, making it lucrative for them to power the network. Since it takes vast computational power to beat all of these computers at math, this makes Bitcoin secure from attackers who would want to falsify transactions. Besides Bitcoin, there are numerous other cryptocurrencies, each with a different goal. Best known among them is Ethereum, which uses similar basic principles as Bitcoin in order to power a network for decentralized applications.

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This startup used Ethereum to raise $153 million in under three hours

The future of crowdfunding, or a bubble that's about to burst?

06/13/2017

By Stan Schroeder

This startup used Ethereum to raise $153 million in under three hours

This startup used Ethereum to raise $153 million in under three hours

There's now a crowdfunding campaign to buy stolen hacking tools

Want in on the action? It will cost you — although not that much.

05/31/2017

There's now a crowdfunding campaign to buy stolen hacking tools

There's now a crowdfunding campaign to buy stolen hacking tools

Messaging platform Kik is launching its own digital currency

Enter Kin.

05/26/2017

Messaging platform Kik is launching its own digital currency

Messaging platform Kik is launching its own digital currency

The $80 billion question: Why are Bitcoin and Ethereum growing so fast?

When does it stop?

05/22/2017

By Stan Schroeder

The $80 billion question: Why are Bitcoin and Ethereum growing so fast?

The $80 billion question: Why are Bitcoin and Ethereum growing so fast?

Ransomware hackers are so desperate to explain Bitcoin they've set up IT departments

Cryptocurrency is hard.

05/17/2017

Ransomware hackers are so desperate to explain Bitcoin they've set up IT departments

Ransomware hackers are so desperate to explain Bitcoin they've set up IT departments

It won't be easy for WannaCry hackers to get their cash

Here's how the attackers might get away with it.

05/16/2017

It won't be easy for WannaCry hackers to get their cash

It won't be easy for WannaCry hackers to get their cash

Bitcoin's price breaks records, yet again

Congrats to bitcoin.

05/06/2017

By Emma Hinchliffe

Bitcoin's price breaks records, yet again

Bitcoin's price breaks records, yet again

Ethereum: The not-Bitcoin cryptocurrency that could help replace Uber

The *other* Bitcoin.

03/24/2017

By Emma Hinchliffe

Ethereum: The not-Bitcoin cryptocurrency that could help replace Uber

Ethereum: The not-Bitcoin cryptocurrency that could help replace Uber

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