As the hype around blockchain’s impact builds, so does the credibility of innovators who are moving into the space. Thousands of projects are in the works to ensure the technology is set up to be the secure and safe decentralized...

Retail investors are lining up for the latest twist in the never-ending crypto craze. BlockFi, a fintech startup backed by billionaire Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Capital, began providing interest-bearing accounts this month that offer up to 6.2 percent in annualized returns...

Credit card companies charge an average of 5 percent per transaction, which gets passed on to the passenger. But TaxiCash would enable instantaneous peer-to-peer payments between the driver and the customer to cut out the middle man – saving them...

IBM is paving the way for banks and other regulated financial institutions to join the blockchain revolution. Rather than going through a series of intermediaries when sending money across borders, IBM has created a real-time, global payments network to support...

Mining cryptocurrencies can be a contentious subject. Whether it be the profitability of mining or the environmental impact, there are always different views. With Bitcoin’s recent price troubles, there were many suggestions that it would enter a “mining death spiral”...

The famous quote, usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin, about tax states: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Most people know the importance and requirements of taxes within society, having been well established...

The bank, the largest in Africa, wants to make payments easier for its importer clients. It aims to use blockchain to short-cut the host of regulatory and system requirements involved in making a foreign exchange payment, most of which are...

PORTLAND, OREGON – The cryptocurrency boom appears to be alive and well for Binance, the world’s largest digital-asset exchange by trading volume. One of the hottest coins right now is the Malta-based exchange’s eponymous token, Binance Coin, which has more than...

Blockchain technology requires a large number of players to be efficient. For that reason, various organizations, sometimes even competitors, have started to form alliances – known as consortia – that aim to create platforms used by every market participant in...

A Japanese court sentenced the former high-flying creator of the MtGox bitcoin exchange to a suspended jail sentence of two and a half years Friday after finding him guilty of data manipulation.The Tokyo District Court convicted Mark Karpeles, a 33-year-old...