The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #108: Bitcoin And Boyfriends, Chains Vs The OG Internet & 50 Cent Finds His Coins 😂

She believed that loving a person would be a safer bet than investing in a cryptocurrency she could neither touch nor understand.

I had already played with HTML pretty early and thought it was cool as a way of publishing documents. I think I discovered it as early as 1993 when I first discovered the mosaic executable in the…

Airswap, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange, has been building a global community around the idea of eliminating the middlemen in banking. Bloomberg was given exclusive access to Airswap’s initial coin offering, or ICO, at its Brooklyn offices. (video by Matt Goldman) (Source: Bloomberg)

Rapper 50 Cent’s move to accept bitcoin for his 2014 “Animal Ambition” album has resulted in a multi-million dollar windfall.

Identity as a concept affects all of us. Yet, depending on who you ask, there are many different ideas of what Identity is as a technology. For governments, Identity is a mechanism for taxing…

Reality Shares Advisors and Amplify Trust ETF launched the first blockchain-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange Arca today. Both funds went live on their respective exchanges at 9:30 a.m. EST. Reality Shares’ Nasdaq NextGen Economy ETF (BLCN) opened at $24.20, while Amplify’s Transformational Data Sharing ETF (BLOK) started closer to $20.

Nick Szabo recently spoke at the World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF) in South San Francisco, CA. Nick is a pioneer in the evolution of blockchain, smart contracts and cryptocurrencies. I’ve uploaded…

No-commission stock trading app Robinhood will let you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without any added transaction fees starting in February, compared to..

Coinbase crossed $1 billion in revenue last year, Recode has learned from industry sources, a tremendous rise fueled by layman interest in both bitcoin and competing virtual currencies that users can buy and sell through the app.

Let us follow the logic of things from the beginning. Or, rather, from the end: modern times. We are, as I am writing these lines, witnessing a complete riot against some class of experts, in domains…

If you’ve been to ethereum for more than 5 minutes, you’ve heard the phrase ERC20, to refer to ethereum tokens. ERC stands for Ethereum Request…

The extraordinary rise in the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has led many people to worry that this market is a giant bubble. Many, including the Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen and the billionaire investor Warren Buffett, have warned about a “Bitcoin bust” that could rival the dot-com crash of 2000 and wipe out speculators.

This episode of the a16z Podcast goes deep on various trends in cryptocurrencies – from mental models for understanding tokens and what may give them long-term value; to the role of stablecoins in the ecosystem; to scaling, on-chain and off-chain protocols, forks, and more.