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Owning cryptocurrency comes with its own set of challenges. One of the biggest of those challenges is managing the private keys that enable you to spend funds. Lose your private keys, and your money is gone.In a business environment, a common way to manage funds owned by multiple people is via whats called a multisignature multisig address, a type of smart contract requiring two or more parties to sign off on a transaction to move the funds. This can be problematic, however. Lets say you have

Outspoken technology pioneer John McAfee steadies cryptocurrency investors' nerves

The Satori variant comes less than a month after hackers posted the working code for a Huawei router exploit, which was used by the original Satori botnet, for free.

Swisscoin is an obscure cryptocurrency and its trading was briefly suspended after it was reported to be a ponzi scheme.

Popular digital currency appears to rise in value after chaotic start to 2018 and particularly rough 48 hours.

A recent study PDF from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance and blockchain analytics company Elliptic explored the bitcoin laundering ecosystem. In the study, Elliptics forensic analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain and other publicly available data were used to track the flows of illicit funds from 2013 to 2016.This study aimed to identify where individuals turn in order to cash out or transmit bitcoins BTC acquired from illicit entities and to disc

Following the release of the first Bitcoin Lightning Network white paper, published in February 2015, developers have been working on Lightning Network implementations to enhance the throughput and usability of the Bitcoin network. For an overview, see this three-part series on Understanding the Lightning Network.In December 2017, lightning developers ACINQ, Blockstream and Lightning Labs, announced the 1.0 release of the Lightning protocol and the worlds first Lightning test payments on the

San Franciscobased startup Origin is creating a set of protocols that allow developers and businesses to build decentralized marketplaces on the blockchain, with a focus on the sharing economy.The Origin Protocol is a set of open-source blockchain protocols for buyers and sellers of services like car-sharing or home-sharing to transact on a decentralized, open web platform.The protocols applications will store transactional data such as pricing and availability directly on the blockchain.Leve

Qtum is on the move with the announcement of a partnership with Baofeng to begin running 50,000 full Qtum nodes and an upcoming x86 VM to support multiple languages for smart contracts.Qtum is a hybrid of Bitcoin and Ethereum that is based on proof-of-stake consensus instead of proof of work, and is compatible with existing Ethereum contracts as well as Bitcoin gateways. Supporting the Ethereum Virtual Machine EVM wasnt enough for Qtum co-founder Jordan Earls, who has been working on an x86 V

The cryptocurrency sky fell yesterday as 49 of the top 50 coins by Market Cap were down with only Tether USDT posting a gain. In fact, only two coins, KuCoin Shares and VeChain, showed losses less than 10 percent and only 12 of the top 50 have lost less than 20 percent of their value. The effects of the market-wide shock are clear, but explanations vary based on where you get your news. In an effort to make sense of the situation, here are the stories and rationales explaining the systemic dr