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The growth of bitcoin is fuelling speculation and debate about the environmental impact of the collective energy needed to power the virtual currency in the era of climate change.

Blockchain developer Chain is releasing an open-source compiler and development environment for writing Bitcoin smart contracts using Ivy, a smart contract language developed in-house.Chain is best known for the open-source Chain protocol and Chain Core, an enterprise blockchain infrastructure that facilitates financial transactions on scalable, private blockchain networks. An open-source developer edition of Chain Core is available to developers, with a testnet operated by Chain. Ivy was dev

When the history of Bitcoin and blockchains is written, 2017 will be the year tagged as the turning point when Bitcoin and red hot blockchain technology went mainstream. The steadily rising bitcoin price and market cap is a key, though not the only, indicator that a tipping point has been reached.Despite turmoil like ICOs being banned in China and South Korea, cryptocurrencies in general coming under scrutiny in other countries, and internal divisions and infighting in the Bitcoin community,

Either the investor base diversifies during this price correction or bitcoin will crash very hard, former Pimco chief predicts.

What did ICOs get right in 2018 What went wrong Attorney and entrepreneur Christine Duhaime unpacks a chaotic year.

The South Korea now bans domestic cryptocurrency exchanges from allowing users to make transactions through anonymous accounts.

Think DAOs and tokens are just a joke This lawyer believes they may be coming to bring an open-source ethos to your business model.

The top securities regulator in Massachusetts raised concerns on the bitcoin bubble and called the bitcoin market entirely speculation.

The Singapore court dismisses B2C2's application for summary judgment for B2C2's lawsuit against Singapore cryptocurrency exchange Quoine.

New data from Google suggests internet users searched for information on bitcoin at a rate that outpaced some of the top news stories this year.