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Putting real-world assets on a blockchain may be a promise worth pursuing, but field reports suggest it's an idea still just out of reach.

Crypto assets may have become an asset class in 2017, but that doesn't mean there's work yet to be done to bring the technology to main street.

Ether's price began 2017 below $10, shooting to as high as $800 earlier this month.

UK-based Bitcoin exchange Exmo, took to Twitter to inform its users about having suffered a DDoS attack just days after one of its employees was kidnapped.

Users of the popular Chrome extension Archive Poster reported observing the change around the beginning of December.

Space company Vector and blockchain developer Nexus announced a partnership to host Nexuss decentralized cryptocurrency on a satellite orbiting the Earth, using Vectors GalacticSky platform.According to the developers, Nexus technology offers improvements over existing blockchain systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum. For example, Nexus features SHA-3 cryptography with 571-bit keys, which is believed to offer quantum security against future attacks based on next-generation quantum computers. Nexu

In May of 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his role in operating the dark web site Silk Road. Exactly two years later, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld his conviction and sentencing.Now in a landmark request, Ulbricht has appealed to the the Supreme Court SCOTUS regarding the Second Circuits decision. A petition for a writ of certiorari has been submitted seeking a hearing for the overturn of the decision upheld this year by the Second C

Blockchain technology, as an overarching industry, has developed leaps and bounds from its geeky, white, cypher-punk roots of yore. Yore being 2015, as it was only a couple years ago that I was a total outlier for simply being a moderate liberal.When I first entered this space, in earnest, at the end of 2013, I realized that the lack of diversity in Bitcoin as this industry was referred was entirely untenable if we wanted a true crypto-economy to emerge. What good, I asked myself, is decentra

Over the last month, bitcoin has seen large swings in price as the bulls scramble to call the bottom and the bears scramble to call the top of the market. The market saw a 50 retracement a few weeks ago, leading the bullish investors to buy the dip only to see it quickly top out and retrace again. Volatility is no stranger to bitcoin and the swings have been violentFigure 1 BTC-USD, 2-Hour Candles, Macro Trading RangeZooming out, we can see the market has been bound within a trading range. Co

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is considering the development of a state-run cryptocurrency that could be used to shirk international sanctions.