Changes to the merchant category codes for cryptocurrency purchases have resulted in transaction errors on the Coinbase exchange; some users claim their bank accounts were left with negative balances.
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An Ethereum Improvement Proposal editor has given up his role after a nearly two-week long debate over a proposal to set up a process for the recovery of lost funds. The ongoing conversation seems to have raised more questions than it answered.
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The taxman cometh. On Thursday, tax attorneys from the firm Hochman Salkin Rettig Toscher & Perez, PC hosted an interactive webinar on cryptocurrency reporting.
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An act before the Committee on Economic Development in the Big Apple would examine the potential for economic zones to empower cryptocurrency mining.
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On Wednesday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee brought together FinTech leaders and regulators. They discussed how distributed ledger technology could impact capital markets infrastructure and regulatory reporting.
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The central bank of Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement with Ripple, paving the way for a pilot project through which the bank will help other banks in the country send payments internationally using technology provided by the blockchain company.
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A public petition that requested the South Korean government refrain from hardline virtual currency regulation has drawn a response from Hong Nam-ki, minister of the office for government policy coordination.
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I thought that generating Sweetcoin would be an easy process of instantiating the token contract on the public chain. I was wrong of course.We minted all the Sweetcoin that will ever be in one swoop on January 9 this year. It was quite an occasion. But this story…
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IOTA: The Tangle: an illustrated introduction

Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:38
Part 3: Cumulative weights and weighted random walksLast week we learned about the unweighted random walk, and today we will learn about its more advanced cousin: the weighted random walk.Let us begin with some motivation for studying it. One of the things we want our tip selection algorithm to…
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A stock exchange in Canada has announced its intention to host an Ethereum blockchain platform on which companies can hold ICO-like fundraising events.
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