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Bitcoin Cash Fork Leaves Users Behind, But Does It Matter?

Bitcoin cash recently hard forked and a little less than 20 percent of nodes didn't upgrade. The industry argues over whether that matters or not.

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At Ripple's Snoop Dogg Party, A Search for XRP

So what we get drunk? So what we smoke weed? We're just having fun, something something XRP.

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Cornell Professor Unveils 'Simple Yet Powerful' Consensus Protocols

Cornell University professor Emin Gun Sirer announced a new family of consensus protocols at Token Summit on Thursday.

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Whitfield Diffie Talks Cryptography 'Resurgence' and Blockchain

A pioneer of public-key cryptography said the blockchain boom represents a "resurgence" of the work he helped start in the 1970s.

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Aion Is Launching a 'Token Bridge' to Connect Blockchains

Aion will ask its token holders to destroy their erc-20 aion tokens so that they can move to the aion mainnet, launched last month.

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This Blockchain Tosses Blocks: Naval, MetaStable Back Twist on Crypto 'Cash'

A new blockchain startup is coming out of stealth Wednesday and boasting a significant cast of investors.

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Zilliqa Becomes Latest Crypto to Break $1 Billion Market Cap

A cryptocurrency that boasts sharding has broken a key threshold.

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A Chain of Its Own: Mobile App Kik to Fork Stellar for Fee-Free Blockchain

Kik has decided that fees just won't work for its crypto token mission and has decided to fork stellar to create its own blockchain.

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Microsoft Unveils New Blockchain Tools for Azure

Microsoft announced a new "scaffolding" toolkit through its Azure Blockchain Workbench, which can help developers quickly build applications.

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Bitmain's Latest Crypto ASIC Can Mine Zcash

The company announced that it has developed hardware to mine the Equihash algorithm, spelling big changes for zcash and other coins.

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