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MIT Media Lab Director: ICOs Are 'Attracting the Wrong People'

MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito is joining the ranks of outspoken critics who believe the market for blockchain-based tokens is overheated.

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Hold the Fork: No 2x But Everything Else Goes at Scaling Bitcoin Event

Day one of Scaling Bitcoin 2017 presented a change of pace for an event that grew out of the network's technical contention.

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Free Market Forks? Bitcoin Startups Love the Idea But Brace for Reality

Bitcoin startups that were once sold on Segwit2x are preparing for a split, signaling that the market should decide how the hard fork plays out.

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ZoKrates Seeks to Bring Best of Zcash to Ethereum with Devcon Debut

A new programming language, debuted at Devcon Tuesday, promises to boost levels of privacy to the ethereum blockchain.

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Understanding Segwit2x: Why Bitcoin's Next Fork Might Not Mean Free Money

CoinDesk offers a high-level overview of the coming Segwit2x fork, how it differs from the hard forks before it and what it might mean for bitcoin.

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Blockchain Forks Are All the Rage, But Can They Ever Be Safe?

More and more blockchains may be forking, but developers still don't think they've quite found the best way to execute the upgrade.

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Just SegWit? Bitcoin Core Is Already Working on a New Scaling Upgrade

Bitcoin developers are making progress on Schnorr, a function for aggregating signatures and in turn, a way to increase the capacity of the network.

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BitPay Is Growing? How Startup Suspicions Are Fueling Bitcoin's Fork Debate

Should bitcoin's technology change to accommodate merchant users? New data from one of the network's biggest startups is fueling the debate.

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Bitcoin Meets Netflix? Laolu Is Building a Lightning-Powered App for That

The Lightning Network isn't yet live on bitcoin, but that doesn't mean developers aren't theorizing the kinds of ambitious apps that it could enable.

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Calm Before the Fork? Segwit2x Goes Silent as Bitcoin Split Looms

With a lull in activity, what's really going on under the Segwit2x hood? According to many developers, now is the calm before the storm.

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