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Blockchain Needs Centralization, Says Chinese SEC Official

An official from China's Securities Regulatory Commission has said complete decentralization is not the best way to reap blockchain's benefits.

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Bitcoin on Lightning Too Risky? Maybe Ice Cream Will Tempt You

An experimental San Francisco service is seeking to entice bitcoin users to explore the its in-development Lightning payments network.

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Major Blockchains Are Pretty Much Still Centralized, Research Finds

Researchers wade into the centralization debate, setting out data analysis they think could help shed light on the issue.

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How XRP Fits Into Ripple's Payments Products Explained

While interest in XRP continues, confusion remains about how the cryptocurrency interacts with Ripple's products. CoinDesk explains.

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Vulnerable? Ethereum's Casper Tech Takes Criticism at Curacao Event

A top computer science researcher took aim at one of ethereum's biggest expected future upgrades Friday calling it "fundamentally vulnerable."

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Overwinter Is Coming: Zcash Moves Closer to First-Ever Hard Fork

A new software release prepares zcash for its upcoming hard fork that is set to activate in June.

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Ethereum's Raiden Network Has New Scaling Competiton

Competition is heating up in the ethereum ecosystem, now that scaling project Liquidity.Network has launched in test mode.

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'Bitcoin Private' Is Here, But What's It Worth?

A fork of a fork of a fork? A new cryptocurrency just launched that's nearly identical to zcash, but commentators are questioning its value add.

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No Blockchain Is an Island

Blockchain governance is shaped by much more than protocol rules: the underlying internet rails, social norms, markets and laws all have an influence.

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$35 Million Refund? Developer Appeals to Ethereum for Hack Reversal

An early ethereum developer is speaking out about why he feels a platform-wide software upgrade should be used to help him recover lost funds.

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