Nodes are the simplest yet most crucial components of a blockchain network. They are pivotal to the blockchain’s ...

It depends on usage. “Blockchain technology” is acceptable to refer to the computer code that records cryptocurrency transactions (and can be used for other things; stay with us).

Peer-to-peer computing is allowing blockchain to aggregate unused compute cycles, storage space and network bandwidth while rewarding those who offer up excess capacity. One analyst called the ...

Timelines for the emergence of quantum computers may be fuzzy, but the threat they pose to the vaunted security of blockchain technology is profoundly real.

Blockchain is the innovative database technology that’s at the heart of nearly all cryptocurrencies. By distributing identical copies of a database across an entire network, blockchain makes it ...

Blockchain is a digital technology that allows a secure and decentralized record of transactions that is increasingly used for everything from cryptocurrencies to artwork. But Yale researchers have ...

The blockchain is essentially a decentralized ledger for keeping track of who owns which bitcoins. When you pay for something with a bitcoin, a payment processor will check the blockchain to make ...

Cryptocurrency hedge fund Polychain Capital and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz invested $61 million in Dfinity Foundation.

However, while blockchains have been used for payments, digital contracts, and supply chains, blockchain systems still achieve a low transaction rate with high energy and transaction costs.

Cryptocurrency is usually 'mined' through the blockchain by asking a computer to perform a complicated mathematical problem in exchange for tokens of cryptocurrency. But now a team of chemists ...