Culture

I’ll be the first to admit that when I think of blockchain, the last thing that pops into my head is romance. It’s about as far from sexy as you can get. Let’s do a little word association game....

Over the past two years, crypto has often been referred to as the Wild West, and for good reason. Cryptocurrency has been an unregulated digital frontier where the fringes of society speculated feverishly—and some prospectors won big. As crypto...

To better understand who invests in crypto and ICOs, why they do it, and how exactly they make trades, in late 2017—at the peak of the crypto mania—I set out to study people behind the billions in investment and...

Redditors, in a humorous attempt to push up bitcoin prices, are trying to fool trading bots that scrape the forum for sentiment. And the results are hilarious. Reddit’s Crypto Conundrum The ritual started from a Redditor who proclaimed on...

One old school Runescaper received a donation of 20 Bitcoin from an anonymous benefactor—the coins are worth over $74,000. Sick_Nerd is a professional gamer who focuses on streaming Old School Runescape, the 2007 version of a once-popular massively multiplayer...

As blockchain technology hits the gaming industry, most game developers are only exploring subtle integrations. Meanwhile, a Seattle startup is making extensive use of the technology to completely reinvent how tabletop card games are played and distributed. New Gaming...

Users flocked to Steemit because they wanted an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, which are platforms known for censorship. One of the selling points of Steemit is its immutability via its blockchain and the incentives given to users for...

Cryptocurrency venture capitalist Chris Burniske believes the masses have “entirely forgotten” about digital assets, with his comments coming on the back of a prolonged bear market. Now, seasoned traders, institutional investors, and technological experts are leaving the crypto arena....

The two masterminds behind Bitcoin S.V. are once again changing the narrative around Bitcoin; Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre claim that Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision is the one and only ‘true’ version of Bitcoin. Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre are...

Roger Ver offered $1.25 million to OpenNode, a lightning network software company, to build on top of Bitcoin Cash. OpenNode declined, stating “our vision of a better, more open financial system is only possible with Bitcoin.” In a video...