Joël Valenzuela

The Salvadoran experiment is the shot heard round the world for the mainstream adoption of decentralized digital currencies as money.

With mass adoption comes the risk that cryptocurrency may lose one of its core value propositions: decentralization.

The inconvenience of using Bitcoin directly may soon be dwarfed by the headache of moving it on and off exchanges.

The recent incidents with Steem show a critical vulnerability in proof-of-stake algorithms that might affect all cryptocurrencies and exchanges.

Researchers found that a significant number of Monero transactions can be linked, contrary to what Monero offers.

The major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has just opened Dash trading, capping off a recent run of integrations following this year’s price spike.

Cornell professor Emin Gun Sirer on the so-called “Dragon’s Den” that allegedly hides a secret army of 21 trolls pushing for the “Core” agenda.

A US federal judge ruled Friday that cryptocurrency is completely exempt from regulation due to a little-known law enacted over 40 years ago.

European cryptocurrency exchange BitPanda recently added Dash-fiat trading pairs as altcoin buying options outside of acquiring Bitcoin first continue to expand.

Lead developer of Particl, a peer-to-peer anonymous marketplace, on the reborn project’s goals and future.

Early Bitcoin pioneer Charlie Shrem is pursuing a new venture, a Dash debit card, seeking funding directly from Dash itself.

Bitcoin’s scaling fight has led to a record low in its percentage of cryptocurrency’s total market cap as investors hedge with top altcoins.

Dash’s price and volume have surged to all-time highs, bringing what is likely to be the largest development budget in the cryptocurrency field.

Antpool, Bitcoin’s largest mining pool, has begun mining blocks supporting Bitcoin Unlimited, cementing deadlock in the scaling debate as transaction issues worsen.

Dash’s DAO has enabled a variety of community projects to spring forth organically and receive funding in the same way as the core team.

Wall of Coins has integrated support for privately buying Dash over-the-counter for cash, as well as for Africa-based MobileMoney, as Dash surges to all-time highs.

Cooperation and collaboration is a lacking component in the world of cryptocurrency, and focusing on working together, instead of in conflict, will solve many of the field’s larger problems.

In a major price surge, Dash has nearly doubled market cap over the last month, overtaking Litecoin and Monero to become the fourth most valued cryptocurrency.

Multiple reports have surfaced that White House staffers are using Confide, an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, in order to cover their tracks when leaking information to the press.

Former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan calls for a return to the gold standard as Bitcoin becomes positioned to take gold’s place as the world’s reserve store of value.

Local Bitcoin trades have surged in China amid fears of a regulatory crackdown similar to Venezuela. Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading is up across the board in restrictive countries.

Bitcoin Unlimited blocks mined have reached a new high, passing SegWit and indicating that a hard fork may be just around the corner.

Nocks, an exchange and payment processor working closely with Gulden, has dropped Bitcoin support, citing the cryptocurrency’s bad reputation and slow confirmation times.

Anthony Di Iorio, CEO of Jaxx, in an exclusive interview, on the real reason integration with Monero was stopped so far along in the process.

Buenos Aires has renewed its push to shut down Uber operations in the city, attempting to legally prosecute its local leadership and ban its app from use.

Jaxx abruptly cancelled its much-anticipated integration of Monero into its platform, citing “too many difficulties” working with its community and developers.

Interest in Bitcoin is surging in Latin America in a new era market by strained relations with the US president Donald Trump.

Google has begun a crackdown on “fake news” sites, removing hundreds of publishers from using its advertising platform AdSense.

John Bush, owner of Brave New Books and crypto evangelist, on the dos and don’ts of the cryptocurrency adoption strategy learned during the Dash to Adoption push.

Western Union shares have plunged following the Mexican president’s cancellation of a meeting with Donald Trump, underscoring the need for less nationally vulnerable payment systems like Bitcoin.