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Decentralization may seem out of reach for many, but here are some realistic ways to reject the idea of centralization in our daily lives.

Brad Garlinghouse said tech companies have an obligation to contribute to solving societal issues.

Cryptocurrencies are making micronations possible, but questions remain as to just how far small states will lean on crypto technology.

After dealing with a series of scandals, the Tor Project has implemented a “social contract” to improve member conduct.

Cryptonomex is a company which offers “custom blockchain development” to businesses. Its specialty is to craft products, which live in the Graphene blockchain library.

Cointelegraph spoke with Christoph Hering from BitShares Munich on the current refugee influx into Europe and why cryptocurrency and blockchain technology might just be the perfect answer to the crisis.

The biggest obstacle for Bitcoin’s mainstream push is not the technology itself but rather the public’s ignorance of the true nature of money.

In another splash into the Bitcoin space for Microsoft, the tech giant's Civic Innovation team organized a Bitcoin event in New York earlier this week.

Two major breakthroughs in fiber optic technology and smartphone batteries are set to make high speed internet and thus, digital currency, more accessible to the global population, enabling underdeveloped countries to leapfrog current technologies.

There was a time in human history without war. Really. It also just so happened to be the most decentralized period of human history.

Philip Agyei Asare, founder of Dream Bitcoin Foundation (DBF) in Kumasi, Ghana, recently contracted malaria. He is out of the hospital now and recovering at home

New service that allows users to post questions and pay Bitcoin to people who submit the best answers.

More than half a year ago, I became the first citizen on the blockchain, which was the second pilot project of Bitcoin 2.0 platform Bitnation.

The proliferation of cryptocurrency trading has resulted in trading tools to suit everyone. Now ToshiDesk is attempting to provide trading that includes a social aspect

Christopher Ellis, a hacker with a penchant for decentralized security created a platform using off-the-shelf PGP encryption and a blockchain similar to Bitcoin’s to create what he calls “the World Citizenship Passport.” Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) provides end to end encryption and the blockchain provides Identification registry internet wide.