We're often being told that the blockchain – the tech behind Bitcoin – will rewire not just the banking sector, but social security payments, healthcare and even digital voting. Until now, it's all ...

Miners, hashes, keys, cold storage, blocks—it can all get confusing. Learn more about it all so that you can understand how Bitcoin works beyond a wallet.

Blockchain's role in cybersecurity continues to expand as organizations seek reliable ways to secure data, verify identities, ...

Barclays is evaluating the use of so-called smart contracts in blockchain-like technology to trade equity swaps, options and swaptions. Last month, the bank unveiled a prototype trade using ...

Bitcoin, being the very first decentralized currency, has also been heavily commended on its security. In order to gain a proper understanding of how it achieves this, we need to look at the two ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blockchain fever has, as we all know, turned into private permissioned distributed ledger fever — loosely ...

However, since it was not originally created for real-time IoT communications, blockchain has its shortcomings. Notably, the fees associated with transactions make it less suitable for small exchanges ...

Blockchain technology is being used to record, track and validate diamonds Blockchain - the technology underpinning digital currency Bitcoin - has been in the news lately. Banks think it could be the ...

The UK's chief scientific adviser has urged the government to adopt the technology that powers crypto-currency Bitcoin to run various public services. Bitcoins are powered by blockchains - digital ...