April 6, 2018 @ 5:55 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Lightning Network meant to help Bitcoin and Litecoin scale to handle more payments has been under sustained DoS (Denial of Service) attack emanating from an friendly anonymous source or sources known as “BitPico.” The attack began March 22, 2018, and BitPico took credit publicly… Read More

April 5, 2018 @ 4:16 am By Cali Haan  |  

CEO Edmund Lowell of the Hong Kong-incorporated blockchain ID company SelfKey hosted an AMA on reddit last Thursday, “in line with our commitment to transparency.” KEY tokens are currently trading for a fraction of what they debuted at on exchanges in January. One redditor asked… Read More

April 4, 2018 @ 5:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

Sporting a name that might sound cool if you’re high, a purported crypto-product named “Dietbitcoin” is now being shilled by the brother of deceased Colombian Cocaine King, Pablo Escobar. Displaying a cadence and confidence either cocaine-fueled, Spanish or both, Roberto Escobar states in a paid… Read More

April 4, 2018 @ 4:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

One of Ethereum’s cofounders, Joseph Lubin, is backing a new online poker platform built on Ethereum, a programmable cryptocurrency and cousin of Bitcoin. Virtue Poker promises to eliminate problems that may have informed a US-wide shut down of the online poker industry in 2011, a… Read More

April 2, 2018 @ 4:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

Author’s note (August 22, 2019): I came upon this article I wrote early on in recent days, and would like to add that I am considerably less enthused now about cryptocurrencies than I was when I wrote th9s article- as I hope we all are…. Read More

April 1, 2018 @ 5:39 pm By Cali Haan  |  

People finding real-world REITs too sober, opaque, or boring, may soon be able to invest in slivers of digitally-tokenized real restate in the tony heart of Europe. If their forthcoming ICO-funded venture succeeds, Switzerland-based Swiss Real Coin will soon be offering a Blockchain token-based RE… Read More