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The past 12 months marked a dynamic period for the price of ether (ETH), the cryptocurrency of the ethereum network. Ether markets experienced sharp price fluctuations over the course of 2016. The digital currency surged more than 2,000%…

Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global blockchain token markets. This edition looks at the week from 10th through 16th December. Ether classic (ETC) made a strident comeback this week. As the nascent…

Over the last several years, the number of digital currencies has skyrocketed. While some of these have developed substantial market capitalizations and carved out their own unique niches, few have shown promise for offering users a high…

Markets Weekly is a column analyzing price movements in the digital currency markets, and the technology's use case as an asset class. This article covers 19th to 26th November. Bitcoin continued to trade at elevated levels this week,…

CoinDesk's Q3 2016 State of Blockchain report summarizes key trends, data and events from the third quarter of 2016 This article highlights findings from our quarterly 'Spotlight Study', based on a survey of 240 startup execs and enterprise…

Over the past year we have seen the fee market for bitcoin transactions evolve at a rapid pace. As transaction volume continues to increase, so does the demand for block space, which remains in limited supply of 1 megabyte (MB)…

Jameson Lopp is a software engineer at BitGo, creator of Statoshi.info and founder of Bitcoinsig.com. He enjoys building web services and is intrigued by problems of scale. In this feature, Lopp examines the Lightning Network, a proposed…

A new survey suggests that many finance professionals see a bright future for blockchain technology – just not one involving bitcoin. Greenwich Associates, a market intelligence firm, recently released its "Distributed Ledgers in Capital…

Bitcoin has been the de facto currency of the Dark Web – the 'hidden' Internet accessible only by Tor – since the pioneering marketplace Silk Road, the 'eBay of drugs', arrived in 2011. But just how much do we know about these new…