To many, the idea that blockchain can be a force for good in the climate fight seems contradictory. The predominant narrative is about the mindblowing energy consumption of proof-of-work blockchains ...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a phrase that is neither legal nor technical. Nonetheless, it is increasingly employed in talks concerning the future of finance and its regulation. Decentralization; ...

A distributed ledger is a database that serves the purpose of recording various transactions. Similar to the way e-transactions and digital banking apps have transformed the way consumers spend money, ...

Blythe Masters, chief executive of fintech provider Digital Asset Holdings, said she is seeing all the things needed to happen now for blockchain and distributed ledger technology to be mainstream in ...

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First there was Bitcoin, friend of criminals, speculators and tech geeks everywhere. It’s grown amazingly. Then there were alternatives to Bitcoin, often sharing much of the same code, but with ...

With volumes now over $1.5 trillion monthly, the Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) is designed to integrate distributed-ledger technology with existing front- and back-office systems to streamline and ...

Quantum computers offer great promise for cryptography and optimization problems. ZDNet explores what quantum computers will and won't be able to do, and the challenges we still face. Read now Amazon ...