Blockchain is the core technology behind Bitcoin and thousands of cryptocurrencies and has promising potential beyond digital currencies. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from ...

Blockchain Explained: The Foundation of Bitcoin’s Decentralized and Secure Transaction Network. Whether it’s a new era of technological innovation or just the latest hype that will eventually die out, ...

Blockchain has been an overly-hyped solution for nearly everything, from finance to ledger integrity and smart contract, from peer-to-peer distribution to trust verification, but it has some uses in ...

Bitcoin forever changed the face of currency, but it’s the computerized and networked infrastructure of Bitcoin, called a “blockchain,” that is changing the face of business and commerce around the ...

Public blockchains use computers distributed across the Internet, and each computer performs only a couple of functions. Because of its distributed nature, a blockchain is considered a network. See ...

The biggest global investment banks could reduce the cost of their IT infrastructures by up to $12bn a year on average by using blockchain technology, according to a report. Benchmarking firm McLagan ...

With regard to blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum (until September 2022) that use a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism, validators are computers dedicated to maintaining a blockchain's ...

A bipartisan bill recently introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives proposes creating a "consensus-based definition of blockchain." Representatives Doris Matsui and Brett Guthrie – both members ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing on the intersection of emerging tech and cultural trends. Most people in the tech industry don’t really fit the “meathead” ...