Secretive Seattle-area blockchain startup Core Scientific is raising a big $100 million investment round that could grow to $250 million. Aber Whitcomb, co-founder and director, confirmed the numbers on Thursday… Read More
WENATCHEE, Wash. — “It all starts with power.” Malachi Salcido, bitcoin miner and founder of large-scale contracting firm Salcido Enterprises, made that observation about the modern world during my visit to… Read More
Player Tokens Inc. is betting that digital assets and blockchain technology will reshape the way sports fans buy and sell rare collectibles. The Seattle startup came out of stealth mode… Read More
For technologies that have been billed as the future of payments, it’s really hard to actually use digital currencies like Bitcoin or Etherium to buy things in the real world.… Read More
Seattle-based startup Nori is hoping to deliver what Al Gore, the Paris climate accord and others have not: a market-driven solution to not only curb greenhouse gas emissions, but actually… Read More
With all the hype and money pouring into the blockchain and cryptocurrency market, it’s important to recognize how young the industry is. Consumer adoption has not been achieved and most… Read More
Earlier this year, a blockchain company called Mobius undertook an initial coin offering, an increasingly popular method of tech fundraising, but excluded six states because they posed “unnecessary risk”: Alabama,… Read More
Current tools for managing our digital identities are falling short — unless you enjoy maintaining a binder full of passwords or believe that Equifax did a bang-up job repairing the… Read More
Former Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has taken the helm of Core Scientific, a stealthy new blockchain and artificial intelligence startup led by veteran tech executives, GeekWire has learned. Founded late… Read More
Blockchain has been around for a while, but it’s mostly played a supporting role as the backbone behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. But now the technology, which promises better security… Read More
How do you build an underwater robot that can locate an airplane wreckage and deliver its engine to the surface? Some students, making up more than 70 teams, will have… Read More
Washington State Sen. Reuven Carlyle is all-in on blockchain. The former tech executive turned lawmaker was a keynote speaker at the Blockchain NW conference in Seattle this week. He was… Read More
Blockchain technology is making its way into public government. Bellevue, Wash.-based DigitalTown today announced a $2.4 million investment from Pithia, a new venture capital firm in Seattle focused on funding blockchain… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in Seattle this week for the second year in a row,… Read More
Volition is an upcoming collectible card game (CCG) from Cryptogogue, a Seattle startup founded in 2017 by Patrick Meehan, a veteran software developer who’s worked on mobile titles like Wolf… Read More
A new Seattle startup is using blockchain technology to help companies in finance, healthcare, and other industries identify their users securely without the need for passwords. Trusted Key today announced… Read More
Much of the discussion about blockchain technology to date has either lauded its transformational promises or snickered at the marketing hype undeterred by the lack of actual breakthrough applications. But… Read More
Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel “Snow Crash” was set, in part, in a massive multiplayer virtual reality called the Metaverse, where people could use specialized visors and gloves to meet up and… Read More
How about a little blockchain with your coffee? Starbucks is the latest company to consider the use of blockchain technology. The Seattle-based giant announced today that it will start a… Read More
It’s not a huge surprise that a company known for moonshots is taking a close look at the blockchain. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Google is developing its own version of… Read More
A city in the U.S. has passed the country’s first ban on cryptocurrency mining after residents saw their electricity bills go up, sometimes by $100 or $200. Plattsburgh, N.Y., passed… Read More
The same day news of cryptocurrency scammers making off with more than $2 million surfaced, John Oliver dedicated most of his show to cautioning viewers about the alluring new market, which… Read More
Former Docker CEO Ben Golub has surfaced on the blockchain. He’s the new CEO of Storj Labs, a cloud storage startup that is using blockchain technology to build a decentralized… Read More
A new venture fund is looking to invest a cryptocurrency equivalent of more than $190 million in blockchain apps and startups, with a greater mission of making the Seattle area… Read More
Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia packed all the current hot tech buzzwords into a new… Read More
Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound like the company’s cloud computing division will be changing its… Read More
Peter Wilson, a fixture on the Seattle tech scene for more than 20 years, is on his way to London for his next challenge. The former vice president of engineering… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Christopher Wilmer is a chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh, an assistant professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department who uses computer… Read More
Even bitcoin’s boosters acknowledge that cryptocurrencies aren’t a sure thing. Just in the past month, China and South Korea signaled that they might be cracking down harder on trading in… Read More
Bitcoin, the most valuable among the rising market of cryptocurrencies, is flirting with a price of $10,000 this morning, an important milestone for what was once a fringe investment. Bitcoin… Read More