RBA chief dubs bitcoin fascination ‘speculative mania’
The fascination with virtual currencies feels more like a "speculative mania", the head of Australia's central bank has said.
The fascination with virtual currencies feels more like a "speculative mania", the head of Australia's central bank has said.
Bitcoin has hit another all-time peak, two days after the launch of the first ever bitcoin futures on a US exchange.
You probably already have an opinion on blockchain, which sits somewhere on the scale between “the biggest thing I’ve seen in my life” to “a lot of hype”.
Digital currencies such as Bitcoin will no longer be subject to the GST, the federal government announced during last night’s budget.
Thousands of publicly accessible FTP servers, including many Seagate network-attached storage devices, are being used by criminals to malware that mines cryptocurrency.
Barely a month goes by without news of yet another Aussie who has made it big in Silicon Valley. Could their success abroad be good for Australia? Let us know what you think...
On July 9, Bitcoin block reward halving will begin. This means that the rate new bitcoins are created will be permanently reduced by 50 per cent. The folks at Coin Journal have explained what this means in the Infographic below.
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has just been overtaken as the world's fastest by another Chinese computer, the Sunway TaihuLight, capable of 93 million billion floating-point operations per second.
For all its apparent complexity and ambiguity, blockchain is currently the most advanced tool for solving certain global problems of safety, authenticity, privacy, accessibility and security of artifacts and transactions.
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright is bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, he claimed on his personal blog and in media interviews on Monday. Within hours, skeptics were pointing to flaws in his claims.
There's some confusion around what the Bitcoin blockchain can and can't do. Gartner analysts list 7 common myths about Bitcoin blockchain technology.
Talk of blockchain technology is everywhere, it seems -- but what is it, and what does it do?
Global consulting firm, PwC is partnering with Blockstream to help organisations worldwide deploy blockchain technology.
David Gee grabs his crystal ball and predicts the five megatrends you'll need to be aware of between now and 2020.
ASX Limited has invested A$14.9 million to acquire a 5 per cent equity interest in Digital Asset, which develops distributed ledger technology similar to the Bitcoin blockchain.