Blockchain

Blockchain needs a reason to exist, Boris Johnson tells roomful of blockchain pros

As for Twitter, politicians need to grow thick skins and stop mistaking it for advertisement

Software02 Dec 2022 | 110

‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman argues for centralized infrastructure

Inventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise

Networks02 Dec 2022 | 40

Japan's LINE shutters crypto exchange to focus on less controversial blockbiz

Decision is unrelated to recent crypto crashes, presages pivot to some kind of tokenised chat

Software29 Nov 2022 | 3

New York cracks down on carbon fuel-based crypto-mining operations

Two-year ban comes as state attempts to reduce emissions by 85%

Networks23 Nov 2022 | 33

Australian exchange pauses project to move stocks to blockchain

Distributed ledger design slowed transactions, smart contracts were not so smart

Software17 Nov 2022 | 33

NFT vending machine appears in London

Don't everyone rush at once

Offbeat04 Nov 2022 | 49

China promises its digital currency will offer 'controllable anonymity'

This means personal info will be captured but not used – unless you're a suspected crim

Software01 Nov 2022 | 30

Luxury smartphone brand returns with $41,500 device

If your mobile's not 18k gold with diamonds, do you even crypto bro?

Offbeat25 Oct 2022 | 49

Digital Ocean won't let new customers create resources in four DCs, won't say why

Can't even spin up the compute necessary to reply

PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2022 | 14

Interpol seeks Do Kwon, man blamed for $40b crypto implosion

Founder of firm at center of fraud claims says he's 'not running' right now. Ditched the Fitbit, have you?

Personal Tech26 Sep 2022 | 4

Crypto biz Wintermute loses $160m in cyber-heist, tells us not to stress out

The other Tessier-Ashpool AIs are surely disappointed

Cyber-crime20 Sep 2022 | 10

Merge shifts Ethereum to full proof-of-stake, price slumps

Power consumption plummets, too, so there's that

Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 42

SWIFT to trial blockchain – but not for its core payment service

Hopes to streamline market data movements, but as 11,000 institutions use SWIFT this is a bit of a moment

Software15 Sep 2022 | 24

Feds freeze $30m in cryptocurrency stolen from Axie Infinity

But the North Korean criminals are still over half a billion digicash dollars up

Security09 Sep 2022 | 15

FBI: Look out, crooks stole $1.3b in cryptocurrency in just three months this year

DeFi, as in, defying belief

Cyber-crime01 Sep 2022 | 9

DeFi credit scores: Coming soon to a blockchain near you

Tension between anonymity and identity in web3 is being tested as firms seek a way to control rampant fraud

Networks25 Aug 2022 | 12

Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains

Junior cloud growing nicely, but calls out customers' easing ardor for distributed ledgers

Off-Prem09 Aug 2022 | 17

Financial exchange's efforts to replace core systems with blockchain founder – again

Accenture roped in to find the weakest link

Software04 Aug 2022 | 15

US puts $10 million bounty on North Korean cyber-crews

Kim will be shaking in his shoes

Security27 Jul 2022 | 7

Microsoft to blockheads: NFTs and blockchains aren't welcome in Minecraft

Cites flakiness of NFT community and speculative activity as inimical to the game's goals

Personal Tech21 Jul 2022 | 21

Tech professionals pour cold water on UK crypto hub plans

Government proposals unlikely to outlast the new Chancellor anyway

Software08 Jul 2022 | 36

Crypto sleuths pin $100 million Harmony theft on Lazarus Group

Elliptic points to several indicators that suggest the North Korea-linked gang was behind the hack

Cyber-crime01 Jul 2022 | 8

China's blockchain boosters slam crypto as Ponzi scheme

Communists reckon Bill Gates and Warren Buffet got it right

Software28 Jun 2022 | 59

DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (and Bitcoin) security

Blockchain not as decentralised as many assume, finds Pentagon sponsored research

Security22 Jun 2022 | 12

Bill Gates says NFTs '100% based on greater fool theory' amid crypto cataclysm

Comment Plus: Non-fungible tokens for dummies

Offbeat16 Jun 2022 | 87

China’s top court calls for blockchain to record vast number of transactions

Leases, IP rights, ownership of goods … it’s almost easier to list things the Supreme People’s Court doesn’t want on a blockchain

Software31 May 2022 | 21

HPE uses blockchain for distributed machine learning models

Peer-to-peer network between different nodes ensures parameters can be exchanged securely

AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 1

Flaw could have granted criminals control over Ever Surf crypto wallets

Check Point uncovers web vulnerability that could have led to cryptocurrency theft

Security25 Apr 2022 | 1

Star loses $500,000 NFT after crooks exploit Rarible market

This isn't the moving-fast-and-breaking-things future we wanted

Security15 Apr 2022 | 37

Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare' says analyst firm

Forrester Research is DeFi-ing current hype

Applications01 Apr 2022 | 59

Blockchain powered stock market rebuild started in 2017 delayed again

COBOL and Itanium to keep the job well into 2023 – past original 2020 go-live date

Software28 Mar 2022 | 24

China declares a new era of digitization has begun

Xi's vision for once-in-a-lifetime transformation includes singular identity cards, shared data, and huge clouds

Software18 Mar 2022 | 20

Cringe: Salesforce latest megacorp to jump on non-fungible tokens bandwagon

How to get nothing for something

SaaS10 Feb 2022 | 13

Indian PM says digital rupee will facilitate creation of global digital payment scheme

This is news to the rest of the world

Personal Tech04 Feb 2022 | 22

Avira also mines imaginary internet money on customers' PCs

Who should your PC work for: you, or your antivirus vendor?

Security10 Jan 2022 | 45

No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP

Opinion How sad would you be to see AV go? Us neither

Security10 Jan 2022 | 96

Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable

Want fatuous stuff that treats you with contempt? Look no further

Personal Tech07 Jan 2022 | 98

Bitcoin 'inventor' will face forgery claims over his Satoshi Nakamoto proof, rules High Court

COPA load of that

Legal06 Jan 2022 | 76

Samsung adds non fungible token trading app to its tellies

Not as bonkers as it sounds seeing as Sammy suggests they’re already works of art

Personal Tech04 Jan 2022 | 30

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter planning move to blockchain. How will it work? Your guess is as good as ours

Don't worry, it'll be carbon neutral ...

Offbeat16 Dec 2021 | 26

Web3: The next generation of the web is here… apparently

Comment What is it for and how does it work? The Reg investigates

Software15 Dec 2021 | 98

Google launches lawsuit against a blockchain-enabled botnet

Two Russian men and 15 Does named in Glupteba Enterprise case

Legal08 Dec 2021 | 7

The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day

Opinion Put crypto back in the crypt

Databases06 Dec 2021 | 170

India reveals home-grown server that won't worry the leading edge

And a National Blockchain Strategy that calls for gov to host BaaS

Systems06 Dec 2021 | 6

Giant Japanese corporations to launch bank-backed digital currency

Central bank and government to observe effort run by railways, telcos, industrial titans, and private banks

Software25 Nov 2021 | 19

Gartner Gartner on the wall, which is the hypest cycle of them all?

Comment Omnipresent analyst house returns to the source

Personal Tech24 Aug 2021 | 35

Singapore, Australia successfully trial blockchain-greased customs system

Who knew that verifiable and digital documentation might move a little faster than paper?

Applications23 Aug 2021 | 4

OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief

Could it be a trap?

Security18 Aug 2021 | 30

I was offered $500k as a thank-you bounty for pilfering $600m from Poly Network, says crypto-thief

Blockchain exchange biz says it's working to have all the purloined assets returned

Security14 Aug 2021 | 31

Thief hands back at least a third of $600m in crypto-coins stolen from Poly Network

It was just a prank, bro

Security11 Aug 2021 | 23

It's time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc

Systems Approach The idea was to remove central points of failure, not introduce them

Networks11 Aug 2021 | 69

US proposes tracking digital cash and taxing it to pay for, you know, roads and stuff

Uncle Sam wants digital asset brokers to log customer info but didn't clarify who counts as a broker or not

Software06 Aug 2021 | 15

Microsoft bins Azure Blockchain without explanation, gives users four months to move

Says picking a replacement is your next step. Seriously, that’s Redmond's first piece of advice. Eventually it recommends Quorum

PaaS + IaaS13 May 2021 | 24

Blockchain may be the machinery of mischief, but it can't help telling the truth

Column It's still totally bananas, though

Security29 Mar 2021 | 51

We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether

Updated How can we put this? Imagine beanie babies were screenshots that needed their own power plant

Software12 Mar 2021 | 108

India pauses blockchain-powered SMS spam-scrubber after it swallows people's one-time login codes

Tardiness by stakeholders, rather than over-optimistic blockheads, blamed

Security10 Mar 2021 | 11