Cryptography News

While Hal Finney may no longer be with us, one of his proposals from 2011 may soon find its way to Bitcoin thanks to an expired patent.

One of the men who coined the term "proof-of-work" to join as chief scientist

Adam Back recalls Hal as a constructive personality who never engaged in squabbles.

Celebrity Ashton Kutcher has digitized and incinerated a drawing that will be auctioned on NFT marketplace Cryptograph to support ecological charities.

Luxury car company Rolls Royce announced a line of cars hosting blockchain puzzles, shortly after Lamborghini revealed a yacht.

Okamoto explains why his “electronic cash” patent may have presented obstacles to Hal Finney’s plans to make his own electronic currency.

According to one of the world’s leading cryptographers, Bitcoin’s elliptic curve could have a secret backdoor, invalidating all underlying security.

Scientists in China managed to exchange a crypto key at a distance of over 1,000 kilometers, could this lead to hackerproof cryptography?

Charles Hoskinson believes that this complex cryptographic technique could have helped avoid the Bitcoin Civil War that led to the formation of Bitcoin Cash.

Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a legendary cryptographer cited in the Bitcoin Whitepaper, discussed building the first blockchain.

Video conferencing app Zoom, the undisputed titan in an era of social distancing, has acquired end-to-end encryption start-up Keybase.

BBVA and a state-backed research center in Spain have launched a partnership to explore advanced cryptography for financial services.

Algorand developed a new cryptographic primitive replacing the common Merkle roots that vastly improves performance for certain types of blockchains, including Ethereum.

Privacy, efficiency and scalability: The improvements that can secure multiparty computation bring to the crypto industry.

Quantum computing could potentially break much of the encryption algorithms and protocols that currently secure the internet and computational industry as they are.