After months of public uncertainty bought on by years of deliberation by the Indian government, authorities have discussed the framework to legally ban the usage of ‘private’ cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.

Less than two years after it had been trading under $1, Bitcoin surged to more than $100 in the spring of 2013. CNBC's panel discussed the risks and benefits of the cryptocurrency, its comparisons to gold, and whether or not the run up was a bubble.

WWF assessed 4,000 species of birds, mammals, fish, and reptiles. On average, they’re facing huge losses.

The Holocene extinction, also referred to as the Anthropocene extinction or the sixth mass extinction, is an ongoing extinction event caused exclusively by human activities during the Holocene epoch. This extinction event spans numerous families of plants…

Peter Boghossian is a philosophy instructor, activist, author, speaker, and atheism advocate. He is a full-time faculty member at Portland State University. James Lindsay has a Ph.D. in mathematics and a background in physics and is...

TED talks, SF Blockchain Week, auditing OMG Plasma, and more. From one of ur engineers getting recognized by the Mathematical Association…

Anti-aging pioneer Judith Campisi explains how a recent breakthrough could ward off age-related disease.

The mouse brain contains roughly 80 million neurons, all packed into a space about the size of a hazelnut. Those cells come in a vast assortment of shapes and sizes, and their connections with one another ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan provides an overview of priorities the FDA will pursue to support innovation in plant and animal biotechnology and to advance the agency’s public health mission.

My 2018 Annual Letter is now out: https://t.co/k9nEe4OgWB Contents: - Returns - A Ponzi Scheme in Silicon Valley - AI - Computational Biology - A Comparison to Berkshire Hathaway

Decentralized certificate authority and naming

Web3 Summit convened Ethereum Foundation researcher Vlad Zamfir, Polkadot, Parity, and Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood, Tezos Founder Arthur Breitman, and Web3 Foundation's Adrian Brink to discuss governance, both on-chain and off-chain.

One of the advantages of this technology called blockchain, is that it is a public and immutable record and everything that happens in the chain of blocks will be recorded in plain sight, but without face or identity. By visiting bitinfocharts.com, you can…