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Blockchain

Planetary Resources' Chris Lewicki

Why in the universe is a blockchain company buying the assets of a formerly high-flying asteroid miner?

After months of financial uncertainty, the Planetary Resources asteroid-mining venture says its assets have been purchased by the Brooklyn-based ConsenSys… Read More

Stealthy blockchain startup Core Scientific raising $100M, could reel in as much as $250M

Secretive Seattle-area blockchain startup Core Scientific is raising a big $100 million investment round that could grow to $250 million.… Read More

Power struggle: How a bitcoin mining boom is transforming apple country, one megawatt at a time

WENATCHEE, Wash. — “It all starts with power.” Malachi Salcido, bitcoin miner and founder of large-scale contracting firm Salcido Enterprises, made… Read More

Future of sports collectibles? Player Tokens brings together blockchain and baseball cards

Player Tokens Inc. is betting that digital assets and blockchain technology will reshape the way sports fans buy and sell… Read More

Finally, a practical use for Bitcoin? Starbucks might take cryptocurrency for lattes

For technologies that have been billed as the future of payments, it’s really hard to actually use digital currencies like… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Nori is creating a blockchain marketplace open to all to reverse climate change

Seattle-based startup Nori is hoping to deliver what Al Gore, the Paris climate accord and others have not: a market-driven… Read More

5 steps for consumer adoption of blockchain

With all the hype and money pouring into the blockchain and cryptocurrency market, it’s important to recognize how young the… Read More

Washington regulators want to turn around state’s bad rep on blockchain and cryptocurrency

Earlier this year, a blockchain company called Mobius undertook an initial coin offering, an increasingly popular method of tech fundraising,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: LifeID uses blockchain technology to build secure digital identities

Current tools for managing our digital identities are falling short — unless you enjoy maintaining a binder full of passwords… Read More

Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner emerges at helm of secretive blockchain startup co-founded by former Myspace CTO

Former Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has taken the helm of Core Scientific, a stealthy new blockchain and artificial intelligence startup… Read More

Microsoft Azure CTO: 2018 is the year blockchain becomes a real thing

Blockchain has been around for a while, but it’s mostly played a supporting role as the backbone behind Bitcoin and… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Underwater robotics contest; The future of wine; and more

How do you build an underwater robot that can locate an airplane wreckage and deliver its engine to the surface?… Read More

For the record, this state senator is fired up about the ‘power and possibilities’ of blockchain

Washington State Sen. Reuven Carlyle is all-in on blockchain. The former tech executive turned lawmaker was a keynote speaker at… Read More

DigitalTown raises $2.4M to build blockchain tech for smart city software services

Blockchain technology is making its way into public government. Bellevue, Wash.-based DigitalTown today announced a $2.4 million investment from Pithia, a… Read More

Blockchain in the cloud: Microsoft and Amazon look to democratize the distributed ledger for developers

[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… Read More

A print-on-demand, blockchain-powered collectible card game: Cryptogogue’s Volition

Volition is an upcoming collectible card game (CCG) from Cryptogogue, a Seattle startup founded in 2017 by Patrick Meehan, a… Read More

Former Microsoft, Oracle execs raise $3M for digital identity enterprise blockchain startup Trusted Key

A new Seattle startup is using blockchain technology to help companies in finance, healthcare, and other industries identify their users… Read More

Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Algorithmia, speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (Photo: Kevin Lisota)

Machine learning on the blockchain: How Algorithmia’s DanKu experiment unfolded

Much of the discussion about blockchain technology to date has either lauded its transformational promises or snickered at the marketing… Read More

Seattle-based 8 Circuit Studios wants to build the Metaverse with the blockchain

Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel “Snow Crash” was set, in part, in a massive multiplayer virtual reality called the Metaverse, where people… Read More

Starbucks explores potential use of blockchain tech for ‘bean to cup’ pilot program

How about a little blockchain with your coffee? Starbucks is the latest company to consider the use of blockchain technology.… Read More

Sure, why not? Google said to be getting in on the blockchain

It’s not a huge surprise that a company known for moonshots is taking a close look at the blockchain. Bloomberg… Read More

Regulators are coming for cryptocurrency

A city in the U.S. has passed the country’s first ban on cryptocurrency mining after residents saw their electricity bills… Read More

Watch John Oliver break down blockchain and bitcoin on ‘Last Week Tonight’

The same day news of cryptocurrency scammers making off with more than $2 million surfaced, John Oliver dedicated most of his… Read More

Former Docker CEO Ben Golub named CEO of Storj Labs, a blockchain-based cloud storage company

Former Docker CEO Ben Golub has surfaced on the blockchain. He’s the new CEO of Storj Labs, a cloud storage… Read More

New Seattle venture fund aims to invest $190M in blockchain startups and apps

A new venture fund is looking to invest a cryptocurrency equivalent of more than $190 million in blockchain apps and… Read More

Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Algorithmia, speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (Photo: Kevin Lisota)

Algorithmia launches blockchain-based protocol for machine-learning algorithm shoppers

Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia… Read More

Microsoft’s Guthrie claims Azure is seeing blockchain momentum, but that’s not moving the cloud needle any time soon

Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Seattle tech vet Peter Wilson to lead Blockchain engineering team; Madrona adds Ignition Partners vet

Peter Wilson, a fixture on the Seattle tech scene for more than 20 years, is on his way to London… Read More

Q&A: The inside story of ‘Ledger,’ the academic journal for blockchain and cryptocurrency research

PITTSBURGH — Christopher Wilmer is a chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh, an assistant professor in the Swanson School… Read More

Lawrence Lerner

Cryptocurrency may have its ups and downs, but blockchain’s stock is on the rise

Even bitcoin’s boosters acknowledge that cryptocurrencies aren’t a sure thing. Just in the past month, China and South Korea signaled… Read More

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