Yahoo Finance Live’s Brad Smith explains what the blockchain is and how it works. BRIAN CHEUNG: Blockchain, we know that a lot of crypto was built on it, but it's not quite the same thing. Crypto is ...

Blockchain networks are currently among the most talked-about 21st-century breakthroughs, with implications much broader than the finance industry. While the term "blockchain" often gets lumped ...

Blockchain networks are secure and decentralized by design, but with their increasing popularity, scalability becomes a very important issue. Each transaction added to a primary blockchain needs to be ...

Bitcoin miners and mining are required for new bitcoins to enter into circulation. Mining is also a critical component of the security of the blockchain ledger.

Blockchain technology is the foundation of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It's a secure and transparent way to record and verify transactions, removing the need for intermediaries like banks. Use the ...

The Bitcoin transaction mempool is a temporary storage area for unconfirmed transactions that are waiting for a miner to add them to a new block. Every Bitcoin node runs a mempool and works to check ...

Is Ripple's edge at risk as SWIFT tries out the blockchain? Short answer: not yet, but the long game just got interesting.

The peer-to-peer networks that process instructions and maintain records in a blockchain depend on a few cryptographic principles and the mechanism laid out in bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2008 ...