Scaling was a hot topic at Tuesday’s Token Summit in SanFrancisco

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Talking about smart media tokens.

I have been writing a lot about the messaging app Kik's move into cryptocurrency with Kin. If you don't know about Kik (because you're over 25), it's a super popular messaging app for young people (or,

Billionaire Reid Hoffman has it out for Donald Trump, and he's willing to spend money to beat back the White House's agenda. The New York Times dropped a big profile of Hoffman and his efforts to fund

This is a super cool new product from Mozilla. It's called Send. Upload anything up to 1GB in size, send the link to someone and as soon as they download it, the file disappears. One download and it's

Juan Benet at Protocol Labs always thought that regulators would come for the initial coin offering market. His company has built a bunch of products for the distributed web. It built the Interplanetary

A lot of new initial coin offerings have been happening lately, as everyone knows. As a tech reporter at the Observer, I generally don't write about all the ICOs. Just as it hasn't been news for a long

There's a lot of news about this giant solar field in China built to look like a panda. I think it's real, but I'm a reporter and writing about other countries where I don't speak the language and don't

Google and Facebook have servers all over the place. Amazon has those, plus warehouses. They might have some other back office operations around the country. Does anyone out there live in a non-coastal

The New York Times ran an op-ed by Pamela Paul this weekend arguing that folks should read books they know they are going to hate. She argues that it sharpens your critical mind to look closely at something

I'm looking for posts from startups that shut down and announced it or wrote a post-mortem on the publishing platform Medium. Can folks remember companies they have watched and liked and posted about their

For me, pull-ups have always been the apex of fitness. They seemed like an impossible maneuver when I was a kid. I'm a fairly big guy, and I remember the unfairness of getting tested on pull-ups when I

When a very young Bob Dylan laid down some of his earliest tracks at the Gaslight Cafe in 1962, a sound engineer named Richard Alderson made the historic recordings. Alderson would go on to record all

Thank goodness, this endless election is nearly over. The final presidential debate before Election Day will take place this Wednesday night, at 9PM ET/ 6PM PT, moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace. Every

A lot of weird stuff has been happening to data inside the internet’s walled gardens. It has been getting shut down by the people who own the sites we all depend on. There’s a protest going on at Facebook

Today I published my first story using 360 degree video, the kind of video that you can watch with a Google Cardboard and turn your head and look around the room as it plays. You can also watch it the

So I've been generally interested in cryptocurrency as a reporter for a little bit now. I found it pretty compelling that @heiditravels has actually been able to convert enough Steem earnings into cash-money

Sony has a new show coming out on September 6 called StartUp, and it's about cryptocurrency (sort of). A young woman in Miami has created her own new currency that her software completely controls, called

One week from Wednesday, gun opponents predict the campus at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin will be covered with students hanging dildos from their backpacks for the first day of classes. The action