Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blockchain technology has many uses beyond cryptocurrency. Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty Images People hear a lot about ...

Blockchain has been an overly-hyped solution for nearly everything, from finance to ledger integrity and smart contract, from peer-to-peer distribution to trust verification, but it has some uses in ...

A blockchain is a kind of database invented in 2008 that stores and secures information in sequential blocks. Unlike the case with traditional databases, a blockchain’s contents are not kept on a ...

Blockchain is distributed ledger technology. The premise of blockchain is that everyone involved in the chain has the same version of the truth at the same time. Each block in the chain builds on the ...

Ripples of change are starting to spread throughout the $108.9 billion computer gaming industry, as blockchain technology looks set to change core aspects of games enjoyed by 2.2 billion people around ...

With regard to blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum (until September 2022) that use a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism, validators are computers dedicated to maintaining a blockchain's ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – People hear a lot about blockchain technology in relation to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, which rely on blockchain systems to keep records of financial transactions between ...