Paris-based Stratumn, a blockchain developer platform that provides enterprise-grade tools for developers to leverage the features of public and permissioned blockchains into their applications has raised €600,000 in seed funding recently. The funding is a first of its kind for a … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price quickly returned to its previous consolidation zone during Sunday trade. The verdict in the ongoing case of Bulls vs. Bears remains inconclusive. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and rec … | Continue reading
Brave Software Inc., the creator of a browser that blocks unwanted web ads and replaces them with ads generated by Brave with payouts in Bitcoin, has been advised by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) that its plan to replace publishers’ ads on their own websites with Bra … | Continue reading
The Panama Papers will have political and social fallout for months and years to come, much like the Libor scandal or the Edward Snowden leaks. A vote of no confidence for Iceland’s prime minister and Internet censorship in China are likely but the beginning. With top Chinese le … | Continue reading
In yet another attack on an online cryptocurrency exchange, Shapeshift.io went down for a couple days while they dealt with some malicious intrusion into their server, assessing the damage and keeping their customer base aware of the status the entire time. Within a day of knowin … | Continue reading
Seven Wall Street firms including four global banks have announced the successful testing of blockchain technology used for credit default swaps’ trading process in post-trade lifecycle events, a market wherein outstanding contracts amount to in the trillions of dollars. In a new … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Core, the open source project that maintains bitcoin client software called “Bitcoin Core,” has launched a sponsorship program in an effort to involve more of the cryptocurrency community in the project. The sponsorship program provides a way for the industry to support r … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continues inside its two-month sideways consolidation range. This time we’re in for a price dip that should return to current price levels after a small descent. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? … | Continue reading
A team of blockchain technology pioneers from Ghana, Denmark, and the U.S., has launched a blockchain initiative to establish usable land titles and free up trillions of dollars for infrastructure development in West Africa, according to Forbes. The Bitland initiative will educ … | Continue reading
US and Canada cyber security agencies issued an alert last week regarding an increasing number of ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. Five providers, in just the last month alone, have been infected with such computer viruses, and often they are forced to pay Bit … | Continue reading
J. Christopher Giancarlo, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), told a Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. symposium that blockchain should be allowed to develop with minimal government regulation. Giancarlo noted in his published remarks that the Telec … | Continue reading
The R3 consortium of financial institutions working on a blockchain-based solution to improve the financial services infrastructure has released an update on its initiative, which it calls “Corda.” Since the R3 consortium has continuously drawn more members among major institutio … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price printed a mediocre move during this week’s first two days of trading by reaching above $420 (Bitstamp). The move now looks to be keeling over, and we should see a small sell-off to local support. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the … | Continue reading
Circle, a Bitcoin exchange and services startup is granted an electronic money license by the British government through its foremost financial regulator. The milestone marks the first time that Britain has bestowed a license upon a bitcoin company. The license was granted by Bri … | Continue reading
Canada is showing the world the way forward on marijuana legalization. In Ontario, superior and appellate courts have ruled that Canada’s cannabis laws are null and void. Challenges to change federal law towards decriminalization, on the other hand, have failed. There’s a lesson … | Continue reading
Coinify, a Denmark-based blockchain currency payment provider, has partnered with iSignthis Ltd., a remote identification and payment authentication service provider, to offer a new service connecting blockchain payments, identity verification and credit cards. The companies clai … | Continue reading
BNP Paribas Securities, the French bank, has partnered with SmartAngels, a Paris, France-based crowdfunding platform, to pilot the use of blockchain technology for funding startups and SMEs (small and medium-size enterprises), according to La Revue Du Digital, a French business n … | Continue reading
European bitcoin exchange Coinmotion has announced a campaign which will see the exchange process orders with zero percent commission up to April 18. Finnish cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service provider Coinmotion has revealed a new campaign wherein customers will have to … | Continue reading
The Bank of Ireland, in collaboration with services firm Deloitte has successfully completed a joint proof-of-concept blockchain trial. The trial demonstrated the implementation of a distributed ledger as an accessible data layer, over existing financial systems while focusing on … | Continue reading
A federal court has appointed a receiver for Cryptsy, the cryptocurrency exchange that claims to have lost $5 million in funds to theft. In response to the lawsuit by Cryptsy clients seeking to recover their funds, the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida appointed Ja … | Continue reading
Bitcoin prides itself on decentralization. Ironically, much of the knowledge-base which has heretofore fueled the network’s information channels is consolidated in relatively few places. Much of the history of Bitcoin is stored online and at very few sites. Primary sources are im … | Continue reading
Digix crowd sale sold out within a day, raising a capped $5,500,000 only hours after the opening of “the first decentralized crowdsale on the Ethereum Blockchain” according to Anthony Eufemio, CTO at DigixGlobal, with almost half a million ether coins used in the process. The cro … | Continue reading
Could mobile messaging be the next big screen? With a little help from bitcoin, perhaps. Wiper, an encrypted mobile messaging app with a built-in bitcoin wallet, has released a new functionality called Wiper Film that allows users to view films and allows online digital content p … | Continue reading
With an announcement today, decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar is open for business, in its first full version released and available for downloads. It has been nearly two years since initial chatter arose, with word of a decentralized marketplace being developed i … | Continue reading
The New York-based private banking blockchain consortium led by R3 has now added a new “strategic’ partner, in global software giant Microsoft. In a new announcement made today, Microsoft is now in a partnership with R3CEV, a consortium of the leading banking institutions of the … | Continue reading
An Italian restaurant now offers patrons the chance to buy bitcoin and pay for meals with bitcoin, having introduced the first bitcoin ATM in Bournemouth, U.K., a resort on the southern coast of England, according to Daily Echo, a local newspaper. The ATM was installed by Heliopa … | Continue reading
The press covering blockchain developments has gone full nuclear. As multinationals from banking, technology, and other industries query into the space, the press has slowly caught onto the trend. It’s almost as if the biggest corporations have started their own industry, paralle … | Continue reading
Bitcoin remains king of the hill in blockchain market capitalization, but alternative asset blockchains are nipping higher at bitcoin’s heels. Non-bitcoin asset blockchains have expanded market value significantly in the last three years, jumping 1,600% while bitcoin’s market gap … | Continue reading
Well, it certainly has been a banner week for the folks over at Tesla. So far, the company is reporting that the pre-sales activity on the Model 3 just might account for over $8b in sales. One customer even used Bitcoin to lock their new ride in. A new post by a user named “Maso … | Continue reading
Bitcoin and blockchain technologies have big visions of changing the macroeconomics of the financial system. Less investigated, the microeconomics of Bitcoin could supply us with unique insights into how the Bitcoin digital financial complex might evolve. Microeconomics examines … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price climbed $6 in a quick move earlier today. Whatever price does between now and the looming decline is anyone’s guess. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the … | Continue reading
Mainstream media outlets are beginning to advance the idea that Ethereum and Bitcoin are traditional competitors. This notion does not make much sense. Ethereum and Bitcoin are two different expressions of a similar notion, with important differences that ultimately make them fun … | Continue reading
Needham & Co. LLC, a New York City-based investment firm, has begun covering the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), giving it a “buy” rating and a $62.00 price target (PT). Needham estimates the present per-bitcoin value at $655. BIT is sponsored by Grayscale Investments, which is … | Continue reading
Is bitcoin a safe asset? David Andolfatto, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, acknowledges in his blog, “MacroMania,” that bitcoin can be volatile over a short time span. But when people speak about safe assets, it’s not the same as providing a stable rate o … | Continue reading
Overstock revealed Friday it invested $4 million into a blockchain-forward financial technology firm in the Caribbean. The announcement, made in Barbados and attended by principals from the island’s company Bitt and Overstock, enters in a big move by Overstock into the space. It’ … | Continue reading
The British Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and its Australian counterpart, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have signed the first-of-its-kind agreement whereby innovative Fintech companies in Australia and the United Kingdom will have more support from f … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continues hovering around $415 and 2690 CNY. The chart’s technical conditions are primed for a break into either rally or decline. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 disc … | Continue reading
The open-source Hyperledger Project led by the Linux Foundation sees 10 new members joining the initiative. The blockchain endeavor also sees the filling of key leadership positions in a recent announcement. In a recent announcement, the Hyperledger Project revealed 10 new compan … | Continue reading
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How would a bitcoin standard fare for a monetary system? An analysis by the Bank of Canada examined that scenario, conjecturing how a bitcoin standard would perform based on the performance of a gold standard that existed from 1880 to 1913. The gold standard was a monetary system … | Continue reading
Ethereum continues to make waves on the cryptocurrency landscape, with developers introducing new applications that take advantage of its smart contract and crowdsale capabilities. The Ether’s market cap has soared above $1 billion recently. As Ethereum grows, it earns media cove … | Continue reading
There has been a long list of figures who the press and online commenters have speculated are Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. At one point, when Newsweek claimed Dorian Nakamoto, an unnamed individual left a cryptographic message stating, “I am not Dorian Nakamoto.” Many ar … | Continue reading
In a nod to the growing popularity of Bitcoin, Microsoft Excel – the most popular and widely used spreadsheet program in the world, will provide native support for the cryptocurrency’s format within the program. The Microsoft Office software suite, a collection of various program … | Continue reading
The Financial Stability Board has discussed and reviewed distributed ledger or blockchain technology in a wider meeting covering its priorities in 2016, during a discussion in Tokyo over the past two days. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a common platform that sees the comin … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price hovers above $410 as the market comes face to face with its options. Buy today and risk betting on the reward-halving rally too soon, or sell now to buy into the post-Classic(TM) relief rally later. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read t … | Continue reading
In a recent article on Vice’s technology news feed, Motherboard, author Sebastiaan Deetman explores the energy efficiency of Bitcoin. The article begins with a brief and fatalistic assertion regarding the environmental impact of mass migration to Bitcoin (or a similar energy inte … | Continue reading
A new study by the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute authored by Christian Decker, Ittay Eyal, Andrew Miller and Emin Gün Sirer, among others, found that bitcoin’s blocksize could currently scale up to 4MB without affecti … | Continue reading
Known for his outspoken and firm stance against bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, German Klimenko, Russian President Putin’s newly appointed counselor and advisor on the internet has now called the cryptocurrency an Internet meme that went viral. He further dismissed the acceptance … | Continue reading