Quick Look
Blockchain Coders Win Grant to Fix Smart Contracts With ‘Legalese’
Editor Notes: "Co-founded by Virgil Griffith and Wong Meng Weng, Legalese is an open-source project writing a new programming language...
SolidX Files to Become First Bitcoin ETF on NY Stock Exchange
Editor Notes: "The exchange traded fund (ETF) scene is due another shakeup as SolidX Partners files to become the first fund to launch on...
File Hosting Picks Bitcoin Over PayPal
Editor Notes: "The alternative open source file hosting software system Seafile just announced it’s accepting Bitcoin due to a...
Negative Rates, Falling Bond Yields Time to Consider Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "With high market uncertainty, low inflation, and negative interest rates in many countries, it’s becoming harder for...
Bitcoin Price Poised for a Breakout, Technical Analysis Shows
Editor Notes: "A technical analysis chart of bitcoin prices suggests that the digital currency’s value is likely to shoot higher." By...
MIT Researchers Devise New Anonymity Network Following Tor Bug
Editor Notes: "The system, dubbed Riffle, leverages several existing cryptographic techniques, but combines them in a new way. Computer...
Blockchain Rolls Over Nation States
Editor Notes: "Startup networker Blockchain Angels’ analysis highlights the US as “heavily invested in Bitcoin” amid the overall...
Philippines Big On Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "70+ Bill Payment Options & Loans as Philippines-based bitcoin services company Coins.ph now allows its users to repay...
DAO Attack Nullified Using Synereo’s Smart Contracting Language
Editor Notes: Synereo CEO Dor Konforty. "It is only when the right tools are in place that we can expect the decentralized economy to...
S Africa Bank Looks To Grab 40% of Banking Revenue With Blockchain
Editor Notes: "A Blockchain research arm of a bank in South Africa has said the technology could take up to 40% of banks’ revenue if it...
Myanmar Microfinance Conducts Blockchain Test
Editor Notes: From the Myanmar report: "The successful results proved that Myanmar's cloud-computing environment could handle the...
UK Gov’t Experiments With Blockchain Welfare Payments System
Editor Notes: " David Freur, state minister for welfare reform told attendees: "We started a small trial in the north west, designed to...
Science Academic Argues Bitcoin Mining Worth the Cost
Editor Notes: "In a recent research note, Tomaso Aste, a professor of complexity sciences and director of the UCL's Centre for Blockchain...
Bitcoin Industry Seeks Bridge To Scaling
Editor Notes: "The meeting comes months after a meeting in Hong Kong between miners and several members of the Bitcoin Core development...
Blockchain Bretton Woods Summit Meeting
Editor Notes: Consumers’ Research executive director Joe Colangelo said: "This collaboration will produce a model for bitcoin and...
Bitcoin Price at the Halving
Editor Notes: "Bitcoin price is rearing to go and the community is optimistic for greater things for the conquering Bitcoin. Today’s post...
The Bitcoin Community Celebrates the Second Halving
Editor Notes: "Celebratory parties are being held across the world, from Israel to Taiwan, with numerous events held in US and Europe....
Google Builds Quantum-Proof Encryption for Chrome
Editor Notes: "Breaking HTTPS encryption would be too easy for quantum computers." By Tom Brant Google engineers are concerned that the...
Bitcoin Startup Among Finalists in New PayPal Incubator
Editor Notes: "PayPal has announced it is mentoring a Bitcoin startup as part of its first startup incubator in Singapore. " By William...
Bitcoin is the Automobile ‘Disruptive’ of the 21st Century
Editor Notes: "The early automobile was certainly the disruptive technology of its time. In fact, we can learn a lot about today’s Bitcoin...
‘Decentralized Steemit Rewards $1.3 Million to Users For Content
Editor Notes: The CEO of Steemit Ned Scott said - This was an opportunity for us to thank our growing community, to reward them for...
North Carolina Signs Bitcoin Bill Into Law
Editor Notes: "North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed 16 bills into law today, one of which was House Bill 289, which expands the...
US Gov’t Shows Interest In Blockchain Healthcare Benefits
Editor Notes: "According to a notice published in the Federal Register, HHS is seeking white papers that explore how the technology can be...
Blockchain Immutability a Perpetual Motion Claim
Editor Notes: "So what is immutability? Immutability is the feature of a blockchain that persists data forever, free from censorship and...
Bitfury Lightning Micropayments Routing For Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Long an outstanding question facing the Lightning Network, one of the more acclaimed proposals aimed at scaling the bitcoin...
Blockchain Technology Connects With Guns
Editor Notes: Blocksafe CEO Kevin Barnes, This solution has the potential to eliminate unauthorized gun access, track missing firearms,...
Industry Seeks to Weave Blockchains into New Web
Editor Notes: 'Christopher Allen, principal architect at blockchain tech company Blockstream, said "In order to move forward and work...
EU Tighter Bitcoin Rules To Combat Terrorists & Money-Launderers
Editor Notes: "In statements, first vice president of the commission Frans Timmermans, sought to connect the actions to international...
Uber Argentina Uses Bitcoin To Continue
Editor Notes: Xapo product manager Anni Rautio said "This is a win for all local Uber users and drivers, and for Uber as a company, as...
Bitcoin 51% Attack Question Resurfaces
Editor Notes: "Understanding how a bad actor can affect the bitcoin community as a whole can help to shed light on the vulnerabilities...
Evaluating the EU’s New Definition for Virtual Currencies
Editor Notes: " According to the proposal, 'virtual currencies" means:'...a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a...
Bitcoin Chart Formation Suggests Upside Breakout Coming Soon
Editor Notes:" More recently, Bitcoin has been boosted by Brexit and the probability of investors moving to Bitcoin’s digital gold element...
Netcoins Virtual ATM Network
Editor Notes: "Whether a customer orders $20 or $2,000 in Bitcoin Netcoins does all the heavy lifting. Stores don’t need to maintain...
Netki Raises $3.5 Million For Digital Identity
Editor Notes: Netki CEO Newton said "We plan to use the funds to invest in our technology and grow our team in order to support customer...
Holland’s Central Bank to Open Blockchain Campus
Editor Notes: "Holland’s fintech ambassador Willem Vermeend said 'There is a lot of creativity in the Netherlands. The problem is that I...
Donald Trump Presidency Could Benefit Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Global concern over the possible election of Donald Trump, along with other macroeconomic concerns, could lead to a massive...
Tech Giant: Blockchain ‘Integral to Mid-East Digital Economy’
Editor Notes: "International tech consultants Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) have authored a report stating blockchain is “integral to...
EU Strategy – Put An End To Anonymous Bitcoin Trading
Editor Notes: EU report Indicates "The European approach to regulating virtual currencies is fundamentally different from that prevailing...
Bitcoin WiFi Hotspot Inroads – Philippines
Editor Notes: "WiFi Interactive Network Founder Philip Zulueta stated: The low-income market is a viable target. Because at the end of the...
Cryptocurrencies are not Gov’ts, They’re DAOs
Editor Notes: "Governance is the new buzz word of blockchain tech. And perhaps with good reason. But does this meant that blockchain...
How Blockchain Could
Editor Notes: "For instance, bitcoin enthusiasts are still split on relatively minor protocol details such as the size of its transaction...
Bitcoin $10 Billion Market Cap
Editor Notes: Chris McAlary, chief executive officer of Coin Cloud "People are drawn to bitcoin because it empowers them to take on the...
1MB Blocks for Today’s Bitcoin?
Editor Notes: Developers Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja wrote in their white paper on bitcoin payment channels: "If we use an average of 300...
Cobra Revisions To Satoshi’s White Paper Unpopular
Editor Notes: Here’s what Cobra had to say, giving his opinion via GitHub: “I believe the paper was always designed to be a high-level...
Why Serious Investors Need Bitcoin in Their Portfolios
Editor Notes: "For the longest time, people have seen bitcoin as an investment vehicle. In fact, cryptocurrency is referred to as a store...
Blockchain Debate Circle CEO vs Luxembourg Minister
Editor Notes: "Circle’s Jeremy Allaire and Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna discussed the future of blockchain at the World...
W3C’s Blockchain Workshop At MIT
Editor Notes: W3C “We are seeking blockchain and Web experts to gather together to discuss what needs to happen to integrate blockchains...
OTC Trading Bitcoin For Regular People
Editor Notes: "More and more people are looking to get started in Bitcoin with every passing month. In response, companies are giving...
Terminator Rumors of Miner Mutiny Make ‘Corexit’
Editor Notes: "If miners are truly upset, they may remain so for quite some time as Gavin Andresen points out back in March 2016. Andresen...
The Global Unerbanked Gets A Known Programmers Attention
Editor Notes: Stellar co-founder Jed McCaleb: "I think that one of the most powerful things that this technology is going to do for the...
Bitcoin Not a Threat – Citi Bank
Editor Notes: The Citi Bank report: "The power behind an open network like bitcoin is the possibility of incorporating it with other...
Abra Blockchain Remittance App Comes To American Shores
Editor Notes: CEO Bill Barhydt: "It’s really the hub for us for going global. The initial focus for Abra is on cross-border,...
A Blockchain ‘Rosetta Stone’?
Editor Notes: Jenny Knott CEO ICAP "Today the smart contract is compatible with ethereum, but if ethereum becomes something else, what...
Russian Blockchain Consortium
Editor Notes: QIWI CEO Sergey Solonin "I’m convinced that the Consortium, which brought together the Russia’s largest financial company,...
Ripple Becomes A Tech Partner With 7 Banks
Editor Notes: Larsen Ripple CEO: "We’ve reached the stage where a significant number of these banks are moving to commercial production....
Bitcoin Scaling Solution Enters Next Phase
Editor Notes: Wuille co-founder of Bitcoin: "The near-term steps are backporting and more testing of real world usage on testnet. After...
Startup Blockchain Raises $60 Million
Editor Notes: Allaire co-founder Circle: “We don’t think of ourselves as focused on remittance or money transfer, we don’t think those...
An Insider Look How Whales Move Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Entrepreneur and well-known bitcoin investor Vinny Lingham confirmed what anyone who has spent years watching bitcoin...
A ‘Virtual Galaxy’ Of Bitcoin Nodes By A16z Startup
Editor Notes: Wolfe-Pauly: "A blockchain is more useful when the nodes are run by actual users. Coinbase is cool, but it would be great if...
All Ether Investors Eyes On Fork
Editor Notes: "Ether prices fell to as little as $11.60 during yesterday's session, down roughly 17% from their opening price of $13.95,...
Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust Gives up – Moves Filing to BATS Exchange
Editor Notes: The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust is no longer attempting to list on Nasdaq, according to an SEC document filed today. By...
IBM Completes Blockchain Identity Trial With Crédit Mutuel
Editor Notes: In statements, Crédit Mutuel COO of innovation and operations Frédéric Laurent said: “This project offered a complete view...
North Carolina Senate Signs Off On Bitcoin Bill
Editor Notes: " The bill isn't enshrined in law yet, however. Once passed by both chambers, the bill will then be sent to Governor Pat...
Siemens to Invest in Blockchain Startups
Editor Notes: "Siemens announced today that it would spend 1.1 billion dollars over a five-year period, focus on areas related to...
The Inventor of the Merkle Tree Wants DAOs to Rule the World
Editor Notes: According to Merlke, he would expect those who are more classically trained in the realities of the political system, will...
Time for Russia ‘To Ban Bans’ Says Putin Business Advisor
Editor Notes: "Russian president Vladimir Putin’s business advisor has said the country should 'become the world leader in the Blockchain...
Bitcoin ‘More Stable Than Euro and Pound’ After Record Brexit Trading
Editor Notes: "Bitcoin has gained stability and credibility following increased use in the aftermath of the UK Brexit vote, with record...
China’s Proposed New Law Recognizes Bitcoin as ‘People’s Rights’
Editor Notes: "Virtual properties and data, including digital currencies, could be officially “People’s Rights” in China, following the...
IBM Unveiling Blockchain Services and Strategy
Editor Notes: "Weeks of public statements on blockchain tech culminated yesterday with IBM unveiling a comprehensive strategy that found...
Why Bitcoin Block Space is like Starbucks Coffee
Editor Notes: "Block space is like coffee in that it is a consumer good. When consumers buy coffee, they are expressing their desire for...
Why Focusing on Cryptocurrency Customer Experience Matters
Editor Notes: "Hagelstrom looks at how bitcoin can grow to mass adoption in a market full of digital payments systems run by tech and...
Prior JPMorgan Traders Look For Euro Collapse To Fuel Crypto currency Growth
Editor Notes: "A bitcoin investment firm led by two former JPMorgan traders has published a note which speculates that the EU referendum...
How Should We Prepare Smart Contracts to Replace Law Firms?
Editor Notes: "With the recent attack on the Ethereum DAO, it raises the question of how much technical knowledge do individuals and...
Unconfirmed Transactions, Support & Open Dialogue
Editor Notes: "Lately, there have been issues with unconfirmed transactions in the Bitcoin world. One experience I had dealing with this...
Reggie Middleton: ‘The Problem is Not Brexit. It’s the Euro’
Editor Notes: "Bitcoin.com caught up with the founder of Veritaseum Reggie Middleton, who shared his thoughts on the higher bitcoin price,...
Vinny Lingham Explains – How the 1% Buy Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Given that the Brexit is still fresh in our minds — the big question of “how will the global financial elite diversify...
31 Chinese Tech & Financial Companies Form Consortium – To Apply Blockchain
Editor Notes: Chinese financial services firm Ping An Bank and a subsidiary of QQ instant message app maker Tencent are among more than 30...
Help – Understanding Ethereum
Editor Notes: "Jacob Eliosoff is a computer programmer who has also worked as a Wall Street quant and as a teacher. These days he runs...
Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists
Editor Notes: David Siegel author of this article is a blockchain strategist and speaker, founder of Kryptodesign.com and curator of...
Centralized Data Leak Exposes 154 Million Voter Records
Editor Notes: "A large voter database leak, uncovered by white hat hacker Chris Vickery, recently exposed 154 voter records. The records...
Brexit Reality Opens India’s Reserve Bank To Considers Blockchain
Editor Notes: "Central bankers everywhere are looking wide-eyed at the underlying technology that powers the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Now...
Brexit Effect on UK Bitcoin Taxation & Exchanges
Editor Notes: "While traditional markets are reeling from Brexit, how much of an impact will it have on the Bitcoin industry, such as...
Dutch Central Bank Results of Cryptocurrency Experiments
Editor Notes: "A senior official for the central bank of The Netherlands has presented the results of two cryptocurrency tests designed...
Ex-Ethereum CEO | They Should Not Intervene to Save This DAO
Editor Notes: "I think they're trying to patch up the side of the Titanic." "So says Charles Hoskinson, the former CEO of the ethereum...
Blockchain Capital Markets Investment Tops $1 Billion This Year
Editor Notes: "A new survey from Greenwich Associates estimates that finance and technology companies will invest over a $1bn in...
Bitcoin Price Moves As Outlook Shifts for ‘Brexit’ $650
Editor Notes: "Though there were suggestions the volatility could be tied to any number of recent indicators, at press time, ongoing...
Blockchain Can’t Code Away Social Problems
Editor Notes: "Everyone loves The DAO. They couldn’t say enough about how it was going to change the future for the better. And now, after...
Elon Musk Is Squaring Off Against China for the Future of Tesla
Editor Notes: "How important are metals to Tesla? Just check out the names of some conference rooms at its new $5 billion gigafactory in...
Regulators On Oversight For Bitcoin and Distributed Ledgers
Editor Notes: "A major financial oversight body within the US government created in the wake of the financial crisis has identified...
Round 2 | Hacker Escalates With Counter-Attack To DAO Ethereum
Editor Notes: "The heightened uncertainty follows actions taken by a group of ethereum developers, who launched a "Robin Hood" effort to...