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Collaboration To Drive Blockchain’s Success in 2017
By Richard Collin Collin leads the software engineering team in Thomson Reuters' Applied Innovation group. He oversees the development and...
What 2016 Taught Us About Smart Contracts
By Jeffrey Billingham, Billingham is a vice president in Markit’s Processing division, and also leads the company's Chain Gang, focusing...
Ledger Publishes First Volume of Peer-Reviewed Blockchain Research
Michael del Castillo, The inaugural issue of academic journal Ledger has been published. The issue includes 10 peer-reviewed papers...
Venture Capitalists Back ChronoBank Blockchain Crowdfunding
By Richard Kastelein, Blockchain HR startup ChronoBank’s Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which opened only hours ago (December 15, 2016) has...
Royal Canadian Mint Goes Blockchain – via Goldmoney and Cryptocurrency By Richard Kastelein, Canadian Blockchain startup...
French Bank Completes First Real-Time Blockchain Payment
By Richard Kastelein, Paris-based French Bank BNP Paribas, the third largest bank in the world and the 18th largest corporation with...
Corporate Patents on Blockchain Could Create Legal Problems for Startups
By Richard Kastelein, Over the past few months, some of the world’s largest financial companies including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America...
Rebranding From Dao to JITLA
First, we want to thank each and every one of you, our early adopters of our premier subscription to Dao Daily News and Dao.Gold...
Bill Gates Among Rich Individuals Backing $1 Billion Energy Fund
by Ashlee Vance The goal is to pump money into risky, long-term energy technology that could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions,...
Bitcoin Cross Boarder Transactions Slowed to a Crawl
By Corin Faife, There was a time when cross-border remittance was expected to be bitcoin’s killer app. It was a simple equation: the...
Bitcoin Continues To Surprise
By Jamie Redman, It was like yesterday when it happened — the bitcoin price shot up and broke the spot price of gold. Jumping in the air,...
Crypto Mkt’s Report: Augur, Maidsafe Remarkable, but Mooncoin Awe-Inspiring
By Kofi Akosah, The cryptocurrency markets today evoked mixed feelings with four of the top ten falling in value. However, all in all, it...
Interview: Impact of Demonetization on Ordinary Indians
By Kofi Akosah, India’s ongoing demonetization process has created chaos and inconvenience for many Indians, especially the country’s...
Bitcoin Prognosticator: If We Hit 800, We’ll Go Straight to 900
By Justin O' Connell, Vinny Lingham, who appears on South Africa’s version of the popular television show Shark Tank, has made a bold...
Time is Money as Alternative Banking Moves to the Blockchain By Bailey Reutzel, A new project is seeking to adapt the adage 'time is...
The State of Global Blockchain Consortia
By William Mougayar - author of "The Business Blockchain" and a board advisor to, and investor in, various blockchain projects and...
Andreessen in hot water for messages he sent Zuckerberg
by Katie Roof, Facebook’s board was sued earlier this year, with investors alleging that their interests were notadequately represented...
Permissionless Bitcoin Creates Job Opportunities for Ex-Offenders
By Kei K, Ex-offenders often face tremendous social and financial challenges after their incarceration. However, bitcoin can offer...
CFTC Rules May Be More Blockchain-Friendly Under Trump
By Kevin Helms, The current chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Timothy Massad, will likely step down early...
Following Demonetization India Is Changing Its Outlook On Bitcoin
By Joseph Young, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetization of 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes has thrown India’s economy and...
Bitcoin Wallet Cards Are Here
By Jamie Redman, The Bitcoin-based hardware and software manufacturer General Bytes has developed an NFC bitcoin wallet that hopes to...
Smart Contracts Set Off ‘Alarm Bells’, Says a US Regulator
By Michael del Castillo, Two members of prominent US regulatory bodies took to the stage earlier this week to talk about the difficulties...
‘Sovereign’ Blockchains Will Change Monetary Policy
By Stan Higgins, A new research paper published by South Africa’s FirstRand Bank explores the world of central banks and...
Why Smart Contracts Will Need ‘Smart Term Sheets’ to Match
By Ted Mlynar and Ira Schaefer - partners in the Intellectual Property practice at Hogan Lovells in New York City. They advise on...
Startup Gets $10 Million To Invest in Blockchain Token Trading
By Pete Rizzo, A startup that specializes in the trading of blockchain-based assets has raised a $10m fund backed by Andreessen Horowitz...
The Botnet ‘Mirai’ Broke the Internet – Isn’t Going Away
By LILY HAY NEWMAN It's going to take years to move past Mirai, the botnet that's causing havoc online. WHEN THE BOTNET named Mirai first...
Google Makes So Much Money it Never Had to worry But Now?
Now It seems like Google Boys are bored Google Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline — Until Now Alphabet’s CFO Ruth Porat wants...
UK FCA Spread Betting Rules Changing Affect Bitcoin
By Kevin Helms, The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed stricter rules for Contract for Difference (CFD) products which...
Circle’s New Bitcoin-Powered Smart Contract Platform ‘Spark’
By Pete Rizzo, If you needed another sign that we're living in a multi-blockchain world, Circle's latest product reveal might have been...
Ethereum Looks Ahead – After Blockchain Repairs
By Alyssa Hertig, Ethereum's developers are shifting focus. Following efforts to make the blockchain-based distributed application network...
Why Put Bitcoin + 5000 MLM Distributors in 600B Remittance Industry?
By Kei K, Hong Kong-based Bitspark Limited, a bitcoin remittance company, has announced a new partnership with Malaysian Vitaxel Group....
Federal Reserve Report Says Private Ledgers Better Than Open
By Jamie Redman, The U.S. Federal Reserve is showing strong interest in attributes of distributed ledger technology (DLT). The private...
Google’s DeepMind Healthcare A.I. Will Use Blockchain
By Jamie Redman, The British Artificial Intelligence (AI) company DeepMind Technologies, a subsidiary of Google, recently revealed it will...
Chain Reveals ‘Ivy’ Smart Contract Language
By Michael del Castillo, The 'Wild West' of smart contracts is about to get a little wilder. Following the first-ever public demo of...
Circle’s Shift Away From Bitcoin
By Stan Higgins, You could say there was a certain feeling that went beyond the news. On the surface, Circle's decision to stop offering...
Bitcoin Price Could Triple in 2017, Saxo Bank Prediction
By Stan Higgins, Saxo Bank wouldn't be surprised if the bitcoin price saw big gains next year. The Danish investment bank recently...
Legal Tax Dodges
Americans Are Paying Apple Millions to Shelter Overseas Profits by Andrea Wong Over the years, Apple Inc. has become the poster child for...
SAP Goes Africa Blockchain With 2017 Conference
By William Suberg, International tech firm SAP is set to increase its Blockchain commitment as the main sponsor of the 2017 Blockchain...
Why Bitcoin Privacy is Understated
By Joseph Young, On a London Real Academy interview hosted by founder and host Brian Rose, security expert and digital currency expert...
New Developments in Quantum Computing Impact Bitcoin
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Quantum computing might be closer than we thought, thanks to a series of newly developed scientific methods....
Chinese P2P Lending Platform Joins Hyperledger Project
By Jamie Redman, The Linux-led Hyperledger Project recently announced a partnership with Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) platform Dianrong.com....
Theft In Progress Hackers Got $300k From a Blockchain VC So Far
by Pete Rizzo A notable blockchain industry investor was hacked today, the latest target in a string of apparent social engineering...
First Real Private Blockchain – A Huge Step Forward
By George Samman, a blockchain and cryptocurrency consultant and advisor who recently co-authored a seminal report on blockchain...
Donald Trump’s Transition is a Trial Run for Smart Contracts
By Michael del Castillo, When Republican President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States next...
OCC Could Give Cryptocurrency Exchanges Special Bank Status
By Michael del Castillo, The office of the US Treasury in charge of currency policy has revealed plans to grant special-purpose bank...
Fed Reserve Releases Distributed Ledger Research Paper
by Stan Higgins, The Federal Reserve has published new research on distributed ledger tech. The paper, which explores applications of the...
Ethereum Price Sinks to 9-Month Low
By Charles Bovaird, Ether (ETH) prices fell to a nine-month low on 5th December, building on the losses suffered in recent weeks. Ether,...
Intel is Winning Over Hyperledger
by Alyssa Hertig, With so much R&D ongoing in the blockchain sector, it's hard for any new tech to separate from the pack. In addition...
Local Chinese Government Helps Fund Blockchain Startup
By Jamie Redman, The Chinese government has had a keen eye on distributed ledger technology for quite some time. Now the government of...
China: More Barriers To Fiat Transactions – Bitcoin Continues
By William Suberg, China has stepped up controls over transactions in a bid to reduce capital outflow amid a waning yuan – yet bitcoin...
Russian Tax Office Updates Legal Stance On Bitcoin
By Kei K, A Russian Federal Tax Service Letter released a few weeks ago spelled out issues – including an implied statement that...
Smart Contracts Startup Hires Cryptographer Lisa Yin
By Stan Higgins, Smart contracts startup Symbiont has hired a cryptographer best known for her work in detailing how to break the SHA-1...
Developers Respond to Ethereum’s Unexpected Fork
By Alyssa Hertig, An unintentional split of the network was the latest event to shake ethereum. By now, you might have heard the...
R3’s Corda Code Debut: Mixed Response
By Michael del Castillo, R3 released the code for its Corda distributed ledger platform earlier this week, and market observers...
Coinbase Seeks Patent for Bitcoin Private Key Security System
By Stan Higgins, Bitcoin and ether exchange startup Coinbase is seeking a patent for a security system for bitcoin private keys. According...
Report: Why a gold-backed monetary system is possible
The financial market implications of higher interest rate risk By JOHN BUTLER Term premia rising: The large global bond market selloff of...
Italian Referendum Could Send Global Investors to Bitcoin
By Jamie Redman, This year’s Brexit vote caused turbulent economic times for European residents, as many sovereign currencies and stocks...
Australian Digital Currency Advocates Launch Self-Regulation Effort
By Stan Higgins, Digital currency advocates in Australia have launched a new code of conduct initiative aimed at promoting self-regulation...
Japanese Banks – leveraging blockchain technology
By Stan Higgins, Several major Japanese banks, in partnership with bitcoin exchange bitFlyer and Deloitte Japan, have published the first...
Zcash Prices Beginning to Show Stability
By Charles Bovaird, The price of Zcash is beginning to show (relative) stability. Despite the sharp volatility it has repeatedly...
A Judge Cleared the Way for the IRS to Seek Coinbase Customer Data
By Stan Higgins The IRS can now serve bitcoin and ether exchange startup Coinbase with a summons for information about its users, a...
China’s Huiyin Group Launches $20 Million Bitcoin Fund
By Corin Faife, Huiyin Group, a multibillion-dollar investment company based in China, has announced the launch of Huiyin Blockchain...
Solar-powered plane goes For edge of space flight
By Stu Robarts Solar planes have already traversed the Alps and flown around the world, but one team has its sights set a little higher:...
Siemens and LO3 Blockchain Microgrids
By Jamie Redman, The largest engineering corporation in Europe Siemens AG has recently announced an energy collaboration with fintech...
Blockchain ‘Looming Challenges’ Smart Contracts are they Legally Sound?
By Michael del Castillo, Just because a repetitive job could be replaced with self-executing code on a blockchain, doesn't mean it should...
IBM Blockchain Based Supply Chain With India’s Mahindra Group
By Stan Higgins, Indian business conglomerate Mahindra Group is working with IBM to develop blockchain-based supply chain applications....
Illinois Makes Sweeping Policy and Plan to Attract Innovators of Blockchain
By Michael del Castillo, What started as an early experiment by the state of Illinois to offer insurance services on a blockchain has...
Get Corda platform freely Now R3 open source
By Stan Higgins, R3CEV, the startup behind the world's largest banking consortium focused on distributed ledger applications, has made the...
No Credit History? No Problem. Lenders Are Looking at Your Phone Data
Olga Kharif ‘The way you use the phone is a proxy for the way you live’ Phone carriers and banks have gained confidence in using mobile...
China’s Plan For A World Of Skyrocketing Commodity Prices And $20,000 Gold
By Stephen Leeb As a huge shift in global power continues to take place, here is a look at China’s plan for a world of skyrocketing...
Increasing Velocity Of Money Will Be The Big Upside Surprise For Gold…
...As Trump Enters The White House By John Hathaway With continued uncertainty in the gold and silver markets, one of the greats in the...
Lawyer Talks – Omni Layer Platform
By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin recently chatted with the Omni Foundation’s Patrick Dugan about the project Omni Layer. Omni has launched another...
GOP Legislators Look At Regulation for Internet of Things (IoT)
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, In October, using new techniques and new cyber weapons, attackers disrupted several major websites all over the U.S....
Black Friday A Bitcoin Niche Outside Mainstream
By Pete Rizzo, While momentum for bitcoin as a consumer payment method has waned, Bitcoin Black Friday is still attracting attention from...
Royal Mint – Plans To Launch Blockchain Gold Trading
By Pete Rizzo, At over 1,000-years-old, The Royal Mint – the only institution licensed to provide coins in the UK – isn't the type of...
Europe Looking For Balanced Regulatory Approach To Blockchain Tech
By Kevin Helms, The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is responsible for promoting investor protection, orderly markets and...
India Encourages Taking A ‘Mission Mode’ To Digital Currency Adoption
By Jamie Redman, India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said this week that banks should embrace the digital age and get into “mission...
Gambling-Inspired Bitcoin Chips May Appeal to Chinese Market
By Kei K, Gambling is ingrained in Chinese culture and social interactions. These symbolic poker chip-influenced physical bitcoin chips...
Evaluating Blockchain – Initial Crypto Offerings (ICO’s)
By William Mougayar, Initial cryptocurrency offerings, or initial coin offerings, (ICOs) are the flavor du jour in the sprawling...
Nuclear waste Made into Super Safe 5000 year Diamond batteries
5000+ year Battery Half Life BY David Szondy, One problem with dealing with nuclear waste is that it's often hard to tell what's waste and...
Facebook’s Stumbles Expose Flaws in Its Plan to Rule Advertising
By DAVEY ALBA THE INTERNET WAS supposed to mean a whole new world for the business of advertising. Gobs of data let advertisers become...
Blockchain The Way to revolutionize the supply chain
By Ben Dickson At the time of its inception some two centuries ago, the supply chain was a revolutionary idea that would improve...
Bitcoin to Fund Court Appeal “Hong Kong is Not China”
By Kei K, In order to continue their fight for democracy, two Hong Kong politicians are accepting bitcoin donations. Leung Chung-Hang and...
Ernst & Young Switzerland Accepts Bitcoin and Installs ATM
By Jamie Redman, Big Four accounting firm EY (Ernst & Young) has just announced its Switzerland branch will be accepting bitcoin....
Trading Zcash
By Charles Bovaird, Over the last several years, the number of digital currencies has skyrocketed. While some of these have developed...
80% of All Bus Hacked entry were phishing emails and social media
By William Suberg, Over 80% of hacked companies reported that attack entry points were phishing emails and social media, according to a...
Insurance Coverage For Bitcoin Exchanges Against Cyber Attacks
By Kei K, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance has tailored coverage for bitcoin exchanges facing the risks of rampant cyber attacks. This sense of...
Ledger Launches Hardware Wallet for Smart Contracts
By Corin Faife, Ledger, the French company known for its range of bitcoin hardware wallets, has launched a new extension of its product...
R3 Funding JP Morgan Pulls Out of Deal
By Pete Rizzo, As many as seven of the original 42 members of the R3CEV banking consortium have yet to express interest in funding the...
Korea a Growing Cryptocurrency & Fintech Hub
By Jamie Redman, South Korea has become a hotbed for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology startups. Just recently the Korea Exchange...