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MGT Capital & Bitmain Focus On U.S.-Based Bitcoin Mining
By Jamie Redman MGT Capital Investments, led by John McAfee, has just signed a letter of intent with the mining firm Bitmain Technologies...
Stash Launches ‘Bank In A Box’ Bitcoin Full Node
By Jamie Redman, The Austin, Texas-based software startup Stash Inc., has just announced the release of its first product — the “Stash...
Singapore’s Central Bank Creates Financial Tech Partnerships
By Jamie Redman, Singapore has become a hotbed for financial technology and blockchain innovation. This week, the Monetary Authority of...
‘Sanctioned’ Bitcoin Credit Card for Marijuana Now In Cali, Oregon
By William Suberg, US cryptocurrency developer First Bitcoin Capital (FBC) has partnered with a merchant processor to enable bitcoin...
MIT Launches Immutable Certification Using Blockchain
By Jamie Redman, Back in June MIT Media Lab tested certification authentication using the Bitcoin blockchain. After working on research...
US Bank Regulator Looks At Blockchain Oversight
By Stan Higgins, A US banking regulator has unveiled a broad innovation policy aimed at regulating startups working with blockchain and...
Comparing Zcash with Bitcoin
By Alex Sunnarborg, With the launch of Zcash today (and the speculation surrounding it) you may be wondering how the decentralized,...
Zcash Launch, Blockchain Enters the Age of Anonymity
By Michael del Castillo, A cryptocurrency with the promise to bring a new kind of anonymous digital transaction is expected to launch...
Molten Salt Reactors Could Help Power Earth—And One Day Mars
By SARAH SCOLES IF WE GET our way and really put humans on Mars in the coming decades, they’re going to need power. NASA has had concrete...
Australia Will Regulate Bitcoin Exchanges Under AML Laws
By Stan Higgins, The Australian government is looking to update its anti-money laundering laws to include bitcoin and other digital...
Derivatives Giant CME Set To Go – Bitcoin Indexes
By Stan Higgins, The CME Group is launching two previously announced bitcoin price indexes next month. The exchange services operator said...
SBI First Bank-Backed Digital Currency Exchange
By Stan Higgins, A Japanese financial services group is set to launch the first bank-backed digital currency exchange. SBI announced today...
Investors Are Going Wild for Zcash – And It’s Not Even Out Yet
By Charles Bovaird, "Deafening." That's how market analyst Arthur Hayes describes the enthusiasm ahead of the upcoming launch of a new...
A Lower Block Time Could Help Bitcoin Scale, But Will It Work?
Alyssa Hertig, A small tweak to bitcoin could have a big impact. This has been the central point of contention in bitcoin's "block size...
Swift Fights to Stay Relevant in A Blockchain World
Michael del Castillo, Can Swift stay relevant in a world of blockchain? Swift, founded in 1973 with the aim...
AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element AI, a Deep-Learning Incubator
By CADE METZ OSHUA BENGIO, ONE of the leading figures behind the rise of deep learning, is launching a Silicon Valley-style startup...
Disney Does a Blockchain Ledger Calling it Dragonchain
By Jamie Redman, Back in March Bitcoin.com reported the Walt Disney company was searching for blockchain talent at its Seattle, Washington...
WeFunder Equity Investment Gets a Bitcoin Lift
By Jamie Redman, BitPay has announced that investors can now use Bitcoin with equity crowdfunding platform WeFunder. This is thanks to...
Russian, Chinese Central Securities Depositories Partner on Blockchain
By Stan Higgins, The central securities depositories (CSDs) in Russia and China have signed a memorandum of understanding that sets the...
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Tests Blockchain
By Stan Higgins, One of Japan’s largest banks is working with IBM on a series of blockchain trials. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited...
Overstock’s Blockchain Stock Will Begin Trading in December
By Pete Rizzo, Online retail giant Overstock will begin trading blockchain-based shares of its stock in December. CEO Patrick Byrne...
Ethereum Classic is Forking Oct 25?
By Alyssa Hertig, A blockchain that was born out of the rejection of a contentious technical change is on the cusp of making...
Elegant Physics & Smart Hammering Threaten Android Phones
By LILY HAY NEWMAN, EVEN THE BIGGEST Luddite knows to download updates for his apps and phone. That ensures that the software isn’t...
Tesla’s Self-Driving Car Plan Seems Insane, But It Just Might Work
By JACK STEWART ELON MUSK HAS done it again. The CEO of Tesla Motors andSpaceX has made an aggressive prediction for his technology, and...
Bitcoin Is Scarcer Than We Think
By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin is scarcer than people think, as most look at the current distribution at close to 16 million BTC released so...
Bitcoin and Blockchain Are Driving the Solar Energy Boom
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Bitcoin, blockchain technology and the Internet of Things are dramatically disrupting every industry sector. They’re...
BTCC Previews New Mobile Bitcoin Wallet ‘Mobi’
By Pete Rizzo, "Bitcoin as money, that's the killer app." Bobby Lee, CEO of BTCC, has high hopes for Mobi, the bitcoin exchange startup's...
Illinois State Officials Are Steadily Building a Blockchain Strategy
By Michael del Castillo, The state government of Illinois has quietly established a working group tasked with developing a strategy for...
In Milestone Release, Chain Open-Sources its Blockchain Tech
By Pete Rizzo, "We're going to have to have a tremendous amount of support." Somewhere in the middle of a Las Vegas sports bar, Adam...
Lucid Motors plans high-performance, self driving, electric car in 2018
By Loz Blain, Silicon Valley-based battery and drivetrain company Atieva has rebranded itself as Lucid Motors, and is looking to go into...
I Threw Out My Paper Wallet For A Ledger Nano S
By Allen Scott I finally decided to ditch my paper wallet for something a bit more sophisticated after spending a week with the Ledger...
Pentagon Brings In Blockchain for Data Security
By William Suberg, The United States Department of Defense has signed a $1.8 million partnership with two tech firms, to study Blockchain...
Dutch Hackathon Run Blockchain Energy Solutions
By Jamie Redman, On October 14-15, Dutch Hackenergy 2016 hackathon was filled with energetic programmers and blockchain solutions. A jury...
Launch of Anonymous Project Zcash Oct 28
By Jamie Redman, On October 28 the Zcash (ZEC) project will release its genesis block into the wild. There’s a lot of anticipation for...
Blockchain Assists Holiday Season Logistics
By Kevin Helms, During holiday seasons, technologies such as blockchain will be key to helping logistics companies meet customers’...
Bitfinex to Hacker: Can We Have Our Bitcoin Back?
By Pete Rizzo, Bitfinex is seeking to strike a deal with the hacker or hackers who stole $65m in bitcoin from the exchange back in August....
Cryptocurrency Index Funds: Can They Beat Bitcoin’s Returns?
By Willy Woo, This year, the idea of managed portfolios and index fund portfolios has been on the rise, you can bet on many hitting the...
Yahoo to Feds: Explain That Email-Scanning Order
By ANGELA MOSCARITOLO, People have been rightly asking Yahoo a heap of questions ever since news broke earlier this month that Yahoo...
Cyberattack Hits Twitter, Spotify, Amazon
Newsmax - Cyberattacks targeting the internet infrastructure provider Dyn disrupted service on major sites such as Twitter and Spotify on...
The Possible Vendetta Behind the East Coast Web Slowdown
Nate Lanxon, Jeremy Kahn & Joshua Brustein Dyn had singled out BackConnect’s questionable practices Cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs...
Coinsecure Releases First Mobile Trading App For Indian Market
By William Suberg, Indian exchange Coinsecure has announced the release of India’s first simultaneous mobile trading app. It’s a bid to...
Arcade City Opens it’s White Paper & ICO Details
By Jamie Redman, The decentralized ride-sharing startup Arcade City recently revealed its preliminary white paper and token plan. The...
Visa to Launch Blockchain Payments Service Next Year
By Stan Higgins, Visa has announced new details about a forthcoming business-to-business payments service developed in partnership with...
Bitfinex Hack Scaring Away Bitcoin Traders
By Charles Bovaird, Bitfinex's hack continues to cast a shadow. While the price of bitcoin had a relatively quiet month in September (one...
The seven best drones for your Christmas wish list
The Phantom 4 is available now and is priced at $1,400. By Nick Lavars, Mobility has been a big theme in drone innovation this year. From...
China Pushes for Blockchain Cooperation With New Research Report
By Stan Higgins, The Chinese government has released some of its first research findings on blockchain technology. China’s Ministry of...
Delaware Judge Pushes for Blockchain Voting
By Stan Higgins, A Delaware judge has advocated for using blockchain-based voting to put more power in the hands of corporate...
How A Mysterious Miner Could Decide Bitcoin’s Future
By Jacob Donnelly, Bitcoin's "most professional mining pool" has become its most controversial. Following months of debate over how to...
Global Banks Test Ripple’s Digital Currency in New Blockchain
By Michael del Castillo, It's no secret that cryptocurrencies have undergone a dramatic rebrand. No longer perceived as a...
All Tesla Cars to Have Self-Driving Tech Going Forward
By Stephanie Mlot The luxury automaker, however, will not turn on its new system just yet. Despite some missteps with its Autopilot...
MUFG is Using Digital Currency to Reward its Employees
By Stan Higgins, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the parent company of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, has embarked on a new...
European Insurance Firms Launch New Blockchain Consortium
by Stan Higgins, Five major European insurance and reinsurance companies have partnered on a new blockchain initiative, seeking a...
Walmart Blockchain Aims to Make China’s Pork Market Safer
By Michael del Castillo, Walmart has developed a blockchain pilot focused on China's massive pork industry supply chain. Built in...
Ethereum Forks – Blockchain Attacks Keep On Coming
By Alyssa Hertig, Between a block and a hard place? While ethereum's latest hard fork went according to plan yesterday (so far without any...
New Discovery Renewable Energy Storage 10 x Cheaper
By Lynda Delacey, As one of the Earth's crust's most abundant elements, silicon could form the basis of a cheaper storage system for...
Deloitte’s Catalyst Taps Emerging Technologies’ Power
By Jamie Redman, The “Big Four” multinational professional services firm Deloitte now focuses onmachine learning, blockchain technology,...
Blockchain Biometrics Startup Raises $3 Million
Stan Higgins, A startup aiming to bridge the worlds of blockchain tech and biometric security has raised $3m in new funding. HYPR raised...
Europe Central Bank Wants Tighter Control of Digital Currencies
By Stan Higgins, The European Central Bank (ECB) has urged members of the economic bloc to impose tighter controls on the...
Symbiont Unveils ‘Assembly’ Blockchain for Enterprise
By Michael del Castillo, As financial institutions look to move beyond proofs-of-concept, the speed at which available blockchain...
IMAGINING A CASHLESS WORLD
Sweden shows us what life without paper currency might be like. By Nathan Heller A fantastic heist (we like our crimes as smart and...
First Ever Russian Listing With Bitcoin
By William Suberg, As blockchain becomes increasingly accepted in Russia, Bitcoin itself is starting to catch up. For the first time, a...
BitPay Offers Financial Services to RT Following Bank Account Freeze
By William Suberg, BitPay CEO Tony Gallippi has offered ‘banking facilities’ to Russian state media outlet Russia Today (RT) after UK bank...
2016 Nobel Economic Prize Winners Influenced Smart Contracts
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2016 will go to professors Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, for their...
New world record set on path to nuclear fusion
Michael Franco, While there is a lot of attention on non-fossil-fuel sources these days such as solarand hydrogen, the true Holy Grail of...
Unlimited Quantum Computing Bridge Possible Using Diamond
Colin Jeffrey, Researchers working at Harvard University and Sandia Ion Beam Laboratory claim to have built a quantum network that...
Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange Launches Blockchain Voting Service
By Stan Higgins, A major securities exchange in Abu Dhabi has announced the launch of a blockchain-enabled voting service. According to...
Korean Credit Card Giant to Integrate Blockchain Identity Service
By Stan Higgins, South Korea’s largest credit card company is set to use a blockchain identity solution developed by local bitcoin...
Why Russia’s Largest Bank is Worried About Blockchain’s Dark Side
By Pete Rizzo, After a flight through the air, my driver's license bounces a few feet from our table, coming to a stop on the plush carpet...
Revolutionary Protocol: The Emergence of Bitcoin
By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin is a revolutionary protocol that is changing the way we understand and utilize money. Over the past few decades,...
Two Cities Mirror Blockchain-Bitcoin Divide – China
By Eric Mu, Beijing and Shanghai, China's two most populous and developed cities, are often reminiscent of two siblings. They are similar,...
America is on a slippery slope
BY ALASDAIR MACLEOD It hadn’t happened before, at least not since US presidents started visiting foreign countries after the Second World...
How not to manage a currency
BY ALASDAIR MACLEOD Make no mistake, sterling’s collapse is a very serious development, and has serious consequences for sterling interest...
New Decentralized Crowdfunding Platform – Coming Soon
By Diana Ngo, A new decentralized funding and reputation platform called Fundonomy is set to launch in public alpha in the coming weeks....
Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain
By Oliver Carding, Known for their coverage of disruptive technology, Techcrunch have this week released the initial episodes of their...
ShapeShift Adds Prediction Market Token REP
By Jamie Redman, The cryptocurrency asset exchange ShapeShift.io has announced it will integrate the Augur Reputation (REP) token. Now...
Blockchain Uber For Kenya Taxis
By William Suberg, A Dutch development worker is seeking to revolutionize Kenya’s motorcycle taxi market with Twende. It’s the latest...
Two Firms To Monitor Permissionless Blockchains
By Jamie Redman, Two tech firms are joining forces to improve cryptocurrency security and curb cyber crime. Skry and Terbium Labs...
Russian Govt Testing Blockchain for Document Storage
By Stan Higgins, An anti-trust agency within the Russian government is testing a blockchain-based document management system. Dubbed...
Blockchain Could Cut Oil Market Costs By 30%
By Stan Higgins, The chief executive of Mercuria, one of the world’s largest commodities traders, is bullish on blockchain. The head of...
Appcoin Law – ICOs the Right Way
By Marco Santori, I'm pro-appcoin. There, I said it. Haters take note. Other lawyers take note. I think appcoin sales (often called...
How Blockchain Startups Are Revolutionizing Venture Capital
By William Mougayar, The decentralization effects of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are hitting the venture capital industry in more...
DeepMind AI ‘Learns’ to Navigate London Tube
BY STEPHANIE MLOT DeepMind has introduced a new "computer" that uses memories to answer questions and even navigate the London...
Tesla to unveil “unexpected” new product October 17
by Darrell Etherington, Tesla will unveil something on Monday October 17, according CEO and founder Elon Musk. It’ll be a new product, he...
Scorechain Explores Blockchain Benefits For Local Funding Industry
By David Shares, Luxembourg-based blockchain company Scorechain has announced a new initiative, comprising ten organizations, to explore...
Purse.io Partners Launches International Shipping With Bitcoin
By Elizabeth McCauley, On October 13, Purse.io launched native international shipping support. This new development opens the door for...
Dubai Leadership In Blockchain Technology
By Jamie Redman, Dubai‘s leaders are committed to researching and developing blockchain technology. For instance, the Crown Prince of...
UK Govt – Blockchain Could Revolutionize Finance Admin
By Stan Higgins, A risk assessment agency within the UK government recently published comments on blockchain technology. Primarily an...
Russian Payments Firm QIWI Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
By Stan Higgins, Russian payments firm QIWI has joined the R3 blockchain consortium. Announced earlier this week, the move is the latest...
Bitcoin the Future of Blockchain Post Trade?
By Sid Kalla, Conventional thinking about blockchain technology's use in stock markets may be wrong, according to one academic. The...
ACI is Paving the Way for Central Bank Blockchains
By Michael del Castillo, What will it look like when central banks are on the blockchain? ACI is hard at work modeling an answer to this...