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Deadline for Ethereum Classic DAO Withdrawals Extended
The White Hackers Group has extended the deadline for withdrawing DAO tokens on the ETC chain from the 15th of April 2017 to...
HTC has a strange little bundle deal going for its pricey Vive VR headset
Virtual reality really isn’t good enough yet to justify going broke for. Though VR headset prices are steadily coming down, the...
Blockchain Startup Factom Raises $8 Million in Extended Series A
Blockchain startup Factom has finished raising just over $8m as part of an extended Series A round. Last October, the firm said...
Bitcoin Rises, Footsie Falls, as UK Heads to Historical Elections
Theresa May, the British unelected current Prime Minister, has surprised and at the same time excited everyone by all the...
Bitcoin Exchange Kraken Launches New Fiat Funding Options
Digital currency exchange Kraken is adding support for wire transfers denominated in US dollars and other government-issued...
Segwit Now, Bigger Blocks Later, Says Bitcoin Pool F2Pool
In a complete u-turn, F2Pool has now announced they are in favor of segregated witnesses (segwit), a protocol upgrade that...
Japan’s Government Develops Method for Assessing Blockchains
In light of the hype and lack of clarity surrounding blockchain, one of Japan's government ministries has developed a...
Indian Bitcoin Industry Seeks Audience with the Government Ahead of New Rules
An industry group of Indian bitcoin and blockchain-startups have sought an audience with the government as the latter looks...
Ethereum Developers Eye Proof-of-Stake Shift with New Geth Update
The team behind ethereum’s most popular user client have released a new update that includes support for alternative consensus...
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Stops Accepting Fiat Deposits
Bitfinex has announced today that bank transfers will no longer be processed, just days after the exchange said there will be...
Steve Jobs’ custom Apple I and other historic machines are on display at Seattle museum
Long before the iPhone or even the Mac, Apple was a handful of people working in an industry that was only just beginning to take...
Goldman Sachs Managing Director Joins Blockchain Startup Chain
Blockchain startup Chain has named a Goldman Sachs managing director as its new president. Tom Jessop is joining the firm after...
Russian Leader Boris Titov Proposes Bitcoin Friendly Region in Crimea
Boris Titov, a Russian businessman/ombudsman, and bitcoin advocate, has proposed the creation of a region in the Crimea...
Crunch Report | Uber Might Have To Support In-App Tipping
Today’s Stories New York’s Taxi commission to propose in-app tipping requirement for Uber Google reaches $7.8...
Traders Raise Concern as Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Halts Deposits
An announcement by one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges has stoked fears another Mt Gox-style meltdown may be brewing. The...
Las Vegas Club Installs Bitcoin ATM, Records Memberships on Blockchain
The London Keyes Edition bitcoin ATM at the Legends Club. Mixing up bitcoin with gentlemanly entertainment has been a popular...
PicoBrew blindsides Kickstarter backers with surprise stretch goal
PicoBrew has been around for a while, making beer brewing easy, even for people who don’t know the difference between hops and...
India’s Bitcoin Startups Speak Out As Government Debates New Rules
A group of local bitcoin and blockchain businesses has a message for India’s government: hear us out. Last week, India revealed...
Op-ed: Portugal, Just Like Any Other Country, Needs Bitcoin
It’s Easter and some relatives of yours want to come visit. They live in a remote area of the country and aren’t exactly...
Pittsburgh’s Kerf Cases enrobes your phone in fine wood
One iPhone case is much like the other unless it’s made of figured walnut wood from a retired woodworker in California and feels...
CME Patent Sees Derivatives Opportunity in Bitcoin Mining
Derivatives giant CME Group is looking to patent a way for bitcoin miners to hedge against operational risks. As detailed in a...
Analysis of Ethereum and Litecoin
Ethereum ETH has been bumping along under the weight of a 3rd arc pair on a longer-term chart for the past few days. There is an...
What the Father of Venture Capital Can Teach Us About Blockchain
William Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain" and a board advisor to, and investor in, various blockchain projects...
Indian Retail Giant’s $15 Million Accelerator Backs Consumer Blockchain Development
The operator and parent company of one of India’s largest retail chains is betting big on innovative technologies like...
Blockchain Rollouts in Finance to Reflect Significant Change in the Short-Term
Many early blockchain initiatives have only been implemented in testing environments, while their future commercial use...
Bitcoin is Now Larger Than Most Fiat Currencies in Europe & Americas in Market Cap
The user base and market cap of bitcoin are larger than most fiat currencies of small countries in Central America, Africa...
Are We at the Brink of an Industrial Revolution?
“When Horace Jones was re-imagining Old Billingsgate Market, Britain was in the throes of its Second Industrial Revolution –...
Blockchain for IoT: Promising, But Caution Needed
Joe Pindar is CTO and director of product strategy at Gemalto, where he formulates roadmaps and prioritizes development to align...
Private Investors Acquire Company Behind ‘Bitcoin Creator’ Craig Wright
An EU-regulated fund, High Tech Private Equity Fund SICAV plc, managed by Accuro Fund Solutions, has acquired nChain, a...
‘User-Generated Currency’: Bitcoin and the YouTube of Money
Galia Ben-Artzi is a founder of Bancor, a Swiss-based non-profit focused on solving the liquidity challenge in asset exchange....
Blockchain Capital Raises $10 Million ICO for VC Startup Fund
Blockchain Capital recently raised $10 million for a venture capital fund, Blockchain Capital III Digital Liquid Venture...
Cryptocurrency Investment Cues From the South Seas Bubble
Chris DeRose is a software developer, bitcoin evangelist, public speaker and lead developer of Drop Zone. In this opinion piece,...
Austrian Officials Include Bitcoin in Report on Increase in Money Laundering
Austrian officials released a recent report indicating that money laundering had increased over the past year in the central...
Russian Central Banker: Bitcoin’s Legal Recognition Isn’t Guaranteed
It's too early to discuss legally recognizing bitcoin, a Russian central bank official said yesterday in an interview...
Weekend update for ETHXBT, XRPXBT, Litecoin and Bitcoin
The week passed by in a surprisingly different manner than I had been expecting. One week ago I thought that it was going to be an...
Ohio Inmates Found Using Bitcoin in Prison Fraud Bust
A pair of Ohio prison inmates used bitcoin as part of a cybercrime scheme uncovered last year, according to a newly released...
F2Pool Starts Signaling for Segwit in Bitcoin
In a surprising move, F2Pool, which has around 9% network hardware share, began signaling for segregated witnesses (segwit),...
Survey: How Did Bitcoin and Ethereum Perform in Q1?
Will bitcoin hard fork amid its escalating scaling debate? Was ether's price rally a result of the newly launched Enterprise...
Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Ledger Secures $7 Million in Funding, Announces Roadmap
Ledger, a blockchain security provider that offers products for the blockchain market, including service appliances for...
Is Safe Haven Scarcity Becoming a Boon For Bitcoin?
While the strict regulations that emerged following the 2007–2008 financial crisis drew fire from many industry participants, they...
R3’s Denial of Russia’s Sberbank is Against the Principles of Blockchain
After long and careful consideration, R3CEV, better known as the R3 consortium, also simply called R3, reportedly denied the...
Offense or Defense? How to Win the Blockchain Game
Ben Jessel is a managing principal at Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to the financial...
Bitcoin in Africa: Insights from the Continent’s Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
Isn’t it absurd that nearly 326 million people representing 80% of the adult population in Africa do not have access to bank...
Matchpool: The ICO ‘Scandal’ That Wasn’t
At the start of April, Matchpool, a new dating app that pays out cryptocurrency rewards to successful matchmakers, held a highly...
Segwit is More Than Malleability Fixes & Scaling
Ryan Shea, the co-founder of Blockstack, describes Bitcoin Core’s Segregated Witness (Segwit) as a “Swiss army knife in terms...
Maine Lawmakers Kill Blockchain Voting Study Proposal
A legislative proposal to study the use of blockchain technology for elections in Maine has failed, public records show. As...
Bitfury Inks ‘Biggest Blockchain Government Deal Ever’ with Ukraine
The Bitfury Group, a major bitcoin- and blockchain-company, has announced a deal with the government of Ukraine that will...
Inside TrueBit: Ethereum’s Lesser-Known Scalability Effort
An under-the-radar effort to supercharge ethereum smart contracts is gaining momentum. While it may seem like another in-progress...
Minecraft Is Getting Its Own Currency
Minecraft players will be happy to know that in the coming months, they will have a much wider range of officially-allowed...
The DAO Ethereum Classic Refund Effort Has Been Extended
UPDATE (14th April 21:50 BST): This article has been updated to reflect that the ETC refund effort has been extended to January...
Microsoft Office Add-in Certifies Documents on Bitcoin & Ethereum Blockchains
Microsoft has created an add-in for Microsoft Office utilizes Stampery, a blockchain-based timestamping architecture that...
Zcash Releases Software Fix After Denial-of-Service Bug Discovery
The development team behind the zcash project has released a new software update following the discovery of a denial-of-service...
HitBTC to Send 50% of Bitcoins to Bitcoin Unlimited, Convert into Ethereum Tokens
Cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC has decided to send half of its bitcoins to Bitcoin Unlimited, then exchange them for Ethereum...
More Consortia? Banks See Model as Vital to DLT Efforts
Nearly three-quarters of banks and asset managers see the consortium model as necessary for exploring distributed ledger tech,...
Long Term Bitcoin Analysis | Hacked: Hacking Finance
Bitcoin (BTC) extended upside movement against the US Dollar (USD) on Thursday to a weekly high of 1229, rallying the price of...
From AsicBoost to UASF: Greg Maxwell on Bitcoin’s Path Forward
"I'm sort of being scooped on the details by people just working it out for themselves now." Despite kickstarting another fierce...
Scam Warning: Flexibit High Yield Investment Program
At the bottom of every CCN page, you will notice we disclaim all advertisements in terms of actual endorsement. We would...
Microsoft will reveal Project Scorpio Xbox console details at E3 on June 11
Microsoft just sent out invites to members of the media for its big reveal of Xbox Project Scorpio, the upgraded console that will...
Australia’s Central Bank is Conducting Internal Blockchain Research
Australia’s central bank is involved with several initiatives focused on blockchain technology, public records show. In a published...
The Boom in Digital Currencies is Set to Continue :Sentiment Data Analysis
The boom in digital currencies will continue according to Maksim Balashevich, Founder of Santiment, a crypto-market that...
goTenna Series B fuels vision to make local communication possible anywhere on the planet
Founded in 2012 with the small goal of enabling connectivity-free communication, goTenna has ballooned to more than 23 employees...
Alibaba Affiliate to Expand Blockchain Charity Project
Ant Financial, the payments affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is moving to expand the scope of its blockchain-powered charity...
Deadline Looms on Ethereum Classic DAO Withdrawals
Holders of Ethereum Classic DAO tokens must withdraw by April 15th. Otherwise, their value will vanish. There are...
SpotCam connects you to your home, outside and in
When it comes to home surveillance cams there are two kinds of cams – low-end, highly-motorized, wireless IP cams that are...
Investors Buy Firm Linked to Alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright
A startup tied to Australian academic and businessman Craig Wright, who last year claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, has been...
Brexit Pushes One of UK’s Biggest FinTech Startups to Move European HQ
The CEO of TransferWise, a money transfer company that is among the most successful FinTech startups in Europe, has said at a...
The Christopher Ward C60 Trident Pro 600 is the sea lover’s mechanical watch
Christopher Ward is a relative newcomer to the watch scene and has long produced simpler, less expensive pieces for the fashion...
Washington Lawmakers Finalize New Bitcoin Business Rules
Legislators in Washington state have put the finishing touches on new rules for businesses that offer digital currency services....
Ethereum Rises, Bitcoin Falls – CryptoCoinsNews
Ethereum has jumped from around $42 to nearly $49 in the past few hours, rising some 10% after a week or so of relative...
Amazon offers Echo’s excellent voice recognition tech to other device makers
Amazon is making the technology that makes its Echo line of devices so good at picking up your voice commands available to...
‘Into the War Room’: Overstock Looks Back on Bitcoin Embrace
Jonathan Johnson is the chairman of the board of Overstock and the president of Medici Ventures, the Overstock subsidiary focused...
North Korean Hackers Accused of Stealing ₩100 Million in Bitcoin Every Month from 2013-15
A South Korean cybersecurity firm has claimed that hackers from North Korea stole bitcoin worth 100 million won, about USD...
Robotic leg to help injured patients walk again
Toyota Motor Corp revealed a wearable robotic leg brace to help patients with serious leg injuries walk again. Patients that are...
State Regulators Blast New Hampshire’s Bitcoin MSB Exemption
New Hampshire is weighing a bill to exempt bitcoin traders from money transmission laws – and state officials are speaking out...
Bitcoin Protection Bill Takes Stage in Public NH Senate Hearing
A bitcoin-related bill in New Hampshire which exempts persons using virtual currency from registering as money transmitters...
UK Royal Mint Begins Testing Blockchain Gold Trading Platform
Testing has begun on a blockchain-based gold trading platform backed by the UK's Royal Mint. First announced in November of last...
The First Academic Journal Focusing on Blockchain Launches
A university professor has launched a new academic journal dedicated to research focusing on the blockchain technology,...
Nintendo reveals Joy-Con battery grips and new color, standalone Switch dock
Nintendo will offer a special battery grip accessory for its Joy-Con controller accessory, which will be offered in sets of two and...
Bitmain Debuts New Litecoin Mining Hardware, Citing Customer Demand
Mining manufacturer Bitmain has announced new litecoin hardware it is aiming to ship in July. The China-based company listed the...
Wells Fargo Lawsuit Shows Banks Still Doubtful of Bitcoin: Report
A lawsuit involving Wells Fargo and Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex shows that banks remain hesitant when it comes...
Toyota’s new robot leg brace can help those with partial paralysis walk again
Toyota is introducing a new robotic leg brace called the Welwalk WW-1000 that can help patients with partial paralysis affecting...
Bitfinex Withdraws Lawsuit Against Wells Fargo
Digital currency exchange Bitifnex has withdrawn its lawsuit against US banking giant Wells Fargo, a week after it was first filed....
Bitcoin in India: Govt. Forms Committee to Study Virtual Currency Framework
The Indian government has established an interdisciplinary committee that includes among others, the central bank, to examine...
The Ohmni home robot wants to help families stay in touch with telepresence
Home robotics is an area of intense interest, with many large companies exploring how they might best address the potential market....
India’s Government to Consider New Digital Currency Rules
A committee of government and central bank officials in India is set to propose new regulations related to digital currencies. The...
Litecoin Price Rises as Segwit Heads for Activation
Litecoin’s price rose some 20% today following news that BW was signaling for segregated witnesses (segwit), a protocol...
Coalition Launches to Promote Blockchain in the Netherlands
A blockchain consortium in the Netherlands has published a new roadmap. First revealed on 20th March, the so-called National...
Bitcoin Startup BitGo Helps British Royal Mint Develop Blockchain Gold Trading Platform
Britain’s Royal Mint and Chicago-based CME Group, a derivatives marketplace, have now entered testing of their gold trading...
GoPro wants to buy the GoPro sitting in your junk drawer
Likely in an effort to spur sales, GoPro just announced a trade-in program that nets participants $50 or $100 towards a GoPro Hero5...
Euroclear Plans 2017 Launch for Blockchain Gold Market
Clearing and settlement services firm Euroclear has expanded the scope of its blockchain-based gold trading platform project,...