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WEF to Form Foundation of New Financial Blockchain Infrastructure
Editor Notes : "Distributed ledger tech will play a key role in the foundation of next-generation financial services according to a new...
Coinbase Exposes It’s Biggest Risk As An Inside Job
Editor Notes : "In the wake of the Bitfinex hack, which resulted in $65 million stolen, Coinbase decided to offer a window into how the...
Bitcoin Needs Inflation Says Professor
Editor Notes :"Satoshi Nakamoto would probably have built inflation into the Bitcoin protocol to avoid mining centralization – if he could...
Immortus solar sports car to offer unlimited range on sunny days
Editor Notes : "If you’ve ever scanned the comments section on an electric car or bike article, you’ll be familiar with this complaint:...
Scaling Advances With ‘First’ Off-Blockchain Payments On Ethereum
Editor Notes : "A team of ethereum developers has successfully completed what they say is the first off-blockchain transaction on the...
‘Big Four’ Accounting Firms Meet to Consider Blockchain Consortium
Editor Notes : "Held at Microsoft's headquarters in New York City, the event marks the first meeting between blockchain specialists from...
New 60TB SAS drive is the world’s biggest SSD
Editor Notes : "Computers are getting smaller, but there's one area where bigger is always better. That area is storage. Businesses are...
Scientists produce graphene 100 times cheaper than ever before
Editor Notes : "Researchers have created a way to drastically reduce the price of large sheets of graphene by using the same type of...
Bitcoin Sales Are Currency Transactions, Russia’s Tax Office Says
Editor Notes : "In a tax letter dated this May, the Ministry of Finance's Federal Tax Service responded to an electronic query on the...
Bank of America & HSBC Unveil Blockchain Supply Chain Project
Editor Notes : "Announced today, Bank of America, HSBC and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) revealed they have built...
Liquid light switch Crosses The Line Of light and electricity
Editor Notes :"Using a Polariton Bose-Einstein condensate form of "liquid light", researchers have created a nanoscale switch that could...
BTC Foundation Appeals to Stop ‘California BitLicense’ Onslaught
Editor Notes :"The Bitcoin Foundation has launched a fresh appeal to stop the latest and “even worse” BitLicense-style bill from becoming...
Australia’s Postal Service Sees 3 Major Use-Cases
Editor Notes : "According to ZDNet, the postal service in Australia is looking into developing blockchain platforms to ease into the...
Breakaway Ukraine Region Decides Official Future is Bitcoin
Editor Notes : "Regions in eastern Ukraine are formalizing the use of cryptocurrency to bypass economic sanctions, it has emerged." By...
Hackers Breach Hundreds of Thousands of Cash Registers
Editor Notes : "A security researcher said the breach appears to have originated from a Russian cybercrime syndicate." By Tom Brant,...
The DAO Hacker is Getting Away
Editor Notes : "What happened to The DAO hacker? It's a question that weeks after the headline-grabbing heist rocked the blockchain world...
Payments Firm Qiwi Working On Transition to Blockchain
Editor Notes : "Russian payments firm Qiwi now estimates it could upgrade its core database to a distributed ledger system by 2021." By...
Bitfinex Issues Digital Assets to Customers?
Editor Notes : "Bitfinex has issued its own digital asset in what analysts are labeling an unusual attempt to offset customer losses...
Lithium-air batteries are getting safer, cheaper, and longer-lasting
Editor Notes : "A new cell design could lead to high-performance batteries that are lightweight and cheap to manufacture." By Dario...
Isle of Man Tests Blockchain Prototype for IoT
Editor Notes: "The government of the Isle of Man has announced its latest blockchain proof-of-concept." By Michael del Castillo, Profiled...
UK Gambling Regulator Clarifies Digital Currency Rules
Editor Notes : The UK's gambling regulator has clarified its rules for digital currencies. By Pete Rizzo, In an update to its codes of...
Cashaa P2P cash transfer app is targeting a global market worth of over $300 billion while leveraging zero fees and cryptocurrency solutions.
Editor Notes : Kumar Gaurav (KG) Founder: Cashaa is a peer-to-peer cash transfer platform and exchange powered by the blockchain. What...
Theory of a Blockchain Circular Economy
Editor Notes : "We are in the early stages of a new chapter in the nature of work. The blockchain will enable us to do our jobs and be...
Is There Still a Place for Litecoin?
Editor Notes : Once heralded as the "silver to bitcoin's gold", the developers behind the long-running digital currency litecoin...
Bitcoin Spoof Apps & Phishing Attempts on the Rise
Editor Notes : "Bitcoin users need to be awfully careful when downloading wallets and surfing the web. Currently, there are quite a few...
Blocknet Developers Suggest Its Time To Leave Centralized Exchanges
Editor Notes : "This year there has been quite a few breaches of cryptocurrency exchanges. Platforms such as Gatecoin, Cryptsy, and now...
Is Bitcoin Ready for the Next Global Financial Crisis?
Editor Notes : "Andreas Antonopoulos is “perplexed” at why some Bitcoiners wish for a global financial crisis because, as he acknowledged,...
Nissan Debuts Working Prototype of 3-Seat Electric Vehicle
Editor Notes : "What do you get when you combine a Tesla with an arrow head? Nissan's BladeGlider electric vehicle. The car boasts a...
Zcash Untraceable To Obscure Ethereum Transactions
Editor Notes : "Cryptographer Andrew Miller posed a Snapchat selfie with one of his fans at an event earlier this week where he presented...
Singapore Central Bank Adds Blockchain Leaders to Advisory Panel
Editor Notes : "Included on the regulatory authority and central bank's 15-person International Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) is CEO of...
Deloitte Sees The Future As Layers Of Blockchain Stadium Business
Editor Notes : "Deloitte compares the idea of building a wide range of applications for stadiums to Apple’s development of its own...
Bitcoin – No Keys Not Your Money
Editor Notes :"The recent hack of Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex is reminding everyone once again the importance of holding your own keys,...
Coinsource Largest BTM Provider in the U.S.
Editor Notes :"The BTM network Coinsource has recently become the largest cryptocurrency automated teller operator in America. The...
Bitfinex Considers Haircut for All BTC Traders
Editor Notes : "As it tries to mitigate the effects of last week’s theft of nearly $68 million, Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex has announced...
SEB Backed its First Bitcoin Startup
Editor Notes : "The investment branch of Sweden's Bank SEB Group has been investing in what it calls "deep technology" startups for over...
Barclays Sets Forth Vision for Smart Contracts Future
Editor Notes : "Barclays investment bank CTO and report author Lee Braine said the aim was to search for "narrower definitions" of...
ELECTRIC JET air travel VTOL for the masses
Editor Notes : "Taking off and landing like a helicopter, the Lilium aircraft goes from VTOL to forward flight by swiveling its engines."...
Bitcoin Price Regains From Bitfinex Theft & Impending Collapse
Editor Notes :Lee founder of leveraged derivatives trading platform Magnr said: "The price recovery following Bitfinex’s bad news reflects...
Overstock CEO Says Look For ‘Historic’ Blockchain Announcement Soon
Editor Notes : "Overstock was one of the first online marketplaces to begin accepting bitcoin, and has since taken a leadership role...
The Bitfinex Bitcoin Theft Of 66 Million – What’s Going ON?
Editor Notes : "Roughly $66m worth of bitcoin was stolen from one of the world's largest digital currency exchanges yesterday, and nearly...
Elliptic Partners With LexisNexis Money Laundering Database
Editor Notes : ""By integrating LexisNexis Risk Solutions' robust watchlist data, we are making it safe for a new wave of financial...
Will The EU Build a Database of Digital Currency Users?
Editor Notes : "The European Union's proposal to bring digital currency exchanges and custodial wallet providers under the scope of its...
Nissan says EV charge stations will outnumber gas stations by 2020
Editor Notes : "EVs are becoming more practical for day-to-day drivers with better range and more charging options." By Scott Collie,...
Can A.I. write a Hollywood film?
Editor Notes : "Over recent years, we've seen artificial intelligence systems designed to write software, compose music, paint works of...
PwC Blockchain Developed Audit for Wholesale Insurance
Editor Notes :"PwC has released details on a new proof-of-concept (PoC) it says successfully created a real-time audit process for policy...
Bitcoin Launch Smart Contract Group With 25 Startups
Editor Notes :"Announced today, a group of international bitcoin companies have signed a letter of intent to form a federation that would...
Microsoft Brings Blockchain to Azure As A Service
Editor Notes :"Designed to allow developers to quickly create environments in Azure, DevTest Labs seeks to help companies control costs...
Tesla Settled On $2.6 billion solar power acquisition
Editor Notes : "Tesla has reached an agreement to buy solar power outfit SolarCity for US$2.6 billion, as it had announced was its...
Slick Electric Hydrofoil Mercedes/Cigarette
Editor Notes : "Many of the electric boats we've covered fall into two broad categories: modestly powered vessels limited to floating...
IBM Building Blockchain Dispute Resolution System
Editor Notes : "According to IBM, as many as 25,000 disputes arise in this division of the company each year, holding up as much as $100m...
Micropayments Advance With ‘Bolt’ Blockchain
Editor Notes :"Can blockchain micropayments be fast, decentralized and private? That question arguably forms the core of a new white paper...
Brazilian Bitcoin Exchange Acquisition
Editor Notes : "Brazilian bitcoin exchange Foxbit has acquired payment processor BitInvest in an acquisition worth less than $1m. With the...
Children’s Aid Organization UNICEF Seeks Blockchain Lead
Editor Notes : "The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is seeking a software developer and consultant who can help it lead its...
PwC’s New FinTech Director Won’t Rock the Blockchain Boat
Editor Notes : "The 'Big Four' accounting firm has officially tapped former American Stock Exchange director Geraldine Balaj to help head...
Labour Party Must ‘Act Now’ to Save ‘Digital Revolution’ IN UK
Editor Notes : "Tom Watson the deputy leader of the UK opposition, the Labour Party, has stated the government “must act” to secure the...
Ant Financial Brings Blockchain To its Donation app
Editor Notes : "Chinese corporate giant Ant Financial, led by billionaire venture capitalist Jack Ma, is introducing blockchain technology...
Bitcoin ‘Is the Base of Our Economy’ Liberland
Editor Notes : Liberland's president Vít Jedlička discusses the micronation, issues it faces, the citizens use of Bitcoin and goals the...
First look | Google Cloud Machine Learning soars
Editor Notes :"Google has open-sourced its TensorFlow scalable machine learning package. By Martin Heller In the 2016 Google Founder’s...
How the DARPA Urban Challenge Jump-Started Autonomous Tech
Editor Notes : "Autonomous driving technology has captured the attention of the automotive and tech industries, attracting billions of...
Is Bitcoin Currency? What The Torah Says
Editor Notes :"The question of whether or not bitcoin is really money has gained attention in light of recent events in the bitcoin world....
Miners Meet Core Developers – Bitcoin Price Falls
Editor Notes : "Bitcoin’s price dropped by $30 this morning (July 31st, 2016) as market uncertainty increases due to a closed door meeting...
Are Bitcoin and Gold Prices Correlated?
Editor Notes : "Bitcoin has been called 'digital gold', but does this mean the two markets behave similarly? Tim Enneking, chairman of...
Public Blockchains: The Community vs The Ecosystem
Editor Notes: "We always hear the word "community" as a reference to the body of players who are supposed to be the stakeholders that care...
Bitcoin Browser Brave Raises $4.5 Million to Fight Online Ads
Editor Notes: "When Brave Software first unveiled a version of the browser earlier this year, members of the media signed what has been...
Desalination plant would go deep to protect marine life & Cool Internet Data Center
Editor Notes: "A desalination project proposed for California's central coast would draw water from one of the world's deepest submarine...
World’s first magnetic “wormhole” produces magnetic monopole
Editor Notes:"It may not instantly whisk you to far-flung reaches of the universe like the gravitational wormholes of Stargate,...
Where’s the Bitcoin As US Goes Cash-Free?
Editor Notes: "The US is starting to follow Europe down the 100% digital cash path – but does the mainstream media see Bitcoin as part of...
Ledger Nano S Review: $65
Editor Editor: "Bitcoin.com had the chance to review the new Ledger Nano S multi-cryptocurrency hardware wallet. The Nano S is one of the...
Berlin’s Jolocom Takes IoT Data Sharing to the Masses
Editor Notes: "Berlin-based startup Jolocom (jolocom.com) has announced it is in talks with manufacturing giant Philips and others to...
The Evolution of the Bitcoin Vending Machine
Editor Notes: "A Cryptocurrency vending machine has been found at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Just recently MIT Media...
The Most Immutable Ledger of Them All Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Since the creation of Bitcoin no cryptocurrency or private blockchain has compared to the exponential power of the longest...
French Minister to Speak at ‘Parliamentary Blockchain Forum’ in Paris
Editor Notes: "The Parliamentary Blockchain Forum will be held on 4th October at the Maison de la chimie, a conference site located near...
Untraceable Cryptocurrency By Zcash Delayed
Editor Notes: "The launch of the genesis block for a new cryptocurrency designed to make real the anonymity once thought to be offered by...
Replay Attacks Intensifies Ethereum Divide
Editor Notes: "The unintended consequences of the ethereum hard fork continued to mount this week as new problems became apparent due to...
Helicopter Money & Hyperinflation Next
Editor Notes: "Quantitative Easing (QE) has so far not produced the runaway inflation some predicted. But before you start feeling...
The Bitcoin Has Grown Up Study Reveals
editor Notes: " Researchers have recently published a paper called “The Evolution of the Bitcoin Economy: Extracting and Analyzing the...
ITA Bitcoin & Chinese FinTech
Editor Notes: "According to the 2016 Top Markets Report of Financial Technology produced by the U.S. International Trade Administration...
Scottish ‘Brexit Research Paper’ Looks to Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "The Brexit debacle had caused quite a stir for Britain but has also leaked into the minds of people in other countries in...
Dubai’s Newest Skyscraper Comes With SELF REGULATING tropical climate Rainforest
Editor Notes: "Designed by ZAS Architects Dubai, the US$550 million project (up from an initial cost estimate of $300 million) is...
The Sun’s magnetic field MAY NOT be generated quite how we thought
Editor Notes:"'Readings from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory are causing astronomers to question our understanding of exactly how the...
Solar cell draw IN “CO2” OUT “burnable fuel”
Editor Notes: "The new solar cell is not photovoltaic — it's photosynthetic," says Salehi-Khojin. "Instead of producing energy in an...
US Senators Take A Serious Look at Blockchains
Editor Notes: "Twenty-two US senators have sent a letter to senior government officials and the Federal Reserve requesting information...
Bitcoin is the Ideal Portfolio Asset
Editor Notes:"Bitcoin truly is a new asset class that investors should take seriously, not just because of the extraordinary returns thus...
Vancouver Real Estate Targets Foreign Nationals Bitcoin Could Benefit
Editor Notes: "Next week Chinese investors in the Vancouver housing market will face a new 15 percent transfer tax that targets foreign...
Mercedes Unveils First Heavy-Duty Electric Delivery Truck
Editor Notes: "For deliveries that can't be sent via Amazon drone, this truck can carry up to 26 tons." By Tom Brant Electric trucks are...
Bitcoin Wallet Acquired By Blockstream
Editor Notes: "Bitcoin infrastructure architect Blockstream has acquired wallet provider GreenAddress in a move the startup says could...
FSB Continues Weighing Digital Currency Risks
Editor Notes: "The Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international body composed of central bank officials and finance regulators, said...
Cheap & Simple Graphene sheets make dirty water drinkable
Editor Notes: "A new system of bi-layered biofoam may provide the means to purify vast bodies of water simply by overlaying them...
Bitcoin Price Could Rise From Japan Stimulus
Editor News:"The price of bitcoin has benefited from macroeconomic uncertainty this year, rising more than 50% over the last six months as...
Florida ‘Bitcoin Isn’t Money’ Ruling Limited Impact
Editor Notes: Article author, "Stephen D Palley is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, DC, focusing on construction, insurance and...