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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...
Bitcache Will Use a ‘tiny Bitcoin microtransaction
By Jamie Redman, Kim Dotcom has told the public many times that Bitcoin will be an integral part of Mega Upload 2 and Bitcache. Now, with...
Bitwala Releases AI with ‘Siri like Voice For Bitcoin’
By William Suberg, International remittance service Bitwala has released Lolabot, a crypto education tool based on artificial...
Book of Orbs Wallet Manages Trades & In-Game Digital Assets
By Jon Southurst, Indiesquare and EverdreamSoft are releasing “Book of Orbs,” a mobile wallet they designed specifically to manage various...
New UN Chief World Problems & Bitcoin
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Colossal challenges await Antonio Guterres, the newly appointed United Nations Secretary-General. He must ensure the...
Dubai, Mumbai Complete Cross-Border Blockchain Transaction By Stan Higgins, Two more major banks successfully completed a cross-border...
Japan to Drop 8% Bitcoin Sales Tax
By Stan Higgins, Japan is reportedly planning to exempt bitcoin and other virtual currencies from a national sales tax. The...
Blockchain Startup Funderbeam Raises $2.6 Million
By Stan Higgins, A startup headquartered in London that uses blockchain tech to power a next-generation stock market has raised $2.6m in...
It Looks Like Ethereum is Going to Have to Fork Again…
By Alyssa Hertig, Déjà vu? Although there isn't a timeline yet, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin today suggested that the...
Ripple CEO Calls for Next President to Appoint FinTech Advisor
By Michael del Castillo, With less than a month to go before the US election, one distributed ledger startup's chief executive is making...
First Bitcoin Unlimited 2MB Block
By Joseph Young, ViaBTC has mined its first official Bitcoin Unlimited block after confirming it allocated its entire hashing power...
Free Keene Launches Bitcoin Radio Commercials
By Jamie Redman, New Hampshire’s Free Keene community recently announced a historic Bitcoin radio ad campaign. The libertarian-based...
The Ups and Downs of an Anonymous Currency
By Jamie Redman, Anonymous cryptocurrency Monero has jumped in value over the past couple of months. More recently though, the price has...
Signatura Opens Authentication With Bitcoin to the Public
By Juan Galt, Certificate Authorities for HTTPS, PGP authentication and multi-signature cryptographic notarizing can now be done on top of...
BMW motorcycle future
The Motorrad Vision Next 100 requires no safety equipment for the rider By Aaron Turpen, The BMW Group celebrates its centenary this year...
Bitcoin’s Price Just Got its Groove Back
By Charles Bovaird, Bitcoin prices surged on 11th October amid what analysts say was a sharp change in market confidence. The digital...
Wells Fargo Develops Blockchain Banking Prototype
By Stan Higgins, Wells Fargo, ANZ and Swift have completed a prototype that envisions how blockchain play a role in correspondent banking....
Deloitte Study Explores Blockchain Loyalty Programs
By Stan Higgins, A new report from Deloitte explores how blockchain could be used in loyalty rewards programs. The report, released by the...
Bitcoin Has a New Top Dark Market
By Michael del Castillo, Dream Market is now the most popular bitcoin-enabled dark market. The finding is the result of a new...
Double Standards: Blockchain Interoperability Could Get Messy
By Michael del Castillo, Not everyone wants to copy the world's most successful blockchain. While bitcoin's public-facing, immutable...
TILT/steering system Supertrike hits the market
By Loz Blain, Tilting three-wheelers are becoming more common, but there's nothing out there like this. Terracraft's SuperTrike gives you...
Augur’s Token Launch Highlights ‘Appcoin’ Pitfalls
By Charles Bovaird, The crypto markets didn't responded well to the launch of Augur's digital asset. The ethereum-based prediction market...
Ericsson Wants Blockchain ‘Fingerprints’ in the Cloud
Stan Higgins, Swedish telecom networks company Ericsson has built a system for ensuring data integrity, leveraging blockchain to underpin...
Digital Asset Latest to File Blockchain Patent Application
By Michael del Castillo, Digital Asset Holdings (DAH) has joined the growing number of startups and incumbents looking to file patents...
Momentum Grows for Blockchain Gold Markets with ‘Big Four’
By Stan Higgins, Global consultancy EY and New York blockchain startup Paxos have announced that they are co-developing new technology...
“Fool’s gold” nanocrystals present cheap, abundant alternative to lithium in batteries
By Colin Jeffrey, Empa researchers have demonstrated the use of pyrite (fool’s gold) as energy production moves towards solar and...
Unique electric torque vectoring tech enters real world
With ratios, a total production of 2,400 Nm (1,770 lb-ft) of torque is sent through the dual-clutch eTwinster system Aaron Turpen, GKN...
Morelo caters to nomads with Mercedes taste
Scott Collie, Based on a Mercedes Atego, the vehicle comes in a variety of model options - ranging from 8.99 m (29.5 ft) to 11.29 m (37...
What’s Left Before SegWit Goes Live
By Alyssa Hertig, Bitcoin's global development community is scheduled to meet this week for the latest edition of a conference series...
How Bots Are Fueling High-Speed Bitcoin Trading
By Charles Bovaird, Investors have benefited from algorithmic ('algo') trading programs under many different circumstances, but these...
Bitcoin Mining is a Family Business for This Father and Son
By Stan Higgins, In Raleigh, North Carolina, a father-and-son team are bucking the trend of industrial bitcoin mining. Bitcoin mining is a...
Credit Unions Turn to Blockchain Amid Increasing Competition
By Bailey Reutzel, A less-discussed type of financial entity, the credit union service organization (CUSO), has emerged as an unlikely –...
Russian Central Bank Sends First Distributed Ledger Transactions
Stan Higgins, The central bank of Russia has successfully completed a distributed ledger trial. Dubbed "Masterchain", the Bank of...
Bitcoin Provisions in the North Carolina Money Transmitter Act
By Todd Bryant, The North Carolina Money Transmitter Act was recently extended to cover bitcoin traders with House Bill 289, signed in...
Could Rising Interest Rates Threaten Bitcoin Prices?
By Charles Bovaird, It could be said that bitcoin was born in an era of low interest rates. The world's first decentralized digital...
Broadridge is Investing Millions in Blockchain Voting
By Michael del Castillo, Financial services firm Broadridge recently had a coming out party as a leading blockchain investor. While the...
JPMorgan is Quietly Developing a Private Ethereum Blockchain
ByStan Higgins, Wall Street mega-bank JPMorgan has co-developed a private, permissioned version of the ethereum network. The...
Connect Cell Phones off-grid
By Stu Robarts, The device is able to relay communications via other goTenna Mesh devices nearby, thereby increasing the potential...
Why Rabobank’s Blockchain Cross-Border Tool Isn’t Just a Database
Michael del Castillo, Dutch multinational bank Rabobank today announced a cross-border payments tool built on Coin Science's multichain...