Quick Look
US House Resolution For Government to Support Blockchain
Editor Notes: "It invokes the idea of bitcoin without calling it by name – referring to "alternative non-fiat currencies" – and blockchain...
Bitcoin Miner Acquires Data Startup
Editor Notes: "Bitmain, the operator of one of the bitcoin network’s largest mining pools, has acquired a bitcoin data and analytics...
Bain Blockchain Report: ‘Wait-and-See Approach’ Wrong for Banks
Editor Notes: "Banks are not moving fast enough to protect themselves against blockchain disruption, which could result in a loss of up to...
JPMorgan: Blockchain is the Real Deal, Get Off the Sidelines
Editor Notes: "JPMorgan Chase and consultants Oliver Wyman have joined calls for traditional investment banking to “embrace the...
Turkish Residents Flock to Bitcoin During Military Coup
Editor Notes: "The Turkish government is currently rounding up members of the groups that launched a military coup in recent days. During...
Brexit and China Influence On Bitcoin Price
Editor Notes: "H1 2016's market analysis, prices have pushed up 50% from 1st January, and two key drivers were, at least according to...
ISITC Europe Proposes 10 Blockchain Standards Benchmarks
Editor Notes: The European branch of the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC) "Wright, who...
34 Bytes Bitcoin POS Terminal Starts Beta Testing
Editor Notes: "A Los Angeles-based startup called 34 Bytes has created a fully functional Bitcoin point-of-sale (POS) terminal according...
EU Intellectual Property Office Bitcoin Hinders Anti-Piracy
Editor Notes: "The European Union’s Intellectual Property (EUIPO) office has stated that Bitcoin and Tor can “hide the proceeds of crime”...
Preserving the Markets: What Needs to Happen to Bitcoin Price
Editor Notes: "It’s now been over a week since the Bitcoin “halving” and, as the smoke clears, price speculators and miners are starting...
Joe Rogan Excited About Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Bitcoin expert, Andreas Antonopoulos, who has been on the Joe Rogan Experience three times and will be on the podcast once...
Forex Expert: Bitcoin Should Be Taken More Seriously
Editor Notes: "Forex trading instructor for DailyFX and ex-JPMorgan Chase forex trader, Tyler Yell, recently explained why Bitcoin should...
Ethereum’s Hard Fork is a Lesson for the Bitcoin Community
Editor Notes: "It seems the Ethereum community is prepping for a hard fork for around July 20 or depending on how fast the hash rate...
Bitcoin’s Price at a Boiling Point
Editor Notes: "The price of Bitcoin has been steaming like a kettle ready to pop since the halving. Currently, the price of world’s most...
SAP Is On Blockchain
Editor Notes: SAP, a major German software company founded in the 1970s by a group of IBM engineers, is no exception. For much of the past...
UK Parliament Looks At Government Blockchain Applications
Editor Notes:"Parliament announced today that the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords (Parliament's upper house) will meet on...
Ether Price Spike Above $12 Prior to Hard Fork
Editor Notes: The price of ether pushed higher during the seven days through 14th July as the broader ethereum community came closer to...
Ryan X. Charles Chooses Bitcoin Steem ‘Can’t Last’
Editor Notes: Ryan X. Charles, co-creator of Yours: "By leveraging bitcoin, we can take advantage of the largest blockchain technical...
Canadian Bank, Ripple and SAP Send First Int’ Blockchain Payment
Editor Notes: "Canadian bank ATB Financial has collaborated with Ripple and tech firm SAP to send the first international interbank...
Popular TV Shows are Now Mainstreaming Cryptocurrency
Editor Notes: "Bitcoin is becoming more popular every day and the cryptocurrency recently has been getting much exposure as mainstream...
Samsung SDS Invests in Blockchain Startup
Editor Notes: Samsung spokesmen: "Samsung SDS will increase competitiveness of its cybersecurity business and services by promoting sales...
Blockchain Smart Contracts for Clearinghouses
Editor Notes: Collin Platt former lead blockchain developer at BNP Paribas said: "What we are doing is creating a new scaling process that...
Spanish University Offers Bitcoin & Blockchain Event
Editor Notes: Airbitz COO Will Pangman explains: “The faculty at the University of Cantabria sought us out to help enhance the course they...
China’s Economy Drive Investors to Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "China’s economic problems may only just be starting, and bitcoin is poised to benefit more than ever before. On top of the...
How This Massive Structure in the Oregon Desert Keeps Facebook Running
Editor Notes: "The hallmark of almost any company that operates on the Internet, from Amazon to Charles Schwab, is redundancy: multiple...
Feds hiding massive Chinese Bank hacking operation
Editor Notes: "The report issued Wednesday by the Republican majority staff of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee cites a...
DTCC Organizes Blockchain Event on Capitol Hill
Editor Notes: "The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) managing director Mark Wetjen said of the event:" "It is important...
IBM Unveils Cloud Protection Blockchain Service
Editor Notes: Recently elected IBM Fellow Donna Dillenberger: "The cloud is made up of a special hardware that protects the blockchain...
US Dept Of Homeland Security Talks Blockchain R&D
Editor Notes: DHS data privacy program manager Anil John said: "For DHS use cases, the projects we’re funding are focused on proving or...
Bitcoin Scaling Event Next Meeting in Italy
Editor Notes: "Following two meetings in Montreal and Hong Kong last year, Scaling Bitcoin will host its next event in Milan, Italy, from...
SEC Opens Winklevoss Bro’s Bitcoin Trust For Public Comment
Editor Notes: Investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are another step closer to offering the first Securities and Exchange Commission...
Bitcoin Economy Grows Up
Editor Notes: Researchers Paolo Tasca, Shaowen Liu and Adam Hayes: In the beginning there was pot. "Our results suggest that some recent...
SolidX Bitcoin 2nd Exchange Traded Fund To NY Exchange – XBTF
Editor Notes: SolidX stated it believes its latest offering is better suited for institutional investors than direct bitcoin purchases:...
A Sbsidiary of Barclays Africa, Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
Editor Notes: Andrew Baker, CIO for corporate and investment banking at Barclays Africa, said in a statement: "We see huge potential for...
Santander Moves To Blythe Masters As Senior Blockchain Advisor
Editor Notes: "In statements, Banco Santander Executive Chairman Ana Botín said: "Blythe will bring her expertise in banking, business and...
IBM to Open Blockchain Development Center With Singapore Regulators
Editor Notes: Robert Morris, vice-president of Global Labs at IBM Research said: "This is IBM's first collaboration with the private...
JPMorgan Exploring Blockchain for Trade Finance
Editor Notes: "A senior trade finance executive for JPMorgan Chase has offered new details on the bank's work with blockchain technology."...
Dutch Central Bank Prepares its Boldest Blockchain Experiment Yet
Editor Notes: "The central bank of the Netherlands aimed at discerning if an entire financial market can be built on a blockchain."...
Blockchain Coders Win Grant to Fix Smart Contracts With ‘Legalese’
Editor Notes: "Co-founded by Virgil Griffith and Wong Meng Weng, Legalese is an open-source project writing a new programming language...
SolidX Files to Become First Bitcoin ETF on NY Stock Exchange
Editor Notes: "The exchange traded fund (ETF) scene is due another shakeup as SolidX Partners files to become the first fund to launch on...
File Hosting Picks Bitcoin Over PayPal
Editor Notes: "The alternative open source file hosting software system Seafile just announced it’s accepting Bitcoin due to a...
Negative Rates, Falling Bond Yields Time to Consider Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "With high market uncertainty, low inflation, and negative interest rates in many countries, it’s becoming harder for...
Bitcoin Price Poised for a Breakout, Technical Analysis Shows
Editor Notes: "A technical analysis chart of bitcoin prices suggests that the digital currency’s value is likely to shoot higher." By...
MIT Researchers Devise New Anonymity Network Following Tor Bug
Editor Notes: "The system, dubbed Riffle, leverages several existing cryptographic techniques, but combines them in a new way. Computer...
Blockchain Rolls Over Nation States
Editor Notes: "Startup networker Blockchain Angels’ analysis highlights the US as “heavily invested in Bitcoin” amid the overall...
Philippines Big On Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "70+ Bill Payment Options & Loans as Philippines-based bitcoin services company Coins.ph now allows its users to repay...
DAO Attack Nullified Using Synereo’s Smart Contracting Language
Editor Notes: Synereo CEO Dor Konforty. "It is only when the right tools are in place that we can expect the decentralized economy to...
S Africa Bank Looks To Grab 40% of Banking Revenue With Blockchain
Editor Notes: "A Blockchain research arm of a bank in South Africa has said the technology could take up to 40% of banks’ revenue if it...
Myanmar Microfinance Conducts Blockchain Test
Editor Notes: From the Myanmar report: "The successful results proved that Myanmar's cloud-computing environment could handle the...
UK Gov’t Experiments With Blockchain Welfare Payments System
Editor Notes: " David Freur, state minister for welfare reform told attendees: "We started a small trial in the north west, designed to...
Science Academic Argues Bitcoin Mining Worth the Cost
Editor Notes: "In a recent research note, Tomaso Aste, a professor of complexity sciences and director of the UCL's Centre for Blockchain...
Bitcoin Industry Seeks Bridge To Scaling
Editor Notes: "The meeting comes months after a meeting in Hong Kong between miners and several members of the Bitcoin Core development...
Blockchain Bretton Woods Summit Meeting
Editor Notes: Consumers’ Research executive director Joe Colangelo said: "This collaboration will produce a model for bitcoin and...
Bitcoin Price at the Halving
Editor Notes: "Bitcoin price is rearing to go and the community is optimistic for greater things for the conquering Bitcoin. Today’s post...
The Bitcoin Community Celebrates the Second Halving
Editor Notes: "Celebratory parties are being held across the world, from Israel to Taiwan, with numerous events held in US and Europe....
Google Builds Quantum-Proof Encryption for Chrome
Editor Notes: "Breaking HTTPS encryption would be too easy for quantum computers." By Tom Brant Google engineers are concerned that the...
Bitcoin Startup Among Finalists in New PayPal Incubator
Editor Notes: "PayPal has announced it is mentoring a Bitcoin startup as part of its first startup incubator in Singapore. " By William...
Bitcoin is the Automobile ‘Disruptive’ of the 21st Century
Editor Notes: "The early automobile was certainly the disruptive technology of its time. In fact, we can learn a lot about today’s Bitcoin...
‘Decentralized Steemit Rewards $1.3 Million to Users For Content
Editor Notes: The CEO of Steemit Ned Scott said - This was an opportunity for us to thank our growing community, to reward them for...
North Carolina Signs Bitcoin Bill Into Law
Editor Notes: "North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed 16 bills into law today, one of which was House Bill 289, which expands the...
US Gov’t Shows Interest In Blockchain Healthcare Benefits
Editor Notes: "According to a notice published in the Federal Register, HHS is seeking white papers that explore how the technology can be...
Blockchain Immutability a Perpetual Motion Claim
Editor Notes: "So what is immutability? Immutability is the feature of a blockchain that persists data forever, free from censorship and...
Bitfury Lightning Micropayments Routing For Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Long an outstanding question facing the Lightning Network, one of the more acclaimed proposals aimed at scaling the bitcoin...
Blockchain Technology Connects With Guns
Editor Notes: Blocksafe CEO Kevin Barnes, This solution has the potential to eliminate unauthorized gun access, track missing firearms,...
Industry Seeks to Weave Blockchains into New Web
Editor Notes: 'Christopher Allen, principal architect at blockchain tech company Blockstream, said "In order to move forward and work...
EU Tighter Bitcoin Rules To Combat Terrorists & Money-Launderers
Editor Notes: "In statements, first vice president of the commission Frans Timmermans, sought to connect the actions to international...
Uber Argentina Uses Bitcoin To Continue
Editor Notes: Xapo product manager Anni Rautio said "This is a win for all local Uber users and drivers, and for Uber as a company, as...
Bitcoin 51% Attack Question Resurfaces
Editor Notes: "Understanding how a bad actor can affect the bitcoin community as a whole can help to shed light on the vulnerabilities...
Evaluating the EU’s New Definition for Virtual Currencies
Editor Notes: " According to the proposal, 'virtual currencies" means:'...a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a...
Bitcoin Chart Formation Suggests Upside Breakout Coming Soon
Editor Notes:" More recently, Bitcoin has been boosted by Brexit and the probability of investors moving to Bitcoin’s digital gold element...
Netcoins Virtual ATM Network
Editor Notes: "Whether a customer orders $20 or $2,000 in Bitcoin Netcoins does all the heavy lifting. Stores don’t need to maintain...
Netki Raises $3.5 Million For Digital Identity
Editor Notes: Netki CEO Newton said "We plan to use the funds to invest in our technology and grow our team in order to support customer...
Holland’s Central Bank to Open Blockchain Campus
Editor Notes: "Holland’s fintech ambassador Willem Vermeend said 'There is a lot of creativity in the Netherlands. The problem is that I...
Donald Trump Presidency Could Benefit Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Global concern over the possible election of Donald Trump, along with other macroeconomic concerns, could lead to a massive...
Tech Giant: Blockchain ‘Integral to Mid-East Digital Economy’
Editor Notes: "International tech consultants Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) have authored a report stating blockchain is “integral to...
EU Strategy – Put An End To Anonymous Bitcoin Trading
Editor Notes: EU report Indicates "The European approach to regulating virtual currencies is fundamentally different from that prevailing...
Bitcoin WiFi Hotspot Inroads – Philippines
Editor Notes: "WiFi Interactive Network Founder Philip Zulueta stated: The low-income market is a viable target. Because at the end of the...
Cryptocurrencies are not Gov’ts, They’re DAOs
Editor Notes: "Governance is the new buzz word of blockchain tech. And perhaps with good reason. But does this meant that blockchain...
How Blockchain Could
Editor Notes: "For instance, bitcoin enthusiasts are still split on relatively minor protocol details such as the size of its transaction...
Bitcoin $10 Billion Market Cap
Editor Notes: Chris McAlary, chief executive officer of Coin Cloud "People are drawn to bitcoin because it empowers them to take on the...
1MB Blocks for Today’s Bitcoin?
Editor Notes: Developers Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja wrote in their white paper on bitcoin payment channels: "If we use an average of 300...
Cobra Revisions To Satoshi’s White Paper Unpopular
Editor Notes: Here’s what Cobra had to say, giving his opinion via GitHub: “I believe the paper was always designed to be a high-level...
Why Serious Investors Need Bitcoin in Their Portfolios
Editor Notes: "For the longest time, people have seen bitcoin as an investment vehicle. In fact, cryptocurrency is referred to as a store...
Blockchain Debate Circle CEO vs Luxembourg Minister
Editor Notes: "Circle’s Jeremy Allaire and Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna discussed the future of blockchain at the World...
W3C’s Blockchain Workshop At MIT
Editor Notes: W3C “We are seeking blockchain and Web experts to gather together to discuss what needs to happen to integrate blockchains...
OTC Trading Bitcoin For Regular People
Editor Notes: "More and more people are looking to get started in Bitcoin with every passing month. In response, companies are giving...
Terminator Rumors of Miner Mutiny Make ‘Corexit’
Editor Notes: "If miners are truly upset, they may remain so for quite some time as Gavin Andresen points out back in March 2016. Andresen...
The Global Unerbanked Gets A Known Programmers Attention
Editor Notes: Stellar co-founder Jed McCaleb: "I think that one of the most powerful things that this technology is going to do for the...
Bitcoin Not a Threat – Citi Bank
Editor Notes: The Citi Bank report: "The power behind an open network like bitcoin is the possibility of incorporating it with other...
Abra Blockchain Remittance App Comes To American Shores
Editor Notes: CEO Bill Barhydt: "It’s really the hub for us for going global. The initial focus for Abra is on cross-border,...