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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,...
Smart Contracts – From Ethereum to Potential Banking Use Cases Whitepaper
With contributions from Zerado, FinTech Network have produced a whitepaper that looks at smart contracts and how they could...
Gravity Jack’s PoindextAR tracks objects’ smallest details for augmented reality anywhere
Augmented reality is a difficult proposition, both in the methods used to do it right and the resources required to do it at all. A...
Bitcoin’s Latest Scaling Twist: Support is Building for a UASF
It seems to be one thing after another for bitcoin. Amid the long-standing debate, one well-known bitcoin developer recently posted...
Buterin Raps Cryptocommunity’s Incivility in Bitcoin Block Size Debate
Are we being polite enough in our debates? Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, thinks not. He recently started a...
Why Flybrix skipped crowdfunding to launch its LEGO drone kits
Flybrix first dreamed up a drone that kids could build with LEGO bricks in 2015. At the time, co-founders Amir Hirsch, Robb Walters...
European Central Bank: Still Too Early for DLT in Eurozone
The European Union's central bank today once again shot down the idea that it might use distributed ledger tech as part of its...
Bitcoin Core Supporters Push for UASF
The never ending bitcoin debate has now seemingly moved on to new never ending proposals that try to provide a solution to...
High-speed camera rig captures 3D images of birds’ wings in flight
You don’t have to be an ornithologist to know that birds are pretty good at flying. But while we know how they do it in general,...
Intesa Sanpaolo Trials Data Recordkeeping on the Bitcoin Blockchain
Italian banking conglomerate Banca Intesa Sanpaolo has tested a tool built on the bitcoin blockchain as part of a bid to validate...
Bitcoin Isn’t Money, Rules US Judge in Money Laundering Case
Yet another U.S. judge has ruled that bitcoin isn’t money. U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott ruled in a money laundering...
Apple could be designing its own power management chip as well
Apple already has planned to design its own graphics chip for the iPhone, but the company doesn’t plan to stop there. According to...
Two Months And Counting: Exchange Withdrawals Still Blocked in China
One month after China's bitcoin exchanges announced they had upgraded their services in response to requests from regulators,...
Ripple at All Time High as New Features Go Live
Ripple, the maker of the Ripple Consensus Ledger, has seen the value of its native digital token, XRP, increase dramatically...
Should I Do It? 30,000 Bitcoins and One Big Auction
Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of San Mateo-based venture capital firm Boost VC, one of bitcoin and blockchain's...
Qatar Commercial Bank Completes International Money Transfer Blockchain Pilot
Commercial Bank, a private Qatari bank has revealed the successful completion of an initial blockchain pilot enabling...
IBM Ramps Up China Blockchain Work With Supply Chain Trial
IBM advanced its status as a blockchain leader Tuesday with the launch of a supply chain platform designed to streamline flows...
Litecoin Price Falls: Segwit Down, UASF on the Table
Litecoin fell by some 20% earlier today after segwit’s network share decreased to around 63% following rumors that Antpool...
UK Finance Watchdog: No Need to Rewrite Rules for DLT
A top UK finance watchdog said today that it has no immediate plans to alter its regulatory approach in light of blockchain...
Has Reddit Banned Links to LocalBitcoins?
A recent post on the Bitcoin subreddit has caused speculation that Reddit has banned links to LocalBitcoins.com, one of the...
Qatar’s Commercial Bank Unveils Blockchain Remittance Pilot
The Commercial Bank of Qatar, the country's largest private bank, has successfully completed a blockchain pilot in conjunction with...
Britain’s Regulator Opens Potentially Historical Consultation on Blockchain Technology
Christopher Woolard, Executive Director of Strategy and Competition at the FCA, welcomed innovation in an opening speech at...
LeEco will not acquire TV maker Vizio as planned
Chinese electronics giant LeEco will not acquire U.S.-based TV maker Vizio as announced, the two companies said today. The deal has...
Fidelity Joins IC3 Blockchain Research Initiative
Fidelity has moved to back a prominent research effort centered on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. As reported by...
Bitcoin Price to Hit $500,000 by 2030, Says Snapchat’s First Investor
Hold on, investors – you haven’t seen anything yet. According to Peter Smith, Blockchain CEO/co-founder, and Jeremy Liew,...
Greg Hunter Interviews Clif High On Fed Chaos – Fed Will Crash
By Greg Hunter Internet Data mining expert Clif High’s latest report says, ““The emotions at the moment are projecting a crash of...
Porsche Seeks Blockchain Companies for Startup Competition
German automaker Porsche is looking to explore blockchain technology. According to a company release, Porsche quietly unveiled a...
Bitcoin Users Should Activate Segwit If Miners Won’t
Samourai, the development team that consists of privacy activists building an open source bitcoin wallet platform called...
Why A Quiet Blockchain Consortium Could Soon Make Noise
Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis, corporate finance and fund management, and a member of CoinDesk's product...
Rogue Indian Drug Agent Caught Stealing Bitcoins
An investigator from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of India has been accused of stealing bitcoins frozen from a 2015...
Chandler Guo Fails to Raise Money For Bitcoin Unlimited Pool, Segwit Support Evident
Major Chinese miner, bitcoin and Ethereum Classic investor Chandler Guo failed to meet the target of his US$32 million...
Coming Week: Stocks Mostly Bullish, Cryptocurrencies Going for New Records?
Asset Current Value Weekly Change S&P 500 2355 -0.30% DAX 12225 -0.71% WTI Crude Oil 52.23 2.78% GOLD 1257.50 0.81% Bitcoin...
As Bitcoin Fees Rise, OpenBazaar Looks at Altcoin Payments
OpenBazaar, an open-source market that allows buyers and sellers of goods to directly create shops and sell goods without...
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Bitcoin Hard Fork Isn’t Inevitable, Say Jeff Garzik and Charlie Lee
Will bitcoin really split in two? Can it be stopped? The questions, which have been on the minds of many as the block size...
How Deloitte’s Bitcoin Bistro Was Built
While Deloitte has long been an advisor on blockchain and cryptocurrencies, it took a step toward to practicing what it preaches...
Everex Explores Ethereum Based Global Remittances
Blockchain startup Everex, a blockchain remittance company, looks to leverage Ethereum to transform the remittance industry....
The Dark Days of Dogecoin: How Scammers and Bandits Brought Down Crypto’s Friendliest Currency
It was a bustling, summer day in San Francisco just like any other for Jackson Palmer, a marketing manager at Adobe that a year...
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Sues Wells Fargo Over Embargoed Wire Transfers
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Northern District of California federal court, San Francisco division could turn out to hold...
Analysis of Ethereum, Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Litecoin & Ripple
Ethereum Ethereum continues to drift downwards as it bounces off 2nd arc support. It still paints a (relatively) bullish long-term...
Bitcoin Startups BitPesa and Bitbond Deliver P2P Loans for African Businesses
Bitcoin startups BitPesa and Bitbond, based in Africa and Germany respectively, have announced a new initiative to bring...
Extension Block Proposal Stumbles In Attempt to End Bitcoin Block Size Debate
The block size debate has gotten to a point that some bitcoin observers think it could doom bitcoin. Bitcoin has defied all...
Here Comes the Pickaxe Race: Bitcoin Mining Jumps to GPU
An early bitcoin developer and entrepreneur, Alex Waters served as COO and CIO for bitcoin exchange startup BitInstant. Waters...
Study: 43% of Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t Processed after First Hour
A new study by the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies reveals that “43% of the transactions are still not included in the...
The Hidden History of Bitcoin Unlimited
Paul Elliot-Ennis is a lecturer and assistant professor in management information systems in the College of Business, University...
Blockchain Tech Brings Promise for Forensic Applications
A report has come out saying that the blockchain presents great promise for the forensic community, which could cut down on...
Ethereum’s Difficulty Bomb: All Smoke, No Fire?
Sometime in the future (we can't be certain when), ethereum will likely switch from its proof-of-work consensus algorithm to...
Bitcoin Core Runs “Trolling Campaigns”, Says Lightning Network Developer
Joseph Poon, Lightning Network developer, has publicly stated today that Bitcoin Core has “a secret channel where they...
Electronics Retailer Bic Camera Begins Accepting Bitcoin
Bitcoin payment processor bitFlyer is partnering with a Japanese electronics retailer to test a new point-of-sale system (POS) that...
Time to watch Zcash | Hacked: Hacking Finance
I must confess to being a bit confused by the fact there seems to be more than one coin with the moniker “Z”. In the event that I...
Music Groups Band Together to Build Blockchain Rights Solution
Three societies tasked with protecting the intellectual property rights of musicians, writers and other content creators have...
Ethereum-Based Blockchain Solution for Digital Advertising to Fight Fraud
An LA-based company is using the blockchain for digital advertising to solve the issue of fraud, which can be seen through...
Ford built a baby bed that feels like it’s driving around the neighborhood
Some babies won’t sleep unless they get a nighttime cruise around the neighborhood, as many parents (my own included) can attest....
An Open Letter to Decentralized Protocols Looking for Growth
Jeremy Epstein is the CEO of Never Stop Marketing, a strategic marketing and consulting firm that focuses exclusively on helping...
Israeli Bomb Hoax Teen Made Millions in Bitcoin on the Dark Web
An Israeli teenager, alleged to have made over 100 bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and day schools in the...
A new guitar is 30% lighter thanks to multiple weird tricks
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could make a lighter guitar, they didn’t stop to think if they should....
Did One Tweet Make Litecoin’s Price Drop 20%?
Litecoin prices fell roughly 20% in less than 24 hours, and the culprit is apparently a single tweet. The digital currency declined...
BitMEX Launches a Segwit and Bigger Bitcoin Blocks Prediction Market
BitMEX, a digital currencies exchange that offers 100x futures on bitcoin, ethereum and other currencies, today announced...
Blockchain Low Among Corporate Investment Priorities, PwC Finds
'Big Four' consulting firm and accountancy PwC has published a detailed report on the current state of blockchain at large...
Litecoin Price Falls after Segwit Confusion; Charlie Lee Explains Activation
Litecoin has tripled in the past week, rising from $4 to above $12. The main, if not sole reason, appears to be its expected...
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 said to move to Intel Kaby Lake processors
Microsoft’s hardware lineup, including Surface Book and Surface Pro devices, are due for a refresh, but we still haven’t heard that...
The ‘Big Block’ Bitcoin Movement is Embracing Bcoin
Over the course of bitcoin's two-year scaling debate, a few major alternatives have grown to challenge the network's most popular...
Op-ed: Blockstream Calls a Bitcoin Mining Optimization an “Attack”
Gregory Maxwell, Blockstream’s CTO, has made an astonishing statement in the mailing list regarding an algorithmic...