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Accelerator Plug and Play Plans Big Blockchain Bank Collaborations
By Michael del Castillo, Storied Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play recently revealed its biggest batch of blockchain...
Wall Street Goes Blockchain With Factom, Intrinio
By Jamie Redman, Blockchain-based data management platform, Factom, has announced its partnership with Intrinio, an application and...
Bitcoin Is the Fuel We Need for the Industrial Internet of Things
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Industrial giant G.E. has announced the new Internet revolution: The Industrial Internet of Things. G.E. promises the...
China mounts massive crackdown on underground bank network
By Stephen Chen Hundreds of suspected operators of underground banks have been arrested this year in a nationwide crackdown on the...
Tasmanian devils evolving resist highly lethal, contagious cancer
By Tyler MacDonald A small portion of the Tasmanian devil population might be evolving resistance to a deadly form of cancer In the face...
Insurance Giant MetLife Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
By Pete Rizzo, In the latest sign that the insurance industry is embracing blockchain and distributed ledgers, MetLife has announced it...
Blockchain Executives Aim At Governance Issues
By Michael del Castillo, Executives representing the top-level leadership at a range of blockchain companies and projects have signed a...
Graphene Big breakthrough for future of semiconductors
By Eric Mack, The supermaterial graphene has been receiving quite a bit of attention over the past few years. The latest breakthrough...
PIA – VPN Adds Roger Ver to Advisory Board
By William Suberg, No-log VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA) has stepped up its Bitcoin and Blockchain involvement with the...
Singapore Central Bank Proposes New Rules for Bitcoin Startups
By Stan Higgins The central bank of Singapore has proposed a new regulatory framework for payments providers in the city-state, a move...
Artist Sees the Blockchain Differently
By Jamie Redman, Simon Denny, an artist from New Zealand, is taking blockchain technology to a different level with his geeky art being...
‘Yours Network’ to Use Bitcoin in Competition With Other Platforms
By Jamie Redman, With all the hype surrounding decentralized, blockchain-based social media platforms such as Steemit and Synereo,...
Ethereum’s Fork – Confirmed Bitcoin Block Size Growth?
By Stan Higgins, Could a development on the ethereum blockchain help resolve one of bitcoin's longest-running debates? It may not seem...
Fintech & Blockchain is ‘Eating the German Landscape’
By Jamie Redman, Blockhain and financial technology may be going German, with a vast amount of startups in these industries choosing to...
Global Exchanges Now Testing Distributed Ledger Tech
By Stan Higgins, A global trade organization for financial exchanges released a new survey today on distributed ledgers, highlighting...
Ethereum Wallet Strikes Discord Over ‘Corporate’ Integration
By Alyssa Hertig, One of ethereum's best-known wallets released new updates today, though one drew outsized attention due to the perceived...
Hyperledger Blockchain Project Elects New Tech Committee
By Stan Higgins, The Hyperledger project, the blockchain initiative led by the Linux Foundation, has elected a new technical steering...
Legal ID for All: Can Bitcoin’s Blockchain Rise to the Challenge?
By Julio Gil-Pulgar The United Nations aims to make it possible for all people to have a legal identity, including birth registration....
R3 Files Patent Application for Distributed Ledger Tech
By Stan Higgins New York startup R3CEV is reportedly attempting to patent a blockchain-inspired financial platform. According to The Wall...
Moscow Government to Explore Blockchain Voting
By Alyssa Hertig, Government officials in Moscow today revealed plans to investigate applications of blockchain technology. According to a...
Singapore In First Out self-driving taxis by NuTonomy
By Stu Robarts, NuTonomy says it is the first and, to date, only private enterprise approved by the Singapore government to test...
South African Central Bank ‘Open’ to Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
By Stan Higgins, South Africa’s central bank is “open” to cryptocurrencies and blockchain, according to new statements from its governor....
University of Michigan’s challenge-winning solar car
Stu Robarts Aurum has an asymmetrical catamaran body that is designed for aerodynamic efficiency (Credit: University of Michigan Solar...
Tesla’s S P100D, ‘World’s Quickest Production Car’ 2.5 Sec to 60mph
By Tom Brant Rumors of a P100D have swirled for several months, following the discovery in March of that nomenclature in a Model S...
Verizon Applies for Blockchain Patent
By William Suberg US communications giant Verizon has filed a Blockchain patent for its digital media rights following three years of...
Sberbank Considers Russian Blockchain Consortium
By Pete Rizzo, One of Russia's largest financial institutions is in discussions to join a domestic bank consortium that would study...
Dark Net Markets Open To Monero
By Jamie Redman, Privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) has been making waves in the community as of late. Most recently, it has been...
UK Blockchains Near Regulatory Approval
By Pete Rizzo, UK regulators are reportedly moving forward with efforts that would find blockchain firms exiting a sandbox program aimed...
Turning Bluetooth into Wi-Fi puts implanted devices online
By Colin Jeffrey, nterscatter creates Wi-Fi signals using 10,000 times less energy than standard methods University of Washington...
The ‘Bitcoin Family’ One Year Later
By Jamie Redman A year ago today, my family was featured in a Motherboard Vice article called “Meet the ‘Bitcoin Family.’” Since that...
Visa Testing Blockchain for Interbank Payments
By Pete Rizzo, Visa’s London-based innovation lab has announced its latest blockchain trial will focus on interbank payments. Visa Europe...
Four Big Banks to Create a New Bitcoin Alternative
By Jon Southurst, Four major world banks are set to announce the creation of a new blockchain-based digital currency, and are hoping to...
Blockchain’s Thunder Network Aims For Faster Refunds
By Jon Southurst, Blockchain is improving its Thunder Network for faster settlement and refund times in off-chain transactions, according...
China’s Huawei eyes US$10b business in cloChina Huawei Sees $10b business in cloud infrastructure and servicesud infrastructure and services
By He Huifeng huifeng Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier, expects to build a...
US Dept of Health Selects 15 Blockchain Research Contest Winners
By Stan Higgins, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), a division within the US Department of Health and Human...
Japan Exchange JPX Distributed Ledgers ‘Better’ With Third Parties
By Pete Rizzo, A new report from financial giant Japan Exchange Group (JPX) contends that distributed ledgers will work "better" when...
IBM Combines AI & Cloud Computing with Blockchain
By Michael del Castillo, IBM is reorganizing its internal blockchain team into a business unit that encompasses its artificial...
Ethereum-Competitor Lisk Unveils Roadmap
By Jamie Redman, The multi-platform blockchain project Lisk has just released its developmental roadmap, which will cover five...
Why Dark Markets Matter
By Allen Scott, The precipitous rise of Monero in the past few days has caused many users and traders to ask: what’s behind the surge of...
Florida Appeals Espinoza Decision, Bitcoin’s Status at Stake
By Jamie Redman, The state Florida made headlines when Miami-Dade’s Circuit Judge Teresa Mary Pooler tossed out anti-money-laundering...
Code is Law? Not Quite Yet
By Lukas Abegg, Lukas Abegg is a lawyer with master's degrees in Swiss and US law. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Humboldt...
Don Tapscott May Be Behind the Next Major Blockchain Organization
By Jamie Redman, On August 24, members of the largest firms working on blockchain technology met with Don Tapscott at his Ontario summer...
Bitmain to Release New Bitcoin Miner in Bid to Attract Hobbyists
By Jacob Donnelly, One ambitious bitcoin company is seeking to make mining a hobbyist activity again. China-based Bitmain let slip today...
Is Facebook About to Get ‘Myspaced’ by Next-Gen Social Media?
By Jamie Redman, Social media is a major component of the Internet and has already transformed how humans communicate and interact....
Electric Car From Chi/Merc Goes The Distance ‘Almost’
By Scott Collie, It's China only, but the Denza points to where Mercedes next-gen EV products could be headed. Earlier this year, Daimler...
Author Describes Blockchain in New TED Talk Video Awesome
Author Don Tapscott recently helped kick off the TED Summit in Banff, Alberta, with a lecture about blockchain technology. "For the first...
MIT Researchers Take on Slow Wi-Fi
By Tom Brant Their findings could revolutionize data centers. Wi-Fi is great, when it works. When it doesn't, you're often stuck buying a...
CryptoCurrency Pubcon is Coming to NYC
By Jamie Redman There’s a new networking event coming to New York City called the CryptoCurrency Pubcon that will gather 1,000 blockchain...
A Stealth Moniker ‘Tom Elvis Jedusor’ Solving Big Blockchains Issues
By Alyssa Hertig, In what could become the latest strange-but-true chapter in bitcoin’s history, an anonymous cryptographer named after...
The Bitcoin Patent – Only A Matter Of Time?
By Ira Schaefer & Ted Mlynar Ira Schaefer and Ted Mlynar are partners in the Intellectual Property practice at Hogan Lovells in New...
The OpenDime ‘Bitcoin Stick’ Review
By Jamie Redman Today I received my three OpenDime (opendime.com) devices in the mail, which came from Toronto via the Coinkite...
Bank of Japan: Blockchain Could Alter Financial Services
By Stan Higgins, The way financial services are designed could evolve with the development of blockchain technology and distributed...
Big Banks Band Together to Launch ‘Settlement Coin’
By Stan Higgins, Four banks have reportedly partnered on a blockchain project aimed at creating a means to clear and settle transactions...
Singapore-based Startup Receives $2 Million for Asian Expansion
By Jamie Redman Singapore-based startup Coda Pay is bringing Bitcoin and alternative payment processing to South East Asian markets with...
1st Fixed-Wing Consumer Drone for $1,300
By Tom Brant Launch it by throwing it in the air, and watch it reach 50mph before landing automatically. Somewhere between the...
Millions in DAO Funds Unclaimed
By Michael del Castillo, It's now been one month since a hard fork of the ethereum blockchain resulted in 11.6m ether being moved to an...
Mitsubishi & Hitachi Trial Blockchain Based Checking
By Jamie Redman, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Hitachi are working on a blockchain-based prototype that processes and verifies the...
Bitfinex to Offer Company Equity to Reimburse Customer Losses
By Pete Rizzo, Bitfinex customers may soon have a way to convert the digital assets they were issued following the exchange's decision to...
Tesla Launches Limited Two-Year Lease Program
By David Murphy Have some extra cash burning a hole in your pocket? Worried about the state of the electric car market and what...
How Startups Are Using Blockchain to Raise Capital
By Demian Brener, Companies we've never heard of are launching IPOs before our very eyes. But instead of ringing the IPO bell after years...
MS Organizes Smart Contracts Security Working Group
By Alyssa Hertig, Microsoft has revealed it is organizing a working group dedicated to improving smart contracts security. Named...
IPC & Post-Quantum Will Fuse the Blockchain with the Cloud
By Jamie Redman, New Jersey-based IPC Systems has partnered with Post-Quantum Solutions to implement biometrics, encryption and blockchain...
Kickstarter crowdfunding platform launches in Hong Kong
Kickstarter CEO and co-founder Yancey Strickler. Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter launches today in Hong Kong, making it easier for...
A better way to mine gold from old electronics
By Michael Franco When you get rid of an old phone or tablet, you're likely to remove your valuable information from it, but what about...
Hyperledger Blockchain Project Adds 17 New Members
By Stan Higgins, An affiliate of global electronics giant Samsung is among 17 new members to join the Hyperledger blockchain project. The...
The New Weapons in the Fight Against 2.4 Billion A Month Robocalls
by Olga Kharif olgakharif You know the drill -- those annoying recorded calls saying you’ve won a free cruise or a reduction in your...
‘Settlement Coin’ is All About Banks, Not Blockchain
By Frances Coppola, Why would anyone want to use a coin issued by four large banks bailed out in 2008? That's a question that many...
Bitcoin Blocksize Debate Has Not Even Fully Begun Yet
William Suberg The CEO of China’s largest miner HaoBTC spoke with Bitcoin.com following his tweet stating that the Core developers have...
Could the Blockchain End Bureaucracy?,
By Alexander Hitchcock, Bureaucracy, Ludwig von Mises explained in 1944, is "always applied with an opprobrious connotation", and such...
Fed Explores Radical New Financial Engineering Tools
By Jon Southurst, Central banking is “in a brave new world,” said a Fed representative as the institution considers both old and radical...
Could a Technical Fix Inside BTC Vault Block Hackers for Good?
Jacob Donnelly, Cryptsy, Shapeshift, Gatecoin, Bitfinex. What do all these exchanges have in common? More than 130,000...
Bitmain’s R4 To Bring An In-Home Experience to Bitcoin Mining
By Jamie Redman, Leading mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain has recently unveiled its latest mining rig: the Antminer R4. This machine...
China’s ‘Google’ Baidu Halts Bitcoin Ads, Leaves Market Guessing
By William Suberg, China’s most popular search engine, Baidu, froze bitcoin ads Thursday in what Bloomberg suggests is a “growing...
Bitcoin Privacy Tool ‘CoinShuffle’ Sees First Transaction
By Alyssa Hertig, A type of anonymous transaction that bitcoin enthusiasts have been awaiting for years has finally been tested...
Domino’s drone gives new meaning to “pie in the sky”
By Nick Lavars, The pizza giant will use US-based drone startup Flirtey's aircraft for the service. Delivery drones hold the potential...
ICAP Believes Central Banks Will Use Digital Currency
By Michael del Castillo, There was an outlier among a group of financial institutions that this week announced they are in the process of...
Singapore Regulator: ‘Consolidated Framework’ Needed For Bitcoin
William Suberg Singapore has announced its intention to simplify regulations on payments in a move that will also recognize and cater to...
Blockpay Accept 8 Major Cryptos at Zero-Cost
Jamie Redman Bitcoin recently chatted with Christoph Hering of Blockpay. Hering is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Bitshares Munich....
Coin Creators Seek to ‘Liberalize’ Central Banks With Blockchain
By Michael del Castillo, Two resources available almost exclusively to central banks could soon be opened up to additional users as a...
New Lock Offers REAL high security at a low price
By Ben Coxworth, The Bowley Lock reportedly keeps objects other than its own key from engaging the pins If the movies and TV are to be...
Bitcoin Law: What You need to know About “Money Transmitter’s”
By Marco Santori Marco Santori is a business attorney for technology companies. In particular, represents digital currency businesses....
China to build a particle collider 2 times Larger then CERN’s LHC
By Lynda Delacey China is planning to enter the Europe- and US-dominated world of experimental physics with (wait for it …) a bang. It has...
Blockchain Startup Launches IoT Registry
By Alyssa Hertig, In an effort to build a standard for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), Chronicled is open sourcing a tool for...
Bitcoin Price Bulls About to Charge?
By Jamie Redman The price of bitcoin has been trending upwards this past week, giving a bullish sentiment to traders. The price per BTC is...
Japanese Firms Test Blockchain for E-Check Management
By Stan Higgins, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and tech giant Hitachi are now working on a blockchain proof-of-concept aimed at e-check...
Digital Asset to Open Source Smart Contract Language By Pete Rizzo, Digital Asset Holdings has announced it intends to open-source DAML,...
France’s Third Largest Bus Company Accepts Bitcoin
By Kevin Helms, The third largest bus company in France, Isilines, has started accepting bitcoin as part of a six-month test-run. Isilines...
AI algorithm satellite imagery TO map impoverished regions
By Chris Wood, Using a machine learning algorithm, researchers say they have come up with a more efficient way to map impoverished...
The FCA Considers Bringing Blockchain Startups to UK
By Jamie Redman, The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will possibly approve blockchain businesses within the region. This will...
Bitcoin and the Law of Conservation of Energy
By Alex Millar, In physics, the definition of "energy" is "that which allows work to be done." This means that money is energy, since it...