Quick Look
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...
Amazon Testing Delivery Drones in UK
Editor Notes: "Amazon got the green light to explore key innovations before launching its PrimeAir drone delivery service." By Stephanie...
First Round-the-World Solar Flight a Success
Editor Notes: "The propellers will come to a stop for the last time on the runway," Piccard wrote in a LinkedIn entry just before his...
Visa Europe Joins In Bitcoin Micropayments Trial
Editor Notes: "Work on the project was first disclosed earlier this year, when Visa Europe Collab said that it was exploring bitcoin...
Buterin Addresses ‘Classic’ Blockchain
Editor Notes: "Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin issued new statements today reiterating that the Ethereum Foundation, the non-profit...
Coinigy A Bitcoin Trading Platform Raises $400k
Editor Notes: "The funding comes more than a year after the US-based startup raised $100,000 to offer traders real-time charts, news feeds...
Researchers Meet For Future of Blockchain Tech at IBM
Editor Notes: "More than 40 researchers met at a workshop hosted by IBM in Chicago this week to discuss the future of the consensus...
The Bitcoin Evangelism Through Art
Editor Notes: "In 2015, Valentina Picozzi wanted to fix the disconnect between Bitcoin and the general population. So the Italian native...
Natwest Imposes Negative Rates on Business Accounts
Editor Notes: "A large retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom, National Westminster Bank Plc, or NatWest, has recently warned...
First Look | R.I.P Petrodollar | March 1975—Sept. 4, 2016
Editors Notes: "In 40 years, historians will recognize that Sept. 4 was the day the petrodollar died. Here’s how you can protect your...
Judge Says Bitcoin Isn’t Really Money
Editor Notes: "The ruling, which might catch the ire of bitcoin supporters, was actually a victory for the defendant Michell Espinoza. By...
Reuters Database Hacked Selling Info For Bitcoin
Editor Notes: According to security researcher and white hat hacker, Chris Vickery, a copy of the Reuters' World-Check database was...
Gibraltar Approves An ETI Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "Gibraltar has welcomed Europe’s first regulated Bitcoin product in the form of Bitcoin exchange-traded instrument (ETI)...
Buy-Side Blockchain Offers Benefits
Editor Notes: "The buy-side has different structures and mandates, but at the end of the day, investor risk-adjusted returns are a primary...
Ethereum Hard Fork Makes Competition as Support for Ethereum Classic Rises
Editor Notes: "Announced last week, a project called Ethereum Classic is continuing to mine a version of the blockchain in which funds...
PwC FinTech Lead Joins Blockchain Startup Libra
Editor Notes: "PwC US FinTech lead Jeremy Drane has officially left the 'Big four' firm to serve as chief commercial officer for...
Moody’s Blockchain Technology is ‘Creating Competitive Pressure’
Editor Notes: "A new report from Moody’s Corporation details that there are currently over 120 blockchain-related projects involving...
Ethereum Hard Fork Gives Birth to a New ‘Classic’ Coin
Editor Notes: "The Ethereum community had a hard fork this past week, and many celebrated a successful implementation. However, not...
Bearish Claws At Bitcoin’s Price
Editor Notes: Bitcoin has been on a bearish run for a few days now after a recent high of $680 USD on July 17th. The price could...
Bitcoin Symbol Left Out of Unicode’s Latest Version
Editor Notes: "The effort to get Bitcoin its own Unicode symbol just had a big setback, despite previous promises that it was accepted and...
KYC Chaos US Secret Service Seizes $13k from Coinbase Customer
Editor Notes: By William Suberg, The United States Secret Service (USSS) has seized more than 25 bitcoins from a Coinbase account and...
So, You Want to Use a Blockchain for That?
Editor Notes: "There are good reasons and bad reasons to use blockchains. In this article, Anthony Lewis attempts to break down some of...
Crypto Developers Uneasy With Ethereum Fork Precedent
Editor Notes: Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd's opinion: "This is potentially a very negative thing for bitcoin because it sets a...
Reserve Bank Of Indian Encourages Exploration Of Blockchain
Editor Notes: "In a speech during an event at the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) on 19th July,...
Near 64 Million in DAO Funds Remain Unclaimed
Editor Notes: "The remaining 4.75m ETH, worth about $68m at today's USD exchange rate, continues to be available to potential...
Moody’s Clients Working on 120 Blockchain Projects
Editor Notes: "Many of the projects have been publicly disclosed, and the report cites initiatives like the Hyperledger Projects as well...
The Trust Anchor in a Sea of Blockchains
Editor Notes: "As the "blockchain but not bitcoin" buzz continues to intensify, we can see that this is because many existing business and...
Mycelium Wallet Will Soon Integrate Dash
Editor Notes: "The popular Bitcoin wallet Mycelium has just announced it will soon integrate the privacy-centric cryptocurrency Dash. The...
$100M ‘Blockchain Fund’ For Fast-Track Smaller EU Banks
Editor Notes: "Private equity firm BnL Growth Partners has joined a multi-million dollar fund to facilitate blockchain advances for...
Erns & Young Report – Prepare For Blockchain ‘Critical Mass’
Editor Notes : Ernst & Young (EY) “We recommend companies not focus on how this technology fits into their current business but...
Bitcoin’s Gets Faster With FIBRE Network
Editor Notes: "As Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell puts it, the Bitcoin Relay Network, the brainchild of fellow Bitcoin Core...
Through the Rinse Cycle With Bitcoin
Editor Notes: "When it comes to Bitcoin, privacy is a big deal to a lot of people, and it might be because they are partaking in a type of...
Inflation Strikes Argentina – Bitcoins or Larger Banknotes?
Editor Notes: "Inflation and corruption are two major problems afflicting Argentina and other Latin American countries, such as Brazil and...
Android Users Get Breadwallet
Editor Notes: After two years of waiting, Android users will now be able to use the popular Breadwallet application. Today the team behind...