Quick Look
Ethereum Executes Blockchain Hard Fork to Return DAO Funds
Editor Notes: "The much anticipated hard fork of the ethereum blockchain has been implemented, giving those building on the decentralized...
Washington State Utility Raises Power Rates on Bitcoin Miners
Editor Notes: "The Chelan County Public Utility District (PUD) announced earlier this week that, effective January 2017, electrical rates...
CFTC Pushed to Clarify Rules on Blockchain ‘Delivery’
Editor Notes: "US law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP has filed a petition with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), calling...
Banks Risk Missing Out on Digital Currency
Editor Notes: "Consulting firm Bain & Company believes banks are at risk of missing out on the adoption of digital currencies – and...
Russian Regulator’s Change Position Bitcoin Buying and Selling Abroad
Editor Notes: "Moiseev an official from Russia’s Ministry of Finance has indicated the financial regulator now supports changes to a...
South Africa’s Banks Are Testing Links Through Ethereum Blockchains
Editor Notes: "Present at the event was CIO of Barclays Africa's corporate and investment banking division, Andrew Baker, who said that...
Follow the Ethereum Hard Fork as it Happens
Editor Notes: "A rare event in the history of public blockchains is expected to take place today. Following the exploitation of a major...
Mizuho Payment Trial with Ripple’s Blockchain
Editor Notes: "The trial will find the Japan-based financial services firm and R3 member, along with SBI Holdings, using Ripple's payment...
Running a CTM Business in Panama
Editor Notes: "Cryptocurrencies are rapidly growing in popularity throughout Latin America. So, Bitcoin.com decided to get an insider’s...
BitID Streamlines Identity & Privacy
Editor Notes: "A new protocol called “BitID” promises to streamline identity verification for online services while protecting privacy –...
8,300 People Are Using Automator to Track Bitcoin Price
Editor Notes: "Popular internet-based task automator IFTTT says over 8,300 of its users are using the service to record the bitcoin price...
New ‘BitCluster’ Tracks Sloppy Bitcoin Usage
Editor Notes: "University of Montreal assistant professor David Décary-Hétu tells Motherboard in an interview: Our goal is not to help...
60% of Ethereum Miners Have Upgraded to Support the Hardfork
Editor Notes: "After more than a month of raging debate, Ethereum’s community has reached a conclusive decision. Ethereum will Hardfork."...
A Bitcoin Globetrotter Covers 27 Countries: What He Learned
Editor Notes: "Felix Weis, a Berlin programmer, visited 27 countries and 50 cities in the past 18 months only spending bitcoin. He related...
Bitcoin Ban & Criminalization Bill Relaxed in Russia
Editor Notes: "The Ministry of Finance in Russia, or the Russian FinMin, is not quite beating its drum to ban bitcoin anymore, going by...
Miner-Developer Event for July Bitcoin About Scaling
Editor Notes: "Organizers said that while the conversation will include "discussions about technologies that may help bitcoin scale",...
Lessons To Be Learned From The Hard Fork Question
Editor Note: The pool statement: "We are as a matter of principle against unduly rushed or controversial hard forks irrespective of the...
Central Bank Of England Digital Currencies Could Boost GDP
Editor Notes: The authors wrote: "First, it leads to an increase in the steady-state level of GDP of almost 3%, due to reductions in real...
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...