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UK Govt – Blockchain Could Revolutionize Finance Admin
By Stan Higgins, A risk assessment agency within the UK government recently published comments on blockchain technology. Primarily an...
Russian Payments Firm QIWI Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
By Stan Higgins, Russian payments firm QIWI has joined the R3 blockchain consortium. Announced earlier this week, the move is the latest...
Bitcoin the Future of Blockchain Post Trade?
By Sid Kalla, Conventional thinking about blockchain technology's use in stock markets may be wrong, according to one academic. The...
ACI is Paving the Way for Central Bank Blockchains
By Michael del Castillo, What will it look like when central banks are on the blockchain? ACI is hard at work modeling an answer to this...
Bitcache Will Use a ‘tiny Bitcoin microtransaction
By Jamie Redman, Kim Dotcom has told the public many times that Bitcoin will be an integral part of Mega Upload 2 and Bitcache. Now, with...
Bitwala Releases AI with ‘Siri like Voice For Bitcoin’
By William Suberg, International remittance service Bitwala has released Lolabot, a crypto education tool based on artificial...
Book of Orbs Wallet Manages Trades & In-Game Digital Assets
By Jon Southurst, Indiesquare and EverdreamSoft are releasing “Book of Orbs,” a mobile wallet they designed specifically to manage various...
New UN Chief World Problems & Bitcoin
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Colossal challenges await Antonio Guterres, the newly appointed United Nations Secretary-General. He must ensure the...
Dubai, Mumbai Complete Cross-Border Blockchain Transaction By Stan Higgins, Two more major banks successfully completed a cross-border...
Japan to Drop 8% Bitcoin Sales Tax
By Stan Higgins, Japan is reportedly planning to exempt bitcoin and other virtual currencies from a national sales tax. The...
Blockchain Startup Funderbeam Raises $2.6 Million
By Stan Higgins, A startup headquartered in London that uses blockchain tech to power a next-generation stock market has raised $2.6m in...
It Looks Like Ethereum is Going to Have to Fork Again…
By Alyssa Hertig, Déjà vu? Although there isn't a timeline yet, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin today suggested that the...
Ripple CEO Calls for Next President to Appoint FinTech Advisor
By Michael del Castillo, With less than a month to go before the US election, one distributed ledger startup's chief executive is making...
First Bitcoin Unlimited 2MB Block
By Joseph Young, ViaBTC has mined its first official Bitcoin Unlimited block after confirming it allocated its entire hashing power...
Free Keene Launches Bitcoin Radio Commercials
By Jamie Redman, New Hampshire’s Free Keene community recently announced a historic Bitcoin radio ad campaign. The libertarian-based...
The Ups and Downs of an Anonymous Currency
By Jamie Redman, Anonymous cryptocurrency Monero has jumped in value over the past couple of months. More recently though, the price has...
Signatura Opens Authentication With Bitcoin to the Public
By Juan Galt, Certificate Authorities for HTTPS, PGP authentication and multi-signature cryptographic notarizing can now be done on top of...
BMW motorcycle future
The Motorrad Vision Next 100 requires no safety equipment for the rider By Aaron Turpen, The BMW Group celebrates its centenary this year...
Bitcoin’s Price Just Got its Groove Back
By Charles Bovaird, Bitcoin prices surged on 11th October amid what analysts say was a sharp change in market confidence. The digital...
Wells Fargo Develops Blockchain Banking Prototype
By Stan Higgins, Wells Fargo, ANZ and Swift have completed a prototype that envisions how blockchain play a role in correspondent banking....
Deloitte Study Explores Blockchain Loyalty Programs
By Stan Higgins, A new report from Deloitte explores how blockchain could be used in loyalty rewards programs. The report, released by the...
Bitcoin Has a New Top Dark Market
By Michael del Castillo, Dream Market is now the most popular bitcoin-enabled dark market. The finding is the result of a new...
Double Standards: Blockchain Interoperability Could Get Messy
By Michael del Castillo, Not everyone wants to copy the world's most successful blockchain. While bitcoin's public-facing, immutable...
TILT/steering system Supertrike hits the market
By Loz Blain, Tilting three-wheelers are becoming more common, but there's nothing out there like this. Terracraft's SuperTrike gives you...
Augur’s Token Launch Highlights ‘Appcoin’ Pitfalls
By Charles Bovaird, The crypto markets didn't responded well to the launch of Augur's digital asset. The ethereum-based prediction market...
Ericsson Wants Blockchain ‘Fingerprints’ in the Cloud
Stan Higgins, Swedish telecom networks company Ericsson has built a system for ensuring data integrity, leveraging blockchain to underpin...
Digital Asset Latest to File Blockchain Patent Application
By Michael del Castillo, Digital Asset Holdings (DAH) has joined the growing number of startups and incumbents looking to file patents...
Momentum Grows for Blockchain Gold Markets with ‘Big Four’
By Stan Higgins, Global consultancy EY and New York blockchain startup Paxos have announced that they are co-developing new technology...
“Fool’s gold” nanocrystals present cheap, abundant alternative to lithium in batteries
By Colin Jeffrey, Empa researchers have demonstrated the use of pyrite (fool’s gold) as energy production moves towards solar and...
Unique electric torque vectoring tech enters real world
With ratios, a total production of 2,400 Nm (1,770 lb-ft) of torque is sent through the dual-clutch eTwinster system Aaron Turpen, GKN...
Morelo caters to nomads with Mercedes taste
Scott Collie, Based on a Mercedes Atego, the vehicle comes in a variety of model options - ranging from 8.99 m (29.5 ft) to 11.29 m (37...
What’s Left Before SegWit Goes Live
By Alyssa Hertig, Bitcoin's global development community is scheduled to meet this week for the latest edition of a conference series...
How Bots Are Fueling High-Speed Bitcoin Trading
By Charles Bovaird, Investors have benefited from algorithmic ('algo') trading programs under many different circumstances, but these...
Bitcoin Mining is a Family Business for This Father and Son
By Stan Higgins, In Raleigh, North Carolina, a father-and-son team are bucking the trend of industrial bitcoin mining. Bitcoin mining is a...
Credit Unions Turn to Blockchain Amid Increasing Competition
By Bailey Reutzel, A less-discussed type of financial entity, the credit union service organization (CUSO), has emerged as an unlikely –...
Russian Central Bank Sends First Distributed Ledger Transactions
Stan Higgins, The central bank of Russia has successfully completed a distributed ledger trial. Dubbed "Masterchain", the Bank of...
Bitcoin Provisions in the North Carolina Money Transmitter Act
By Todd Bryant, The North Carolina Money Transmitter Act was recently extended to cover bitcoin traders with House Bill 289, signed in...
Could Rising Interest Rates Threaten Bitcoin Prices?
By Charles Bovaird, It could be said that bitcoin was born in an era of low interest rates. The world's first decentralized digital...
Broadridge is Investing Millions in Blockchain Voting
By Michael del Castillo, Financial services firm Broadridge recently had a coming out party as a leading blockchain investor. While the...
JPMorgan is Quietly Developing a Private Ethereum Blockchain
ByStan Higgins, Wall Street mega-bank JPMorgan has co-developed a private, permissioned version of the ethereum network. The...
Connect Cell Phones off-grid
By Stu Robarts, The device is able to relay communications via other goTenna Mesh devices nearby, thereby increasing the potential...
Why Rabobank’s Blockchain Cross-Border Tool Isn’t Just a Database
Michael del Castillo, Dutch multinational bank Rabobank today announced a cross-border payments tool built on Coin Science's multichain...
Indian Bitcoin Exchange Unocoin Raises $1.5 Million
By Stan Higgins, Indian bitcoin exchange startup Uncoin has raised $1.5m in new funding. The pre-Series A round featured a mixture of...
First Look at Thomson Reuters’s New Ethereum Identity Tools
By Alyssa Hertig, Thomson Reuters has revealed it will soon launch an identity verification platform for ethereum smart contract...
Tech Giants: AI Is Awesome, Totally Not Going to Kill You
By STEPHANIE MLOT, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and others have joined forces to demonstrate how AI benefits society. In...
Peek Inside Facebook’s Data Center Near Arctic Circle
By ANGELA MOSCARITOLO, Surrounded by lush forests and icy rivers, the data center is located in a small Swedish coastal town. Looking at...
Peer-to-peer drone deliveries Now
By Eric Mack Planned drone delivery services from big names like Amazon are a ways off yet, but an American startup has a peer-to-peer...
Renault uncovers the stunning Trezor concept in Paris
The Renault Trezor's single-piece roof lifts for entry and exit(Credit: Scott Collie/New Atlas) By C.C. Weiss The Volkswagen I.D. concept...
Secret Alpine Gold Vaults Are the New Swiss Bank Accounts
“There has been a real interest in alternatives to bank deposits.” Stephanie Baker Deep in the Swiss Alps, next to an old airstrip...
CME Group Adds New Exchange to Bitcoin Index
By Pete Rizzo, CME Group has added China-based digital currency exchange OKCoin to its bitcoin pricing indexes, first announced in May....
Ethereum Seeks Smart Contract Certainty “Formal Verification”
By Pete Rizzo There's a new blockchain buzzword arriving in time for fall – formal verification. The phrase (used to describe the...
IBM: Banks Expect Commercial Blockchains By 2017
ByStan Higgins, Banks and financial firms are planning to release commercial-grade blockchain services within the next two years, two...
US Central Bank Chair: Blockchain Could Have ‘Significant’ Impact
by Stan Higgins, During an appearance before a House of Representatives committee hearing today, Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen...
UK Dependency Adjusts Laws for Digital Currency
Stan Higgins, The government of Jersey is pushing ahead with its previously announced plans to regulate digital currency exchange...
Inside Bank of America’s New Microsoft-Powered Blockchain Project
By Michael del Castillo, Microsoft has been digging deep into the data created by its $120bn treasury unit in search of real-world use...
Iveco’s blue-sky concept imagines the future of trucking
Stu Robarts, Iveco has premiered its long-haul concept truck, the Z Truck, which explores how alternative energy, new technologies and...
New cache management approach boosts application speeds by 9.5 percent
ByDarren Quick, A new technique called Dense Footprint Cache (DFC) can boost application speed and cut energy By improving the...
R3 Banks, Startups Test Blockchain System for Syndicated Loans
ByStan Higgins , A syndicated loan exchange trial utilizing blockchain technology being undertaken by a group of banks alongside startups...
Currency Settlement Service CLS Reveals Big Blockchain Ambitions
By Michael del Castillo, Multi-currency cash settlement system provider CLS is building a payments netting service that will enable cash...
London Police Investigate OneCoin Scheme
By Stan Higgins, The London police are investigating a digital currency scheme widely believed to be fraudulent. OneCoin, promoted as a...
SEC to Discuss Blockchain at November Forum
By Stan Higgins , The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to hold a public forum in mid-November during which blockchain...
CGI Launches Blockchain Lab for Trade Finance
By Michael del Castillo, CGI has launched a lab dedicated to helping its trade finance and supply chain clients harness the efficiencies...
In Washington, Momentum Grows for Blockchain Action
By Stan Higgins, It's been a big week for blockchain on Capitol Hill. While only Wednesday, the week has already seen the launch of the...
UK Authority Warns Against Using OneCoin
BySamburaj Das,The Financial Conduct Authority, citing an investigation by the City of London Police, has issued an official warning,...
S Korean Fintech Companies Petition Against Apple’s NFC Barricade
Read a great story about your favorite cryptocurrency? Post it on CoinUpVote and we might write about it on CCN.LA! Several South Korean...
Axial stack battery design could unlock the era of supersonic electric airliners
By Loz Blain Luke Workman is a complete maniac. He's also one of the world's leading lithium battery pack designers for electric...
Many R3 Banks Test Intel Blockchain Platform
Stan Higgins A group of eight R3 member-banks have successfully tested a blockchain prototype that simulated the exchange of US Treasury...
P&C Insurer Trials Blockchain for Catastrophe Coverage
By Stan Higgins One of Japan's largest property insurers is co-developing a prototype blockchain system for insurance derivatives. Sompo...
Swiss Central Banker: Blockchain Turning Finance ‘On Its Head’
By Michael del Castillo, The president and chairman of the board of Switzerland's central bank described a financial system "turned on its...
Bank of America, Microsoft Partner on Blockchain Trade Finance
BY Pete Rizzo, Bank of America and Microsoft have announced their intent to build and test blockchain applications for trade finance. As...
Blockchain Database Startup BigchainDB Raises €3 Million
By Michael del Castillo, A startup seeking to scale blockchain for enterprise use has raised €3m ($3.37m) in venture capital to do for...
Mercedes-Maybach Protects Against bullets and blasts
By C.C. Weiss, The Guard version of the Pullman is upgraded with steel plating and other armor. Mercedes-Benz "Pullman" cars have a long,...
Swiss Financial Infrastructure Firm Testing Blockchain
By Michael del Castillo A major financial infrastructure provider in Switzerland has partnered with blockchain startup Digital Asset...
The Looming War for Blockchain Patents
By Bailey Reutzel, There’'s a patent land grab developing in the blockchain space that could potentially make doing business more...
Swift Kicks-Off Sibos By Unveiling Blockchain Contest Winners
By Michael del Castillo, The hosts of Sibos kicked off the global banking conference today by announcing the winners of a blockchain...
Juzhen Raises $23 Million to Develop distributed Ledger solutions China
By Pete Rizzo, Juzhen Financials, a startup led by China UnionPay veteran Lilin Sun, has raised $23m (¥153m) to develop clearing and...
IPFS Protocol Selects Ethereum Over Bitcoin
By Joseph Young, IPFS, a Blockchain-based peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol, is officially launching its distributed file storage network...
GFT Blockchain For Banks On Google Cloud
Jamie Redman GFT Technologies, an IT service provider for the banking industry, has revealed it will be testing blockchain technology on...
Sberbank CEO Wants Blockchain Business Tells Russian Gov’t
By Allen Scott The head of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has warned that Russia risks falling behind in technological innovation if...
Bitstamp Advances To Ledger Wallet
By Jamie Redman Bitstamp has announced integration with the Ledger hardware wallet platform, allowing users to send their BTC directly to...
Node40 Leaves Beta to Assist Dash Masternodes
Jamie Redman Blockchain service provider Node40 has announced the conclusion of its beta phase. The Albany, New York-based company hosts...
Subscribe and drive service promises car ownership alternative
By Stu Robarts Amber is based on the principles that car ownership is expensive and inefficient Ride-sharing and carpooling services...
Yahoo 2014 Hack Hit 500 Million Users
Newsmax - Yahoo on Thursday confirmed a massive data breach, in which it said a "state-sponsored" hacker broke into the internet company's...
IBM, China UnionPay Develop Blockchain Loyalty Points Exchange
By Michael del Castillo, IBM is working with a Chinese credit card company to to create a blockchain-based system for trading loyalty...
Blockchain to Drive Wanxiang’s $30 Billion Smart Cities Initiative
By Pete Rizzo, Auto giant Wanxiang announced today that it will use blockchain technology as part of its newly announced smart...
China’s Financial Firms Urge Regulators to Help Mature Blockchain
By Pete Rizzo, China's major financial institutions sent a clear message to innovators in the blockchain industry today, asserting that...
Google or Salesforce may soon acquire Twitter
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 11: (AUSTRALIA OUT) Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Square and Twitter, stops for a coffee at Black Velvet...
World’s Largest Mining Company to Use Blockchain for Supply Chain
By Pete Rizzo, The world's largest mining firm by market value intends to begin using the ethereum blockchain to improve its supply chain...
Tesla Rolls Out Autopilot Enhancements
By Stephanie Mlot Software update 8.0 brings with it promised updates to the company's troubled Autopilot feature. Tesla is now rolling...
UCL to Hold Writing Competition on Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptography
By Kevin Helms University College London (UCL) is seeking submissions about Bitcoin and blockchain technology for its 2016 Thesis/Paper...