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Could the Blockchain End Bureaucracy?,
By Alexander Hitchcock, Bureaucracy, Ludwig von Mises explained in 1944, is "always applied with an opprobrious connotation", and such...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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,...
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’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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Digital Asset to Open Source Smart Contract Language By Pete Rizzo, Digital Asset Holdings has announced it intends to open-source DAML,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Report: Dark Net Rising in Use, Making Drugs Safer
By Jamie Redman The Internet has provided a new portal for narcotics customers and suppliers to gain access to illicit drugs, says the...
Amazon-Rival Rakuten Forms Blockchain Lab
by Jon Southurst Amazon competitor Rakuten is launching the Rakuten Blockchain Lab (RBL) in Belfast, UK, to explore potential applications...
Japanese Banks Plan Blockchain Currency Exchange
By Stan Higgins, A group of Japanese financial institutions is looking to create a blockchain-based platform they could leverage to cut...
Bank Blockchain Developers Are Leaving for Startups
By Bailey Reutzel, Recent months have seen blockchain innovation professionals departing legacy financial institutions for smaller...
Will Blockchain Data Standards Help?
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, The lack of global financial industry data standards for financial instruments has created chaos for digital currency...
TrumpCoin is Real
By William Suberg, A new currency — TrumpCoin — dedicated to supporting Donald Trump’s presidency is currently seeking investments as a...
The ‘Subtle Tyranny’ of Blockchain Hype
By Jamie Redman The chief technology officer of Ripple and the guy who introduced Bitcoin to millions of viewers, Stefan Thomas, now has...
Bitcoin Software Update Stepping Into Scalable Code
By Alyssa Hertig, A forthcoming bitcoin software update will be the first to feature code that could be later activated and included as...
Rakuten Acquires Bitcoin Startup Team
By Stan Higgins , Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten is opening a blockchain development lab in the UK, a move that follows its acquisition...
Autonomous Airbus drones flying us to work by 2027
By Scott Collie Congestion in cities is at an all-time high, and there seems to be no respite in sight for exasperated motorists. One...
First Distributed Ledger Settlement Prototype
By Stan Higgins, The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) announced today that it has completed the first version of a potential...
Pro Blockchain Lawyer Joins Capital One Team
By Pete Rizzo, Veteran WilmerHale counsel Elijah Alper will join Capital One in September, where his responsibilities will include...
Bank of England Seeks Digital Currency By Stan Higgins, The Bank of England is on the hunt for an economist to spearhead its research into...
Gargantuan Maybach 6 by Mercedes
By Scott Collie After teasing and taunting us, Mercedes has whipped the cover off the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 at Pebble Beach. The...
Japan Blockchain Talent Shortage
By Jamie Redman While the rest of the globe is on pace to grasp this technology in hopes that it could transform financial markets,...
Bitcoin Investing App Keza to Relaunch
By Jon Southurst Keza, the mobile app that allows any Bitcoin holder worldwide to invest in stocks and bonds, is to be resurrected after...
Magnesium Batteries Coming
By Aaron Turpen, Engineers at the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA) think they've found the secret to using...
Hyperloop One DEMO’S magnetic drive
BY David Szondy, The Sandshark test sled nearing maximum acceleration. VIDEO BELOW. At a secluded test site in the Nevada desert about...
Ethereum Prediction Service IN Beta
By Alyssa Hertig, A new prediction market platform is set to go live on the ethereum network this week. Called Gnosis, the project will...
Bitfinex IN Recovery Now Perception
By Charles Bovaird, One week after losing more than $60m in a high-profile hack, Bitfinex is once again one of the largest bitcoin...
Bitcoin.org Warns of Attacks COMING
BY Pete Rizzo, A new post on the open-source Bitcoin.org website indicates its contributors have reason to believe the online resource may...
To Go Big on Blockchain Think SMALL
Michael del Castillo, To scale up its blockchain work, 'Big Four' audit firm PwC is thinking small with its strategy. PwC FinTech director...
Swiss Bank UBS Latest to See Key Blockchain Lead Depart
By Pete Rizzo, UBS has become the latest major bank to see a significant departure from its blockchain innovation team. Innovation lab...
A $99 Trezor Stops Theft
Editor Notes : "The Bitfinex hack was an unfortunate time for Bitcoin users as the exchange had lost roughly $70 million USD...
Airbus Joins Hyperledger Blockchain Project
Editor Notes : "French airplane manufacturer Airbus has officially joined the Hyperledger Project, the Linux Foundation-led blockchain...
Hyperledger Open Source With First Blockchain Explorer
Editor Notes : "Business blockchain consortium Hyperledger is now building an open-source tool that will let anyone explore the...