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Bitcoin Price Fluctuations Calm Amid Chinese Regulatory Suspense
Charles Bovaird, Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global blockchain token markets. This edition looks at...
Law and Blockchain
By Josh Stark, Stark is a lawyer and head of operations and legal at Ledger Labs, a blockchain consultancy based in Toronto. It's...
Why Blockchain Will Trump Populism
By Jens Albers, Albers is a humanitarian filmmaker and the co-founder of chain2change, a blockchain startup seeking to reinvent charitable...
Blockchain Could Become an $8 Billion Global Industry By 2024
By Stan Higgins, The next eight years could see the blockchain marketplace grow to almost $8bn in value, according to a new research...
Ethereum Classic Freezes ‘Difficulty Bomb’ With ‘Diehard’ Fork
By Alyssa Hertig, Ethereum classic just forked again. Though hard forking can be a particularly contentious way of upgrading...
Bitcoin As A World Currency – A Pipe Dream Or Reality ?
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Bitcoin is becoming a world currency. Credibility and safe-haven currency functionality are some of the sine qua non...
Israel's Tax Authority Wants to Treat Bitcoin As a Kind of Property By Stan Higgins, Israel's government is set to apply capital gains tax...
Nigeria Warned its Citizens About Onecoin This Week
By Stan Higgins, Local advertisements for OneCoin and other digital currency investments have drawn the ire of Nigeria’s top securities...
Zcash’s Anonymity Benefit Not Understood… Yet
By Alyssa Hertig, There's been plenty to gawk at since Zcash's October launch. Heralded as the world's most anonymous...
Blockchain Revenue’s & 3 Other Trends for 2017
By Simon Taylor Taylor is co-founder and director at 11:FS, a FinTech advisory firm, and the former vice president of entrepreneurial...
Fedcoin: The U.S. Will Issue E-Currency That You Will Use
By Wendy McElroy, The U.S. Federal Reserve will not only issue its own cryptocurrency but will also make sure Americans use it. That’s the...
The Lightning Network Alpha Release is Ready for Testing
By Jamie Redman, A recent blog post by developers of the Lightning Network, has announced an alpha release of the protocol’s daemon. The...
China’s Big Bitcoin Traders Are All-In On Bitcoin
By Pete Rizzo, Despite recent reports that suggest China's central bank is casting a critical eye on domestic bitcoin exchanges, local...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – Bitcoin Complaints
By Stan Higgins, New data shows American consumers filed almost no complaints - a total of just seven with the US Consumer Financial...
Why I’m Fighting the IRS’s Bitcoin Privacy Invasion
By Jeffrey K Berns, Berns is a bitcoin user, Coinbase customer and a managing partner at multi-specialty law firm Berns Weiss LLP. On 30th...
Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Inspections Cause Price Drop
By Jamie Redman, News from China is once again spreading through the bitcoin world like wildfire. It appears China’s central bank the...
Bitcoin Investing: Where Wall Street and Silicon Valley Meet
By Chris Burniske, Burniske is blockchain products lead at ARK Invest, an investment manager focused on disruptive innovation. Adam White...
Lightning A Bitcoin Big Scaling Solution is Finally Here
By Alyssa Hertig, Developers can now test an early version of bitcoin's much-hyped Lightning Network. Released by one of the most...
Swift is Building a Blockchain App to Optimize Global Cash Liquidity
By Michael del Castillo, A global platform that connects the vast majority of the world's banks has begun building a blockchain...
Bitcoin’s Price Just Hit its Lowest Level in Over a Month
By Charles Bovaird, The bitcoin price slide that began this morning has continued, with markets falling to their lowest level since early...
R3 Closing $150 Million Blockchain Investment CEO Says
By Michael del Castillo, The founder and CEO of blockchain banking consortium R3CEV says the firm is on the verge of closing the...
China’s Smart Money is Staying in Bitcoin This Time
By Justin O' Connell, “We are starting to see a lot of smart money enter into the space and stay there” says Ryan Rabaglia, Head Trader...
Venezuelans Turn to Bitcoin to Escape Financial Hardships
By Jamie Redman Venezuela has been suffering from significant economic decline and turbulent markets. Many worldwide and residents of the...
Toward Better Security and Governance With Blockchain
By Valery Vavilov Vavilov is the CEO and founder of Bitfury Group, a leading blockchain company that delivers software, hardware, mining...
Blockchain for Mortgages: Compelling, But Premature? By George Yacik, If there's an industry that cries out for the efficiencies and data...
Julian Assange Just Read Out a Bitcoin Block Hash to Prove He Was Alive
By Alyssa Hertig, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange used data from the blockchain as a "proof of life" during a Reddit ask-me-anything...
Bitcoin ETF Could Amass $300 Million in Assets
By Pete Rizzo, A new investor note published today by analyst Needham & Company projects that a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF)...
$11 Trillion Bet: DTCC to Clear Derivatives With Blockchain Tech
By Michael del Castillo, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has selected a series of firms to help integrate...
China’s Losing Battle to Keep From Going Broke
China is going broke. This statement comes as a shock to those who have heard over-and-over that China is a rising economic superstar and...
Gold Confiscations Have Begun in Europe—The U.S. May Not Be Far Behind
European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans addresses the European Parliament during a debate on the commission work...
Now Another Country is Getting Ready to Make Cash Illegal
We’ve all read and heard a lot lately about the “war on cash.” Harvard Professor Kenneth Rogoff even wrote an entire book on the subject...
The Last Property Bubble was in U.S.A. – Now it’s a Global Bubble
After the liquidity crises in 1998 and 2008, you might expect that market participants would learn their lessons about derivatives,...
Gold Miners are Literally Running Out of Gold
We all learned about “supply and demand” in our first week of economics class. When the price of something rises because of demand, more...
Charlie Shrem Speaks About His New Investment Fund
By Jamie Redman, Charlie Shrem, a well-known individual in the cryptocurrency space, recently returned to the industry after a year-long...
An Introduction to Bitcoin Trading and Technical Charts
By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin trading is a popular market that has been growing in recent years. There are many who obtain bitcoin to hold for...
2016: The Year Blockchain ICOs Disrupted Venture Capital
By Matt Chwierut, Chwierut is research director at Smith + Crown, a research and data group focused on crypto-finance and blockchain...
What Apple Can Teach Blockchain App Designers for 2017
By Matthias Roebel, Roebel is CEO of Ming Labs, and Ron Quaranta is chairman of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. Most people hear the...
Bitcoin is Tapping Into the Laws of Nature – Part 2
By Mike White, In Part One of this series we looked at the “survival of the fittest” and the fact that it leads to competition in a...
Top Trends Pushing Bitcoin Towards The Mainstream
By Kevin Helms, Like a pack of predators in the night, bitcoin is creeping up into mainstream use from multiple different angles. From the...
Colombia’s Poor Banking Infrastructure Great Potential for Bitcoin
By Kevin Helms, The South American country of Colombia has a crumbling financial system but the bitcoin market has enormous potential....
The New Year’s Cryptocurrency Rollercoaster
By Jamie Redman, It’s been quite a rollercoaster in the cryptocurrency markets the past few days. Bitcoin had a significant bull run...
Bitcoin 2016 Politics Challenged Algorithmic, Apolitical Money
Eric Lombrozo, Lombrozo, is a Bitcoin Core developer and CEO of Ciphrex, a software company developing tools and application development...
China to Restrict Bitcoin Marketing, But Blockchain Firms Unaffected
By Pete Rizzo, Just hours after it was first revealed that the People's Bank of China (PBoC) had held closed-door meetings with domestic...
BITCOIN was the beginning of SOMETHING Better
by CADE METZ THE VALUE OF bitcoin surged past $1,000 this week, the first time it has reached such heights since late 2013. But...
Is Bitcoin the Currency of Artificial Intelligence?
By Justin O' Connell, Futurists imagine a day where robots might own ‘themselves’, and even trade property with other robots. Some believe...
What IoT History Reveals About Blockchain’s Challenges
By Dave Hudson, Hudson is the author of the Hashingit.com blog. He is also the VP of software architecture at immutable ledger firm...
Bitcoin-Powered Internet Advances With $4 Million Blockstack Funding
By Michael del Castillo, A new version of the Internet built on the bitcoin blockchain is another step closer to reality thanks to a $4m...
Déjà vu? Bitcoin Price Slips Below $900 Amid China News By Stan Higgins, The price of bitcoin has declined more than 11% already today, a...
China’s Central Bank Issues Warnings to Major Bitcoin Exchanges
By Pete Rizzo, Officials from the People's Bank of China (PBOC) met with representatives of major bitcoin exchanges this week to urge...
Can Bureaucrats Really Regulate Bitcoin?
By Jamie Redman, Discussion about bitcoin regulation often resembles mixing oil and water. This becomes more apparent as governments and...
The Bitpay Visa: a Bitcoin-Debit Card Review
By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin debit cards have become more popular over the past two years with various choices on the table for consumers to...
Death & Bitcoin: How I Prepared My Family’s Digital Inheritance
By Jamie Redman, As a writer who earns bitcoin and saves as much as I can with a family of four, I’ve recently begun preparing my family’s...
Volatility and Liquidity: How Bitcoin Compares to its Crypto Competitors
By Willy Woo, Woo is an entrepreneur, angel investor, derivatives trader and cryptocurrency enthusiast. 2016 has been a bull year for...
Will 2017 Bring an End to Bitcoin's Great Scaling Debate? By Corin Faife, In bitcoin's early days, discussion of the protocol was...
Bitcoin’s Rollercoaster 2017: What’s Happened So Far
By Stan Higgins, 2016 may have been a dynamic year for the price of bitcoin, but 2017 is shaping up to be a dramatic one already....
3 Things Smart Contracts Need Before They Can Finally Take Off
By Arthur Breitman, Breitman is the CEO and Kathleen Breitman the COO of Tezos (tezos.com), a new blockchain platform currently in...
What is ‘Enterprise Ethereum’? Details Emerge on Secret Blockchain Project
By Michael del Castillo, A secretive project that would aim to make ethereum more suitable for corporate users is taking shape, according...
Charlie Shrem’s Post-Prison Blockchain Firm Sees Gold in Garbage
By Michael del Castillo, Charlie Shrem wants to use blockchain technology to move millions of gallons of waste through the state of...
SEC Delays Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Once Again
by Michael del Castillo, By the time Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss receive a final decision from the SEC on their long-proposed bitcoin...
Bitcoin Price Moves Within $25 of New All-Time High
By Stan Higgins, Bitcoin prices are up $100 on the day, having already shot past the $1,100 mark. Markets have risen nearly 10% over the...
2017 Will Prove ‘Blockchain’ Was a Bad Idea?
By Ferdinando Ametrano Ametrano teaches Bitcoin and Blockchain Technologies at Politecnico di Milano and Milano Bicocca University. He...
Faraday FF91 debut 1050 hp electric 4 door family car or dragster
The Faraday FF91 blasts forward from a dead stop to 60 MPH in 2.39 seconds using its max electric output of 1,050 hp with 130kWh battery,...
This Is Where the World’s Highest-Paid Expats Live
by Andy Hoffman and Zoe Schneeweiss Salaries for expats in Switzerland near twice global average HSBC ranks Germany, Sweden second and...
Academia Revolts Against Copyright with help from Bitcoin-Fueled Alternative
By Justin O' Connell, Scientists in multiple nations might be forced to turn to piracy in order to maintain their research in 2017, and...
A New Hyper-Local Bitcoin-Based Market Service | Drop Zone By Jamie Redman, There have been many attempts to create a working...
Why Volume Is Exploding at Mexican Bitcoin Exchange Bitso
By Justin O' Connell, The peso has steadily declined in the past three years and today sits at twenty-to-one to the dollar amid a period...
US Government Escalates Push for Post-Quantum Cryptography
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Federal agencies of the US government are expanding their calls for quantum computing resistant encryption methods....
Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading
By Pete Rizzo, The price of bitcoin inched upward over the course of trading today, passing $1,000 for the first time on CoinDesk Bitcoin...
Electric Powered Cars with Astounding Results
2017 is going to be a FAST YEAR Electrifying competition between Tesla and Faraday -
Econ 101 Outlook for 2017
BY ALASDAIR MACLEOD We exit 2016 on a tide of investor optimism. At long last, there will be a businessman in charge of the US economy in...
Top Ten Reasons why fiat currency is superior to gold (or silver) money
HUMOR In the spirit of the NEW YEAR and hope for a more prosperous 2017 I thought our readers might appreciate a little new year humor. So...
Bitcoin’s Inverse Relationship to the US Dollar Is Breaking Down
By Justin O' Connell, Despite the dollar’s 2016 gains and year-end rate hike, Bitcoin still outpaced the global reserve currency in 2016...
Ethereum Review The State of Developer in 2016
By Raine Revere, Revere is a developer and teacher with over 15 years of coding experience, and a leading voice in the developing field of...
A Slow Awakening: 2016 in US Blockchain Policy
By Frederick Reese, At the PYMNTS' Innovation Project 2013 conference, former US vice president Al Gore made waves by speaking out in...
‘The Bitcoin Oracle’ Price Prediction for 2017 – Bitcoin may go to $3000
By Michael Krieger, One of the things I try to do here at Liberty Blitzkrieg is identify and comment upon major macro trends before they...
Next Cash-Like Bitcoin USB Stick
By Justin O' Connell, When Opendime made its ‘bitcoin stick’ with multi-signature Bitcoin wallet provider Coinkite, it called it a...
Meet Tumblebit: The Unlinkable Payment Hub By Jamie Redman, There are lots of development projects in the bitcoin space. One of them may...
Crypto Security in 2016: A Tale of Two Weaknesses
By Bill Shihara Shihara is the CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex, and a former security engineer at Amazon, Blackberry...
Hyperledger Adds 8 More Members to End 2016
By Michael del Castillo, Open-source, business blockchain consortium Hyperledger has announced that eight new members have joined its...
Big Question: Who Pays for the Blockchain?
By Wayne Vaughan, Vaughan is the CEO of Tierion, a proof engine that lets you prove the integrity of any data, file, or business...
From Power Currency to Power Money
By David H. Smith, On a Tuesday evening in early November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had been elected 2 years earlier on...
One of These 5 Hyperinflating Economies Could Adopt Bitcoin in 2017
By Kevin Helms, Fourteen countries have inflation levels above 18 percent right now, 10 of which are rising at press time. Bitcoin prices...
Bitcoin is Tapping Into the Laws of Nature
By Mike White Although it is on the cutting edge of technology bitcoin might be more closely aligned with nature than we think. This...
IRS Asks Court to Reject Protest Filing From Coinbase Customer
By Michael del Castillo. The IRS has asked a district court in California to dismiss a filing by a Coinbase customer that might prevent it...
Watch Tesla Autopilot Predict a Crash Seconds Before it Happens
BY MATTHEW HUMPHRIES, One of the unique features of owning a Tesla vehicle is the inclusion of Autopilot: an advanced driver assist...
The Inflationary Implications of the Trump Economy
By Stefan Gleason, Something is brewing in the economy. Since the election of Donald Trump, interest rates have spiked, copper prices have...
Bitcoin up Over 400% in Venezuela Over the Past Week
By Joseph Young, The economy of Venezuela has been shred apart by a financial crisis resulted from the local government’s decision to...
Geopolitical Turmoil Spurs Bitcoin Investments Worldwide
By Jamie Redman, As many economists predicted, the Italian constitutional referendum of 2016 shook the country’s banking system to the...
4 Reasons 2017 Will Be Blockchain’s Banner Year
By Peter Loop Loop is associate vice president and principal technology architect at Infosys, a next-generation IT services provider. I...
Trusted Hardware Can Help Bitcoin Scale, But At What Cost?
By Alyssa Hertig As 2016 comes to a close, bitcoin development remains at a crossroads. Take the long-anticipated scaling solution,...