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London Workshop Explores Blockchain Identity in Finance – DAO Daily News
[Editors Note: "The Identity & KYC conference in London hosted a workshop on using blockchain technology to improve know-your-customer...
ABN Amro Divides Bitcoin from the Blockchain – DAO Daily News
[Editors Note: "If you were looking to enter the business, Karin Kersten argues, you might first invest in a restaurant. Next, you might...
Dubai’s Global Blockchain Council First Pilot Projects – DAO DAILY NEWS
Editors Note: Dubai's Global Blockchain Council (GBC), a public-private initiative between local businesses, government agencies and...
Arcade City Holds First Ever Meetup In Austin – DAO Daily News
[Editors Note: "Ever since Uber and Lyft left Austin, the peer-to-peer rideshare group, Arcade City, has been making waves as it has made...
Medical Prescriptions Immutable ON a distributed ledger
[Editors Note: The Director of the Dutch-based REshape Center for Innovation Lucien Engelen recently announced a blockchain-based...
Jaxx: First Ether Wallet on iOS – Dao Daily News
It is the first iOS wallet to transact in ether, the native currency of Ethereum’s smart contract platform. Despite not being intended for...
Using Technology to Create Better ID Systems – Dao Daily News
Steven Malby is head of the Law Development Section of the Rule of Law Division for the Commonwealth Secretariat, the executive arm of the...
A Framework for Identity – DAO Daily News
Dan Elitzer is a member of the IDEO coLAB, a shared platform to discover and act on the potential of new technologies, with current...
US Congress Reps Receive Blockchain Briefing at Capitol Hill Event – DAO Daily News
More than 15 members of Congress met with representatives of the blockchain technology industry this week as part of a roundtable...
Was Ether’s Loss Bitcoin’s Gain? Traders Wonder After Wild Week – DAO Daily News
The price of bitcoin appreciated nearly 4% for the week ending 27th May, but the figure is perhaps not indicative of the wild...
European Parliament Approves Bitcoin Regulatory Guidelines – Dao Daily News
The European Parliament has appointed a regulator for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. In the end, these efforts will be futile, as the...
KnC Miner Files For Bankruptcy, Begins Shutting Down Operations – DAO Daily News
In a surprise announcement, Swedish mining firm KnC Miner said today that it is filing for bankruptcy, citing Bitcoin block reward halving...
BitOasis Funding Boosts Blockchain Prospects in the Middle East – DAO Daily News
BitOasis has secured additional funding to expand their presence beyond the United Arab Emirates. The round of financing received support...
Goldman Sachs Admits Bitcoin is ‘Ideal’ for Public Transactions – DAO Daily .News
While Goldman Sachs expects private or “permissioned” blockchains to dominate most commercial applications according to its recent...
Andreas Antonopoulos Takes Aim at Arbitration With DAMN Proposal – www.DaoDaily.News
Currently under review at The DAO, the distributed autonomous organization that has raised over $150m worth of the cryptocurrency ether to...
Grid Vs. Cloud: Earn Bitcoin By Monitoring Environmental Data – DAO Daily News
The Internet has fostered the development of machines that can collect sensor-generated data and sell it in return for passive...
Report Russia Is Considering Its Own Cryptocurrency – DAO Daily News
The Russian Ministry of Finance, known for its disdain and intent to criminalize bitcoin activity, is considering the issuance of a...
MIT Innovation Initiative Lab for Innovation Science and Policy Releases Equity Crowdfunding Report
Crowdfunding report analyses whether equity crowdfunding will democratize access to capital and investment opportunities. Policy briefing...
Can a New Social Operating System Fix The DAO?
An Ethereum startup led by a Harvard researcher and the founder of blockchain ridesharing startup La’Zooz will submit a proposal to fix...
Goldman Sachs: Blockchain Tech Could Save Capital Markets $6 Billion a Year
A new report from Goldman Sachs Investment Research projects that the implementation of blockchain technology could streamline the...
Lisk Releases First Modular Cryptocurrency with Sidechains
Bitcoin Press Release: Following $6.5 million crowdsale, Lisk deploys first truly scalable cryptocurrency, with JavaScript compatibility...
Coinbase Co-Founder: “Ethereum Is Ahead of Bitcoin in Many Ways”
The scripting language in bitcoin is restricting application development, which is something that Ethereum can change, according to Fred...
Japan Passes Bill to Regulate Bitcoin Exchanges
The Diet in Japan (the legislature consisting of the Lower and the Upper Houses) has passed a bill today that mandates the regulation of...
Russia Prime Minister: DAO is an ‘Interesting Challenge’ for Law
At the International Legal Forum, which took its place May 18-21, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Russian prime minister Dmitriy...
BitCoinIRA.com Launches Revolutionary “Bitcoin IRA” Investment Product Exclusively for Retirement Accounts
BitCoinIRA.com Launches Revolutionary “Bitcoin IRA” Investment Product Exclusively for Retirement AccountsA first-of-its-kind, the...
Blockchain Consortium R3 Sees its First Chinese Member
By Samburaj Das The banking- and finance-centric blockchain consortium led by New York-based startup R3 will now include its first ever...
Dubai Government to Sponsor Upcoming Digital Currency Conference
Dubai is set to play host to a conference on digital currencies later this month, an event that comes several months after a...
The Father of Prediction Markets Has an Idea to Reshape DAO Governance
Sixteen years after Robin Hanson published a seminal paper on using prediction markets to inform governance decisions, his ideas have...
US Postal Service Could Create its Own Digital Currency
The US Postal Service (USPS) has released a new report outlining how it could adopt blockchain technology within its operations. The...
Payment Processor Invests in Dubai-Based Bitcoin Startup
Online payment service provider PayFort is among a number of participants to invest in a seed funding round for Dubai-based bitcoin...
India’s ‘Unregulated’ Bitcoin Industry is Thriving
The popularity of Bitcoin in India has seen an exponential rise, according to the Hindustantimes. The report details that more users in...
The method behind Google’s machine learning madness
First there was TensorFlow, Google’s machine learning framework. Then there was SyntaxNet, a neural network framework Google released to...
Determining Jurisdiction When a DAO is Sued
A lawyer at Anderson Kill, PC in Washington, DC, Stephen D Palley (@palleylaw) focuses his law practice on construction, insurance and...
The DAO is a New Dow
Nolan Bauerle is a former researcher and writer for the Canadian Senate Banking Committee, for which he drafted a 2015 report on...
The New Banking Standard
Martin Hagelstrom is a bitcoin enthusiast, project executive and consultant working on IT projects at IBM. In this op-ed, Hagelstrom...
Blockchain’s Big Innovation is Trust, Not Money
Jason Leibowitz is a former Wall Street professional who pivoted careers in 2014 to focus full-time on digital currency. In this opinion...
These cofounders live in separate countries and have never even met — and they’re trying to create a new kind of money
Max Kordek is a 24-year-old Bitcoin wiz from Germany. Next week he and his co-founder, 37-year-old Oliver Beddows, will launch their...
A Venture Fund With Plenty of Virtual Capital, but No Capitalist
The D.A.O., on the other hand, returns to the more radical ambitions of virtual currencies. It is set up according to computer code, with...
Smaller Banks Need Bitcoin To Protect The Global Financial System
With the financial ecosystem on the proverbial brink of collapsing, there is a growing concern among banking industry experts. Not about...
Payments Giant Qiwi is Building a Blockchain Replacement for its Core Database
Russian payments firm Qiwi is currently designing its own proprietary blockchain in an effort to replace its central payments processing...
Bitcoin Miners Follow Profit to Ethereum Blockchain
The rush to capitalize on ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, is in full swing. Bitcoin Miners Follow Profit to...
Sydney Stock Exchange Developing Blockchain Trading System
A stock exchange in Australia is developing a private equity market solution using blockchain technology. As reported by the Sydney...
The Law of The DAO
Andrew "Drew" Hinkes is Counsel at Berger Singerman LLP, a business law firm in Florida. Hinkes represents companies and entrepreneurs in...
Texas Bullion Depository: Gold Backed Bank to be Completed Next Year
Last year Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed HB 483, allowing the creation of the Texas Gold Depository. “With the passage of this bill,...
Jeff Garzik Defends Hard Fork Solution for Bitcoin Block Size Issue
Jeff Garzik, a bitcoin code veteran who recently launched the Bloq code-for-hire service to develop blockchain features, continues to...
A Wikipedia Edit War Has Broken out over Ethereum-Based DAO
The Ethereum created DAO has become one of the largest crowdsale in history, overtaking today the video game project Star Citizen, which...
What Happens If BTC Hits $10,000? Bitcoin Enthusiasts Respond
What if Bitcoin’s price surges beyond the 2013 record high reaching $10,000 a coin like Tim Draper predicts? Would you pay off your...
Clinical Trials Show the Blockchain Can Stop ‘Fraudulent’ Science
Two doctors have recently devised a concept that makes clinical trial documents immutable using blockchain technology. A universal method...
DeepSQL makes index-heavy ingestion and queries go really fast, outperforming Aurora by twofold in our benchmarks
When I reviewed Amazon Aurora last October, I noted that its level of performance was far beyond any I had seen from other open source SQL...
‘Blockchain Revolution’ Comes to Wall Street at Nasdaq Event
The father and son authors of the new book "Blockchain Revolution" took to the stage this morning where Nasdaq opens and closes its market...
Nasdaq Explores How Blockchain Could Fuel Solar Energy Market
During a demonstration at Nasdaq's global headquarters today, the stock exchange operator unveiled a service that lets solar power...
Public Opinion Split As The DAO Rakes in Ethereum Funding
The DAO has become the talk of the digital town since its launch less than a month ago. With nearly $150m worth of the cryptocurrency...
Apache Foundation Founder Named Hyperledger Executive Director
There's a new man in charge of the Hyperledger Project, a group of more that 30 companies working together to build an open standard for...
Red Hat Launching Blockchain Open Source Initiative
In April, Red Hat announced the OpenShift initiative to aid financial services industry in building hosted blockchain applications. Red...
IBM Calls For Government To Play A Support Role For ‘Permissioned Blockchain’
IBM sees blockchain technology as an essential tool for business, government, and society, and as such, its development calls for...
Identity Startup Netki to Launch SSL Certificate for Blockchain
With websites operating under the constant threat of attacks, users have long been accustomed to looking for a little green lock in web...
R3 Bank Partner Northern Trust Details Four Internal Blockchain Tests
Back in January, Chicago-based asset management firm Northern Trust was part of a group of international financial institutions to...
Bitcoin Startup Blockchain Releases Code for ‘Thunder’ Payment Channels
Bitcoin startup Blockchain has released the first version of a payments channel prototype that finds it moving its research efforts into...
Presidential Cybersecurity Panel Hears Blockchain Testimony By IBM
A panel on national security and cyberspace appointed by President Barack Obama heard testimony on blockchain technology from a...
Confused By Blockchain? Separating Revolution from Evolution
Antony Lewis is a bitcoin and blockchain consultant and blogger, who previously served as the director of business development at bitcoin...
Bruce Fenton to RT: Bitcoin is Secure, Scalability Will Be Fixed
Bitcoin is a secure network that has never been hacked and is actually safer than owning gold, said Bitcoin Foundation Executive Director...
Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives May Equal Indefinite Jail Time
The topic of encryption is becoming more prominent in media headlines these days as consumers want to protect their privacy. But the US...
China to buy $90 billion gold vault in London
The Chinese state-owned ICBC Standard Bank (IDCBF), the world's biggest bank by assets, has agreed to buy Barclays precious metals storage...
GTEC Awards Final: €50,000 Eyed by Blockchain Innovators
Tuesday will see the unveiling of the winner at the GTEC Blockchain Innovation Awards in Berlin, with startups in line for up to €20,000...
LegacyNest Can Make Your Will, But Can’t Smart Contracts Too?
A new startup called LegacyNest will help you write a will on your behalf, as well as check whether you are still alive. But at the same...
45% of US Households Avoid Online Shopping Due to Cybercrime Risk
Online shopping is becoming a significant trend all over the world, yet a lot of people show concerns of online privacy and security. A...
Is Bitcoin a True Anti-War Currency?
It is not common to speak of currency as being pro or anti-war. A freely traded currency is merely an economic tool that facilitates the...
My Dinner with Adam Back, by Roger Ver
About a week ago, at the NYC Consensus conference I was fortunate enough to get to spend four hours over dinner with Adam Back of...
Bitcoin Lending Platform BitConnect.co Releases Innovative “My Page” Feature
In a digital currency world that is built upon the concept of decentralization, the greater Bitcoin community can seem fractured and...
IPO’s at BTCPOP
BTCPOP first introduced the ability for users to create an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in December 2015, however, you might not know...
Bitcoin & Blockchain Could Reform European Union Payment Laws
In its final report on virtual currencies and distributed ledger technology concerning the likes of bitcoin and blockchain tech, the...
11FS Blockchain Consultancy Seeks $100 Million
Recently, there have been reports of a new fintech consultancy firm that will be headquartered in London, touting blockchain technology....
Blockchain and the Race Towards Irrelevance
Matthew Spoke is a bitcoin and Ethereum enthusiast who has been working towards advancing the use of smart distributed protocols through...
An Anatomy of Bitcoin’s Great Scaling Debate
Dr Paul Ennis is a research assistant at The Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organization at University College Dublin,...
Doug Miller of KeepKey Bitcoin Wallet on SegWit and New Features
KeepKey is one of the top Bitcoin Hardware Wallets in the industry right now. I recently had the opportunity to have a hands-on experience...
Malaysian Central Bank Focuses on Adapting Fintech Regulation
Malaysia is one of the most recent countries to look at its current regulatory guidelines and come up with changes to take part of the...
Japan Could Come to Dominate the Bitcoin Landscape
Japan seems to have Bitcoin fever these days. Trading volume is growing exponentially in the region and organizations across the land are...
Bank of Japan Official: Central Banks Need to Watch Blockchain
A deputy governor of Japan's central bank has said that central banks worldwide need to pay close attention to developments surrounding...
Bitcoin Price Stabilizes at $450 But Forecast Ahead Unclear
Bitcoin prices fluctuated little in the week ending 13th May, staying largely between $450 and $460 amid lackluster trading volume. While...
Bitcoin Core is Seeking to Overhaul How it Upgrades its Code
The Bitcoin Core team is looking to refresh the process by which code changes are proposed, considered and implemented in a bid to engage...
Cashila Launches New Ethereum Platform Called ICONOMI
A new service has been launched by the Cashila team, with the aim of making Ether trading more convenient for users. ICONOMI, as this new...
Kompany.com Announces Private Blockchain Integration
The business registry database, Kompany.com, made it known at a joint conference of the European Commerce Registers’ Forum (ECRF) and...
Visa and MasterCard Secretly Increase Processing Fees
The introduction of new NFC and EMV-enabled payment cards has forced merchants to upgrade their payment terminals since last 2015....
Five Strategic Firms in the Crypto-Landscape
There’s been a lot of venture capital flying around the cryptocurrency and blockchain environment this year. Some investment firms are...
Korea Exchange Talks Top-Down Approach to Blockchain Innovation
Though major stock exchanges in London and New York have garnered the lion’s share of major media headlines, their peers internationally...
Congressional Committee Hears Testimony on Blockchain in Health Care
During an appearance on Capitol Hill earlier this week, a representative for a prominent US think tank suggested that blockchain...
CapGemini to Develop Blockchain Loyalty Tech Amid ‘Aggressive’ Hiring
Technology consulting firm CapGemini took its latest step on its bid to dramatically increase its investment in blockchain tech this week,...
Scientific Research Proof of Concept Validates Bitcoin Technology
A recent science publication on F1000Research ventures into the world of using Bitcoin technology to improve the trustworthiness of...
China: Bitcoin Banks, Mines, Myths and Realities
Western curiosity about Bitcoin in China remains high, but access to information is usually quite limited. By Jon Southurst As a...
State of Blockchain Q1 2016: Blockchain Funding Overtakes Bitcoin
Q1 2016 State of Blockchain report summarizes key trends, data and events from the first quarter of 2016. This article highlights a few of...