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Water Project Charity Receives Anonymous Bitcoin Donation worth $23000
“Today you gave enough BTC – totally anonymously – to provide clean, safe water and sanitation facilities to an entire school AND for the monitoring and repair funds to keep it working for years to come,” says a message of appreciation posted on r ... (Sep 18, 2016, CryptoCoinsNews)
IBM and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Collaborate on Hyperledger based Pilot
Two participating companies in the Hyperledger Project, IBM and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ have signed a contract to develop and use blockchain technology. A press release in this regard, issued by IBM, states that both the companies will be working ... (Sep 18, 2016, newsBTC)
Bitcoin Price Weekly Analysis – Can BTC/USD Recover?
Bitcoin price this past week traded as high as $629 against the US Dollar, but found sellers. The price dropped sharply after a failure to break the stated level. During the downside move, the BTC/USD pair broke a bullish trend line formed on the 4 ... (Sep 18, 2016, newsBTC)
Ethereum Price Weekly Analysis – Why ETH Struggling?
Ethereum price ETH made another attempt to trade higher recently against the US Dollar, but it failed miserably. The main reason for a failure is a major bearish trend line formed on the daily chart of the ETH/USD pair (data feed via SimpleFX). It ... (Sep 18, 2016, newsBTC)
Bitfinex Issues Bitcoin Hack Repayment Plan Update - CoinDesk
Bitfinex has taken new steps to reimburse accountholders who lost funds in an exchange breach earlier this year. In a blog post this week, the troubled ... (Sep 18, 2016, CoinDesk)
Bitcoin IRA's Free Bitcoin Investor Guide Clears any ... - PR Newswire
Bitcoin IRA, the unique Bitcoin-based Individual Retirement Account portfolio is now giving away free Bitcoin Investor Guides to educate potential investors ... (Sep 17, 2016, PR Newswire (press release))
Australia To Lead International Blockchain Standards Initiative
Creating international blockchain standards will not be an easy feat. Australia is poised to lead the international discussions, as they will act as secretariat of a technical committee. The country has proposed this committee to the International ... (Sep 17, 2016, newsBTC)
Unlike Fiat, Bitcoin Isn't Meant for Everyone
Bitcoin is hailed as the future of the economy, at the same time there are complaints about its sustainability and volatility. Tiyo Triyanto, an Indonesian entrepreneur rightly says that Bitcoin is not for everyone in his recent blog post. Tiyo ... (Sep 17, 2016, newsBTC)
How Ethereum's Wallets Are Evolving - CoinDesk
Benedict Chan is platform lead at blockchain security firm BitGo and an advocate of bitcoin and ethereum blockchain technologies. He has designed and ... (Sep 17, 2016, CoinDesk)
The Upside of the Internet: Defending Bitcoin's 'Downside'
Like any good cryptocurrency adherent, in my romping around social media I was unsurprised to find yet-another-grossly-misrepresented-hit-piece on bitcoin. But this one sure was fancy. Op-ed in the NYTimes, you say? Group chief executive (?) for ... (Sep 17, 2016, CoinDesk)
Overstock's TØ Blockchain to See First-Ever Public Issuance of Equities
Securities broker-dealer, Keystone Capital Corporation, has selected t0's blockchain-based trading technology to provide brokerage services for market participants seeking to trade blockchain securities. This is part of Keystone Capital's brokerage ... (Sep 17, 2016, CryptoCoinsNews)
Bitcoin loses out to old-fashioned cash, credit at MIT - The Boston ...
Bitcoin loses out to old-fashioned cash, credit at MIT - The Boston ... (Sep 17, 2016, The Boston Globe)
Blockchains are so important the Bank of England is future-proofing its payments system
The Bank of England announced Sept. 16 that it's upgrading the payments systems that move over $600 billion a day for British traders and banks. By 2020, the Real-Time Gross Settlement system will be made more easily accessible by smaller institutions, ... (Sep 16, 2016, Quartz)
Bank of England wants next payment system to be blockchain-ready
The Bank of England wants to open its interbank settlement service to blockchain technologies as part of a major revamp of the system. The bank is not suggesting that U.K. banks should begin processing bitcoin payments as a matter of routine. However ... (Sep 16, 2016, Computerworld)
How Blockchain Startups Are Disrupting The $15 Billion Music Industry
When it comes to the $15 billion recorded music industry, the artists rarely come out with a big payoff. The recorded music industry began in the late 1800s with the invention of Thomas Edison's phonograph and benefited greatly from the rise of radio ... (Sep 16, 2016, Forbes)
How blockchain is transforming business models
In this era of disruption, it's absolutely necessary to redefine business models and archetypes as a whole. This post dives into the benefits of blockchain, its impact on the financial system, and how some companies are experimenting. Traditional ... (Sep 16, 2016, The Next Web)
Bank of Tokyo is Planning to Use Blockchain for Contract Management
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) intends to begin managing its contracts on a blockchain-based platform. Built on technology provided by the still in-development Hyperledger project and the design services of IBM, the two companies revealed today ... (Sep 16, 2016, CoinDesk)
Overstock: Broker-Dealer Deal Will Open Blockchain Floodgates ...
Overstock: Broker-Dealer Deal Will Open Blockchain Floodgates ... (Sep 16, 2016, CoinDesk)
Ethereum Classic Price Technical Analysis – 0.00205BTC Now Resistance
Ethereum classic price after a decline against Bitcoin attempted a recovery, but failed near 0.00205BTC. There is a new bearish trend line forming on the hourly chart of ETC/BTC (data feed via Simplefx), which is acting as a resistance. The price ... (Sep 16, 2016, newsBTC)
Ethereum Price Technical Analysis – How Long ETH Buyers Can Hold?
Ethereum price after trading a few points higher against the US Dollar found resistance and traded down. The price continued to fail on the upside, which results in a downside move. However, this week's highlighted bullish trend line on the hourly ... (Sep 16, 2016, newsBTC)
Vitalik Buterin to Debut Ethereum Scaling Paper at Devcon
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin will present a new version of the project's 'mauve paper' at a developer conference in Shanghai next week. Scheduled for 19th September, a talk called "Mauve Revolution" will focus on scaling features still in ... (Sep 15, 2016, CoinDesk)
'Mr. Robot' Drags Bitcoin Into Its Dystopian Nightmare
CEO, to turn his company's digital currency, eCoin, into the equivalent of the U.S. dollar, as a way to fight bitcoin. What's absolutely great about this is that it plays on not one, but two dystopian fears: the fears among corporatists and government ... (Sep 15, 2016, Wall Street Journal (blog))
Google-backed blockchain start-up Ripple raises $55 million from big banks
Ripple, a Google-backed start-up that uses blockchain technology to settle financial transactions between some of the world's biggest banks, has raised $55 million. The latest finance round involves Standard Chartered, Accenture Ventures, SCB Digital ... (Sep 15, 2016, CNBC)
Ethereum Classic Price Technical Analysis – Can ETC Recover ...
Ethereum Classic Price Technical Analysis – Can ETC Recover ... (Sep 15, 2016, newsBTC)
The Muskoka Group Marks a Line in the Sand for Blockchain ...
The Muskoka Group Marks a Line in the Sand for Blockchain ... (Sep 14, 2016, Forbes)
Chandler Guo: Vitalik Made 'Huge Mistake' In Changing Ethereum Blockchain
Ethereum Classic (ETC), regardless of what you may think of it, is not going away anytime soon. While it is no longer steadily rising, it has the hash power and marketcap to ensure enough people have an interest in keeping the thing going, and maybe ... (Sep 14, 2016, CoinJournal (blog))
DAO Hacker Donates Stolen Funds to Ethereum Classic Dev Team
Following a series of events: beginning with the creation on Ethereum of TheDAO, the largest crowdfunded project to date, and one of the first real-world examples of a decentralized autonomous organization; followed by a hacker exploiting some bad code ... (Sep 13, 2016, Investopedia)
Ethereum (ETH and ETC) Price Trends (Week of September 12th)
Ethereum's price can grow at least twofold, if a turn to growth forms. But the current situation hints at the opposite scenario. Currently the volume of sell orders is twice as large as that of buy orders. The majority of traders try to sell Ether ... (Sep 13, 2016, CoinTelegraph)
Bitcoin vs distributed ledger vs Ethereum vs blockchain
We're often being told that the blockchain – the tech behind Bitcoin – will rewire not just the banking sector, but social security payments, healthcare and even digital voting. Until now, it's all been theoretical tech industry talk. However, in ... (Sep 13, 2016, TechRadar)
Addio Bitcoin, la nuova moneta virtuale si chiama Monero
06 settembre 2016 - Addio Bitcoin, l'ultima novità nel campo delle monete virtuali si chiama Monero ed è quella preferita dal mercato nero dello spaccio di droghe online. Già in circolazione da un paio di anni, la moneta ha più che quadruplicato il suo ... (Sep 6, 2016, QuiFinanza)
The Bizarre Fallout of Ethereum's Epic Fail
As of this past Friday, according to Bitcoin Magazine, the still-anonymous attacker is able to sell some of the stolen cryptocurrency. But huge efforts by the Ethereum community to recover from the hack have left those takings much less valuable than ... (Sep 4, 2016, Fortune)
5 Major Reasons Why Monero Has Spiked - CoinTelegraph
Monero (XMR), a privacy-focused open source cryptocurrency, has agitated the digital currency community after demonstrating a nearly 100% increase in price ... (Sep 3, 2016, CoinTelegraph)
Untraceable Cryptocurrency Monero is Booming
The value of Monero has more than tripled in the last ten days moving from around $2.47 to $8.10 as at the time of this publication. Described as the new digital currency that online drug-dealers have started to adopt because it enables them to conduct ... (Aug 31, 2016, CryptoCoinsNews)
Darknet Customers Are Demanding Bitcoin Alternative Monero ...
Darknet Customers Are Demanding Bitcoin Alternative Monero ... (Aug 26, 2016, Nasdaq)
Meet Monero, the Currency Dark Net Dealers Hope Is More ...
Meet Monero, the Currency Dark Net Dealers Hope Is More ... (Aug 23, 2016, Motherboard)
Ethereum Successfully Hardforks
After a month of heated debate, Ethereum's community quickly came together with an incredible 87% of Eth holders voting in support of the hardfork. Miners likewise showed an overall 80% vote in favor. The entire ecosystem, including all businesses ... (Jul 20, 2016, CryptoCoinsNews)
[video] Opening Keynote at @ThingsExpo | #IoT #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Blockchain
After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereum. View Keynote ▸ Here Download Slide Deck ▸ Here. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a multi-faceted approach of strategy and ... (Jun 21, 2016, SYS-CON Media (press release))