An Interview With Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier

Ledger's new CEO, Pascal Gauthier, talks about his new role, the future of Ledger, how the success of Ledger and security are linked to the cryptocurrency market, and how the company plans to combat hack attacks.

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Ledger Nano X Crypto Wallet Adds Bluetooth and Addresses Security Concerns

On January 7, 2018, the crypto community’s highly-popular Ledger hardware wallet has revealed the handful of updates that are to be included in its new Nano X model. A larger screen, mobile app, and Bluetooth capabilities make the device a coveted upgrade from the former Ledger Nano S.

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Nano X: Ledger launches Bluetooth-enabled bitcoin hardware wallet

CryptoNinjas Ledger, the security and infrastructure company for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications, today revealed the Ledger Nano X, a Bluetooth-enabled hardware wallet. As Ledger’s new signature product, the Ledger Nano X improves on the Ledger Nano.

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Ledger Nano X Wallet Now Offers Bluetooth Support with New Crypto Hardware Wallet Launch

Early yesterday afternoon, a spokesperson for Ledger— one of the world’s premier crypto wallet manufacturers— announced at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas that his firm was all set to launch its new Bluetooth-enabled Nano X device.

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New Ledger Nano X Can Pair With iPhone Via Bluetooth

Popular cryptocurrency hardware wallet company Ledger has revealed its latest device – the Ledger Nano X. The new device’s most characteristic new capability is that it will enable users to use Bluetooth to connect their mobile devices via the new Ledge Live mobile app.

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Nano X: Security Concerns Over Ledger’s New Bluetooth Enabled Wallet

Leading cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger announced its latest device, the Nano X. The wallet features a Bluetooth functionality and a mobile app for remote management. In response, the crypto community is ablaze with security concerns.

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Ledger Crypto Wallet Goes Mobile With Bluetooth-Ready Nano X

Crypto wallet company Ledger debuted a new product Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Ledger Releases New Wallet With More Memory, App for Mobile Management

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TNW Answers’ best cryptocurrency and blockchain insights from 2018

Blockchain is brand new technology. Not only is it mostly untested, but the implications and use-cases of distributed ledger technology still aren’t fully realized, let alone understood. With our regular TNW Answers sessions, we’ve given leaders and disruptors of decentralized tech a platform to discuss and explore the bleeding-edge of the industry.

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Bitcoin Magazine Launches Custom Block Explorer

As part of the new Bitcoin Magazine site, we’ve launched a custom block explorer, using Blockstream’s open-source implementation Esplora. What Is a Block Explorer?Bitcoin runs on a distributed network of computers that participate in securing and maintaining a ledger of transactions called a blockchain.

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Peculiar case of IOTA: A work of genius or just hyped wonder?

IOTA is the new generation ledger that doesn’t use a blockchain and it utilizes a new protocol invention that is called ‘Tangle’. The Tangle is a new data platform that is constructed on Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), therefore it has chain, no blocks and no miners.

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New Ledger Crypto Hardware Wallet Vulnerabilities Not “Critical” According To The Company

Yesterday BitcoinExchangeGuide had reported about there were vulnerabilities found in the Ledger Wallet. Researchers have shown how to hack Trezor One, Ledger Nano S and Ledger Blue wallets. This was shown during a hacking event called the 35C3 Refreshing Memories.

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End of year crypto roundup: How did IOTA perform in 2018?

At a time when cryptocurrency was synonymous with blockchain technology, IOTA proposed a modification. IOTA, as its name would suggest, aspired to be a cryptocurrency for the future of Internet of Things (IoT).

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Cashy Web Application Boosts Script Contracts in Bitcoin Cash

The creators of the Simple Ledger Protocol have released a new tool for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) programmers called Cashy. The toolbox allows developers to program script contracts and a wide variety of programmable money applications using the BCH network.

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New Ledger Nano S Firmware Update Scheduled For Early January 2019 Release

The Updated Of The Ledger Nano S firmware Will Be Released In Early January 2019 The Ledger Nano S firmware 1. 5 is soon going to be released; this will be able to bring a new cryptographic algorithm to the market, additional features and some security improvements.

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IOTA is dishing out shares of $220K bounty — if you can crack its new hash function

IOTA Foundation, the company wanting to be the cryptocurrency for the Internet-of-Things (IoT), has just launched a new hash function, and it’s dishing out shares of a $220,000 (200,000 euro) bounty to anyone that can crack it.

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Hyperledger Project Grows as Alibaba Cloud, Citi, Deutsche Telekom, and New Members Join the Global Forum  

Hyperledger, the leading open source blockchain project recently announced that Alibaba Cloud, Citi, Deutsche Telekom, we. trade, and 12 other organizations have joined the Hyperledger Global Forum. According to the press release published on December 12, 2018, the growing Hyperledger Community highlights the importance of open source technology and increasing interest in enterprise distributed ledger technologies.

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Hedera Hashgraph Distributed Ledger Protocol Launches An Early Mainnet Access Program

Hedera Hashgraph Launches An Early Access Program To Its Mainnet The next-generation public ledger specifically designed to have highly diversified governance has launched the launch of its initial community testing program.

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How Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology is the Solution for Data Privacy Issues

Data privacy remains one of the most important aspects of modern internet usage, but also one with the most issues that are accompanying it. For decades now, researchers working for cyber-security companies were in a constant war with those who would steal exposed data and misuse it, or sell it for profit. Whenever a new […]

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Ledger Expands Operations to New York City

CoinSpeaker Ledger Expands Operations to New York City Ledger, a company that focuses on the development of infrastructure and security solutions in the cryptocurrencies market, announced that it has now expanded its operations to New York City. Ledger Expands Operations to New York City

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Switzerland wants to regulate blockchain within its existing financial laws

On December 7, the Federal Council of Switzerland issued a report, providing a legal framework for distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain, stating that the country’s existing rules are well suited to dealing with such new technologies, but there is still a need for some amendments.

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New Legal Framework in Switzerland Gives Boost to Blockchain

The Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF) announced the Federal Council’s adoption of a recent report—Legal Framework for Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain in Switzerland—and expressed their intent to assist in developing laws for new technologies, specifically distributed ledger technology and blockchain innovation.

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Switzerland Unveils Legal Blockchain Framework In Crypto Valley Association Partnership

Switzerland Unveils Legal Framework For Blockchain Technology In Partnership With Crypto Valley Association Switzerland has once again shown itself to be one of the world’s leading authorities on blockchain technology.

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‘Bitcoin is not a New Form Of Money, it is a Commodity’, Says Craig S Wright

The controversial Scientist and businessman Dr. Craig S Wright, who claims to be the originator of the number one cryptocurrency, bitcoin, announced in a tweet and also via a medium post that the digital asset is not new money.

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Crypto Holiday Guide: Gifts for Every Bitcoiner on Your Shopping List

The holiday season is here. And even if crypto prices are on the coal heap, you can still have fun spreading some holiday bitcoin cheer. For the bitcoiners in your life, this could mean a crypto-related gift as a token of solidarity.

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Switcheo exchange announces listing of three new ERC20 tokens

On December 10, a decentralized exchange Switcheo announced listing of 3 new ERC20 tokens: IceChain Token (ICHX), Republic Protocol (REN), and TE-FOOD (TFD). The tokens will be open for deposits on Tuesday, 11 December, 11.

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Ripple News: R3’s New Corda Settler Dapp Uses XRP For Settlements

Ripple, the real-time gross-settlement system and remittance network, and R3, a distributed ledger technology provider, have put their legal… The post Ripple News: R3’s New Corda Settler Dapp Uses XRP For Settlements appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology Adoption Plays An Important Crypto Markt Value Role

Adoption Of The Technology Plays An Important Role In The Crypto Market In the past, several companies provided to the market new innovative products that were never seen before. And some investors such as Warren Buffet could not see this technological changes take place.

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Nydia Zhang of the Social Alpha Foundation: Using the Blockchain for Good

As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.

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South Korea Is Trialing Blockchain Voting — Here’s What That Means

South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.

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Ripple and NEM launch EU blockchain association to cozy up to regulators

Blockchain firms want to stay on the good side of Europe, it seems. Ripple, NEM, and company have founded a new association to represent the interests of blockchain and cryptocurrency businesses across the continent.

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Ping An’s New Pitch for Blockchain: Shared Ledger, But Banks Keep Clients

Ping An, the Chinese insurance giant that built the eTradeFinance blockchain, is modifying the platform to give its 12 participating banks more control over customer relationships.

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Is Blockchain Just Hot Air? New Study Finds Zero Percent Success Rate

A new study into 43 blockchain solutions implemented in the international development sector revealed a zero percent success rate. It also found that blockchain vendors didn’t respond to requests for evidence of their solutions’ results.

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UAE Government Launch National Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence Initiatives

At the Second United Arab Emirates (UAE)  Government Annual Meeting held in Abu Dhabi, the region’s authorities launched two national platforms targeted at reinforcing the UAE’s artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology ecosystems and ultimately make the state a hotbed for new technologies, reported the Emirates News Agency on November 28, 2018.

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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Receives Honorary Doctorate

Vitalik Buterin left academia four years ago to pursue a career in crypto. Now, the Ethereum founder’s contributions to the industry (and the computer science field at large) have earned him an honorary Ph.

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Amazon Unveils Quantum Ledger Database and Managed Blockchain Services

According to an article by TechCrunch, published November 28, 2018, Amazon Web Services announced its entry into the world of blockchain technology at the AWS Invent event, where it unveiled two new services called Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), and Managed Blockchain.

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Amazon Unveils ‘Immutable’ Quantum Ledger Database Product

Amazon’s digital arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed two new blockchain-inspired products despite the current cryptocurrency bear market. Amazon Marching Forward Despite the recent decrease across the entire cryptocurrency market, Amazon digital arm AWS (Amazon Web Services) revealed two new blockchain-oriented products, CNBC reports.

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Report: Crypto Exchanges Are Recording Impressive Revenues

Cryptocurrency exchanges are catching up to their traditional counterparts, a new study suggests. According to a report released by global professional services company Accenture, revenue from cryptocurrency exchanges is now matching that of traditional exchanges.

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Amazon Gets Deeper into Blockchain, What Does it Mean For Crypto?

When huge tech or commerce companies get into blockchain it makes the headlines. They don’t come much bigger than retail giant Amazon which has just launched two new distributed ledger services. Yesterday Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy announced the launch of Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) and Amazon Managed Blockchain according to Zdnet.

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Amazon Web Services Launches a Managed Blockchain Service and Quantum Ledger Database

Back in mid-October, the crypto-verse was delighted when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new partnership with Qtum (QTUM). The partnership was between the China Division of AWS and latter blockchain project.

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Amazon officially joins the blockchain party

Despite previous small forays into the blockchain space, Amazon is now officially part of the blockchain party after launching two new blockchain oriented services. The services called Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) and Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) were announced yesterday at Amazon’s re:Invent conference, reports TechCrunch.

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Amazon Releases Two Blockchain Products at re:Invent 2018

Amazon, the e-commerce giant, has announced in their annual conference that they have two new tech products and they implement and use the blockchain. The two products that Amazon has launched are called; Quantum Ledger Database and the Amazon Managed Blockchain.

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Yet Another Big Player Won Over by Blockchain: Amazon Launches New Blockchain Services

CoinSpeaker Yet Another Big Player Won Over by Blockchain: Amazon Launches New Blockchain Services Two new products - Amazon Quantum Ledger Database and Managed Blockchain will maintain a complete and verifiable history of data changes, and allow users adjust and manage a scalable blockchain network.

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Amazon Launches New Blockchain Services

CoinSpeaker Amazon Launches New Blockchain Services Two new products - Amazon Quantum Ledger Database and Managed Blockchain will maintain a complete and verifiable history of data changes, and allow users adjust and manage a scalable blockchain network. Amazon Launches New Blockchain Services

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In Cautionary Speech, Chairman Clayton Parrots SEC’s Bitcoin ETF Concerns

Speaking at the ongoing CoinDesk's Consensus Invest conference in New York, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton spoke on why his agency hasn’t yet approved a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).

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EU Supermarket Auchan Food Distributor Adopts Blockchain For Clients To Track Goods That It Sells

A new company is entering the blockchain market in order to improve the service it provides to its clients. The global company Auchan, will be working on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform that would allow customers the possibility to track the goods that they purchase at the store. The information was recently released by […]

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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Comments on Bitcoin’s Intrinsic Value and Popularity

Edward Snowden, who is well-known as a whistleblower, recently discussed bitcoin in an interview with McSweeney’s. During the interview, he explained that he considers distributed ledger technology to be a “new kind of database” that does not allow for manipulation.

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Crypto security firm Ledger expands to New York, appoints new head for Ledger Vault

CryptoNinjas Today, Ledger, a company dedicated to securing crypto assets and maker of popular hardware wallet devices, announced that it has expanded its U. S. presence to New York City and appointed Demetrios Skalkotos to lead.

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Ledger Hardware Wallet Opens New York Office for Institutional Crypto Custody Vault

The popular virtual currency hardware wallet manufacturer, Ledger, announced that it has opened an office in New York in order to offer services for institutional investors. The information was released a few hours ago by Ledger in a press release shared with Cointelegraph.

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