UEFA to Distribute Football Tickets via Blockchain Application

In another example of blockchain technology’s prowess, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) revealed that it distributed 100 percent of the tickets for a recent football match solely using blockchain. дальше »

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How Exchanges Are Using KYC Laws to Keep Your Crypto

There is a growing trend of exchanges keeping users crypto under the guise of instituting KYC laws. Heres what you need to know. The post How Exchanges Are Using KYC Laws to Keep Your Crypto appeared first on CoinCentral. дальше »

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Coinbase Seeks Patent for Security-Enhanced Bitcoin Payment System

U. S. -based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new Bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer. The new platform will provide an added layer of security for users’ keys and allow them to make Bitcoin payments directly from their digital wallets. дальше »

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Dutch Trader Loses Reclamation Suit Against Banks That Froze His Accounts

In November 2016, a Dutch cryptotrader tried to buy his first 10 bitcoin, first using funds from his ING bank and later from ABN Amro. Both banks denied the transactions. дальше »

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[promoted] Equity Trust Forges a New Path for Crypto-Based IRA Investments

Asset diversification has long been touted as a critical strategy for wealth building. This method of portfolio management, which traditionally involves a mix of stocks, fixed assets and commodities allows for maximum return at the least amount of risk — an important element for retirement savings. дальше »

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Developing bionics: How IBM is adapting mind-control for accessibility

What if there was a way to give everyone suffering from conditions like paralysis or Locked-in syndrome the means to operate prosthetic devices and tech gadgets using mind-control? Well, there is – or at least, there will be. дальше »

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How a Tokyo FOMO Family Invested in Bitcoin and Lost

There’s an issue, in Japan, with certain high income families being unable to save money. Here’s the story of a Japanese household of four, living in the Tokyo Bay area, in a high-end tower apartment, repaying multiple loans and having unnecessary spending. дальше »

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Parkade ICO

There’s a worldwide parking crisis, and it’s growing each year. Populations are on the rise and usable land is scarce in major cities. There are billions of cars across the globe. They all need somewhere to park, but there are simply not enough spaces. дальше »

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“Blocklattice” Developer DEXON Foundation Secures $20 Million in Funding, Shares Speed Test Results

DEXON Foundation, an offshoot of the world’s first zero-fee, high-frequency cryptocurrency trading platform COBINHOOD, has bagged $20 million in a new funding round led by hedge fund firm IDG Capital. дальше »

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Kuwait Finance House Now Using Ripple xRapid For Cross Border Transactions

Kuwait Finance House (KFH) is one of the major banks of Kuwait, most famous for being one of the first banks to open, operating under Sharia law. KFH are a major firm within Kuwait, trading on the Kuwait Stock Exchange, with a market capitalisation of $8. дальше »

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Ripple Gives Further Push to Its xRapid Solution, Eyes China for Expansion

The three exchanges will be using the Ripple's xRapid solution for the easy transfer of money between the Mexican pesos, the U.S. Dollars, and the Phillippines pesos. The post Ripple Gives Further Push to Its xRapid Solution, Eyes China for Expansion appeared first on CoinSpeaker. дальше »

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Ripple заключил партнерство с биткоин-биржей Bittrex

Блокчейн-стартап Ripple объявил о партнерстве с тремя криптовалютными биржами — американской Bittrex, мексиканской Bitso и филиппинской Coins. Ph, которые будут использовать продукт для трансграничных платежей xRapid. дальше »

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Study: Liberals love Overwatch, conservatives love CoD, and everyone loves Fortnite

A survey published this month suggests liberal gamers have a bit more interest in Overwatch and its like, while gamers in conservative areas are more interested in Call of Duty. The ValueGamers, a gaming research site, conducted the survey using Google Search data on the seven most popular esports games within each metro area of the United States. дальше »

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UPS Considers Blockchain Technology for Package Delivery and Supply Chain Logistics

110-Year-Old United Parcel Service (UPS) Will Use Blockchain To Streamline Logistics It looks like even ancient companies are starting to see the benefits of using the blockchain technology in their services. дальше »

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Crypto Exchange Huobi Partners with Five Firms to Launch Trading Platforms

The third largest cryptocurrency exchange on the planet has partnered with five firms to help them launch their own trading platforms. The Huobi Group will provide the framework for the new exchanges using the recently launched Huobi Cloud. дальше »

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U.S. Investors Can Now Buy a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Note

American investors can now invest in bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) through an Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) called Bitcoin Tracker One on the Nasdaq Stockholm Exchange in Sweden, per a Bloomberg report. дальше »

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Korean Pop Stars connect with Fans Using Blockchain Virtual Gifts

The idea of a Korean pop-star coming to the US to livestream and receive thousands of blockchain-based gifts from fans might seem like science fiction, but Gifto project made this a reality at KCON in LA last weekend. дальше »

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US Investors Can Now Invest in a Fully-Regulated Bitcoin ETN

While the entire cryptocurrency community is waiting for the approval of a potential bitcoin ETF by the US Securities Exchange and Securities Commission (SEC), investors can now purchase Bitcoin exchange-traded notes, entirely regulated in Sweden. дальше »

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“Sustained and Increasing Demand From Institutions” – Cryptocurrency Prime Dealer Raises $22.7 Million for Its Institutional Crypto Platform

SFOX, a cryptocurrency prime dealer for institutional and large-scale investors, including funds, announced today that it had raised Series A funding of $22. 7 million. Contributors to the funding round include Y Combinator, Blockchain Capital, and others. дальше »

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Hackers Earn Up To $250,000 Monthly Using Coinhive Miner

Coinhive, the Javascript-written mining software, earned up to $250,000 in cryptocurrency mining more than a thousand of Monero coins in four weeks, a research paper claims.

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Crypto Investor Sues Telecom Giant AT&T For $224 Million Over Loss

The cryptoinvestor filed a lawsuit against the US mobile operator AT&T for not being sufficiently vigilant and granting access to its cellphone to scammers who, using mobile, stole $24 million in cryptocurrency from the investor. дальше »

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Ethereum: Cashing Out Fears Drive Falling Ether Prices, Protocol Co-Founder Refutes Worries

The vast number of ICOs built on the Ethereum platform were seen as a catalyst for 2017’s ether bull run. Now, lack of activity from any enterprising project is said to result in the protocol token’s price fall. дальше »

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Are altcoins getting a jolt from Lightning Network marketing?

With Ethereum's scaling problems reaching an inflection point this week, could coins using Bitcoin's Lightning Network, or a version thereof, be correlating more in price action with BTC?  дальше »

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AMA With Origin Team Reveals Plans for Decentralized Sharing Economy

Matt Liu, Josh Fraser and former PayPal head Yu Pan want to bring the blockchain to the sharing economy. The trio is devising a platform with an emphasis on inclusive, peer-to-peer service hubs designed to decentralize the same consumer cost-friendly business models that have made companies like Airbnb, Uber and Lyft so popular in recent years. дальше »

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JavaScript Based Coinhive Mines $250,000 Worth of Monero (XMR) Monthly

Browser Based Coinhive Mines About $250,000 Worth of Monero (XMR) Coins Monthly Mining is the foundation of all blockchain-based digital coins. Altcoin, Monero, allows miners to use standard hardware to mine XMR. дальше »

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Vietnamese Government Bans Mining Hardware Imports

Following a high-level proposal in July to ban the importation of all cryptocurrency mining equipment into Vietnam, the Vietnamese Customs Department has announced a total ban on all mining rig imports, according to a local news outlet. дальше »

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Paragon Partners With Civic Technologies to Deliver Transparency, Digital IDs to Cannabis Industry

Paragon, a blockchain company that develops seed-to-sale tracking solutions for the marijuana industry, is joining hands with Civic Technologies Inc. , a digital identity firm, to bring secure and trusted identity services to Paragon’s digital community. дальше »

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Abu Dhabi resident Down 85% After Taking $140K Loan to Buy Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency investing is risky business and one budding investor is feeling the pain after using a huge bank loan to build a losing cryptocurrency portfolio. DYOR and Steer Clear of FOMO It appears that FOMO got the best of one amateur cryptocurrency investor in Abu Dhabi who is now 85% down on cryptocurrencies purchased using a $139,500 bank loan. дальше »

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Fertility app blamed for 37 unwanted pregnancies is now FDA approved in the USA

On August 10, the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) made a surprising move by officially approving fertility app Natural Cycles in the USA. Though the fertility app was approved in Europe last year, has over 700,000 users, and is available in 161 countries, Natural Cycles hasn’t gone without its controversies. дальше »

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Can Elon Musk Take Tesla Private Using Cryptocurrencies?

Elon Musk believes that Tesla should be taken private and he wrote a letter to the company last week, suggesting that he was serious about taking it off the public markets. The letter came shortly after he tweeted the same. дальше »

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Microsoft and Amazon launch preview for cross-device collaboration between Alexa and Cortana

Amazon and Microsoft hope you’ll help them teach Cortana and Alexa to play nicely together. Starting today you can sign up for a preview that’ll let you run the virtual assistants on each others’ respective devices. дальше »

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South Korean women protest against growing epidemic of spycam porn

On August 4, a 35-degree Saturday, 70,000 women gathered in the streets of Seoul wearing masks. Many were holding signs declaring “My life is not your porn”. The South Korean women were speaking out in a fight against the country’s growing epidemic of spycam porn. дальше »

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Crypto Goes Green: Using Renewable Energy in Cloud Mining

Alexander Petersons, crypto-enthusiast and a product director of cloud mining service Hashtoro. com, shares insights into how to make crypto mining not only more environmentally-friendly, but also less expensive. дальше »

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RChain (RHOC)

The nice thing about using RChain (RHOC) is that this blockchain project is designed to implement a blockchain architecture that дальше »

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Using Blockchain to Unearth the Next K-POP Superstar with the Z-POP Dream Project

Singapore, 15 August 2018 – Z-POP Dream Project (Z-POP Dream), a global entertainment platform headquartered in Korea, is set to revolutionise the pop music industry through the use of Blockchain technology. дальше »

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Venezuela to Peg Pension, Salary Systems to Petro Cryptocurrency

Venezuela is set to begin using its "petro" cryptocurrency as an official accounting unit, according to the country's president. дальше »

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Wyre Adds MakerDAO Stablecoin Pairing for Global Money Transfers

Blockchain money transfer company Wyre has announced a partnership with MakerDAO, creator of the Dai stablecoin, to offer Dai as part of a fiat-crypto trading pair in more than 30 countries across the world including the U. дальше »

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Distributed Dialogues: Weighing In on Privacy Implications

At the recent Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco, Rick Lewis and Dave Hollerith from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network interviewed a host of different personalities in the blockchain space about digital privacy. дальше »

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Distributed Dialogues: David Chaum, Patrick Byrne and Blockchain Privacy

At the recent Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco, Rick Lewis and Dave Hollerith from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network interviewed a host of different personalities in the blockchain space about digital privacy. дальше »

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Op Ed: Evaluating the Promise of Cardano: Has Ethereum Met Its Match?

This month, we celebrate Ethereum’s third birthday and reflect upon the many milestones that have occured in the industry since the dawn of the original smart contract blockchain. дальше »

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I’m pretty sure this DIY karaoke robot wants to devour my soul

A sorcerer by the name of Hunter Irving recently found a discarded child’s toy in a shop of horrors. Its visage was so terrifying it inspired him to create a machine that uses popular music to hypnotize humans while their souls are devoured. дальше »

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Browser mining is generating over $250K worth of cryptocurrency every month

New academic research has discovered that embedded cryptocurrecy miner CoinHive is generating $250,000 worth of Monero every month – most of it going to just 10 individuals. The research, released by RWTH Aachen University in Germany, provides an extensive overview of browser-mining activity across the internet. дальше »

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NEO Finance ICO

NEO Finance offers an international platform in which participants have the opportunity to instantly receive a money loan with fiat money on bail of volatile crypto assets such as: Bitcoin Ethereum Ripple BitcoinCash Receipt of credit funds can be carried out in the following ways: In your wallet NEO Finance With the help of a payment card NEO Finance, with the possibility of cashing in any ATM Using the user's bank card. дальше »

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How to Combat Scams in ICO Investing

How to combat scams that plague ICO investing using a global network of security experts.

The post How to Combat Scams in ICO Investing appeared first on CoinMarketCap.

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Auto Block Launches Auto Coin For Buying & Selling Cars With Cryptocurrency

The Auto Coin, the only blockchain-based cryptocurrency designed specifically to cater for the automotive industry has been officially launched. This coin is giving cryptocurrency owners an opportunity to use their digital coins to pay for new vehicles using a secure and digital channel for the first time ever. This coin has been established to fill […] дальше »

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Google is tracking your every move even when you tell it to stop – here’s how to fix it

If you’re using an Android phone or have Google apps installed on your iPhone, the search giant is almost certainly tracking your location constantly – even if you’ve turned that setting off, reports the Associated Press. дальше »

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Earning BTC By Shopping Online

You’ve heard of paying for products online using Bitcoin, but have you heard of being PAID in BITCOIN for buying products online? You may have used a cashback service before, one that rewards customers for choosing to shop with a particular brand, by refunding them a percentage of the overall price. дальше »

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You Can Now Get Paid (a Little) for Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network

Lightning nodes are making money – albeit not much – displaying the potential for a growing fee market on the layer two tech. дальше »

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You Can Now Get Paid (A Little) For Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network

Lightning nodes are making money – albeit not much – displaying the potential for a growing fee market on the layer two tech. дальше »

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Ex-Visa CEO Blockchain Startup Crypterium to Power Crypto Payments via Text Message

Visa’s EX Responsible For World’s Faster Cryptocurrency Transactions Crypterium, the new fintech startup has been developing a new blockchain platform that operates differently than traditional banking systems or cryptocurrency companies. дальше »

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