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Winklevoss Twins Sue Charlie Shrem For Allegedly Stealing 5,000 Bitcoin

The Winklevoss twins have filed a lawsuit against bitcoin investor Charlie Shrem, alleging that Shrem “stole” 5,000 bitcoins from them in 2012. According to a recent report released by the New York Times, Charlie Shrem has made several large purchases over the past year, including multiple real estate properties, luxury cars, powerboats and a $2 million house. дальше »

2018-11-3 20:19


Blockchain-Powered Islamic Bonds to Fund Microfinance Projects in Indonesia

Indonesian firm Blossom Finance has announced plans to launch blockchain-based sukuk, Islamic bonds, to fund microfinance projects in the Muslim-majority country. Blossom Finance’s “Smart Sukuk” to Automate Issuance of Islamic Bonds The project, to roll out in the coming months, involves using distributed ledger technology to keep issuance costs low while attracting a large pool of retail investors,. дальше »

2018-10-28 23:00


Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) Provide Significant Advantages Over Initial Public Offerings (IPO)

Initial Coin Offerings have long been among the most revered and interesting aspects of the growing cryptocurrency markets and blockchain community. As technology surrounding the decentralized distributed ledger system became more mainstream and advanced, it became necessary for companies to reach out and find new ways to fund the projects which could hopefully change and […] дальше »

2018-10-24 07:08


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Stackr: The Dawn of a Digital Asset Savings Solution - [BTC Media Sponsor]

Financial savings have long been the foundation of wealth and asset building. However, we are now in a time when the growing obsolescence of financial institutions has forced certain technologies out of date, created high fees, revealed structural inefficiencies and, ultimately, meant that some standard investment solutions now fail to place consumer needs first. дальше »

2018-10-6 16:37


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Japan Bank Consortium launches its Ripple-powered payment app

Japan has finally given the green light to the Japan Bank Consortium to launch its Ripple-powered payments app for Android and iOS. The news comes straight from Ripple themselves. “The Japan Bank Consortium launched MoneyTap today, a Ripple-powered payments app to offer real time settlement for domestic payments in Japan,” the company wrote on Twitter. дальше »

2018-10-4 13:23


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Citizens In South Korea Begin Training To Become Proficient In Blockchain Technology

Forty-two lucky South Korean citizens are soon to undergo intensive training to become proficient in Blockchain technology, thereby setting them up for immediate employment within the country. According to Kinews, a South Korean news service, the training is part of a wider $100 billion development strategy to help boost South Korea’s technology industry, specifically in the realm of distributed ledger technology. дальше »

2018-9-6 16:00


Blockchain Projects Diginex And Symbioses To Partner For Mining Network

After its partnership with the Mekong Club, an anti-slavery group, at the end of August, Diginex has once again gone to out to find institutional partners to adopt its technologies. Diginex, a global blockchain solutions company made an announcement this September 3rd 2018, publicizing its partnership to provide decentralized ledger infrastructure Symbioses SA Ltd. Diginex, […] дальше »

2018-9-4 14:37


Triple Threat: Ripple Announces Three Preferred Cryptocurrency Exchanges as Part of Expanded XRapid Paradigm

Ripple has announced three cryptocurrency exchange companies as its preferred platforms for carrying out transactions with the XRP token via its XRapid payments protocol. The move comes as Ripple continues in its bid to expand its services across the globe–gaining increased utilization of the XRP coin in tandem with its legacy ledger. дальше »

2018-8-18 21:26


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An Australian Blockchain Experiment: Tracking Global Almond Shipments

Following a successful 2016 trial of blockchain technology in an interbank open account transaction, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has partnered with five international and Australian companies to ship 17 tonnes of almonds from Melbourne, Australia, to Hamburg, Germany, using a new distributed ledger platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. дальше »

2018-7-31 23:13


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03