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Friday, October 30, 2015

LBRY: The Lovechild of Bitcoin, BitTorrent & Storj

CoinTelegraph spoke to three of LBRY's team members to find out more about their software project.

Will Mainstream Gambling Sites Accept Bitcoin Across the Board?

Online gambling is a global and rapidly growing industry that has nevertheless been hampered by regulatory issues.

Kim Dotcom to use Blockchain & Smartphones to Build a Decentralized Internet

MegaUpload creator Kim Dotcom is looking to reinvent the future if the Internet with the help of your smartphone, or 100 million smartphones that is.

Bitcoin Investment Trust Surges as Price Soars to Yearly High

Following the recent spike in bitcoin trading volume and price, shares of Grayscale Investment’s Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) surged to US$32 per share, marking a 10.92% increase over the past few d

BitGo Unveils Open-Source Bitcoin Key Recovery Service

Bitcoin security platform BitGo announced the launch of the first automated open source Key Recovery Service (KRS) software that allows generating, securing and storing private backup keys

Thursday, October 29, 2015

World's First DAPI: Decentralized Application Programming Interface

Lead Dash developer Evan Duffield recently gave a presentation for Bitcoin Wednesday. After an introduction to Dash's core protocol functions, Duffield went on to give a pre-announcement of a series o

R3 Blockchain Consortium Adds 3 More Banks

Three more banks have announced joining the Distributed Ledger Group (DLG) and R3 Blockchain consortium that nclude Mizuho Bank, UniCredit and Nordea.

IOTA: A Blockchain-less GASP Token for The Internet of Things

In today’s digital age, there are many people on the quest towards the Internet of things (IoT). Now, a new micro-transaction crypto-token called IOTA looks to facilitate the architecture involved wit

NSA-Friendly CISA Bill Easily Passes U.S. Senate; Snowden Attacks

CISA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015) easily passed through the U.S. Senate’s vote on Tuesday, creating a new avenue for consumer data sharing that benefits anti-privacy entities like t

Digital CC Abandons Bitcoin, Rebrands to Digital X

Former bitcoin miner and transaction processor Digital CC has terminated all bitcoin related operations by rebranding to Digital X to focus on its remittance product and blockchain-based software

Taiwanese Kidnappers Receive $1.68M Bitcoin Ransom from Billionaire Yuk-Kwan

The family of billionaire Pearl Oriental Oil chairman Wong Yuk-Kwan paid Taiwanese kidnappers US$1.68 million in bitcoin after they threatened to “dig out the eyeballs or chop off the legs” of Yuk-Kwa

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Study: Only 3% of Bank CEOs Have Tech Experience

The latest study from Accenture shows that only 6% of board directors and just 3% of CEOs of the world’s biggest banks have any technology experience, reports Business Wire.