On April 23-24 world blockchain and cryptocurrency industry experts meet in Singapore at Blockchain Life 2019, the 3rd edition of a major crypto forum. More than 5000 participants from 70 countries are going to visit this biggest international industry event. Executives of leading blockchain companies, venture and crypto funds, traders, businessmen, private investors, promising startups, […]
Mallorca Blockchain, the series of Bitcoin and Blockchain meetups, has announced Mallorca Blockchain Days, its inaugural conference for blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, which aims to bring those at the forefront of crypto technologies together. The ground-breaking event will take place on March 22 – 24 in Palma de Mallorca, in the legendary Pueblo Español, known […]
Blockchain technology firm Bitfury has announced the release of a comprehensive suite of products designed to make the use of Lightning Network easier for vendors and consumers. These include an open-source Lightning wallet, hardware and software tools for merchants and payment processors to accept payments as well as developer tools and a public lightning network […]
According to data provided by Blockchain. com, over $410 billion was transacted in Bitcoin (BTC) in 2018, averaging over $13,000 per second. This was noted in a tweet by Jameson Lopp, a bitcoin developer and CTO at U.S.-based blockchain security startup Casa. http://bit.ly/2ENmSzG estimates (by removing likely change outputs) that over $410 billion was transacted via BTC […]
Waves Platform, a public blockchain network that enables digital startups to create tokens, has announced it raised $120 million to roll out a private version of its Vostok system for corporations and governments. http://bit.ly/2SXKW5I #Vostok, a one billion dollar project in #Waves ecosystem, has closed the first funding round. 3% of VST system tokens will […]
DECENT, a non-profit foundation that has developed an open-source blockchain platform DCore, announced its latest product launch – the beta version of a new Android mobile wallet. This release marks the company’s final technical milestone for this year. The Android wallet is now available for download through Google Play Store. According to the company, the […]
Blockchain technology firm Blockstream has expanded its Bitcoin satellite service to the Asia-Pacific region. The company also added support for Lightning Network transactions, which will allow users to pay for its service using the second layer scaling solution as soon as in January 2019. Blockstream satellite service was first launched in August 2017 and lets […]
Over the past few months, Spain has experienced major developments in the realm of cryptocurrency regulation and blockchain adoption. These developments could introduce major changes to the country’s ICO regulations, tax collection practices, and public services. What follows are the details of the latest blockchain and crypto developments as of December 2018—and answers to the […]
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has put out a Request for Information (RFI) asking for public comment and feedback to help it better understand Ether and the Ethereum blockchain, and the markets that have built up around it. In a press release published on Tuesday, December 11, the regulator said it is looking […]
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has announced on Monday, December 3, that local blockchain and cryptocurrency startups can now apply for a new fintech license that would allow them to handle deposits of up to 100 million CHF ($100 million), just like traditional banks. According to the official announcement, starting from January 1, […]
DECENT, a non-profit foundation behind the open source blockchain platform DCore, has announced it is developing Token 4 Hope, a humanitarian project aimed at helping economically disadvantaged individuals through tokenization, transparency, and credibility. According to the press release, the Token 4 Hope project is the first implementation under the Humanity Token initiative for Hilfswerk. Humanity […]
Tom Lee, the renowned Wall Street analyst and Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, is coming to Istanbul February 2019 to take the stage at the Blockchain Economy Istanbul Summit as a keynote speaker. Known for his significant role in the Blockchain economy and bullish predictions on Bitcoin prices, Tom Lee […]
Decentralized marketplace Shelf.Network has announced a significant partnership with Japan’s largest automotive software provider Broadleaf, startup’s founder and CEO Lasha Antadze told ForkLog. Apart from $1.1 million Investment, the parties agreed on a special distribution deal that will enable Shelf’s technology to be adopted by markets in Southeast Asia and create an automotive trade network […]
A hard fork has taken place on the Bitcoin Cash network, resulting in the creation of two separate coins: Bitcoin ABC (BCHABC) and Bitcoin SV (BCHSV). The hard fork was activated 18:02 UTC on Thursday, November 15, on block 556,766 that was mined by SVPool and became the last block for Bitcoin Cash. The first […]
X8 AG, a Swiss fintech company has received Islamic finance certification for its stablecoin built on the Ethereum blockchain protocol. As reported by Reuters, the firm was certified by the Shariyah Review Bureau (SRB), an Islamic advisory firm licensed by Bahrain’s central bank. According to a company’s representative, having obtained the certification for its digital […]
Billionaire Mike Novogratz’s crypto investment bank, Galaxy Digital Capital Management, has announced it is repositioning its advisory business from focusing on small ICO advisory and blockchain consulting to instead serve larger, more institutional clients in the space. In a statement on several strategic operational and organizational changes, Mike Novogratz said: “The industry underlying digital assets […]
Using any blockchain to create an exchange without central operations doesn’t remove the original creator’s responsibility. This was the warning Robert Cohen, the chief of the SEC’s newly created cyber unit, made in the wake of the charges the U.S. securities regulator had filed against Zachary Coburn, the founder of EtherDelta, an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange. […]
The impressive line up at Asia Blockchain Week fits perfectly with the theme of Making Blockchain Mature. Expect high quality discussions and discourse. BlockShow is bringing Asia Blockchain Week to Singapore. Audiences are all set to be enthralled by over 100 speakers between November 27 – December 1, 2018 at Marina Bay Sands Luxury Hotel. […]
Entrepreneur, developer and educator, Jimmy Song is a well-known figure in Bitcoin community. Former principal architect at blockchain firn Paxos and VP of engineering at wallet management platform Armory Technologies, today he runs a training company called Programming Blockchain, that provides blockchain programming and development training, and also acts as a venture partner at Blockchain […]
Developers behind Zcash blockchain announced successful Sapling hard fork, which introduces new shielded addresses with significantly improved performance. The privacy-focused coin’s upgrade went live at a block height of 419200, reducing by some 90 per cent length of the construction process of a transaction, and a memory reduction of over 97 per cent. Success! We’re […]