Category: Blockchain

For the second time in less than three weeks, a lawsuit has been filed against the founders of the Tezos project. Pursued in the U.S. District Court in Florida, the suit alleges Tezos founders Arthur and Kathleen Breitman deceptively sold unregistered securities in violation of both federal and state law when they raised $232 million…

Bitcoin is breaking $7,000 again as p2p payments provider Square tests integrated crypto payments in its Cash app. As Forbes and others report Wednesday, Square has issued a rollout to a limited number of customers, using pooled wallets to allow Bitcoin payments without the current high fees. “…We’ve found that [customers] are interested in using…

CME Group’s announcement that they will begin trading Bitcoin futures catapulted the Bitcoin market to new highs two weeks ago. Many Bitcoin investors are waiting with bated breath for trading to commence and are expecting further price growth. Indeed, when the world’s largest futures market recognizes Bitcoin as a legitimate asset and decides to integrate…

In the beginning, there was Bitcoin, and in those simpler days, everyone wants a piece of it, and everyone who was in the business was offering it. Then came along Ethereum, as a rival, exchanges ummed and ahhed if it was a legitimate enough to work with. Ethereum has earned its stripes and is easy…

More than 26,000 new projects related to blockchain were created on code repository GitHub last year, according to data collected by Deloitte. For its new report – titled “Evolution of Blockchain Technology: Insights from the GitHub Platform” and published today – the professional services firm drew information from the development platform, which plays home to the…

Blockchain Will Really Disrupt Silicon Valley Once Consumers Control Own Data The mantra “If the service is free you are the product!” has become the common battle cry for Silicon Valley. Consumers on the lookout for freebies have flocked to these free services and signed away their data rights to access these cool and “indispensable”…

The announcement by CME that it plans to launch Bitcoin futures has resulted in a spike in interest across the world. Coinbase, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, has added 100,000 new users in the 24 hours past the announcement. Why Coinbase matters Coinbase is a popular exchange to buy Bitcoins with 11.9 mln users supported…

Blockchain development is the now second-hottest skill in the job market today, growing more than 200% since this time last year. Blockchain developers now rank second among the top 20 fastest-growing job skills, and job postings for workers with those skills have more than doubled this year. Taking second fiddle only to robotics specialists, blockchain…

PIVOT: 21 Inc, once a maker of bitcoin mining hardware, is rebranding to emphasize its new focus on using cryptocurrency to power a social network. Effective today, the startup has changed its name to Earn.com to drive home the message users can get paid for answering emails and completing tasks, according to a company blog…

The European Commission has announced €30 billion on new investments in technology initiatives including those involving blockchain. The funding would come through the Horizon 2020 initiative, which to date has been supported by €77 billion in public funding. The goal is to support new investments in the areas of “migration, security, climate, clean energy and digital…

It’s not just initial coin offerings (ICOs) that are acting like magic – the word ‘Blockchain’ has just revolutionized one company’s finances by 400 percent. UK-based On-Line PLC, which supplies Internet-related software through various subsidiaries, saw its share price rocket from £15 ($19.60) to a high of £84 ($110) in hours after it announced it…

(makes sense only if it is the real & only PoW Blockchain — TJACK) Blockchain technology is increasingly moving into the business realm, with a large number of new technology applications being released. Because of the complexity of processes in legacy systems, and the relative simplicity of Blockchain technology in producing the same results, companies…

26 OCT 2017 (via ZeroBlock Android app)

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has given its blessing to an initial coin offering set to launch at the start of next month. In a decision posted online Oct. 23, the OSC approved the token sale organized by TokenFunder, which is developing a platform for projects aiming to raise funds through coin sales of their own. The company…

The chief financial officer for the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest independent semiconductor foundry, cited cryptocurrency mining in the firm’s third-quarter results. The company – which provides semiconductor manufacturing services for a range of industries, including firms that design and assemble application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for cryptocurrency mining – announced third-quarter revenue of…

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Bitcoin’s most controversial mining firm, Bitmain, is under threat of having a key chip patent revoked. Forcing a review of the patent is an ex-employee of the China-based mining giant: former director of design Yang Zuoxing, who has now founded a rival mining firm called Bitewei. According to documents reviewed and confirmed by CoinDesk, the…

Hmmm .. I remember something like RSA <3 NSA – since when were 2048 (or any) RSA keys safe? — TJACK RSA Factorization weakness lets attackers impersonate key holders and decrypt their data. A crippling flaw in a widely used code library has fatally undermined the security of millions of encryption keys used in some…

contact: https://www.bgp4.com/contact-me/ 10-Year Anniversary – The 2019 State of Debate in a Video Rap Battle … for all the details, scroll down :)   Reading Material and Books “Satoshi Nakamoto’s” (Wikipedia) Original Whitepaper The PDF – various available translations – The Basics – Developer Documentation High-level introduction to Blockchain: Melanie Swan, Blockchain – Blueprint for…