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How Blockchain Could Help Rural South Africa Turn Sunshine Into Income
16.6.2019
Solar has lit up remote communities. The next step is to link these communities to an energy market.
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The way energy is produced and distributed is changing rapidly as the industry moves away from carbon-based energy production. Technological development in...
It’s FATF’s Way or the Highway for Crypto Exchanges. That’s a Big Mistake
15.6.2019
The crypto industry can fight money launderers effectively, but not the way FATF wants it to, a CEX.IO compliance officer writes
I Was Reddit’s First (And Only) Cryptocurrency Engineer
15.6.2019
Before his move to supporting Craig Wright's bitcoin SV, Ryan X Charles describes his short-lived tenure at reddit and the trolls who made his life hell
Ahead of the Facebook Coin Announcement: How it May End Up?
15.6.2019
After months of speculation and rumour, not only the cryptoworld is waiting for the next week when social media giant Facebook is estimated to announce its new payments system and digital token.
Some reports claim it might happen on June 18. However, the coin itself might be launched in a dozen...
Of Crypto and Men: 20 Crypto Jokes
15.6.2019
This was a week of opposites in the cryptoworld, maybe more so than usual. Everybody has taken a side in the crypto argument, only the Burning Sun scandal is indiscriminately all-encompassing and ever-growing.
As a Mexican exchange makes a last-minute plea to stop tough fintech regulations, FATF’s...
Kik vs SEC – The Lawyers Speak
14.6.2019
The SEC's complaint against Kik, after it raised $100 million in an ICO, seemed pretty brutal, but not so fast, we're only hearing one side of the story. Watch more here as three lawyers discuss the case, its merits and its potential impacts for the crypto industry as a whole
Kik vs SEC: The Lawyers Speak
14.6.2019
The SEC's complaint against Kik, after it raised $100 million in an ICO, seemed pretty brutal, but not so fast, we're only hearing one side of the story. Watch more here as three lawyers discuss the case, its merits and its potential impacts for the crypto industry as a whole
Bounty.Cash Pairs Projects With Developers Finding Solutions for BCH
14.6.2019
Using bounties to seek solutions to various problems has proved to be a working approach for many projects in the crypto industry. Bounty.Cash is a platform that matches businesses and entrepreneurs with developers who are ready to solve issues with apps and features and get rewarded with bitcoin...
Startups Debut First Protocol for Issuing Tokens via Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
14.6.2019
The first protocol for issuing tokens via bitcoin’s lightning network is aimed to rival ethereum's ERC-20. But that's a tall order
14 Banks, 5 Tokens: Fnality’s Expansive Vision for Interbank Blockchains
13.6.2019
Fresh off a $63 million fundraise, execs at bank blockchain consortium Fnality shed some light on the often-secretive project's plan to tokenize fiat currency
Kenetic Starts New Fund, Sees Asia as a Home for Blockchain Generation
12.6.2019
Jehan Chu. Kenetic will soon be launching a new venture capital fund that is “pure equity, obviously blockchain only”, Jehan Chu, co-founder and managing partner at Kenetic Capital, a blockchain investment and advisory firm, told Cryptonews.com in an interview about their plans, the blockchain...
Monero (XMR) Price Prediction: Software Pruning & I2P Features Are Added to The Crypto Chain
12.6.2019
In order to enhance scalability, Monero (XMR) recently added blockchain pruning to its software. This feature allows users to optionally “prune” about 2/3 of the blockchain data, while still contributing to the network. An additional feature called I2P-zero is also bundled with Monero. This allows...
Samourai, Nodl to Launch Bitcoin Lightning Node With Mixing Features
10.6.2019
A new hardware partnership is helping the team behind Samourai Wallet extend their obsession with privacy to the world of bitcoin nodes
MPC Explained: The Bold New Vision for Securing Crypto Money
10.6.2019
Cryptography advances are converging to help developers bring blockchain uses to their core decentralizing principles, writes Michael J. Casey
Why Academics Love Bitcoin – and Crypto
10.6.2019
For academics, bitcoin, and more broadly crypto, is an exciting space where the ideas they write up in papers actually get built and tested
The Speed Dreams of Security Tokens
9.6.2019
Security tokens may have many potential advantages over traditional assets – but speed is not one of them, argues Noelle Acheson
Should You Trade on a DEX or a Centralized Exchange?
9.6.2019
Decentralized exchanges have been growing in popularity in the past two years as it has become evident that even the most reputable centralized exchanges cannot offer the level of security that crypto traders seek. However, despite providing superior fund security than their centralized...
FinalMessage - Last Resort Security For Your Crypto
9.6.2019
What would happen to your cryptocurrency holdings if something bad happened to you? No one is protected against death, memory loss, or any other terrible accident, so Bitcoin entrepreneurs Matt Odell and Murtaza Ali have launched an elaborate "dead-mans" protection switch called...
I Started the Silk Road Wikipedia Page (Because Bitcoin)
8.6.2019
Online black marketplace Silk Road had quite the effect on bitcoin, being one of the technology's biggest use cases in the early days, and for a while it didn't have its own Wikipedia page – until this man
Are Paid Crypto Groups Worth Your Money?
8.6.2019
In the eternal struggle to predict the crypto market, ‘paid groups’ have risen in popularity.
While such groups assume various forms, they essentially involve paying one or more crypto analysts for access to a channel – usually on social media – in which the payer receives trading tuition, buy...