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Venezuela’s Central Bank Indicates Plans to Stockpile Bitcoin
27.9.2019
Various reports reveal Venezuela’s central bank is allegedly contemplating hoarding a variety of cryptocurrencies like BTC within its internal reserves. The state-operated gas company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has asked to send BTC and ETH payments to Banco Central...
Four Swiss Firms Obtain funding from EU to Create Secure Quantum Communication Infrastructure
24.9.2019
Earlier this month, the European Commission announced the launch of OPENQKD, a project that will install test quantum communication infrastructures in several European countries. The 3-year research project, as suggested by its developers, would be critical in the fields of telecommunications...
Turkey’s National Blockchain Infrastructure Welcomes DLT, Blockchain, BTC, Blockchain-based Gold Trading and Much more!
19.9.2019
Yesterday, during the Strategy 2023 presentation, which took place in Ankara, the Ministry of Industry and Technology shared its blockchain ambition. Soon we may get to see a national blockchain infrastructure in Turkey. Reports say that the country’s government is looking into using...
Turkey Announces Plans for National Blockchain Infrastructure
18.9.2019
The Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology has announced plans to establish a national blockchain infrastructure
Crypto Payments Startup Eligma Raises €4 Million From Bitcoin.com and Pangea Blockchain Fund
3.9.2019
Many retail stores would like to welcome the added business that the crypto community brings, but find that they don’t have the capability to do so within their existing payment infrastructure. One company bridging this gap is Slovenian startup Eligma which is now set to start global...
More Than 70 Projects and Applications Built Around Bitcoin Cash
1.9.2019
Over the last two years, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network’s protocol and third-party infrastructure have grown in robust fashion. There are now more than 70 projects and applications built on and around the BCH chain. The following is an in-depth guide on how to benefit from the growing number...
Crypto Lending Platforms Prepare to Assail the Banking System
30.8.2019
The battle lines have been drawn and the troops assembled. On the one side stands the combined might of the banking cartels, centuries of deeply entrenched financial infrastructure supporting them. And on the other side stands a handful of crypto companies armed with little more than a passionate...
Building a Full-Stack Serverless Application with Cloudflare Workers
9.8.2019
One of my favorite developments in software development has been the advent of serverless. As a developer who has a tendency to get bogged down in the details of deployment and DevOps, it's refreshing to be given a mode of building web applications that simply abstracts scaling and infrastructure...
PR: Evercoin Announces $1M Pre-Seed Financing With gumi Cryptos and Prominent Blockchain and Open Source Pioneers
5.8.2019
San Francisco, CA - Evercoin announced today $1M in pre-seed stage financing from gumi Cryptos and prominent Blockchain and Open Source pioneers.
Investors in this round include:
Gumi Cryptos Capital
Roger Ver -- Founder, Executive Chairman of Bitcoin.com
Ross Mason -- Founder of MuleSoft (sold...
PR: bitHolla Releases Open Exchange Kit HollaExShell
24.7.2019
bitHolla, the company that builds customized cryptocurrency trading software is announcing the launch of its new product HollaExShell, an open exchange software package, giving anyone the ability to launch a full fledged crypto exchange from a command-line interface. HollaEx packages provided...
Wanxiang City Partners With PlatON, a Blockchain Privacy Startup, To Build Tracking Infrastructure
21.6.2019
China will build a blockchain-managed live-work district in Hangzhou
Wanxiang and PlatON Join Forces for Blockchain Infrastructure of New Smart City in China
20.6.2019
Auto giant with multiple subsidiaries, Wanxiang, has partnered with PlatON to create blockchain solutions for future smart city in Hangzhou
Self-Host Your Static Assets
5.6.2019
Harry Roberts digs into why hosting assets on someone else’s servers (including CDNs) is not such a great idea if we want our websites to be lightning fast.
Harry writes:
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem...
Why Darknet Drug Sales Are on the Rise
5.6.2019
The public’s appetite for darknet drugs remains undaunted. A major new survey has shown consistent growth in online drug sales since 2014, with Scotland, Brazil and England leading the demand for narcotics procured off the darknet. Despite numerous darknet markets (DNMs) and supporting...
BCH Businesses Launch Development Fund for Bitcoin Cash
4.6.2019
On May 30, the FVNI Development Society in collaboration with Bitcoin.com, Bitcoincash.org, Electron Cash, Bitcoincash.com and a multitude of individuals and businesses in China launched a new fundraiser to support the software engineers who maintain the technical development of the Bitcoin Cash...
Finance IT Infrastructure Firm Partners With Institutional Crypto Exchange Seed CX
24.5.2019
A new partnership between Avelacom and Seed CX will let Avelacom’s customers access Seed’s real-time market data and order-routing products
Developer Creates Interwallet Transfer Plugin to Strengthen Bitcoin Cash Privacy
20.5.2019
The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) protocol and infrastructure continue to see relentless development. The Electron Cash Cashshuffle implementation has enhanced bitcoin cash fungibility by providing users with the ability to shuffle coins. Now a developer has announced the launch of the Interwallet transfer...
Blockchain Infrastructure Firm Blockstream Launches Security Token Platform
16.5.2019
Blockstream has announced the launch of its Liquid Securities platform for businesses that want to issue security tokens
The Biggest Barrier to Building in DeFi
25.3.2019
DeFi services have the potential to make managing finances easier than ever before: We’ve entered the era of programmable financial instruments. DeFi promises us complete control over our funds, stronger security infrastructure, seamless payment functionality, and investment options previously only...
Forms, Auth and Serverless Functions on Gatsby and Netlify
31.5.2018
Abstracting infrastructure is in our DNA. Roads, schools, water supply networks—you get the idea. Web development is no exception: serverless architectures are a beautiful expression of that phenomenon. Static sites, in particular, are turning into dynamic, rich experiences.
Handling static...