David Hollerith
Kenya’s Government Task Force to Explore Blockchains for Land and Education
Private companies, as well as national and local governments, have all caught media attention for announcing some kind of investigation or at least interest in the blockchain. Of course,...
Venezuela’s On-and-Off Love Affair With Cryptocurrency Mining: It’s Complicated
2017 was a particularly confusing and uneasy year to mine cryptocurrency in Venezuela. 2018 is not much better.
Tim Swanson: Enterprise Blockchain is in a “Trough of Disillusionment”
This week on Let’s Talk Bitcoin, Tim Swanson discusses the state of enterprise blockchain development.
Survey Polls American Awareness of Cryptocurrencies and ICOs
In October 2017, LendEDU, a marketplace for financing loans, credit cards and other financial products, polled 1,000 Americans asking a series of questions related to Ethereum, Ripple and initial...
Setting Bitcoin’s Price Mechanism: CME Group to Launch BTC Futures
On the anniversary of the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper, the price of Bitcoin reached a new all-time high, following the news that CME Group, one of...
This Blockchain-Powered Platform Aims to Disrupt the Esport Gambling Industry
Esports wagering is a large — and growing — global industry at the intersection between gambling, technology and entertainment. In their 2017 Global Esports Markets Report, Newzoo found that China...
India Trials a Power Grid on the Blockchain to Incentivize Sustainable Energy
Access to reliable energy is the foundation of economic development and human society. Yet reliable energy can come at a steep environmental cost.Today’s energy systems are being rapidly reexamined...
South Korea’s ICO Ban: A Reaction to “Serious Concerns” Over Cryptocurrency Investment Practices
The South Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) has announced it will ban all forms of initial coin offerings (ICOs). After a meeting to discuss virtual currency control, the vice-chairman...
Get Your Wages in Cryptocurrencies: Bitwage Expands to the U.K.
It’s getting easier all the time to be paid in cryptocurrency. As of Monday, July 3, Bitwage, the Bitcoin payroll and international wage payment service, announced that it is...
This Hackathon Winner Can Help Pass On Your Bitcoins After You Die
First place at the Distributed: Markets hackathon was taken this year by Tom Nguyen for his project, Dead Man’s Block. Named after the dead man’s switch, Dead Man’s Block...
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