Joseph Young
Mediachain: Protect Digital Content With a Bitcoin-Based Metadata Protocol
Mine Labs, a New York-based blockchain startup has announced the development of Mediachain, a Bitcoin blockchain-based decentralized metadata protocol which relies on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to protect...
NeuCoin Reaches 275,000 Users After Launch of Facebook Game and Jango Radio
In early February, NeuCoin launched a series of consumer applications aiming to offer its users and digital content providers effective methods of incentivizing digital content.The NeuCoin team, led by...
R3 Tests Its Blockchain Network With 11 Leading Banks
Eleven member banks of the R3 consortium, a collaborative group of the world’s largest and most influential banks and financial institutions, including Barclays, BMO Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Commonwealth...
Kraken Reports 2x Increase in New Accounts After U.S. Expansion
The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange by euro volume, Kraken, acquired New York City-based exchange Coinsetter and Canada’s first exchange, Cavirtex, on January 19, enabling an immediate expansion into the North American...
XBT Provider Sees Growing Bitcoin Demand: “Private Blockchain Hype Will Translate to Higher Bitcoin Prices at a Later Stage”
XBT Provider, a Swedish company that has launched the world’s first Bitcoin-backed instrument on a regulated exchange (Nasdaq Nordic) is planning a global expansion following its success in the...
Korea’s Kookmin Bank Partners With Coinplug to Develop a Blockchain Forex Application
Kookmin Bank, one of South Korea’s largest commercial banks and one of the four largest financial institutions in the country by asset value, has secured a partnership with Bitcoin...
Kryptokit Launches Jaxx Ethereum & Bitcoin Wallet for Android Tablets
Earlier this month, Anthony Di Iorio, chief digital officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange, CEO and founder of Kryptokit and Decentral, and co-founder of Ethereum, announced the beta launch...
Former Standard Chartered CEO: To Fight Fraud, Banks Must Stop Issuing High Value Currency Notes
Peter Sands, the former chief executive of British multinational and financial services company Standard Chartered, states that central banks must terminate the issuance of £50, $100 and€500 bills to...
Will the Upcoming Mining Reward Halving Impact Bitcoin’s Price?
The reward for mining Bitcoin is expected to see the second halving in its history later this year, potentially in June or July.Bitcoin, a deflationary store of value as...
Chinese E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Explores Blockchain-based Cloud Service Platform
During the recent YunQi Computing Conference in Shanghai, Alipay, an online payment platform of Alibaba, the world’s seventh-largest Internet company and popular Chinese e-commerce corporation, announced it may supply...
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