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PREDICTIONS 2018
Blockchain will usher in decentralized markets and even more ICOs in 2018
The coming year no doubt will be just as unpredictable as 2017, as a huge range of tech trends from the cloud and blockchain to machine learning and virtual reality collide and combine. This is the latest in a series of predictions by SiliconANGLE’s staff and other experts on what’s coming in the enterprise, emerging ...
Bitcoin plunges nearly 35%, prompting Coinbase exchange to suspend trading
One of the largest bitcoin exchanges and wallets, Coinbase Inc., has suspended trading in the wake of an almost 35 percent drop in market value for the digital currency in the past 24 hours or so. At approximately 11:11 a.m. ET, Coinbase said “all buys and sells have been temporarily disabled,” according to the exchange’s ...
Chain releases Ivy, a high-level programming language for bitcoin smart contracts
Making “programmable money” just got easier for bitcoin developers thanks to enterprise blockchain company Chain Inc.’s release of Ivy, a compiler and integrated development environment for writing smart contracts on bitcoin. Chain released Ivy on Monday, following a public sneak peek demonstration earlier this month into its inner workings. An open-source compiler and integrated development environment, ...
Walmart and IBM will expand food safety blockchain efforts in China
The food supply chain in China is about to get a safety boost. It’s set to come from a new Blockchain Food Safety Alliance kicking off with a collaboration between IBM Corp., major retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc. and the Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies. These efforts expand already existing pilot ...
Digital currency wallet Colu raises $14.5M to encourage buying local
Israeli local-market digital currency and wallet technology company Colu Technologies Ltd. announced today that the company has secured $14.5 million from IDB Development Corp. Colu produces a digital ledger blockchain app that allows local businesses to create their own localized currency through a wallet based on phones and mobile devices. By using a localized digital ...
With Google’s AR Stickers for Pixel, Star Wars stormtroopers will invade your photos
The photographic world of Pixel and Pixel 2 owners just got more interesting now that Google LLC has released its augmented reality stickers. The owners of Pixel phones running the recent release of Android 8.1 Oreo now have access to AR stickers that can be overlaid on reality such as 3-D text, gnomes and now ...
Crytek and Crycash team up to mint gaming cryptocurrency
German video game developer Crytek GmbH announced Thursday that the company has teamed up with Crycash, a blockchain currency startup looking to make digital currency for gamers. With this partnership, the two companies will take advantage of digital cryptocurrency to allow the purchase of games, advertising and customer rewards. The gaming industry is replete with ...
Australian stock exchange to start trading securities on a blockchain
The Australian Securities Exchange Ltd., Australia’s primary stock exchange, announced today that it will soon use blockchain technology to record, clear and settle trades. Today’s announcement follows a successful build of digital ledger blockchain technology by ASX partner Digital Asset Holdings LLC, a blockchain infrastructure developer, for core equity clearing and settlement functions. “After so ...
BitPay to raise $30M for its bitcoin payments platform
Blockchain technology platform and merchant bitcoin payments processor BitPay Inc. announced today it is raising $30 million in new funding. BitPay was an early industry leader in bitcoin merchant payments launched in 2011, allowing brick-and-mortar and online merchants to accept bitcoins as payment. This year, the company approached $2 billion in payments processed for merchants ...
With Drawboard VR users turn any wall or table into an endless canvas
Virtual reality peripheral maker Drawboard emerged from stealth mode Friday to reveal its first product: a VR pen that can turn any surface – a wall or a table – into a virtual whiteboard. As a technology, VR brings virtual spaces to life by allowing people to immerse themselves in computer graphics. The user experience ...