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Blockchain evangelists from MIT, BitFury and Blockchain Trust Accelerator go to the Democratic National Convention
Leaders in the blockchain-technology industry trekked to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia today to speak with various world leaders and political representatives about the future of blockchains. A blockchain is a global, peer-to-peer distributed ledger that is cryptographically secured by participants used to securely record historical transactions; it is also the technology that provides ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 27: Bitcoin not money Florida case, European regulated exchange, Coinbase Australia and Ether, NetCents adds BTC payments
Bitcoin’s status as “money” and as a financial instrument saw some interesting news this week after a Miami judge dismissed a money laundering case because Bitcoin is not money and in the same week a European Stock Exchange added its first regulated Bitcoin exchange-traded instrument (ETI). Bitcoin web-wallet and exchange Coinbase, Inc. has also expanded its ...
Apple, Facebook and Coinbase involved in takedown of KickassTorrents
On Wednesday, July 20, 2016, 30-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin, the alleged operator of torrent directory website KickassTorrents (KAT) was arrested in Poland. He has been charged with copyright infringement and money laundering; domain names related to KAT’s operation have also been sized by the United States government. In order to discover and capture Vaulin, the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 20: Bitcoin Halvening changes little, Ethereum successful hardfork, Bitcoiner travels around the world, Pokemon on the blockchain and Charlie Shrem released
The Bitcoin “halvening” happened last week—an event within the Bitcoin protocol where a new Bitcoin mining era started with the mining reward dropping to 12.5 BTC from 25 BTC. Speculation before the event held that something might happen to the market, economy or community; but so far, very little has changed in reaction. After the ...
Blockchain explorer and data startup Blocktrail acquired by Bitmain
Bitcoin mining equipment maker Bitmain Technologies Ltd. today announced the acquisition of Blocktrail B.V., a data analysis startup that launched in 2014 with a blockchain explorer that then released a Bitcoin wallet service in 2015. Aside from making the Antminer Bitcoin ASIC miner series, Bitmain also operates Hashnest, a Bitcoin cloud-mining outfit, the Bitcoin mining ...
The Nico360 to launch as the world’s smallest 360 camera with a multitude of features
The Nico360, world’s smallest 360-degree camera, just announced pre-orders on crowdfunding website Indigogo offering a 40 percent off for early-birds. The tiny camera measures 1.8 inches by 1.8 inches and weighs a mere 109 grams (about a quarter of a pound), which makes it perfect to fit into a pocket for easy access. The camera ...
Niantic fixing Pokémon GO server problems that irk users and change community conduct
As people begin the flood the streets staring at their smartphone screens looking for ever elusive Jigglypuff and Dratini in Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Niantic, Inc.’s recently released mobile game Pokémon GO, players are encountering more obstacles than just walking to complete their goals. Like most extremely popular game launches, some players have experienced connectivity ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 13: Ubiquity real estate proof-of-transfer on blockchain, Stroj and Counterparty “picopayments,” Coinbase outage, and more
This week has seen numerous developments in the Bitcoin and blockchain industry. For example, blockchain-powered startup Ubiquity just used the Bitcoin blockchain and the Colored Coins protocol to securely record a real estate transfer. Storj and Counterparty have teamed up to work on an instant micropayment protocol called “picopayments” to level up microtransactions on the ...
Rio 2016 Olympics will pose network traffic challenges for mobile DevOps and developers
The 2016 Summer Olympics will take place in Rio de Janerio, Brazil and the mobile app market will be following the crowds who flow into the city to watch the games and participate in festivities. This means that mobile developers will be scrambling to keep up with the increased demand, but at the same time ...
This infographic from xMatters argues the case for using a DevOps toolchain [INFOGRAPHIC]
DevOps communication and alerting provider xMatters, Inc. put together an infographic why businesses need to plan out DevOps toolchain integrations because a properly built DevOps plan should work like a well-oiled machine. As with any well-oiled machine the production, upgrading and maintenance is part of a chain of activities (or tools) used by a team ...