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In yet another blockchain related investment, Blythe Masters’ Digital Asset Holdings has announced the acquisition of Blockstack.io. Digital Asset has been on a blockchain-startups purchasing spree lately, with the Bits of Proof and Hyperledger acquired earlier in June this year. The New-York based company headed by CEO Blythe Masters has today, announced the purchase of another blockchain startup Blockstack. The deal was concluded for an undisclosed sum. Blockstack, based in San Francisco offers financial institutions the means to develop applications using APIs and SDKs on a private blockchain and is currently available in a beta phase. Customized tools offered by […]

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CoinDesk speaks to Heartland Payments CEO Bob Carr about his merchant payment services firm and its thesis on bitcoin and the blockchain.

Bitcoin price is advancing in "stupendous" mode as the Fed delays a rate hike, once again. Uncertainty and US dollar hedging is the name of the game and bitcoin has received a go-ahead to advance, uninterrupted, for two months. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the code CCN29. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: 15h29 UTC Bitstamp 4-Hour Chart From the analysis pages of xbt.social, earlier today: Amazing price action in the 4-hour Bitstamp chart as price pushes the […]

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Security researcher Jonathan Lampe recently published a report comparing the security readiness of various leading contenders for the White House. https://hacked.com/top-5-presidential-candidate-likely-hacked/

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DigitalBTC, an Australia-based bitcoin mining company, has decided to bolt the cryptocurrency business to focus on software development, according to ZDNet. The company announced at its annual meeting it would change the name of its parent company, Digital CC, to Digital X. The company, which trades on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), said it is changing its focus from bitcoin as a mechanism for storing value to software development. The company also announced it is entering its second phase of beta testing for AirPocket, a cash remittance product it rolled out in May. Digital CC Scraps Mintsy Relationship Earlier this […]

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Here's a round-up of some of the most notable interactions between payment giants and the world of crypto.

Joining the ranks of the world’s biggest investment and financial institutions, three more banks from Asia and Europe have joined the global block chain initiative founded by London startup E3. Block chain, the public distributed ledger and the technology powering bitcoin now has three more backers, or bankers, with Italy’s UniCredit, Japan’s Mizuho Bank and Sweden's Nordea joining the likes of Citi, Barclays, JPMorgan, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC, among others who now add up to a total of 25 banks. The global consortium of financial institutions is now comprised of the majority of the world’s biggest banks looking into the […]

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Bitcoin Press Release: Bitcoin and Litecoin trading platform eCoin.eu has recently launched commission free trading period, user-friendly Facebook registration, and a hassle free way to withdraw funds to Debit Card. Bitcoin and Litecoin trading service provider eCoin.eu is moving closer to their customers by integrating Facebook registration and login compatible with dual authentication. eCoin.eu also allows customers to put credit on their XMLGold Prepaid MasterCard for a standard market fee. eCoin.eu offers a great opportunity of trading without commission. The eCoin trader can earn 0% commission fees within a week by pressing the like button on the bottom of the […]

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Bitcoin Press Release: Bitcoin and Litecoin trading platform eCoin.eu has recently launched commission free trading period, user-friendly Facebook registration, and a hassle free way to withdraw funds to Debit Card. Bitcoin and Litecoin trading service provider eCoin.eu is moving closer to their customers by integrating Facebook registration and login compatible with dual authentication. eCoin.eu also allows customers to put credit on their XMLGold Prepaid MasterCard for a standard market fee. eCoin.eu offers a great opportunity of trading without commission. The eCoin trader can earn 0% commission fees within a week by pressing the like button on the bottom of the […]

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Bitcoin Press Release: Today, leading cryptocurrency cloud mining provider Genesis Mining launched a nationwide outdoor advertising campaign aimed at bringing awareness to the potential that Bitcoin brings to the world. Consisting of taxi advertising, billboards, and guerilla street marketing, the creative ads feature quotes from experts who made egregiously false predictions about disruptive innovations. The quotes were pulled from former leaders of major international corporations about innovations like the telephone, film, and the automobile. The campaign launched today at 9:00am PST in Southern Florida, San Francisco, Washington DC, Chicago, and Boston. Over the upcoming three months, the campaign will expand […]

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Money20/20 hosted its second (Bit)coinWorld track this year, a forum that highlighted ongoing terminology debates in the industry.

UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The trust machine Fly Title:  Blockchains Rubric:  The technology behind bitcoin lets people who do not know or trust each other build a dependable ledger. This has implications far beyond the cryptocurrency Main image:  20151031_FBD001_0.jpg WHEN the Honduran police came to evict her in 2009 Mariana Catalina Izaguirre had lived in her lowly house for three decades. Unlike many of her neighbours in Tegucigalpa, the country’s capital, she even had an official title to the land on which it stood. But the records at the country’s Property Institute showed another person registered as its owner, too—and that person convinced a judge to sign an eviction order. By the time the legal confusion was finally sorted out, Ms Izaguirre’s house had been demolished. It is the sort of thing that happens every day in places where land registries are badly kept, mismanaged and/or corrupt—which is to say across much of the world. This lack of secure property rights is an ...

From firmly stamping its presence as one of the first big corporations to pay attention to the bitcoin and block chain arena, Microsoft has now struck a partnership with an Ethereum-based startup to deliver blockchain as an enterprise solution for clients of the software giant’s cloud-based Azure service. Microsoft has announced a partnership with ConsenSys, an Ethereum-coder collective from Brooklyn that will allow enterprise users on Azure to gain access to Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service (E BaaS). BlockApps Strato, a toolkit used for developing Ethereum-based applications will be among the first offerings from the partnership that Azure clients will be able to […]

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UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  The trust machine Fly Title:  The promise of the blockchain Rubric:  The technology behind bitcoin could transform how the economy works Main image:  20151031_LDD001_0.jpg BITCOIN has a bad reputation. The decentralised digital cryptocurrency, powered by a vast computer network, is notorious for the wild fluctuations in its value, the zeal of its supporters and its degenerate uses, such as extortion, buying drugs and hiring hitmen in the online bazaars of the “dark net”. This is unfair. The value of a bitcoin has been pretty stable, at around $250, for most of this year. Among regulators and financial institutions, scepticism has given way to enthusiasm (the European Union recently recognised it as a currency). But most unfair of all is that bitcoin’s shady image causes people to overlook the extraordinary potential of the “blockchain”, the technology that underpins it. This innovation carries a significance stretching far beyond cryptocurrency. The ...

Two different kidnappings in two different parts of the world have taken the world of illicit Bitcoin activities to a new level. Long discussed as the currency of the Silk Road, the online drug marketplace only accessible via Tor, it appears a new, more violent criminal is turning towards the digital currency to get away with kidnapping. The most recent example, the kidnapping of a Hong Kong tycoon once charged with fraud, Wong Kwan. The kidnappers threatened to scrape out the eyeballs or chop off the legs of the Pearl Oriental Oil chairman if his family did not cough up […]

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