Month: December 2015

2015 has been a busy year for cloud-based financial plaform Uphold, from rebranding the company and hiring Nike’s former CIO, Antony Watson, to their recent recording-breaking crowdfunding campaign. The company who’ve powered over $690 million in transactions are now preparing for the launch of their own cryptocurrency “Voxels”, the official currency of the hotly anticipated virtual …

Uphold Becomes First Money Platform to List Voxels Read More »

With the Holiday Season here, we are in the midst of the real or imagined “War on Christmas.” Where overly sensitive Conservatives get angry when someone says Happy Holidays and overly sensitive liberals get upset when someone says Merry Christmas, and everyone involved forgets about that whole “peace on earth” thing. This year, a more sinister war …

Government, Not Data-Thieves, Is Why The War On Encryption is Insane Read More »

Everyone’s favorite Bitcoin themed spoof musicians, Zhou Tonged, are back with a rendition of Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song.” It has been a while since we have seen Zhou Tonged, eleven months has passed since their last release on YouTube. With any luck, this will signal a Zhou Tonged resurgence. The spoof band started releasing videos …

Zhou Tonged Returns For Holidays With New Song Read More »

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), a statutory board of the Singaporean government, Standard Chartered Bank and DBS Bank, have developed a proof-of-concept for a blockchain-based invoice trading platform dedicated to banking institutions. Built for Singapore, the platform is expected to start being commercialized in 2016, Gautam Jain, Standard Chartered’s managing director and global …

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Yesterday, the Linux Foundation welcomed its latest collaborative initiative the Hyperledger project, an association of some of the world’s largest tech firms and financial institutions aimed at developing an enterprise grade, open source blockchain dedicated to support business transactions. Twenty leading technology companies and financial institutions including ANZ Bank, Digital Asset Holdings, IBM, Intel, JP …

R3, Digital Asset, JP Morgan, IBM Join Linux Foundation Blockchain Initiative Read More »

[Update: Bitcoin Foundation Director Bruce Fenton has released a statement and responded to our request for comment. The new statement reads that the Board will create new seats, which they need to do to have the minimum number of directors. Then, the plan is to vote to change the bylaws in order to appoint the two vacated …

Fenton: All Board Member Vacancies Will Likely Be Appointed Read More »

Purse.io, known for helping bitcoin users get significant discounts on Amazon products, recently teased a “secret” project known only as Tritium when they announced a $1M seed funding round. Today, while stopping far short of a full reveal, they have let slip a few details about the project. In an essay in which Purse seemed to …

Purse Reveals Details on Secret Project Tritium Read More »

Digital Asset Holdings is in negotiations with investors for a US$35 million funding round that will value the firm at US$100 million. The company hopes to close the round by Christmas Eve, reported the New York Post. Founded in 2014 by financial markets entrepreneurs Donald Wilson and Sunil Hirani, Digital Asset develops technology that leverages …

Digital Asset Hires SWIFT’s Former Chief Executive; SETL Appoints Barclays’ Ex-Chairman As Its Own Chairmanships Read More »

On Tuesday, Andy Greenberg of Wired and Andy Crush and Sam Biddle of Gizmodo put out articles from congruent but separate investigations that put forth the theory that Australian born Craig Wright is the famed and anonymous creator of bitcoin known as Satoshi Nakamoto. While neither article went as far as to say that Wright was …

Wired and Gizmodo Back Off Wright Claims, That Doesn’t Make Them Bad Journalists Read More »

If news goes unnoticed for years, is it still new news, especially if the present brings new perspectives to light? While researching another article I came across an internal NSA document that was written in 1995 and declassified in 2008, not long before the invention of Bitcoin. The document, which is publicly available on the NSA website, …

This Is What The NSA Told Their Employees About Digital Currencies, In 1995 Read More »

Austin Hill is a man who’s history is firmly cemented in the history of digital currencies, founding Zero knowledge systems in the 1990s, he hired and worked with many of the Cypherpunks who are credited with developing the first examples of digital currency. Meeting with him at Techcrunch Disrupt, London, It feels logical to begin our discussions where …

Austin Hill Of Blockstream: A lot of the Discussions About Private Chains Are Shallow Read More »

You can add Gavin Andresen, former lead core developer and arguably the most influential (as well as controversial) person in the Bitcoin ecosystem to the list of people in favor of Segregated Witness. He has come out with a blog post strongly in favor of an improvement to Bitcoin that would increase its scalability called Segregated …

Andresen: Segregated Witness Should Be Implemented ASAP Read More »

Canadian citizen Thomas Roger Clark has been arrested by the FBI in Thailand and is awaiting extradition to the United States on charges of money laundering conspiracy and narcotics conspiracy. If convicted of both charges he could face anywhere between thirty years and life in prison. The FBI alleges that Clark went by the online names …

Why Is the DOJ Bragging About ‘Catching’ A Suspect That Turned Himself In? Read More »

Tim Swanson, the head of research of R3 CEV has unveiled that the firm’s development team in London is currently developing an open-sourced, generic blockchain, which he said is expected to start operating within a year. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Swanson said that member banks of R3, the fintech firm based New York leading …

Head of Research Says R3 Open Source Blockchain Will Start Operating Within A Year Read More »

Uphold’s crowdfunding campaign on BnkToTheFuture.com ended over the weekend, with the company raising more than $3.1 million, surpassing its $2.5 million minimum goal. Uphold gave out 2.36% equity during this campaign, making it the highest valuation ever on BnkToTheFuture and the second highest total raised in a single campaign. Accounting for Uphold’s previous campaign on BnkToTheFuture …

Uphold Surpasses 3 Million As Record Breaking CrowdInvesting Campaign Ends Read More »

[Update: Edited to include comments from Serica CEO Taariq Lewis on their future plans, they can be found at the end of the piece] Serica will stop offering digital versions of precious metals and hard assets. The company announced today in an email to the media that effective this month, it will no longer be …

Serica Bowing Out Of Precious Metals Game, Moving Towards HealthCare? Read More »