March 2017 – Crypto Archives

Blockchain in Global Supply Chains to Prevent Counterfeits and Fake Goods

As demand for transparency increases, blockchain technology could improve the traceability of physical goods by creating an auditable and tamper-proof record of the journey behind all products across the supply chain. For businesses, but also society and the environment, this means preventing the selling of fake goods, counterfeits, solving the problem of “double spending” of …

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TaaS Announces “Bloomberg-Like” Portfolio Management and Analytics Platform for Cryptocurrencies

Token-as-a-Service (TaaS), a cryptocurrency fund, is building an intelligence and portfolio analytics platform for cryptocurrency markets. Dubbed Kepler, the solution will cover the entire spectrum of the investment process, providing market research, due diligence and order management as well as risk exposure and performance forecasting. Kepler will be the first “Bloomberg-like” platform for analyzing and …

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Op-Ed: Will Bitcoin’s High Transaction Fees Open the Door for Altcoin Adoption?

Altcoins have long been ridiculed as useless aspects of the bitcoin ecosystem that don’t offer much in terms of real value to anyone who uses them. While they often make vague promises about how they are “bitcoin with feature X or Y,” the number of them that offer any real use cases today approaches zero. …

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How Blockchain Can Benefit Healthcare

Blockchain technology has the potential to make health information exchanges (HIE) more secure, efficient, and interoperable. Blockchain offers a new model for HIE, enabling disintermediation and allowing near real-time updates across the network for all parties. Blockchain-based systems can reduce or eliminate the friction and costs of current intermediaries, according to a report by Deloitte. …

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Altcoins Prices Surge Amid Growing Investors Confidence in Cryptocurrencies

The prices of ether (ETH), Dash (DASH) and Monero (XMR), among others, have surged in the past month as investors are growing more confident of cryptocurrencies and looking for investment opportunities beyond bitcoin. Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, has been amongst the most notable rallies, rising by up to 231% between March …

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Bitcoin Could Reach Tremendous Scale Through Trustless Bitcoin Banks

TumbleBit is a second layer payments proposal for bitcoin that has mostly gained attention due to its ability to improve privacy for users, but this enhancement is about much more than that. With TumbleBit, there may be the potential to exponentially increase bitcoin’s user base without making any alterations at the consensus layer, although Segregated …

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Blockchain-Based Virtual Reality World Decentraland Launches Testnet Network

Decentraland, an open source project aimed at building a blockchain-based virtual reality (VR) world, has launched a new test network and entered into its Bronze Age development phase. The testnet release provides users with the ability to start shaping their environment in 3D. Decentraland runs on top of its own blockchain, which is used to …

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Bitcoin Dominance Index Crashes Below 80% as Ethereum and Dash Rise

Everyone has been watching the bitcoin price in the aftermath of the SEC’s decision to not allow the creation of a bitcoin ETF, but most of the real action has been taking place in the altcoin market. While the Bitcoin Dominance Index (BDI) was closing in on 90 percent at the start of the new …

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Korea’s Public Blockchain Project BOScoin Raises US$3M

BlockchainOS (BOSCoin), the first public blockchain project from South Korea, has raised US$3 million in pre-ICO to build a platform aimed at solving many of the current issues in decentralized systems and introduce a new approach to smart contracts. BOSCoin seeks to provide an alternative to Ethereum where “the freedom and flexibility provided by the …

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Grayscale Investments Report Outlines Centralization Risks in Ethereum

One of the most difficult aspects of bootstrapping a new cryptocurrency network is moving beyond the early stages of inevitable centralization. To some extent, bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency to gain a noteworthy level of decentralization in terms of entities interested in the protocol, and a recent report from Grayscale Investments outlines the centralization risks …

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Wirex Raises US$3M From Japan’s SBI to Fuel Asian Expansion

Wirex Ltd., a London-headquartered startup providing bitcoin payment cards, has raised US$3 million in a Series A funding round from Japan’s SBI Investment Co., Ltd. Wirex plans to use the new capital injection to fuel development of new features, licensing and security as well as support expansion plans. “Japan is a key market for bitcoin-compatible …

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Higher Fees May Force Bitcoin Companies to Get More Creative with Their Transactions

For the longest time, it has been known that bitcoin transaction fees would rise once blocks became full on a more frequent basis. In fact, miners have received over 2 BTC in transaction fees in addition to the 12.5 BTC block reward for some recent blocks. While this increased revenue is great for miners, it …

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Many Bitcoin Miners Aren’t Paying Attention to the Scaling Debate

Much of the conversation regarding solutions for scaling Bitcoin to more users over the next few years has revolved around miners, but the reality is that many of these miners are not as interested in making changes to the underlying protocol as many would think. In the early days of the public debate around Bitcoin …

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South Korean Province Uses Blockchain for Voting

Gyeonggi-do, South Korean’s most populous province, has used a blockchain-based voting system in a vote for local community projects proposed by residents. The successfully completed voting included about nine thousand residents who took votes on and off-line. The blockchain-based e-voting system was developed by South Korean startup Blocko. Using the company’s technology, all the information …

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Bitcoin Exchange Kraken Acquires Charting and Trading Platform Cryptowatch

Kraken, a global digital currency exchange based in San Francisco, has acquired the popular charting and trading platform Cryptowatch. The acquisition is the most recent in a series of merger and acquisition deals that Kraken has leveraged to expand its global client-base, add new services and bring talented member to its team. Kraken has already leveraged …

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Here’s What’s New in Bitcoin Core 0.14

In a recent presentation at Bitcoin Meetup Switzerland, Bitcoin Core contributor Jonas Schnelli shared the changes that are included in the upcoming release of Bitcoin Core 0.14. The release does not include many exciting features from an end user’s perspective; however, there are plenty of optimizations and tweaks that should help the software run better …

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Month: March 2017