SAN FRANCISCO — Russian and Venezuelan officials are hoping virtual currencies can help their countries make an end run around American sanctions. Both governments, with ambitions to create state-sponsored cryptocurrencies, are looking to take advantage of the promise that Bitcoin introduced to the…

Massive protests erupted across Iran last Thursday, spurred by a stagnant economy and the rising cost of basic necessities. On Wednesday, almost a week later, the BBC reported 21 people were killed in subsequent protests. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards deployed forces to three provinces to quell the…

The word “bitcoin” was a top search on Google this year, as everyone who didn’t understand the cryptocurrency (which was most of us) rushed to learn how it works and how they could make money off of it. Some people did make money, at least on paper. The price of one coin surged from less than $1,000…

Aragon, the decentralized governance platform for organizations, today introduced their transparency framework – a core addition to Aragon’s transparency model. Following their $25 million USD token sale raise in May 2017 , the project aims to encourage other crowdfunded projects to adopt a similar…

Thank you for making 2017 truly amazing! The Minds Beta Community has steadily grown and reached nearly one million registered users, and we broke the record for the fastest company in US history to raise $1 million through equity crowdfunding from over 1,500 investors across the globe. We also made…

I wrote a book and will be releasing the the first few chapters on Medium in the coming weeks. The first half of the book centers around what I call “The Startup Hero’s Pledge” . This is chapter one. Freedom matters most. The more I live, the more I travel, and the more people I meet, the more I…

Is it time to end the monopoly of Nation States over money? Imagine you are living in Spain in 1630. Back then, State and Religion are intertwined. Catholicism is the state religion. You can either convert to it or die. The Church has official truths. For instance, that the Sun revolves around…

Transaction types related to Oracles: Oracle register: publish API, optionally set fee Oracle query: use API, include fee for oracle posting answer, optionallyinclude (flat) fee set by oracle Oracle response: uses funds from oracle query fee (Open question: should there be a generic DATA TX and…

or: “An Intro to Panopticomputers: Code Execution Courts for Scalable, Decentralized Computation”. The Ethereum community never ceases to amaze me. So many smart people working at the fringes of what’s possible. We haven’t really scratched the surface of what’s possible in the current iteration and…

On March 26, 1993, The New York Times published a photograph by Kevin Carter that became the haunting image of the famine in Sudan: an emaciated child in foetal position, in the background a hooded vulture. Newspapers and magazines around the globe carried the image and in 1994 Carter was awarded…

In a month of big news for the Bitcoin wallet, Mycelium has announced the integration of Glidera. Now, users can buy and sell bitcoin in the United States and Canada through the oldest wallet in the Bitcoin space besides the original Satoshi client. “We’re excited to join forces with the Mycelium…

Ariel Deschapell is a full-stack javascript developer teaching at the Ironhack coding bootcamp in Miami, and a Henry Hazlitt fellow in Digital Development at the Foundation for Economic Education. In this opinion piece, Deschapell argues that an upcoming proposal for changing the bitcoin software…

21.co is now Earn.com Use Earn.com to make money online by replying to emails and completing tasks. It works on your phone, in any country, with no need for a bank account. We’re excited to announce that 21.co is now Earn.com! Our product is unchanged: you still earn digital currency for replying to…

This latest achievement qualifies as a “holy shit” moment for a number of reasons.

Tokenize Bits, and Atoms From information highways to… highways Image: Infinity Room, Yayoi Kusama iicense: CC-BY-SA 4.0 So far, we’ve seen token launches for startups on internet infrastructure ( bits ). That gives at least two dimensions to extend: Type of organization that tokenizes . Startup →…

In light of today’s ICO launches, digital token sales during which companies and organizations raise millions of dollars instantly while giving out digital assets, it’s important to recognize the underlying technology that nearly all of these tokens possess: ERC20. Ethereum Request for Comments 20,…

Scores of Slack users, many of whom use the online communications open forum for their cryptocurrency and blockchain related projects have recently been subjected to an onslaught of phishing scams and attacks. Now one blockchain startup is leading a mass migration away from the site due to the…

Matthew Spoke is CEO and founder of enterprise blockchain startup Nuco, and a former team lead for Deloitte's Rubix platform. In this opinion piece , Spoke looks at the hurdles encountered by enterprises adopting blockchain tech, and predicts more flexible and compatible solutions going forward.…

It would be easy to let the amazing EOS news overshadow other developments in crypto today, but something HUGE happened in a quieter corner of the crypto world. LBRY, one of the most ambitious blockchain projects ever, released a very promising beta. Imagine taking some of the best aspects of…

At Build 2017, Microsoft’s annual and influential developer event, CEO Satya Nadella introduced the idea of the “intelligent cloud” and “intelligent edge.” This vision of software’s immediate future considers the plethora of smart devices – cell phones, appliances, home environment controls,…

One of the most interesting papers ever written about the Bitcoin block-chain design is “ Accelerating Bitcoin’s Transaction Processing ” by Sompolinsky and Zohar. The paper presents the GHOST protocol which aims to achieve higher TPS securely by changing the way nodes decide which is the best chain…

One of the annoyances of the blockchain as a decentralized platform is the sheer length of delay before a transaction gets finalized. One confirmation in the Bitcoin network takes ten minutes on average, but in reality due to statistical effects when one sends a transaction one can only expect a…

In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of…

Start-ups wie Chainalysis oder BlockSeer werten Bitcoin-Transaktionen aus, um Kriminellen auf die Schliche zu kommen. Die weichen auf anonymere Zahlungsmittel aus. Im Bitcoin-Markt geht der Trend hin zu mehr Überwachung, berichtet Technology Review in seiner Online-Ausgabe ("Warum sich…

Friday, September 22, 2017, 11:50 by Ivan Martin Learner no longer needs permission of issuing institution to share certificate The government has launched a pilot project to explore the possibility of issuing educational certificates on the blockchain. The project will see diplomas at MCAST,…

Regulators across the world are waking up to the fact that there is a serious amount of money changing hands during ICOs. The latest to issue a statement about ICOs is the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). Gibraltar - An established Finance Centre Gibraltar , a British Overseas…

WeChat has confirmed what has been rumoured all along i.e. it gives all user information to the Chinese government. The popular app in a privacy statement is now informing the users that virtually all the private user information will be disclosed to the authorities. WeChat, owned by the Chinese…

Start-ups are opting for private investment rounds and are shying away from the public scrutiny of the global capital markets, but one fund manager says he knows the solution. "Quite frankly, there is no profit to be made for the banks for having companies go public under a three- or four-billion…

Monero is a privacy coin best known for its use on DarkNet markets. What’s it like being a Monero user 3 years after launch? Andreas finds out. This is a close-up of a Monero watercolor I won at an auction. More about that later. Today I’ll be reviewing Monero, a privacy focused coin. Monero is not…

I was wrong about Ethereum because it’s such a good store of value… no wait, let me try again. I was wrong about Ethereum because it’s such a decentra… nope. I was wrong about Ethereum because everyone is using it as a supercomputer… No. I do admit I didn’t see this Ethereum bubble coming But, then…

The Beginning: Vitalik: Bitcoin is nice but I have a dream of building a decentralized smart contract platform. I will create something called Ethereum. A world where code is law, wouldn’t that be perfect? I will need a few million funding in Bitcoin and on top of that I will create a 12 million…

Gil Penchina Contributor Gil Penchina is a partner at IDG Ventures and Flight.vc . More posts by this contributor Let’s make Series A terms more logical by moving to object-oriented capital The SEC appears to have taken very thoughtful action on two crypto projects to date. Nay-sayers are predicting…

by Thu, 06/29/2017 - 15:34 0 SHARES The Institute of International Finance is perhaps best known for its periodic - and concerning - reports summarizing global leverage statistics, and its latest Q1 report was the most troubling yet, because what it found was that in a period of so-called…

INTERVIEW | 9 hours ago Interview with Luis Cuende of Aragon Building a digital jurisdiction on the blockchain Michael Karnjanaprakorn Luis Cuende is the co-founder and Project Lead of Aragon , a project for disintermediating the creation and maintenance of companies and other organizational…

This interview is an extended version of a piece featured in Quartz’s new book The Objects that Power the Global Economy . You may not have seen these objects before, but they’ve already changed the way you live. Each chapter examines an object that is driving radical change in the global economy.…

“ Zhifubao or Weixin ,” asks the waitress. It’s a question that catches me by surprise because I was expecting a different one: “cash or card?” It has been a simple meal at Yershari, a Xinjiang chain restaurant in Shanghai’s Hongkou Plaza, and now as I eye my wallet the waitress gestures towards the…