Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain has launched a new mining pool, it’s second after Antpool, as a part of its block explorer BTC.com’s offering. The new mining pool is open-source will not charge any fees until 2017. Bitmain has, through its Bitcoin block explorer BTC.com, launched a new mining pool that will be open-sourced to […]
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Coders gathered this weekend at Thomson Reuters headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf for a two day HackETHon where numerous teams formed to code on the spot ideas, build a basic prototype and compete for the winning spot. For the first time in the digital currency space, one of the giant multinationals, Thomson Reuters, presented a […]
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This is a sponsored story. With Bitcoin establishing its presence in the online gaming market, Tonybet.com started accepting deposits in the digital currency. An all-around online gaming site has announced it has partnered up with the SpectroCoin e-wallet to become one of the first recognised and well-established gaming sites to accept Bitcoin. The site will allow its players […]
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The Roskomnador, Russia’s federal administrator of telecommunications and the internet has blocked access to prominent peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange platform LocalBitcoins. In a move that won’t come as a surprise to the cryptocurrency community, Russia’s telecom regulator has blocked access to popular over-the-counter and P2P bitcoin exchange platform LocalBitcoins. Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the […]
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How can a voting platform that touts transparency also be secure? That’s the question posed by Jackie Burns Koven, a Research Assistant of Technology and Public Policy at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs in her published piece by Forbes. It looked into how the solution to safeguard against vote rigging could be through the adoption of blockchain technology […]
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Since the Bitfinex hack, bitcoin capital markets have shown resilience and pricing risk is more realistic, according to Gavin Smith, CEO of trading and financial services firm First Global Credit, who offered a positive assessment of the post-Bitfinex environment at the recent Capital Markets Blockchain Conference in London, reported Finance Magnates. Smith gave a summary on […]
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Bitcoin and mobile messaging have emerged as tools in addressing the global remittance market to lower the cost of transferring funds across national borders. This past spring, KakaoTalk, based in Seoul, South Korea, a chat app, purchased a 40% stake in Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI), a Manila, Philippines bitcoin startup as reported by Quartz. KakaoTalk […]
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