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The Courage to Innovate Without Permission
In this talk, Andreas delivers a message to entrepreneurs and startup founders about why they must be brave enough to innovate faster than incumbents can write the permission slips. This is a talk which took place at the Slush Conference from November 30th – December 1st, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. Andreas dares us to be […]
US Jails Off-Line Bitcoin Trader
Eldon Stone Ross, a 24-year-old from Kennett Square borough of Chester County, Pennsylvania, will serve a year and a day in federal prison for facilitating off-line Bitcoin transactions. Mr Ross transacted $1.5 million in Bitcoin over the course of two years and earned approximately $40,000 in commissions (2.6%). Conducting an exchange-like business without adhering to […]
Chinese Officials Propose National Crypto Trading Platform
Wang Pengjie member of China’s top political advisory board has proposed the creation of a national cryptocurrency exchange and other regulatory systems at one of the two annual sessions of China’s top legislative and advisory bodies. Proposition comes after a recent string of crypto bans from China, from blocking foreign exchanges to the September 2017 ban […]
XRP Price is Soaring as new Fake Coinbase Listing Rumors Appear
The XRP price is surging once again. Thanks to solid gains over the past few hours, the XRP price surpassed $1. Most of this excitement is fueled by speculation and hype. Ripple price is gaining momentum quite nicely as of right now. Its 16,66% gain over the past 24 hours is quite bullish according to Coinmarketcap. […]
Over $590 Million Has Been Mistakenly Sent to Ethereum’s Genesis Address
Genesis blocks represent the birth of a new cryptocurrency, it’s the first block that is mined on a new blockchain. Ethereum’s first address is worth over $590 Million in Ethereum and ERC20 tokens at the moment and still counting, that has been sent by mistake or airdropped to the address. As people have been sending BTC to […]
Blockchain and politics in European union| Event recap
On Wednesday, 28.2.2018, there was a great blockchain event in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the faculty of social sciences. It was called Blockchain and politics: opportunity or threat. On the panel were four speakers from a Ph.D. economist to the main staffer of ministry for public administration. The main topic of discussion was the role government […]
Cryptoparty Slovenia
There is cryptoparty in Slovenia! Yesterday was an international conference on digital privacy and security, which was the 5th event since 2015. The main topic of the evening was blockchain in technology, law, politics, and society. There were four main talks and roundtable discussions, we discussed the problems of online surveillance and censorship, surveillance of supervisory authorities, the […]
Ontology Airdrop to NEO holders
The NEO Council manages 10% of ONT tokens and has decided to airdrop 20,000,000 of these tokens to NEO holders. This is both a gift to the community and an effort to support a joint ecosystem. The council will airdrop the tokens in two phases using the same snapshot. The first phase of the Airdrop […]
Is Bitcoin getting more attractive?
For some time Bitcoin was very unattractive to use, which it seemed first it didn’t have much of an impact on its price. Bitcoin camp adapt to the change by saying this cryptocurrency was not meant to process small transactions such as buying coffee for instance. Bitcoin Cash was created as a counterbalance to that problem. […]
Waltonchain rigged the giveaway on Valentine’s?
Waltonchain shoots themselves in the knee, with Valentine’s giveaway contest, yesterday when they announced the winners of the contest. One of the employees who managed their Twitter account accidentally tweeted on their official account to thank them for winning. This makes it appear as if Walton rigged this giveaway. Giving the community benefit of the doubt, […]