It's the year 2055, and the music industry has changed. No longer are the days where recording industry executives reap more profits than the artists themselves.
Digital Red 13: A Futuristic View Of The Music Industry (Op-Ed) $1 Billion Invested So Far in Bitcoin & Blockchain Infrastructure 2015 was a good year for Bitcoin; and some say this could very well be reflected in its overall value the past two months.
IOTA: A Blockchain-less *GASP* Token for The Internet of Things In today’s digital age, there are many people on the quest towards the Internet of things (IoT). Now, a new micro-transaction crypto-token called IOTA looks to facilitate the architecture involved with IoT.
Bitcoin’s First Sidechain is Blockstream’s ‘Liquid’ On October 13, Blockstream announced its first sidechain project: Liquid. The first production sidechain is a platform that will allow rapid liquidity between Bitcoin exchanges and brokers.
The Ongoing Bitcoin Malleability Attack Over the past 72 hours, the Bitcoin protocol has been suffering from a malleability attack. The attack has been happening to quite a few users moving funds on the network.
The Open Source World Is Worth Billions The Linux Foundation released a white paper titled “A $5 Billion Value: Estimating the Total Development Cost of Linux Foundation’s Collaborative Projects”
San Diego Employees Paid In Bitcoin ‘Never See a Paycheck’ San Diego based cryptocurrency wallet provider AirBitz was featured on ABC’s 10 News as the local news network reported on companies in the city accepting and paying workers with bitcoin and how the workers “never see a paycheck.”
Coinbase on Bitcoin Patents: ‘Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game’ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded to the backlash against his company when it was revealed that it filed nine Bitcoin patent applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
World Economic Forum: Distributed Technology to Go Mainstream by 2027 A survey released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) suggests that “Distributed Financial Technology” will go mainstream in 12 years.
Hive Wallet Is Officially Unsupported The Bitcoin wallet Hive is no longer being actively developed. In fact, the creator says that the wallet hasn't had much development in "over a year."
Bitcoin is Officially a Commodity in the U.S. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been officially deemed a commodity by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on September 17.
Onename Drops Namecoin, Switches to Bitcoin Onename made a big announcement on September 12 at the Blockstack Summit 2015. Co-founder, Muneeb Ali, revealed during his keynote presentation that the Namecoin network is not decentralized
Bitcoin: The Self Securing Network (Op-Ed) While banks and investors look to the blockchain as a singular investment vehicle, they miss the fact that Bitcoin is not only the strongest distributed ledger in existence
John McAfee to Run for US President after Creating Own ‘Cyber Party’ The Anti-Virus software millionaire and Bitcoin supporter John McAfee has announced he is running in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections.
Ex-Federal Agent Faces 20 Years in Prison for Bitcoin Theft Shaun Bridges, former US agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration plead guilty on August 31 to charges of wire fraud and money laundering.
Tau Chain: A ‘Decentralized App Store’ with Greater Flexibility than Ethereum Tau Chain is a decentralized peer-to-peer network that claims Ethereum’s Turing completeness is the wrong direction as it is undecidable logic and missing an intricate part: proof of language.
Trees: Bitcoin-Powered Drone Delivers Cannabis to Your Doorstep Cointelegraph chatted with Marshall Hayner, the co-founder of Trees, a unique “cannabis delivery startup app” that accepts bitcoin and also hopes to employ drones in the future.
US Presidential Candidate Using Bitcoin to Fight ‘Two-Party Monopoly’ Gary Johnson acceptted bitcoin for his “Fair Debates” lawsuit against the official presidential debates’ two-party monopoly.
RRRcomputer.org: ‘Bridging the Digital Divide One Kid & One Computer at a Time’ A company RRRcomputer.org recently started accepting Bitcoin through BitPay.
HullCoin: Government-Backed Digital Currency Designed to Tackle Local Poverty The city of Kingston upon Hull located in the United Kingdom has released its plans to unveil a new cryptocurrency: Hullcoin.
Blockchain Data Provider TradeBlock Partners With FinTech Sandbox TradeBlock announced on July 18 that it will collaborate with Boston-based incubator FinTech Sandbox.
Иeureal: Bringing Artificial Intelligence to the People Иeureal is the first decentralized open-source protocol designed to produce a distributed artificial intelligence (AI) architecture that is incentivized, maintained and housed within a cryptocurrency.
Greece: ‘A Communal Society Open to Cryptocurrency’ Geopay, a new crypto-business bringing a “universal commerce platform” to the financial tech world, is planning to help Greeks with their sovereign debt crisis.
‘Litecoin Shows There Is a Simple Fix for Spam Attacks on Bitcoin’ On July 7, Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin (LTC), wrote a post on Reddit to offer a fix for the current spam attack to the Bitcoin network.
Greek Homeowner Seeks to Convert Real Estate Wealth to 4,955 BTC The luxury marketplace that accepts Bitcoin, BitPremier, is listing a Greek Villa for sale. The home is priced at almost 5,000 bitcoins, or €1,200,000.
FinTech’s Secret Weapon Against Central Banks “The Future of Financial Services,” a 178-page report released on June 30 by the World Economic Forum, explains one of the greatest advantages of FinTech firms.
Malaysian Exchange CoinBit: ‘People Are Looking for Alternatives to Inflation’ CoinBit.me is a new Bitcoin platform that was launched in Malaysia in April. Since its inception, 17,800 registered users from all around the world have signed up.
‘Without Projects That Express Principles, You Have Nothing of a Revolution’ Cody Wilson, 27 — founder and CEO of Defense Distributed (DD) and the creator of the world's first 3D printable gun
Bitcoin Brings ‘100% Mathematical Certainty’ to Comply With Islamic Law Cointelegraph spoke with Matthew J. Martin on why Bitcoin is better for financial services companies that want to attract Muslim clients and offer “sharia-based” financial products.
'I Am Lyn Ulbricht': A Mother ‘Doubles Down’ for Her Son Against the ‘Failed Drug War’ The hosts of the Austin-based Crypto Show, which covers libertarianism and Bitcoin topics, have started a fundraiser for the Ulbricht family.