Power companies may soon be joining big banks in industries about to be massively disrupted by blockchain technology similar to that which underlies bitcoin. Quelle: Brooklyn blockchain startup could render power companies redundant – New York Business Journal
The second part of a series on gaming and blockchains includes Spells of Genesis, Alex Amsel and Peter Borah. Quelle: Gaming on the blockchain II – A new kind of digital ownership
The technology that launched Bitcoin could help broker-dealers cut costs. The catch: it could equally eat into revenue by automating services they currently charge for. Given the formidable obstacles to widespread adoption, it may prove to be as much a curse as a blessing. Quelle: Blockchain is a zero-sum game for investment banks
We’ve already invested in over 50 Bitcoin companies, now we’re looking for Ethereum companies too. Quelle: Boost VC Is Now Investing In Products Built Using Ethereum — Boost VC — Medium
Blockchain: regulatory technology or technology to regulate? Wednesday 2 March 2016, 12.30 – 16.00 European Parliament Brussels, Room PHS 7C 050 An event hosted by MEP Marietje […] Quelle: Blockchain: regulatory technology or technology to regulate?
Ethereum has been a hot topic in the cryptocurrency world over the past few weeks as it’s been climbing the market cap ladder. Quelle: Ethereum Now ‚Self-Sufficient for 4.5 Years‘ Says Buterin as Price Climbs – Bitcoin News
The Ethereum network is a distributed economy like Bitcoin, except it is much, much more powerful. Rick Seeger dives into why you should be paying attention to its popularity. Quelle: Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer – Silicon Valley Data Science
Ethereum is a contract validating and enforcing system based on a distributed public ledger (or blockchain) such as the one implemented by the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Yet, Ethereum also features an internal Turing-complete scripting language that can be used to encode advanced transaction types directly into the blockchain. This allows for the deployment of self-enforcing smart […]
Photo: Mark Hodson Every week, we’ll be offering a quick rundown of the most relevant news in finance and technology. PayPal reached a valuation of $ 50 billion in its first day of trading on the Nasdaq as an independent company since its split from eBay (which had acquired PayPal back in 2002 for $ […]
Ethereum, the decentralized application and smart contracting platform prepares to shoot the starting gun, as their Frontier release reaches 99% 98% completion. Miners, who have been waiting a year since the crowdfund, have begun sharpening their GPU pick axes. [Update: Another bug seems to have been added over night, bringing it back to 98%] Imagine […]