[Editor Note: The Chinese government is cracking down on Bitcoin users - will require wallet app ID's real-name registration Come July 1st.]   www.DaoDaily.News Chinese Wallet Apps to Require ID Jean-Pierre Buntinx Hardly anyone will be surprised to find out the...

[Editors Note: The price rise of Bitcoin has got everyone in a frenzy. Do people wonder why the rally is happening? Hope reigns supreme for higher prices.  "Meanwhile, one critical thing to remember is that during upswings, security should be at the top of everyone’s...

[Editors Note: "The Identity & KYC conference in London hosted a workshop on using blockchain technology to improve know-your-customer processes earlier this week."] www.daodaily.news By Sid Kalla Led by blockchain compliance consultant Siân Jones, the workshop...

[Editors Note: "If you were looking to enter the business, Karin Kersten argues, you might first invest in a restaurant. Next, you might try to get a feel for the workflow, washing dishes and observing existing staff. It's then, she said, that you might be ready to...

Editors Note:  Dubai's Global Blockchain Council (GBC), a public-private initiative between local businesses, government agencies and startups, unveiled seven new proofs-of-concept at industry conference Keynote 2016 today. www.DaoDaily.News By Pete Rizzo Launched in...

[Editors Note: "Ever since Uber and Lyft left Austin, the peer-to-peer rideshare group, Arcade City, has been making waves as it has made its bid to fill the void. The developers made its presence known when they published an open letter to the city on their official...

[Editors Note: The Director of the Dutch-based REshape Center for Innovation Lucien Engelen recently announced a blockchain-based prototype with SNS Bank N.V. and Deloitte. This proof-of-concept, called Prescrypt, is an initiative that makes it easier for people with...

It is the first iOS wallet to transact in ether, the native currency of Ethereum’s smart contract platform. Despite not being intended for use as a spending currency, ether has been gaining attention recently as a potential competitor to bitcoin. By Jon Southurst...

Steven Malby is head of the Law Development Section of the Rule of Law Division for the Commonwealth Secretariat, the executive arm of the Commonwealth of Nations intergovernmental organisation. Malby explores the challenges in bringing legal identity to the more than...

Dan Elitzer is a member of the IDEO coLAB, a shared platform to discover and act on the potential of new technologies, with current focuses on blockchain, digital identity, and IoT. In this op-ed, Elitzer fleshes out a framework for how a digital identity system...

More than 15 members of Congress met with representatives of the blockchain technology industry this week as part of a roundtable organized by advocacy group the Chamber of Digital Commerce. By Pete Rizzo Held in Washington, DC, the event drew a number of industry...

 The price of bitcoin appreciated nearly 4% for the week ending 27th May, but the figure is perhaps not indicative of the wild trading action the market saw during the period. By Charles Bovaird Such movements came as market observers are becoming more interested in...

The European Parliament has appointed a regulator for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. In the end, these efforts will be futile, as the decentralized nature of the Bitcoin protocol is resistant to external influence. by Jean-Pierre Buntinx EU Parliament Seeks a Crypto...

In a surprise announcement, Swedish mining firm KnC Miner said today that it is filing for bankruptcy, citing Bitcoin block reward halving and competition from Chinese hardware companies. Jon Southurst CEO Sam Cole said as much as 44% of KnC’s income went to paying...

BitOasis has secured additional funding to expand their presence beyond the United Arab Emirates. The round of financing received support from Digital Currency Group and various tech angel investors.   By Jean-Pierre Buntinx BitOasis Funding is a Success Most people...

While Goldman Sachs expects private or “permissioned” blockchains to dominate most commercial applications according to its recent research report, the banking giant admitted that Bitcoin is an “ideal vehicle” for public transactions between individuals who don’t know...

Currently under review at The DAO, the distributed autonomous organization that has raised over $150m worth of the cryptocurrency ether to date, is a proposal for comment by one of the most recognizable people in bitcoin that would fund a project aimed at encoding a...

The Internet has fostered the development of machines that can collect sensor-generated data and sell it in return for passive bitcoin payments, 21 Inc stated on Medium. There are presently two paradigms by which this process works: grid computing and cloud computing....

The Russian Ministry of Finance, known for its disdain and intent to criminalize bitcoin activity, is considering the issuance of a state-controlled cryptocurrency in discussions with banks and regulators. By Samburaj Das The idea of a state-controlled cryptocurrency...

Crowdfunding report analyses whether equity crowdfunding will democratize access to capital and investment opportunities. Policy briefing finds that Title III is not likely to provide everyday investors or high-growth ventures with significant new markets for funding...

An Ethereum startup led by a Harvard researcher and the founder of blockchain ridesharing startup La’Zooz will submit a proposal to fix perceived governance issues with The DAO this week. By Pete Rizzo Launched earlier this month, The DAO has quickly become the...

A new report from Goldman Sachs Investment Research projects that the implementation of blockchain technology could streamline the clearing and settlement of cash securities, saving capital markets $2bn in the US and $6bn globally on an annual basis. By Pete Rizzo The...

Bitcoin Press Release: Following $6.5 million crowdsale, Lisk deploys first truly scalable cryptocurrency, with JavaScript compatibility and infinite ability to add new features via sidechains. By Tom Clancy  Aachen, Germany – Lisk (www.lisk.io), the first modular...

The scripting language in bitcoin is restricting application development, which is something that Ethereum can change, according to Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, which recently added Ethereum trading. By Elliot Maras   Fred Ehrsam Ehrsam, writing in Medium,...

The Diet in Japan (the legislature consisting of the Lower and the Upper Houses) has passed a bill today that mandates the regulation of bitcoin and virtual currency exchanges by the Financial Services Agency (FSA) in Japan. Japan has enacted a bill today that will...

  At the International Legal Forum, which took its place May 18-21, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Russian prime minister Dmitriy Medvedev gave a short speech to legal experts on the Internet of Things, blockchain technology, and DAOs. Although his rhetoric was calm,...

BitCoinIRA.com Launches Revolutionary “Bitcoin IRA” Investment Product Exclusively for Retirement AccountsA first-of-its-kind, the “Bitcoin IRA” offered by BitCoinIRA.com, is specifically tailored for inclusion with IRA and 401(k) Plans. By Tom Clancy BitCoinIRA.com,...

By Samburaj Das The banking- and finance-centric blockchain consortium led by New York-based startup R3 will now include its first ever Chinese member, the Ping An Financial Services Group. China’s second largest insurer, the Ping An Group has become the first Chinese...

Dubai is set to play host to a conference on digital currencies later this month, an event that comes several months after a government-backed blockchain effort was first unveiled. Hosted at the Burj Al Arab hotel, the one-day Keynote Conference event on 30th May will...

Sixteen years after Robin Hanson published a seminal paper on using prediction markets to inform governance decisions, his ideas have found a home in the Ethereum community. The associate professor of economics at George Mason University and researcher at Oxford's...

The US Postal Service (USPS) has released a new report outlining how it could adopt blockchain technology within its operations. The report, issued by the Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), suggests that the service should consider using the...

Online payment service provider PayFort is among a number of participants to invest in a seed funding round for Dubai-based bitcoin startup BitOasis. Additional participants included MENA-focused venture capital firm Wamda Capital, early Internet entrepreneur Samih...

The popularity of Bitcoin in India has seen an exponential rise, according to the Hindustantimes. The report details that more users in the region are using the cryptocurrency to pay mobile bills and vouchers for online shopping. With Businesses like Unocoin, Zebpay,...

First there was TensorFlow, Google’s machine learning framework. Then there was SyntaxNet, a neural network framework Google released to help developers build applications that understand human language. What comes next is anyone’s guess, but one thing is clear:...

A lawyer at Anderson Kill, PC in Washington, DC, Stephen D Palley (@palleylaw) focuses his law practice on construction, insurance and software development, including blockchain and smart contract design. The opinions in this article are Palley’s alone, are not...

Nolan Bauerle is a former researcher and writer for the Canadian Senate Banking Committee, for which he drafted a 2015 report on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. He is the founder of tech strategy firm Borderless Blockchain. In this op-ed, Bauerle frames...

Martin Hagelstrom is a bitcoin enthusiast, project executive and consultant working on IT projects at IBM. In this op-ed, Hagelstrom touches on the slow but steady embrace of blockchain by the world's banks. By Martin Hagelstrom A few months ago I was writing a...

Jason Leibowitz is a former Wall Street professional who pivoted careers in 2014 to focus full-time on digital currency. In this opinion piece, Liebowitz discusses why the blockchain is now best perceived as an innovation in distributed, digital trust, despite its...

Max Kordek is a 24-year-old Bitcoin wiz from Germany. Next week he and his co-founder, 37-year-old Oliver Beddows, will launch their company, Lisk. And Lisk is such an exciting idea that during their 30-day crowdfunding campaign, nearly 4,000 people chipped in a total...

The D.A.O., on the other hand, returns to the more radical ambitions of virtual currencies. It is set up according to computer code, with no human executives. All decisions will be made by votes of the people who buy in — using software — making it a sort of...

With the financial ecosystem on the proverbial brink of collapsing, there is a growing concern among banking industry experts. Not about the imminent collapse itself, though, but how hackers can easily attack the global financial system. By Jean-Pierre Buntinx A...

Russian payments firm Qiwi is currently designing its own proprietary blockchain in an effort to replace its central payments processing database. Called the "Qiwi blockchain system", the company’s development effort focuses on how its core database of customer...

The rush to capitalize on ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, is in full swing.  Bitcoin Miners Follow Profit to Ethereum Blockchain. By Michael del Castillo Among those interested are the world's miners, who operate vast networks of machines...

A stock exchange in Australia is developing a private equity market solution using blockchain technology. As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sydney Stock Exchange (SSX) will initially look to facilitate the trade of private stocks, but will eventually open...

Andrew "Drew" Hinkes is Counsel at Berger Singerman LLP, a business law firm in Florida. Hinkes represents companies and entrepreneurs in state and federal commercial litigation matters, representation of court-appointed fiduciaries, and electronic discovery issues....

Last year Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed HB 483, allowing the creation of the Texas Gold Depository. “With the passage of this bill, the Texas Bullion Depository will become the first state-level facility of its kind in the nation, increasing the security and...

Jeff Garzik, a bitcoin code veteran who recently launched the Bloq code-for-hire service to develop blockchain features, continues to defend a hard fork solution to the bitcoin scaling challenge. Garzik has engaged with individuals who disagree with him on Twitter in...

The Ethereum created DAO has become one of the largest crowdsale in history, overtaking today the video game project Star Citizen, which has been a multi-year effort to raise $113,705,500. The DAO, a project curated by the founders of the Ethereum public blockchain,...

What if Bitcoin’s price surges beyond the 2013 record high reaching $10,000 a coin like Tim Draper predicts? Would you pay off your student debts? Start a Bitcoin business? Buy a Bentley? Bitcoin.com decided to run an experiment to see what some enthusiasts would do...

Two doctors have recently devised a concept that makes clinical trial documents immutable using blockchain technology. A universal method of keeping clinical research untampered is an issue within the medical field. Often these trials can be manipulated, and the...

When I reviewed Amazon Aurora last October, I noted that its level of performance was far beyond any I had seen from other open source SQL databases, and it did so at a far lower cost than you would pay for an Oracle database of similar power. Considering that Aurora...

The father and son authors of the new book "Blockchain Revolution" took to the stage this morning where Nasdaq opens and closes its market to discuss their latest work. By Michael del Castillo   Kicking off a panel discussion with several industry leaders, Don...

During a demonstration at Nasdaq's global headquarters today, the stock exchange operator unveiled a service that lets solar power generators sell certificates using its Linq blockchain service. By Michael del Castillo The solar panels are connected to the Internet...

The DAO has become the talk of the digital town since its launch less than a month ago. With nearly $150m worth of the cryptocurrency ether raised to date, the unusual organization has inspired both passionate supporters and skeptics.    By Stan Higgins In the...

There's a new man in charge of the Hyperledger Project, a group of more that 30 companies working together to build an open standard for distributed ledgers across industries. By Michael del Castillo Announced today, the founder of of the Apache Software Foundation,...

In April, Red Hat announced the OpenShift initiative to aid financial services industry in building hosted blockchain applications. Red Hat would manage container application deployment with OpenShift Dedicated support for financial institutions interested in...

IBM sees blockchain technology as an essential tool for business, government, and society, and as such, its development calls for government support, according to Jerry Cuomo, the company’s vice president of blockchain technologies. He believes the technology can...

With websites operating under the constant threat of attacks, users have long been accustomed to looking for a little green lock in web browsers, signaling an SSL certificate, to ensure that the site is secure. By Jacob Donnelly Today, SSL is used for transmitting...

Back in January, Chicago-based asset management firm Northern Trust was part of a group of international financial institutions to complete a blockchain test with the R3CEV banking consortium. By Michael del Castillo The firm, which has $900bn in assets under...

Bitcoin startup Blockchain has released the first version of a payments channel prototype that finds it moving its research efforts into how transactions on the bitcoin network can be made faster and more effective into the public eye. By Pete Rizzo The startup, which...

A panel on national security and cyberspace appointed by President Barack Obama heard testimony on blockchain technology from a representative of IBM earlier today. Held in New York, the meeting brought together the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity,...

Antony Lewis is a bitcoin and blockchain consultant and blogger, who previously served as the director of business development at bitcoin exchange itBit.  In this article, Lewis attempts to explain the difference between the revolutionary disruptive innovation of...

Bitcoin is a secure network that has never been hacked and is actually safer than owning gold, said Bitcoin Foundation Executive Director Bruce Fenton in a television interview with RT this week.   By Jon Southurst Bitcoin losses had come mainly from company failures...

The topic of encryption is becoming more prominent in media headlines these days as consumers want to protect their privacy. But the US government does not agree with this stance as federal prosecutors propose indefinite prison for a suspect unwilling to decrypt his...

The Chinese state-owned ICBC Standard Bank (IDCBF), the world's biggest bank by assets, has agreed to buy Barclays precious metals storage business, including its state-of-the-art storage facility in London. Ivana Kottasova The deal will boost China's access to...

 Tuesday will see the unveiling of the winner at the GTEC Blockchain Innovation Awards in Berlin, with startups in line for up to €20,000 in prize money. By William Suberg GTEC Gives International Recognition to Blockchain Innovators Over 100 applicants have been...

A new startup called LegacyNest will help you write a will on your behalf, as well as check whether you are still alive. But at the same time, smart contracts can achieve this same goal, which begs the question whether or not this startup will succeed.   By...

Online shopping is becoming a significant trend all over the world, yet a lot of people show concerns of online privacy and security. A recent US government study shows half of Americans are put off by lackluster security and privacy.   By Jean-Pierre Buntinx...

It is not common to speak of currency as being pro or anti-war. A freely traded currency is merely an economic tool that facilitates the exchange of goods and services by people whose intentions may be good or evil. All things being equal, the money is morally and...

About a week ago, at the NYC Consensus conference I was fortunate enough to get to spend four hours over dinner with Adam Back of Blockstream, and Kristov Atlas of Blockchain.info By Roger Ver I’ll do my best to summarize the topics of conversation over those four...

In a digital currency world that is built upon the concept of decentralization, the greater Bitcoin community can seem fractured and remote to even seasoned Bitcoin veterans. Bringing together like-minded Bitcoin users from around the world can be a matter of luck...

BTCPOP first introduced the ability for users to create an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in December 2015, however, you might not know about this marvellous feature and why you should be using it. Tom Clancy An IPO is created when a company decides to sell shares to...

In its final report on virtual currencies and distributed ledger technology concerning the likes of bitcoin and blockchain tech, the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has spoken about the possibility of revising existing EU payment laws,...

Recently, there have been reports of a new fintech consultancy firm that will be headquartered in London, touting blockchain technology. The speculative new company, called 11FS, has reportedly raised $5 million USD in seed funding already from the venture capital...

Matthew Spoke is a bitcoin and Ethereum enthusiast who has been working towards advancing the use of smart distributed protocols through Rubix, a team at Deloitte dedicated to this vision. In this opinion piece, Spoke argues it remains to be seen whether blockchain...

Dr Paul Ennis is a research assistant at The Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organization at University College Dublin, specializing in bitcoin and blockchain studies. In this opinion piece, Dr Ennis discusses how bitcoin's scaling debate has thus far evolved,...

KeepKey is one of the top Bitcoin Hardware Wallets in the industry right now. I recently had the opportunity to have a hands-on experience with one, as well as speak to Doug Miller of KeepKey. KeepKey is a very solidly-built wallet with a large, very easy to read...

Malaysia is one of the most recent countries to look at its current regulatory guidelines and come up with changes to take part of the FinTech revolution. Keeping in mind how Bitcoin is a part of FinTech as well, these changes will have a rippling effect on...

Japan seems to have Bitcoin fever these days. Trading volume is growing exponentially in the region and organizations across the land are investing in this new technology. Now the Japanese blockchain firm TechBureau, who maintains one of Japan’s largest Bitcoin...

A deputy governor of Japan's central bank has said that central banks worldwide need to pay close attention to developments surrounding digital currencies and blockchain technology.   By Stan Higgins Speaking during a conference earlier this week in Japan, Deputy...

Bitcoin prices fluctuated little in the week ending 13th May, staying largely between $450 and $460 amid lackluster trading volume. While Craig Wright’s claims of being bitcoin’s founder likely helped generate visibility for the digital currency and was still the...

The Bitcoin Core team is looking to refresh the process by which code changes are proposed, considered and implemented in a bid to engage more people in the development of the protocol. But this remains a significant challenge in a diverse and distributed community....

One of the chief virtues of a gold standard is that it serves as a restraint on the growth of money and credit. It makes runaway government deficit spending and major monetary catastrophes such as hyperinflation practically impossible. By Stefan Gleason Opponents of a...

A new service has been launched by the Cashila team, with the aim of making Ether trading more convenient for users. ICONOMI, as this new feature is called, enables purchases through direct SEPA transfers. By Jean-Pierre Buntinx Cashila is one of the many...

The business registry database, Kompany.com, made it known at a joint conference of the European Commerce Registers’ Forum (ECRF) and Corporate Registers’ Forum (CRF) that they are introducing a blockchain ledger into their business model. Trevor Hill The company says...

The introduction of new NFC and EMV-enabled payment cards has forced merchants to upgrade their payment terminals since last 2015. However, it seems that upgrade brought other unwanted changes, such as an increase in debit transaction fees. Jean-Pierre Buntinx  ...

There’s been a lot of venture capital flying around the cryptocurrency and blockchain environment this year. Some investment firms are legacy financial institutions who have their sights set on this emerging technology. However, some firms are purely dedicated to the...

Though major stock exchanges in London and New York have garnered the lion’s share of major media headlines, their peers internationally are moving at a similar pace to investigate the potential of blockchain tech. By Pete Rizzo  The Korea Exchange (KRX), South...

During an appearance on Capitol Hill earlier this week, a representative for a prominent US think tank suggested that blockchain applications could fuel next-generation health and insurance data systems. By Stan Higgins   American Enterprise Institute (AEI)...

Technology consulting firm CapGemini took its latest step on its bid to dramatically increase its investment in blockchain tech this week, announcing a partnership with industry startup Ascribe that would find it using the startup's solutions to create a real-time...