Ripple Labs Inc., has had its BitLicense application approved today by New York state’s financial regulator. The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has approved Ripple Labs’ BitLicense application. Granted today, the approval will grant Ripple the license to sell and obtain XRP – the native digital asset of the Ripple Consensus Ledger, […]
Bitcoin micropayments startup ChangeTip is struggling to find a buyer after its engineering team was purchased by travel startup AirBnB in April.
President Barack Obama’s economic policy staff recently met with stakeholders across the fintech ecosystem to discuss how fintech can support economic policy, Adrienne Harris, special assistant to the President of economic policy, noted in a White House blog. The attendees included policy makers, fintech startups and investors. The meeting addressed cybersecurity, ways to manage small […]
Breakout Coin, an in-game staking mechanism, cryptocurrency payment and loyalty platform on the Breakout Chain blockchain, will launch a public coin sale at 10 a.m. PDT on Monday, June 13, 2016. The Bittrex cryptocurrency exchange will host the coin sale. A total of 6,627,494 Breakout Coins (BRK) will be offered. Combined with a prior sale […]
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Synechron, a global consulting and technology innovator in the financial services industry, has released the results of a survey conducted by the TABB Group for Synechron on the potential of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services, with respondents believing that they will have a major impact over the next 10 years. After conducting […]
Toronto-based Bitcoin consultancy and software development company Decentral has announced the integration of its Jaxx line of blockchain wallets with digital currency exchange platform ShapeShift.io. The integration of ShapeShift with Jaxx wallets will enable users to convert between bitcoin, ether and DAO tokens directly within the Jaxx wallet. It will also support any tokens that […]
The first Decentralized Web Summit, a gathering of developers striving to make the web open, secure and free of censorship by distributing data, processing and hosting across millions of computers around the world, with no centralized control, was held in San Francisco on June 8 and 9. The Summit was hosted by The Internet Archive, which […]
Bitcoin price continues slowly losing altitude below $580 (Bitstamp). The likelihood of decline remains, although we must acknowledge the possibility of a low-liquidity weekend spike to the upside. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the […]
Is bitcoin’s recent price increase drawing the interest of mainstream traders?