Blockchain technology company SolidX Partners has announced that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the proposed launch of the SolidX Bitcoin Trust, a new Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) for traditional investors. According to the company’s website, SolidX Partners provides blockchain-based software solutions relating to the indelible recording of […]
Ether prices surged this week, outshining bitcoin as the Ethereum community made progress toward a hard fork for The DAO.
A UK House of Lords committee will meet next week to hear testimony from academics and representatives of the blockchain industry.
Boris Titov, the leader of Russia’s Party of Growth, called for the country to legalize cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and become a leader in blockchain development, according to Tass, a Russian news agency. Speaking at a press conference, Titov also said Russia can take advantage of its difficult economic situation to embrace blockchain technology as a […]
While SAP has been exploring blockchain for over a year, it’s only recently decided to become more vocal about its work.
A hacker group that calls itself “Pravvy Sector” is trying to extort the government of Poland for $50,000 in traditional money or bitcoin, with the threat of releasing stolen data from the country’s Defense Ministry. The post Hackers Attempt to Extort Polish Defense Ministry for $50,000 in Bitcoin appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & […]
Exchanges, miners, developers, users and ethereum’s entire ecosystem is getting ready for a historical and defining hardfork. Kraken, eth’s biggest exchange after Polonix, announced traders will be offered only one option, eth on the longest chain. If other exchanges follow Kraken’s example, which is likely, a chain split is practically impossible save for, at worst, […]
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We’ve got a great episode planned for tonight! Technical analysis on community-voted altcoins and of course bitcoin, Coinigy platform updates and more. Your humble hosts: Brian from TheRationalInvestor.co, Rob & William from Coinigy.com Bitcoin Trading Platform, and Alex Sterk from youtube.com/blocktalk. Enjoy!
The European Commission published a new directive draft last week proposing to extend strict anti-money laundering (AML) regulation to both virtual currency exchange services and custodial wallet providers. Intended to counter “money launderers, tax evaders, terrorists, fraudsters and other criminals,” the directive could mean that many Bitcoin companies in the E.U. will have to apply […]
Blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain have a maximum size of 1 MB. Proof of work difficulty is calibrated so 1 block is created every 10 minutes. It is generally accepted a miner would want to maximise the number of transactions it includes in a block as it collects the transaction fees. Logically, with the growing […]