Reimagining traditional finance to dreaming of alternative, self-sovereign futures has become possible with blockchain technology. That’s according to Berlin-based New Zealand artist, Simon Denny, whose latest exhibition, Blockchain Future States at the Petzel Gallery in New York City looks at the cultural implication of what blockchain application across different sectors could mean globally. Full-length, cut-out images […]
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A federal judge in New York has ruled that bitcoin constitutes a form of money. Source
The story of bitcoin’s biggest hacks and thefts is the story of bitcoin itself. From its early days and its first hack, to the biggest theft of all time, bitcoin’s utopian promises often turned into a dystopian reality where scammers, thieves, unaccountable and often amateur exchanges, some, even fully anonymous, proliferated in a wild west […]
The Ethereum community had a small scare yesterday after a bug was discovered on the platform. The bug affecting geth nodes built on Go Programming Language was reported as a security alert of high severity on Ethereum blog earlier yesterday. The bug in Ethereum protocol resulted in the crash of geth nodes following memory issues. […]
MUNICH, GERMANY — The future of digital payments is here. Independent software development company BitShares Munich released the latest version of its digital currency-agnostic, zero-cost point-of-sale (POS) system, BlockPay “S”, over the weekend (Sept. 17). The application is currently available to download for free at the Google Play Store. “After months of hard work, we […]
The UK’s central bank said last week that it wants its next-generation settlement system to be blockchain-compatible. Source
Like any good movie, mission impossible music metaphorically came on last night around midnight London time, just hours before the opening of Devcon2, as Geth nodes – used by most of ethereum’s network – suddenly started crashing at block 2,283,416. Some villain, who presumably just wanted to see the world burn, had coded a smart […]
Bitcoin suffered a black eye in August because of the Bitfinex hack, but the digital currency quickly mounted a recovery. Source
An MLM-based investment scheme that used bitcoin as its transactional currency has gone bust, in Vietnam. A Vietnamese investment scheme that used multi-level-marketing (MLM) and bitcoin as its currency to promise investors returns of 144% a month has come to an end. MLM trading is illegal by law in Vietnam, as deemed by the Vietnam […]