2016 November

DECENT Releases Public Web App Demo

It’s back to business as usual with DECENT, now that their 8-week initial token offering is over. Having raised ~5,881 bitcoins (currently over $4.3 million USD) and generated around 38.5 million DCT tokens, the decentralized content distribution platform has acquired key partners such as Naughty America, Fastweb and CoinMine. Now they’re putting those resources to […]

Bitcoin Price Watch; Here’s What’s On For The Weekly Close

Ok, the end of another week is here, and it’s been a great one for us intraday traders. Price hasn’t stayed still for long, and when it has, it’s generally been on the back of some solid momentum runs, so we expect consolidation here and there. We’ve got the remainder of the US session left […]

Is Bitcoin Mining Destined for Data Centers?

For many, Bitmain’s recent announcement of the realization of a major data center in northwestern China served as a reminder of the level of mining centralization in Bitcoin. Although the Beijing-based company will not own the entire complex, and the whole facility will not necessarily be dedicated to bitcoin mining, in theory over half of all hash […]

SEC Panelists on “Astonishing” But “Not Very Sexy” Blockchain: Achieving Network Effect Will Produce Winners

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is recognized as amazing to some and potentially valuable to many others in the financial services sector, according to various panelists in the Fintech Forum of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), held November 14. However, while DLT is probably “game changing” in terms of improving transactional efficiency, it is […]

Colu Announces Colored Coins and Lightning Network Integration

Colu, an Israeli provider of blockchain-based technologies, has built a version of Lightning Labs’ code that is compatible with Colored Coins. This would allow for the peer-to-peer (P2P) transfer of digital assets with effectively no verification time, a higher transactions-per-second (TPS) rate and almost no fees. Colored Coins is an open source Bitcoin 2.0 protocol […]

Dragon’s Tale – Adorn the Great Wall and Hit the Jackpot

Dragons’s Tale was the first Bitcoin Casino Role-play-game in the Bitcoin Gambling Industry. It is also one of the leading casinos in the industry. The gameplay in Dragon’s tale is extremely addicting since you can go around an amazing 3D virtual world finding the most awkward casino games you can imagine. One of these incredible games […]