New Partnership With ConsenSys and BlockApps to Boost Synechron’s Blockchain Accelerator Program

Synechron, a consulting services and technology provider specializing in the financial services market, has announced a partnership with Ethereum blockchain developers ConsenSys and BlockApps to develop next-generation blockchain solutions. These solutions will address critical issues, such as data privacy on a private blockchain, scalability for market data applications and critical interoperability across Ethereum and complementary […]

Gem Partners With Capital One for Blockchain-Based Health Care Claims Management

Blockchain company Gem aims to tackle one of the biggest issues in health care insurance claim payments: providers have to wait a long time to get paid. Moving toward that goal, the ambitious startup just scored a major partnership with Capital One. In a recent press release, Capital One announced it is “reinventing” its treasury […]

How Iceland’s Pirate Party Could Pave the Way for Bitcoin

The Pirate Party in Iceland is not a team of seafarers with parrots on their shoulders scouring for treasure, but rather a radical political unit poised to take power in Iceland. The group was founded about four years ago by a team of alleged hackers and activists; it rose to fame the following year to […]

The Plot Thickens As DAO Attacker Trades Stolen Funds for Bitcoin

More than $100,000 worth of digital currency tied to ethereum’s biggest hack has been successfully converted into bitcoin. Source

WebMoney Offers Bitcoin Support to Fiat Purses

WebMoney, the Moscow-based Russian online payment solution platform has announced support for Bitcoin. The new feature enables merchants to accept Bitcoin payments from customers who are not signed up on WebMoney. The latest addition, which was launched by the company earlier this week, enables merchants that use “Merchant WebMoney” service to accept payments without having to go through multiple steps, like […]

Plaintiffs Reach Settlement With One Cryptsy Defendant

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Derivatives Giant CME Sets Launch Date for Bitcoin Indexes

The CME Group is launching two previously announced bitcoin price benchmarks next month. Source

Backup Software Provider Acronis Reveals Ethereum Blockchain-Secured Storage Offering

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SBI to Launch First Bank-Backed Digital Currency Exchange

Japan is set to get another digital currency exchange. Source

Overstock to Allow Stockholders to Trade or Buy Its Shares on its Blockchain Platform

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