Bitcoin Price At a 2016 High

Bitcoin price has been traded through resistance – an initial sign of a larger wave of advance. A few cautions remain as we await additional confirmation that resistance has become support. 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 […]

Bitcoin Price Watch; Our Weekend Trades in Focus

Here we are, that time of the week again. The close of the Friday session out of Europe, and as such, time for the final of our twice daily bitcoin price watch analyses for the week. All said, it’s been a pretty wild week. We’ve had a nice combination of sideways, intrarange action (from which […]

PayPal Modular Payment System Will Support Bitcoin

Paypal has filed a patent for a modular payment system. Although it seems to indicate this will be a hardware device of some sort, there is also a mention of using a virtual currency wallet system. Every time a company files a patent for some new form of payment technology, there seems to a buzz […]

Bitcoin Mining Developer Bitmain Invests in Blockchain Startup ChainLab

Leading bitcoin hardware mining producer Bitmain technology has invested an undisclosed sum as a part of a seed investment in ChainLab, an Israeli blockchain startup. Tel Aviv-based blockchain startup ChainLab has announced a seed investment from Bitmain Technology. The funds from the investment will be used directly to aid in the development of ChainLab’s Wings […]

B9Lab Offers Ethereum Training Courses, to Use Blockchain for Certification

Ethereum is becoming one of the widely adopted digital currency protocols for developing Blockchain 2.0 and Blockchain 3.0 applications. As institutions start adopting the Ethereum blockchain to create smart contract based applications with the intentions of automating their existing operations, they will be needing enough qualified personnel who can implement and maintain the blockchain solutions […]

How Blockchain Technology Is Reinventing Global Trade Efficiency

This article orginally appeared in The Distributed Ledger. The business of moving commercial goods around the planet represents billions of dollars in enterprise revenue—as well as losses and inefficiencies resulting from risk, fraud or anachronistic manual paperwork delays. The good news is that few sectors are poised to so dramatically benefit from the advent of blockchain-based […]

Russia’s National Settlement Depository Successfully Tests Blockchain-Based E-Voting System

The National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has developed and successfully tested an e-proxy voting system running on a distributed ledger built with the NXT distributed cryptographic platform. The project’s open-source code is available on GitHub. The NSD, a member of the Moscow Exchange, is a Russian nonbanking credit organization, Russia’s central depository […]

ISO May Propose Certified Standards for Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers

In April when the Bitcoin community began preparing for Australian Craig Wright’s “Satoshi Nakamoto reveal,” there was another announcement from Down Under that was overlooked.   On April 14, Standards Australia, a non-government, not-for-profit standards organization announced that “Australia proposes International Blockchain Standards” and included a proposal for a “new field of technical activity.” This […]