Healthcare: Can the Blockchain Optimize and Secure It?

This is a guest post from the Distributed Ledger. The disruptive nature of blockchain technology is easy for people to conceptualize in the field of finance. T+3 interferes in traders being able to maximize earnings – payments shouldn’t take days to process while an email can be sent in seconds. As the first use case […]

PayPal Ropes in Bitcoin Entrepreneur to Board of Directors

Payments giant PayPal has announced the appointment of founder and CEO of bitcoin startup Xapo, Wences Casares, to its board of directors. In an official release today, PayPal described Casares as a “recognized next-generation payment and crypto-currency thought leader,” who will serve on PayPal’s Compensation Committee. PayPal’s press release also references bitcoin explicitly, stating Casares’ […]

Digital Currency Group Acquires News Outlet CoinDesk

Coindesk, a leading industry news and media outlet has announced today that it has been acquired by Digital Currency Group. Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, an initial investor in Coindesk has now acquired the publication as a whole, with editorial and business teams at CoinDesk to reportedly merge with Digital Currency Group’s events platform to […]

The Ultimate Guide to Earning Bitcoins Fast and Free in 2016

The post The Ultimate Guide to Earning Bitcoins Fast and Free in 2016 appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. It’s been a while since I wrote a new post, and it feels good to be back! Today, I’m going to cover all of the available ways there are to to earn Bitcoins online. Before I begin, […]

Snapcard CEO: Developing Countries Care About Bitcoin, Not Blockchain

While Wall Street seems more interested in the idea of permissioned or private blockchains these days, the point of Bitcoin in developing countries has nothing to do with the technology underpinning the decentralized payment network. According to Snapcard Co-Founder and CEO Michael Dunworth, people in developing nations are more interested in bitcoin as a currency […]

Breadwallet CEO Aaron Voisine: We Support Core’s Scalability Road Map, but Bitcoin Does Need a Hard Fork

Breadwallet , according to CEO and co-founder Aaron Voisine, is one of the most popular mobile bitcoin wallets that signed the scaling “ road map ” proposed by Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell. Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine, Voisine did emphasize, however, that Bitcoin’s block-size limit will need to be increased through a hard fork as […]