SPACOIN: The First Spa Project-Applied Blockchain in the World

INTRODUCTION Being an abstract concept, beauty has been constantly regarded as a standard to judge a person’s physical attractiveness. Nowadays, thanks to the successful contributions to continuously advanced technologies as well as the changes in defining and evaluating on “beauty”, the word of beauty care has become much more extensive and various. In addition, the […]

Vatican Address to Highlight Bitcoin Use in Human Slave Trade

The Vatican is soon to host an address on how bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are being used in the modern-day slave trade. To be held today at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) in the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, the talk by Bank of Montreal senior manager Joseph Mari is to provide […]

Coinbase Records Over 100,000 New Users Since CME Futures Announcement

On Tuesday just past, the CME Group announced plans to launch a futures market for Bitcoin. Since then, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the US has reported an influx of users. It’s widely believed that the expectation of greater institutional money entering the market is driving the high number of registrations Coinbase has experienced. The company reported a […]

Introducing a Programming Language so Simple, It “Fits on a T-shirt”

Blockstream is introducing Simplicity, a new programming language for blockchain-based smart contracts, intended for inclusion in Blockstream’s sidechains and eventually in Bitcoin. The new language was presented by its creator, Russell O’Connor, Infrastructure Tech Developer at Blockstream, at the ACM SIGSAC Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2017). “Simplicity is a blockchain […]