Medici Ventures invests in blockchain firm Factom
Feb 08, 2017 07:17 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain-centric subsidiary of retail technology leader Overstock.com Medici Ventures, announced that it has participated in the Series A funding round for Austin-based Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) company Factom,...
Blockchain regulations premature at this stage: ESMA
Feb 08, 2017 06:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on Tuesday released areporton Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), which sets out its views on the technology, the techs possible applications, benefits, risks and how...
Central bank of Philippines issues regulatory framework for digital currency exchanges
Feb 08, 2017 06:09 am UTC| Digital Currency
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central bank of Philippines, has issued pioneer regulatory framework for digital currency exchanges and similar entities that are operating in the country. The approval of...
Input Output Hong Kong announces proof-of-stake protocol ‘Ouroboros'
Feb 08, 2017 05:37 am UTC| Digital Currency
Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), a premier blockchain architecture and development company, has come out of stealth mode and announced that it has built a provably secure Proof-of-Stake protocol in response to the worldwide...
Healthcare blockchain firm Hashed Health raises $1.85M in initial funding round
Feb 08, 2017 04:24 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain startup Hashed Health, a consortium for transformation in the U.S. healthcare system, announced that it has raised $1.85 million in an initial funding round led by healthcare investment firm Martin...
FxWirePro: BTC/CNY breaks at 61.8% fibo, targets 7950
Feb 07, 2017 12:50 pm UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/CNY is seen trading slightly above on Tuesday and the pair breaks 61.8% fibo at 7366 and jumped till 7386 (BTCCHINA). It is currently trading around 7381 at the time of writing. Ichimoku analysis of daily chart...
FxWirePro: ETH/EUR faces strong resistance at 10.95, break above targets 12.37
Feb 07, 2017 11:22 am UTC| Digital Currency
ETH/EUR is seen trading above on Tuesday and the pair has broken high made yesterday at 10.60 and jumped till 10.80 at the time of writing. It is currently trading at 10.72 at the time of writing. Ichimoku analysis of...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects