Dutch company Publicism taps blockchain to guarantee freedom of press
Dec 22, 2016 08:49 am UTC| Digital Currency
Publicism, a Dutch decentralized news medium enabling journalists to safely publish content, plans to leverage the potentials of blockchain technology in order to guarantee freedom of press, Bitcoin Magazine...
FxWirePro: BTC/USD breaches 127.2% fib, jump till 900 likely
Dec 22, 2016 07:27 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/USD is continuing its upward trend and is currently trading at 865 levels at the time of writing (Bitstamp). Long-term trend: Bullish Short-term trend: Bullish Ichimoku analysis of daily chart: Tenkan Sen:...
Philippines central bank considers regulatory framework for bitcoin
Dec 22, 2016 07:11 am UTC| Digital Currency Central Banks
With the increasing volumes of bitcoin remittances, the Philippines central bank is considering introducing digital currency regulations to protect consumers. Bloomberg reports that as the number of overseas Filipinos...
BTC/EUR trades above psychological level 800, jump till 889 likely
Dec 22, 2016 06:27 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/EUR is seen trading well above on Thursday. The pair breaks psychological level of 800 and hits afresh year high at 804.95 yesterday (COINBASE). It is currently trading around 803.80 at the time of writing. Ichimoku...
Royal Canadian Mint joins fintech company Goldmoney’s blockchain platfrom
Dec 22, 2016 06:23 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Royal Canadian Mint has partnered with the financial technology company Goldmoney Inc. in order to add its secure precious metal storage facility in Ottawa to the Goldmoney Network. With this collaboration, the...
R3’s Corda blockchain platform available on Microsoft Azure
Dec 22, 2016 05:27 am UTC| Digital Currency
Microsofts Project Bletchley has announced the availability of R3s Cordaon Azure, an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform. The announcement follows Cordas release to the open source community last...
Lisk blockchain project announces successful registration of Swiss non-profit foundation
Dec 22, 2016 05:01 am UTC| Digital Currency
Lisk, the decentralized blockchain application platform, is concluding an already eventful 2016 with major news. On the heels of achieving first milestone of mainchain stabilization in Inception phase, the startup has...
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