South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, has successfully rolled out kiosks accepting cryptocurrency across the country, within local restaurants, shopping centres and stores. They have partnered with local mobile payment service provider “Pay’s”, to make this a reality in more than 6,000 stores for the launch. This allows consumers to …
OCminer, maintainer of the suprnova mining pool, has officially dropped support for verge mining pools from the service. This comes after the 51% attack and code exploit against the verge blockchain last week. The attack netted the attackers 20 million verge tokens (approximately $1 million USD). Verge developers do not …
Federico Ast, Ph.D is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Federico was early team member at MATERIABIZ, one of Latin America’s online media pioneers. Federico researched deliberative democracy and collective decision making. Federico pioneered the concept of Crowdjury, the use of blockchain and collective intelligence to …
Mark Bonchek is the CEO of Shift Thinking and has written multiple articles on Harvard Business Review. Recently, Mark has published an article on branded currencies, discussing how to use points, gift cards, incentives and rewards as social currencies. On this episode we discuss how cryptocurrency will transform branded currency …
Props by YouNow is a decentralized ecosystem of video applications. Adi Sideman is a pioneer in participatory media, an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience creating apps and companies in the user-generated video space. Adi founded YouNow in 2011 to provide a live social platform for people to …
Cryptocurrency investment app Abra’s CEO forecast that “all hell will break loose” in Bitcoin and altcoin markets this year. after the startup announced it had raised $40mln in new funding since October, CEO Bill Barhydt said western institutional money would begin to “dip its toes” into crypto assets in 2018. …
Neptune Dash constructs and operates Dash masternodes. Earnings are reinvested into the growth of additional Dash masternodes and Dash technology. Neptune Dash’s CFO & Founder Troy Wong is a digital currency trader and blockchain startup consultant. Mr. Wong spent the first ten years of his career at a private equity portfolio …
Ripple, a leading real-time gross settlement system and currency exchange network, has announced its $29 million donation in support of public schools in the United States. The donation comes in the form of XRP. The company stated “Our donation fulfilled every request listed on the nonprofit’s website yesterday. Today, nearly …
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The GDAX exchange by Coinbase announced their intention to support the Ethereum ERC20 standard on GDAX. This prepares GDAX to support trading of ERC20 assets, although they are not announcing support for any specific asset at this time. As detailed in their process for adding new assets, they are announcing …
