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European AML Directive Pushes Crypto Startup Bottle Pay Out of Business

15.12.2019
Bottle Pay, a cryptocurrency payments provider from the U.K., has announced its decision to cease operations by the end of the year. Despite attracting some serious funding and expanding its user base significantly in the past few months, the company has found it unacceptable to continue to work...

Bitfury Invests in Shyft Network to Build Decentralized Identity Products

11.12.2019
The Bitfury Group has made what it calls a “strategic acquisition” in decentralized credential provider Shyft Networks as it prepares to build out government-facing identity products

ILCoin Launches With 5GB Blocks

4.12.2019
ILCoin Blockchain Project set a new record for stable block size - when it successfully released a 5Gb block. This achievement became possible after the project introduced RIFT protocol, which allows to increase the block size and keep high transaction speed. With these qualities, RIFT effectively...

Cisco Patent Would Secure 5G Networks With a Blockchain

29.11.2019
Cisco sees a way for blockchain to help secure messages transmitted through telecommunications networks, according to a patent

Poloniex ‘Acquires’ Tron Network’s Biggest Decentralized Exchange

29.11.2019
Poloni DEX seeks to overhaul Tron-based trading platform

Why Tokenized Projects Are Building on Bitcoin

20.11.2019
Bitcoin is something you hodl. Ethereum is something you build on. At least that has long been the official narrative, with projects favoring dedicated smart contract networks over Bitcoin for spinning out dapps and second layer solutions. Like all crypto narratives, however, this one has started...

Facebook Launches a New Payment Platform “Facebook Pay” For Social Networks

13.11.2019
Facebook launched a payment system, Facebook Pay, which will operate on its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The Social Media site also cleared that it has nothing to do with the platform’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra. In a press brief, the company’s official...

This is Why Smaller Networks Overtake NEO by Dapp Activity

8.11.2019
Da Hongfei, Founder of Neo. Source: Twitter, @NEO_Blockchain NEO blockchain, regularly titled as “Chinese Ethereum,” appears to be underperforming in the realm of dapps (decentralized apps) - even smaller networks have more dapps and their users. However, it seems that NEO is currently not focusing...

Ripple’s Investment Solution Xpring Puts Funds in Flare Networks

6.11.2019
Xpring, the brainchild of Ripple that works as the investment arm for innovative blockchain projects, has made a strategic investment in a well-known smart contract platform, Flare Networks. On November 5, 2019, Flare Networks made an official announcement stating that it has earned a critical...

Venezuelans Made Lightning-Savvy Hardware to Use Bitcoin During Blackouts

1.11.2019
Locha Mesh is building software and hardware for connecting to bitcoin's Lightning Network – even when the power's out

Why a VPN Is the First Layer You Should Pull On When Browsing the Web

29.10.2019
Virtual private networks (VPNs) can be useful for all kinds of things, from streaming foreign sports to protecting your identity from heightened online surveillance. For cryptocurrency users, VPNs are particularly precious, providing access to exchanges that are geo-restricted, and enabling crypto...

Bitcoin.com Acquires Blockchain Software Startup O3 Labs

21.10.2019
Bitcoin.com has announced the acquisition of blockchain startup O3 Labs, the Tokyo-based software company that specializes in developing gateways to the digital economy. The deal will see O3 absorbed into Bitcoin.com, forming a single team dedicated to creating tools for realizing the full...

Smart Contract Blockchains Are Struggling to Scale

17.10.2019
Second generation blockchains were presented as being faster, cheaper, and more scalable than Bitcoin. Third generation chains (basically anything that came after Ethereum) promised even greater optimizations. In the event, these networks have run into the same difficulties as Bitcoin, with...

6 Monitoring Websites That Help Track Bitcoin Cash Data

12.10.2019
When it comes to cryptocurrency networks and markets, there’s a lot to keep track of. Thankfully there’s also now a bunch of dedicated bitcoin cash (BCH) data websites that provide easy to comprehend visual representations of network statistics and market indicators. Also read: Slovenia...

Cere and Celer Networks Team Up to Launch Decentralized CRM Solution

7.10.2019
Second layer blockchain scaling platform Celer Network partners with customer relationship management startup Cere Network to launch a decentralized CRM solution

Weekly Platform News: Tracking via Web Storage, First Input Delay, Navigating by Headings

4.10.2019
In this week's roundup, Safari takes on cross-site tracking, the delay between load and user interaction is greater on mobile, and a new survey says headings are a popular way for screen readers to navigate a webpage. Let's get into the news. Safari’s tracking prevention limits web storage Some...

This AI Platform Identifies Privacy Threats in Social Networks and Messengers

1.10.2019
Preserving your online privacy has become almost a lost cause these days. Thankfully, some entrepreneurial minds have taken it upon themselves to help web users stay informed of privacy risks and take action to thwart attempts to access their personal data. Guard is a platform which is doing...