Note: heard from an investor close to Chain.com that Tom Jessop has resigned, effective next month. I haven’t seen anything public about it yet though. Their employees were regularly talking about Bitcoin-related topics this week on Twitter.
- North Korean hackers behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges, South Korean newspaper reports (Reuters) how many exchanges have put in place proper KYC/AML?
- Could 2018 see R3 and IBM find middle ground on blockchain? (GTR)
- Where Have All the Private Blockchains Gone? (Coindesk) from gideon greenspan, good article
- “In 10 years, 10% of global GDP will be stored on Blockchain technology per @wef – #food and #grocery retailers will deliver ever higher quality and safer products to their customers with greater efficiencies and transparency” — from Lori Mitchell-Keller at SAP
- Blockchain can bring supply chain transparency and transform food firms (Food Navigator) pretty much what we’ve heard all year long
- Chain releases Ivy for Bitcoin: is there an enterprise play with this?
- “Closing bitcoin auction volume on Gemini today was 60.84 BTC or $1.14mm notional value . Cboe will be using Gemini price for settlement.” (Joe Saluzzi) volume on CME was pretty low too
- CEO of cryptocurrency play up 1,000% in 2 days to $3.1 billion: ‘This market cap is not justified’ (CNBC) you have got to watch this interview, he changes the topic like 37 times in a matter of minutes
- Hyperledger, A Greenhouse Incubator for Blockchain Projects (Video)
- I Looked Into NEO’s Code Base – What I Found Should Worry Any NEO Investor (SoV) skip the introductory part where he rants and go to the scammy stuff
- US declares North Korea the culprit behind devastating WannaCry ransomware attack (The Verge) ransomware is a real bad thing and cryptocurrencies enable ransomware authors to have liquidity
- Walmart Pays Workers In Real Time (PYMNTS) the app is called “Even” and is made by an ISV
- We’re planning to launch estcoin — and that’s only the start (Estonia) this is an official statement from the Estonian government team in charge of the e-residency stuff (note: i got my Estonia e-residency a couple months ago)
- Beijing Court Rejected 52.8567 BTC Compensation Lawsuit Against Huobi (8btc) probably not the last lawsuit against a Chinese exchange
- Major Japanese Automotive Group and Dealerships Embracing Bitcoin (Bitcoin.com) will people actually spend it to buy a regular car?
- 2018: N26 startet BitcoinHandel, Android Pay kommt, Yomo kein Thema – Interview mit Valentin Stalf (German) basically says that the N26 neo-bank in Germany will begin to handle bitcoin like Revolut does
- Australia’s REFFIND just bought into US blockchain leader Loyyal Corporation (PR)
- Italian banks to test R3 Corda for payments reconciliation (Finextra) with Italian Bankers Association, ABI Lab, NTT Data Italia
- Ripple adds Morgan Stanley veteran to board of directors (American Banker) Zoe Cruz
- EEA Launches Three Working Groups (PR) digital identity, energy, multiplatform interoperability
- The Blockchain Consortia Train Continues To Roll (PYMNTS) all about consortia in this space
- Who’s Next As London Stock Exchange’s CEO After Chairman Wins Hedge Fund Showdown? (Forbes) Peter Randall from SETL is mentioned as a candidate
- AWS is Investing in Blockchain Through Our Partner Ecosystem (PR)
- Online Brokerage E*Trade Is Now Letting Its Customers Trade Cboe Bitcoin Futures (Fortune)
- Blockchain Advocates in Japan and South Korea Are Joining Forces (Coindesk) KBOF and BCCC are going to cooperate on future projects/events
- Wanda and IBM cloud agreement might be called off (Twitter)
- Texas Slaps Bitcoin Investment Firm With Cease-and-Desist (Coindesk) probably first of many to come, USI-Tech Limited in Dubai
- Bitfinex and Tether Close New Accounts Registration, No Longer Accept New Users (Trustnodes)
- ERC standards to move Ethereum forward? ERC-20, ERC-223, ERC-721. (WePower) good explanation of the three standards, the ERC 721 stuff is very interesting
- The Anatomy of ERC721 (Gerald Nash) deep dive into ERC 721
- The SEC’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies is about to get serious, former chairman says (CNBC)
- Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain (Kai Stinchcombe) it is basically focused just on cryptocurrencies, not enterprise
- Cryptocurrency ICOs Must Stop Flying Blind On Money-Laundering Risks (IB Times) an op-ed from Pawel Kuskowski at Coinfirm, which competes with Chainalysis
- Ex-banker cheerleads his way to cryptocurrency riches (Reuters) on Barry “Shillbert”
- Israel’s Answer to Bitcoin: A Digital Shekel That Could Replace Cash (Haaretz)
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