According to a new profile of Joseph Lubin, ConsenSys has 470 employees working on 37 spokes (projects) and EEA has more than 250 members. Also, an alpha version of Casper (for Ethereum) was released yesterday.
Other news:
- Blockchain landscape in Israel (image)
- Morgan Stanley says the true price of bitcoin might be zero (Business Insider)
- Pineapple Fund: Why Is An Anonymous Bitcoin Millionaire Giving Away $86m? (Blooms Mag) still unclear who these donors are but it is big bucks
- Overstock tZero Spends $12M For Minority Stake In StockCross (PYMNTS)
- A bitcoin implosion could ‘spill over’ into stock market, warns Wells Fargo’s Chris Harvey (CNBC)
- Hong Kong Prepares Real-Time Retail Payment System (Caixin) using FPS from UK
- ““It has no purpose right now other than speculation. I cannot go to McDonald’s with my bitcoin and get some coffee.” – Ira Epstein talks bitcoin futures” (Bloomberg)
- How One Mysterious Startup Is Riding the Bitcoin Wave (Bloomberg) they should probably be delisted for this stunt
- Before paying with bitcoin, here’s what the Federal Trade Commission wants you to know (CNBC) the FTC went after Butterfly Labs 3 years ago, not much since then
- Where fintech dollars will go in 2018 (American Banker) “Blockchain” was the first topic, not many details though
- What you should know about cryptocurrencies (Finance News Network) Justin Dombrowski left PwC and setup “Soho Capital”
- The Future of InsurTech in Germany – InsurTech Radar 2017 is out now (LinkedIn) i
- How Blockchain Could Revolutionize Commodity Markets (Bloomberg View) nothing you haven’t heard of before
- There’s A New Player In The Decentralized Database Space Called Bluezelle (Influence)
- How one woman is making waves in two of America’s most competitive industries (The Lily) profile on Amber Baldet at JPM
- Chip Makers Aren’t Stacking Bets on Cryptocurrencies (WSJ) they can probably make more reliable revenue from gamers and training AI/ML than mining
- Our Chips, Code Are More Secure Than Silicon Valley’s: Northrop Grumman (Breaking Defense)
- While bitcoin falls, one cryptocurrency jumps 20% after new link to some Japanese credit card companies (CNBC) about ripple, also MUFG is joining the SBI Ripple Asia consortium
- Cash is dead as small businesses opt for e-payment in China’s digitalisation drive (SCMP)
- As energy markets evolve, blockchain powers up (Reuters)
- Are you ready for blockchain? (Thomson Reuters) from the main company (which is involved in EEA)
- Chinese Investor Buys Stake in Delaware Blockchain Exchange (Coindesk) Seven Stars Cloud Group
- A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange files for bankruptcy after hack, says users will get 75% of assets for now (CNBC) Yapian / Youbit
- Alt-right utilizes bitcoin after crackdown on hate speech (The Hill)
- Bitcoin exchange Exmo’s kidnapped exec is “safe” but is “in a state of major stress” (Quartz) the CEO of a Ukrainian cryptocurrency exchange was kidnapped and ransomed for $1m
- South Korea to impose new curbs on cryptocurrency trading (Reuters) removing anonymous trading
- Man Who Vandalized Bitmain’s Offices Hired by Blockstream (Trustnodes)
- A Complete History of Bitcoin’s Consensus Forks (BitMEX) this is actually very interesting and well done
- Blockchain could be the the answer to preventing deadly epidemics (WEF) smh
- Accord Project Partners with the Trusted IoT Alliance (PR) this is houman shadab’s project
- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies are Like Ponzi Schemes, Says India’s Government (CCN) yup
- Ryan Selkis had a long rant about XRP (Twitter) seems like a lot of paper millionaires in that thread who always complain whenever someone elses coin goes up
- Crypto Exchange Poloniex to Impose Customer ID Requirements (Coindesk)
- Chrome Extension with 100,000 Users Caught Pushing Cryptocurrency Miner (Bleeping Computer) cpu cycle theft to mine Monero
- Japan Approves New Bitcoin Exchange as Adoption Grows and Peers Expand Overseas (Bitcoin.com) this is the 16th licensed exchange in Japan
- Understanding manufacturing through blockchain (Deccan Herald) all of these pitches blend together and sound the same
- As Bitcoin Rebounds Past $16,000, Related Jobs Have Also Surged (Fortune) “In the first 11 or so months of 2017, LinkedIn says job postings with Bitcoin in the headline grew to 4,917 listings—a jump of 5,753%.”
- How is Hyperledger Fabric different from other blockchain implementations? (IBM) compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum
- Employees from Chain continue to talk about Bitcoin (and not enterprise).
- And the Taiwanese government approved a FinTech Regulatory Sandbox which includes support for cryptocurrency and blockchain-related projects
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