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Ethereum in 60 seconds 8.10.2017 edition

Highlights: Ethereum Ecosystem in 60 seconds Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Boon released a whitepaper proposing the Plasma Protocol as a massive scalability soluti...

Ethereum ecosystem roundup 8.8.2017 edition

Ethereum Ecosystem in 60 Seconds NEO, ‘China’s Ethereum public blockchain’, continues to rise cryptocurrency rankings, and is also seen by some as having advant...

Ethereum ecosystem roundup 8.6.2017 edition

Ethereum ecosystem in 60 seconds Filecoin claims its pre-ICO sale of $52 million shows that an ICO can be both SEC compliant and raise robust capital. Their pro...

Ethereum ecosystem roundup 8.5.2017 edition

Ethereum marketplace in 60 Seconds Dether, a peer-to-peer bridge network between fiat and and Ether, aims to support mass adoption by allowing anyone to buy Eth...

Ethereum ecosystem roundup 8.4.2017 edition

Ethereum ecosystem in 60 seconds: Coindesk launches interactive initial coin offering tracking tool, allowing users to extract data and generate charts and anal...

What we know and don't know from regulatory decision on Initial Coin Offerings

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its highly watched announcement warning that token sales (aka Initial Coin Offerings) conducted by bl...

Will Steem succeed or commit suicide?

In the last weeks there a lot of debate here on Steemit if authors should be allowed to vote on their own posts, and how much, and other debates how to attract ...

Initial Coin Offerings Regulation - Investor Protections vs Sustainable Growth

To be or not to be regulated--that is the question for initial coin offerings (ICOs)? There seems to be a disconnect between what market participants signal abo...

Blockchain Sentiment Survey Q2 2017 - sneak preview

COINDESK SURVEY ON BLOCKCHAIN SENTIMENT Q2 2017 I just completed the CoinDesk Research survey on Blockchain Sentiment Survey for Q2 2017. This has been a reliab...

What Could Happen to Bitcoin Scaling? A Helpful Visual

For visual learners, this is a helpful flow chart showing the scenarios that could play out with Bitcoin's effort to scale its network.  Key players: miner...

Protecting your Bitcoin is the best consumer protection

If you're an active digital currency user--whether as a holder, investor or someone who uses it to transact---find smart, best practices to protect your funds. ...

Bitcoin consumer protections, what regulators need to know

How Should Regulators Think About Consumer Protections over Bitcoin?  According to Andreas Antonopoulos, that depends on:  The business model of the e...

Blockchain and Fintech Market - Regulatory & Policy Briefing, 7-6-2017

Global Financial Stability Board  The Financial Stability Board—an international body consisting of G-20 members—issued a report suggesting that blockchain...

Savvy Blockchain Interactive Visual from Goldman Sachs!

When Goldman Sachs does something on innovation, they kick it up a notch. Here is a sharp interactive visual showing blockchain technology in action. What they ...

What's On My Bookshelf For Digital Currency Reading?

My crypto reading list is a diverse mix of technical introductions to the technology, as well as current events & monetary history To get a solid overview o...

Blockchain and Fintech Market - Regulatory & Policy Briefing, 6-30-2017

Global World Economic Forum  The World Economic Forum released a paper offering a vision for blockchain governance. This methodology--constructed by blockc...

Want a job in blockchain? Tough luck. Hiring gone haywire.

The labor market isn't perfect and has loopholes, which is especially true for blockchain hiring.  The labor market is the process of: people promoting the...

Blockchain gone mainstream: diapers, dinner talks, and night TV?

This series of events happened to me all in one month that makes me wonder if digital currency and blockchain technology are hitting mainstream or if these are ...

How I was convinced the future of driving is the electric car with AI

Recently I did a test drive of the Tesla Model X using its auto-driving service @ 65mph on the freeway. Wow. It even parallel parked for me with uncanny precisi...

Analyzing the crypto market with Python

I am currently on a trip trough Europe, and I have met some interesting individuals whom have recently realized large gains in crypto. I've decided to spend the...