Investment in Slock.it’s DAO have exceeded $13.6 million. Ethereum price has gained nearly 25%.This weekend, Germany-based blockchain company Slock.it has announced it successfully launched DAO via its decentralized trust fund. Current price of the DAO’s 100 tokens 1 ETH. “A DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, is a digital company with its by-laws set immutably within the Blockchain: its governance is transparent, its finances can be audited by anyone, […]
Blockchain Platform Waves Announces Partnership with MyceliumShortly after Mycelium announced the new version of their bitcoin wallet to be released this fall, Waves team has announced future integration with the updated wallet. The announcement was published in the startup’s official blog. “We’re in the process of forging partnerships with several strategical partners. One of them is Mycelium.com, major bitcoin wallet provider. Currently […]
Satoshi Nakamoto’s True Identity RevealedAustralian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly proven he is bitcoin’s creator by providing technical evidence he is indeed the person commonly referred to as Satoshi Nakamoto.
CEX.io Launches Instant Transfer to Payment CardsCryptocurrency exchange CEX.io has announced a new option that enables users to instantly withdraw USD, EUR, and RUB to their payment cards. Thus, the company has successfully supplemented its fiat services for Visa and MasterCard. CEX.io’s CEO Alexander Lutskevich said in a statement: “Global penetration of payment cards happily entwines with people’s willingness to buy […]
Digital Currency Group Partners with Western Union and Former U.S. Treasury SecretaryOne of bitcoin industry’s leading investment companies Digital Currency Group has announced it raised funds from Western Union, and simultaneously announced it hired Larry Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, and bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen as advisors.
BTC-e Adds Ethereum and DashPopular bitcoin exchange BTC-e has announced today it added pairs ETH/BTC and DSH/BTC. BTC-e has been working since 2011, and until today it has supported only Bitcoin, Litecoin and Namecoin. Apart from USD, the exchange also offers trades for Russian Ruble and Euro. According to Bitcoin Charts, over the course of last thirty days, overall […]
European Parliament Comittee Sees No Need in Direct Regulation of CryptocurrenciesThe European Parliament’s Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs has approved a report on cryptocurrency regulation approaches in a majority vote. In the committee’s opinion, the EU should restrict itself from direct regulation of bitcoin and other virtual currencies, and adhere to a ‘softer’ approach to regulation of blockchain-based financial services. The report released this […]
Mycelium Wallet Team to Sell 5% of the Company in ICODevelopers of bitcoin wallet Mycelium have announced their first crowdsale to distribute 5% of the company’s value among users and bitcoin developers. Mycelium CEO Alexander Kuzmin stated: “We want Mycelium users to be Mycelium stakeholders. There are three reasons for this. We need money to support the current version and update it from time to […]