Cryptospace News Digest, June 5 – 12Bitcoin heading to the Moon, raging bitcoin extortionists, good news from Russia and Ethereum expansion — all main events of the cryptoindustry in the week’s overview. Bitcoin Price For the first time in two years, bitcoin price has surpassed the $600 mark. Last Saturday, bitcoin’s market cap has reached $9 billion, and Sunday the exchange […]
North Korea Claims Bitcoin Was Invented by Kim Il SungNorth Korean authorities have claimed cryptocurrency invention. During Wednesday’s evening broadcast of The Voice of Korea, the country’s foreign broadcasting service, the DPRK authorities claimed that Bitcoin had been invented by Kim Il Sung personally to grant prosperity to the people of Korea. “The greatest and most ingenious Kim Il Sung was not only the […]
Reports: Cryptotechnologies Garner Record-Breaking Acceptance and InvestmentContrary to numerous predictions and announcements of bitcoin and related technologies being bleeding demised, recent reports depict a picture of increasing and, at times, overwhelming interest and support from financial industry. Thus, according to the report compiled by FTI Consulting, 70% of surveyed financial institutions believe that the blockchain technology is capable of impacting their […]
Launch of Decentralized Crowdfunding and Trading Platform Waves AnnouncedWaves development team along with Cryptoasset.fund and Scorex framework developers has announced it launches a decentralized crowdfunding and virtual values trading platform. Initial coin offering of WAVES is scheduled for April 2016, while test net release is to happen this summer. The system is dedicated for issuance of proprietary values, including shares, and decentralized trading on […]
Longread: Clash of generations and CryptotechnologiesAlmost everything we usually deem progressive is based on something one might call ?a battle of generations’. It takes roots in ancient, if not mythological, times, when a nice young lad killed his dad and married his mom so impressively they even had to dub a complex in his honor; and several millennia before him, […]
Market Evolution in the Context of CryptotechnologiesPeople got used to idea of life forms being some kind of organic systems consisting of material world particles obeying to evolutionary laws. But what is life as it is?
Cryptotechnology Beyond Prohibition: An Interview with Bitruble Project ManagersEarlier this September, Russias largest payment processor QIWI has announced its plans to launch its proprietary cryptocurrency dubbed bitruble.