Blockchain & Crypto Archives - Page 286 of 298

U.S Bitcoin Wallet and Exchange Coinbase Adds Ethereum Support

July 24, 2016

San Francisco headquartered Bitcoin wallet and exchange Coinbase has finally added Ethereum support for its retail clients that can now buy, sell, send, and store ETH in their accounts. The move has been expe...

Steemit Starts Post-Hack Account Recovery as Steem Market Cap Tops $380m

July 20, 2016

Steemit, the decentralized social media platform rewarding users for their work with cryptocurrency, has announced that account recovery is now available for affected members following last week’s cyber attac...

Bitcoin Entrepreneur Charlie Shrem Released from U.S Prison

July 20, 2016

Good news for advocates of cryptocurrency and the Bitcoin community. A founding member and former vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, Charlie Shrem, has been released from imprisonment by U.S criminal au...

Steemit Suffered Minor Cyber Attack, Bittrex Suspended Steem Transactions

July 15, 2016

Hackers have been targeting the cryptocurrency sector for years now and after the DAO fiasco they seem to be getting greedier and more capable – exposing weaknesses in new systems as soon as they become popul...

Steem Cryptocurrency Skyrockets to Over $250 Million in Market Cap

July 13, 2016

Steem, the cryptocurrency at the heart of the decentralized social media platform rewarding users for their work Steemit, jumped over 1250% since its first payout. The total market capitalization of Steem has...

Lisk Expands in Emerging Markets as New Exchanges Offer Trading

July 11, 2016

Lisk is a decentralized applications and custom blockchain platform meant to be an easier solution for developers as it uses JavaScript, the popular programming language unlike Ethereum that created its own s...

Japan’s Largest Bank Joins $10.5m Funding Round in U.S Exchange Coinbase

July 10, 2016

San Francisco headquartered Bitcoin exchange Coinbase has secured an additional $10.5 million in capital at its latest funding round. The new funds came from a small group of Japanese investors including Sozo...

Blockchain Social Network Steem Launches with Cryptocurrency Payments

July 4, 2016

With all the recent revelations and confrontations about corruption, censorship and manipulation of the established social networks there is no doubt that savvy entrepreneurs see a chance to disrupt this busi...

IBM Successfully Tests Blockchain KYC with France’s Crédit Mutuel Arkéa

June 30, 2016

Technology giant IBM (NYSE: IBM) and French banking and insurance group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa announced the completion of a blockchain project to improve client identification. They created an operational permi...

Ex-CFTC Commissioner Mark Wetjen Joins Chamber of Digital Commerce

June 30, 2016

The Chamber of Digital Commerce has appointed Mark Wetjen (featured in photo on the right), of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to its Board of Advisors as the DTCC joins the Chamber’s E...