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Survey Polls American Awareness of Cryptocurrencies and ICOs

In October 2017, LendEDU, a marketplace for financing loans, credit cards and other financial products, polled 1,000 Americans asking a series of questions related to Ethereum, Ripple and initial coin offerings ICOs. They did this to gain insight into the average Americans perception of cryptocurrency. The poll was conducted by online polling company OnePoll, which acted as a third party and was able to provide an age and gender breakdown of respondents. The poll was answered by 1,000 America
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NextBlock CEO Alex Tapscott Cancels Plans to Go Public and Will Return Money to Investors

Alex Tapscott, CEO of NextBlock Global, a venture capital company investing in blockchain technologies, announced in a press release yesterday that he is canceling their plans to go public through a reverse takeover RTO of Nobelium Tech Corp., a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange TSX. Tapscott said the young company had stumbled in falsely listing some crypto and blockchain experts as members of the firms advisory board. He is currently talking to NextBlock investors to work out how
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Introducing a Programming Language so Simple, It Fits on a T-shirt

Blockstream is introducing Simplicity, a new programming language for blockchain-based smart contracts, intended for inclusion in Blockstreams sidechains and eventually in Bitcoin. The new language was presented by its creator, Russell O'Connor, Infrastructure Tech Developer at Blockstream, at the ACM SIGSAC Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security PLAS 2017.Simplicity is a blockchain programming language that is so simple, it fits on a t-shirt, O'Connor told Bitc
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Is Amazon preparing for its own cryptocurrency Company registers 3 new crypto-related domain names

Amazon has registered three different domain names, all of them related to blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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Bitcoin Price Analysis Bitcoins Parabolic Envelope Could Push to $8000s

Bitcoin has had a quite a year thus far, to say the least. A 10x return since the beginning of the year has put bitcoin on a parabolic growth path that is testing the limits of this 2-year long bull marketFigure 1 BTC-USD, 3-Day Candles, Parabolic Growth EnvelopeThe gains have been incredible for those trading bitcoin for the last couple years, and it appears that this parabolic envelope is coming to a close. In order for this bull market to remain viable, it will need to keep up on a very ag
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Funding the Blockchain Future of the Digital Media Industry

BTC Media, the largest media group in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, announced the launch of BTC Labs, a venture studio focusing on launching and incubating blockchain applications for the digital media industry on September 25, 2017.BTC Labs, in turn, introduced Storyboard Ventures, a venture financing arm of the organization, seeded with $2 million to fund forward-thinking and promising media projects. According to BTC Media, Storyboard Ventures will be vigorously searching for th
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Confideals Crusade to Harness the Power of Smart Contracts

nnnnnnnnnIn his book Down The Rabbit Hole Discover The Power of Blockchain, author Tim Leanhighlights the evolution of smart contracts and their use ensuing from thenblockchain. nnThe term smart contract was first coined by ancomputer scientist Nick Szabo, Lea writes. In his 1996 article in thenmagazine Extrophy, he broadly described a smart contract as thenability to bring refined legal practices of contract law to the e-commercenprotocols between strangers and the internet. nnIn their most
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CryptoShuffler malware Hackers stole over $150,000 from numerous popular cryptocurrency wallets

The malware has been around since last year and has been targeting popular cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, ZCash, Ethereum, Monero and others.
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Op Ed Three Legal Pitfalls to Avoid in Blockchain Smart Contracts

Increasing improvements to blockchain technology which allows for the transfer of ownership without the use of a centralized third party such as a bank has resulted in the mass availability of blockchain smart contracts. A smart contract is a prewritten software program that automatically performs each party's obligation in an if-then format, while taking advantage of blockchain's decentralized verification system. Uber-secure cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, use the same type o
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Setting Bitcoins Price Mechanism CME Group to Launch BTC Futures

On the anniversary of the publication of Satoshi Nakamotos Bitcoin white paper, the price of Bitcoin reached a new all-time high, following the news that CME Group, one of the worlds largest derivatives exchanges, will launch a Bitcoin futures product on November 14, 2017.Futures or derivatives in general are understood by their relationship to risk. They are investment products that can be bought and sold in the future based on being pinned to a fixed price through a contractual agreement. B
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Creating a Blockchain-Based Network of Interoperable Artificial Intelligences

Artificial Intelligence AI startup SingularityNET, recently covered by Wired as the most tech-hype idea of the year, wants to democratize AI research and facilitate the emergence of human-level AI on a decentralized, open-source platform.SingularityNET operates on a belief that the benefits of AI should not be dominated by any small set of powerful institutions but should be shared by all. A key goal of SingularityNET is to ensure the technology is benevolent according to human standards, and
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Op Ed Slovenia Primed to Become a Blockchain Haven

The prime minister of Slovenias speech in support of blockchain technologythis week has solidified the countrys position as the leading blockchain destination in the European Union and a key player in the regulatory field.After the difficult ordeal of the economic crisis we are coming back to life, we are growing again, and we are finding that we are creating numerous success stories, which inspire us but also obligate us, said Prime Minister Miro Cerar. We have emerged from the crisis stron
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Launching a Cryptocurrency Token Generation Event aka an ICO

On October 27, 2017, disruptors in the cryptocurrency field gathered at the San Francisco Ethereal Summit.Sponsored by ConsenSys,the summit provided a diverse mix of panels and workshops that demystified the initial coin offering ICO or token generation event.Side note Vernacular is key. Referring to a token launch as an ICO is soSeptember. The process is now referred to as a token generation event. At the How to Launch a Token panel, token generation event veterans Galia Benartzi co-founder
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Qchain Charts New Native Advertising Roadmap

Todays native advertising world, where a publication's editorial content is paid for by an advertiser to promote their product or service is fraught with challenges threatening the ad industry. Due in part to the growing dominance of digital media giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, display advertising conversions continue to experience a decline. This trend has spurred efforts to find new solutions for navigating the prevailing advertising ecosystem in a scalable, trustworthy and
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Robomed Network Unleashes Linkages Between Healthcare Patients and Providers

nnnnnnnnnThe global healthcarenmarket is vast and complex, with equity funding to digital health companiesnhaving reached $5.8 billion so far this year. Within this space, myriad modelsnof healthcare delivery are being employed as breakthrough technologies are introduced. nnnnA concept thats gainingnincreased attention is the patient-oriented medical network. In this model, patients can manage and control their healthcare datanthrough a mobile electronic medical record EMR information theyre
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These International Bitcoin Communities Are Rejecting SegWit2x

The hard fork part of the New York Agreement is scheduled to take place within about two weeks. This incompatible protocol rule change is set to increase Bitcoins block weight limit, to allow for more transactions on the network if everyone adopts the change. Otherwise, it will create a new blockchain and currency that may or may not be considered to be Bitcoin.The list of signatories of this agreement includes several of the largest Bitcoin startups and mining pools that, together, claim to
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Google Play Store plagued by hidden cryptocurrency mining malware attacking Android phones

JsMiner and CpuMiner were discovered by Trend Micro in three Android apps, which could have significant consequences for users.
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Bitcoin Price Analysis Signs of Divergence May Point to Potential Distribution Phase

After bouncing back and forth from $5100 to $6100, BTC-USD managed to squeeze out one more albeit short-lived all-time high. This article is going to present an update to the last discussion regarding the potential Wyckoff Distribution and provide a more contextualized, macro-view of the current bitcoin market. Before reading any further, I would like to emphasize the word potential within the context of this discussion because until the market actually reverses, this is nothing more than a p
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Ethereum and Bitcoin Price Decline Again Major Factors For Mid-Term Recovery

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