Advertising revenue keep this site going. We do not actively endorse ads served to us.
DYOR. Please use your due diligence while on this site.
We also do not get information from our visitors.

Month: July 2019

cryptocurrency July 31, 2019

Yesterday, ethereum celebrated its fourth birthday. Advertisements Four years ago, on July 30, 2015, the world’s first general-purpose blockchain platform went live. Called ethereum, the platform was the first of its kind to feature a Turing-complete virtual machine and native programming language able to deploy code of any algorithmic complexity. “Before ethereum, developers had to […]

cryptocurrency July 29, 2019

Sometimes, spreading the crypto gospel becomes a family business. Advertisements Natalia Ameline, mother of ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and co-founder of the educational nonprofit CryptoChicks, is trying to establish blockchain literacy programs around the world. She told CoinDesk that CryptoChicks has run programs so far from Pakistan to Toronto with 608 students and young developers. […]

cryptocurrency July 23, 2019

A panel reporting to India’s Finance Ministry suggested the country’s regulators have an “open mind” about a governmental cryptocurrency and, at the same time, proposed fines and up to ten years in prison for general use of crypto in the country. Advertisements The panel, created by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Securities and Exchange […]

cryptocurrency July 23, 2019

Fundament, a blockchain startup coming out of stealth mode, has received the green light to issue the first tokenized real-estate backed bond that can be widely offered to individual investors. Advertisements Announced Tuesday, the Berlin-based firm has obtained approval from Germany’s financial regulator, BaFIN, for the 250 million euro ($280 million) offering. By virtue of […]

cryptocurrency July 22, 2019

EnCirca, an internet domain registrar, is launching an ethereum naming service (ENS) to provide domain names at .eth locations. The firm is in the pre-registration phase and will accept domain applications until August 10. Advertisements Similar to the domain name system (DNS) currently in play on the web, ENS will link to alphanumeric ethereum addresses […]

cryptocurrency July 17, 2019

A blockchain-based game studio is getting funding to take on “Magic: The Gathering” and “Hearthstone.” Advertisements Announced this morning, Horizon Games raised $3.75 million in seed funding in a round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s Initialized Capital. Other investors included Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, Inovia Capital and more. Originally closed in the summer of 2018, […]

cryptocurrency July 11, 2019

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, head of the Brooklyn-based venture studio ConsenSys, is moving to appease employees who say they’re fed up with unfulfilled promises about equity disbursements. Advertisements Out of seven current or former ConsenSys employees interviewed by CoinDesk, four said they felt misled about the company’s employee share options. Although most employees are verbally […]

cryptocurrency July 10, 2019

Samsung quietly released access to what they’re calling Samsung Blockchain that “helps developers to manage blockchain accounts easily.” Advertisements Simple enough. Sadly, the rest of the description is a bit more opaque. “In addition, DApp does not need to make separate types of transaction that follows coin types by themselves anymore,” wrote Samsung. “The SDK […]

cryptocurrency July 10, 2019

Cadence, an ethereum-powered marketplace for commercial debt, is out of its test phase. Advertisements The startup, which recently secured a place on the Bloomberg terminal for its pools of commercial loans, is now open to all institutional and accredited investors. Such users can now contribute funds to packages of short-term loans that help businesses cover payroll, inventory and other […]

English简体中文日本語한국어DeutschEspañolPortuguêsFrançaisРусскийไทยNederlands