Month: September 2017

Verif-y, the blockchain-based credential verification, and digital identity platform is delaying its main token sale in order to allow an extended pre-sale as it partners with HRworx.  HRworx, a veteran-owned company, provides employee lifecycle management solutions for many governmental departments including the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of the Interior. By partnering with Verif-y to integrate the company’s platform with its existing solutions, HRworx believes that it can enhance the services it already provides the U.S. government. Taking Read more …

Auctus, an Ethereum smart contract-based pension platform, determined to disrupt the USD 36 trillion pension industry, will have its token pre-sale on October, 3rd 2017. Accepting only whitelisted participantsInvestors have only 24 hours left to register to the mandatory whitelist at www.auctus.org Aligned InterestsAuctus is aligning interests with their investors by having strict vesting rules. Team members will have their tokens locked by smart contracts and there will be a 2 year vesting period with a 6-month cliff. This means tokens Read more …

It’s not just the cryptocurrency space that’s having an excellent financial year in 2017. Companies supporting the industry are also setting personal bests in terms of their own stock prices. Chief amongst these are AMD and NVIDIA. Stocks in both have seen colossal growth in recent months, outpacing the rest of the S&P 500 considerably. The two companies officially hold the title of number one and two best-performing stocks of 2017. GPU Manufacturers and Cryptocurrency Market The stock of the Read more …

AngelList,, the job board specializing in startup jobs, reports cryptocurrency job postings have nearly doubled in the past six months and are soon to triple from 2016. Companies in the crypto space have experienced “unparalleled investment and growth” in recent months. The organization stated that while many new technologies (self-driving cars and virtual reality, for example) are embraced by tech giants, cryptocurrency remains one of the largest non-corporate startup opportunities. The data shows that investments are on the rise. Cryptocurrency Read more …

Alexey Moiseev, the deputy finance minister of Russia, said earlier this week that he expects pending legislation on cryptocurrencies will feature a ban on payments made in cryptocurrency. According to the state-backed news source TASS, Moiseev – who previously said that bitcoin should be classified as a kind of asset in Russia and limited to qualified investors – told reporters on Monday that “no regulator doubts that payments will be banned.” That comment aside, further statements from Moiseev on the Read more …

Countless experts and pundits, including Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, have proclaimed that Bitcoin is in a massive bubble right now, and it certainly could be. Yet these “experts” fail to consider one possibility that some in the Bitcoin community are beginning to suspect: mass adoption may be imminent. Permanently high plateau First, let’s get something out of the way. Yes, with every bubble there are people who insist that it really isn’t a bubble. It’s “the new normal” or “a Read more …

Gone are the days when people had to rely on a handful of contractors in their phonebook to avail different services. The growth of e-commerce in the past couple of years has opened up unlimited opportunities for both customers as well service providers/suppliers. However, now there is a different problem, due to the sheer number of service providers available on the internet and various pricing practices they follow for different products and services.  It becomes cumbersome for customers to reach Read more …

The head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission is concerned about the risk of initial coin offering (ICO) fraud affecting investors. Speaking during an event in Washington, D.C., SEC chair Jay Clayton indicated that he expects there to be “pump-and-dump schemes in the initial coin offering space,” according to a report from Bloomberg. “This is an area where I’m concerned about what’s going to happen to retail investors,” he was quoted as saying. Recent actions by the agency support Clayton’s Read more …

The digital currency Dash held its first conference this past weekend in the Oval Space in London. The conference was pre-funded by Dash’s treasury system, where projects are funded directly by the Blockchain. A portion of each block reward is withheld to fund such proposals, if the currency’s owners vote in favor. Over 500 were in attendance and almost 1000 more watched live streams of the event. Presenters touched on all aspects of Dash, including the upcoming Evolution update. Wirex, Read more …

Mining is one of the most popular ways of making money on the Internet today. Having appeared not so long ago, it is rapidly gaining popularity, because it creates ample opportunities for obtaining additional incomes of impressive sizes. Mining is the process of generating a cryptocurrency in the “World Wide Web”, for which it is necessary to install the appropriate video card and software on the computer or buy special equipment. Carrying out some mathematical calculations, you can earn cryptocurrency, Read more …

Enterprise blockchain provider Gem is forging new partnerships in the healthcare sector. First announced at the Distributed: Health 2017 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this week, the blockchain startup is teaming up with European technology service provider Tieto as well as partnering with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “We fundamentally believe that data should not be centralized; it should exist at the edges where it already lives. Gem is partnering with Tieto and the CDC to Read more …

An effort to allow investors to trade digital currencies as easily as stocks stumbled when backers withdrew two proposals to list bitcoin funds. Intercontinental Exchange’s NYSE Arca exchange on Wednesday withdrew an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list Grayscale Investments’ Bitcoin Investment Trust. Also on Wednesday, Van Eck Associates Corp pulled a registration document for a bitcoin fund after saying the SEC told them they would not review the filing until futures contracts on the Read more …