Month: November 2017

ZANGLL – platform for connecting travelers to real estate owners – is launching their ICO on the 29th of November. The team of ZANGLL is proud to present their project and invite everybody to join the future of vacation rentals. ZANGLL is a decentralized service for short-term rental of real estate, connecting lessees and lessors directly without any intermediaries. The market The market of vacation rentals has changed radically over the couple of years. Travelers are looking into various options while finding Read more …

After the 1929 stock market crash, new regulations brought infrastructure that helped form the insular culture of Wall Street’s traders and analysts. The creation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ultimately meant that only a small percentage of people would qualify as accredited investors. Success within money’s inner circle bred a culture of trade secrets and information asymmetry. Analysts and traders worked their edges and guarded their insight. Information moved within closed circuits of buy-side and sell-side analysts whose Read more …

Great Britain’s Ministry of Justice technical architecture lead, Alistair Davidson, has claimed that Blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) has great potential as a tool for securing and verifying digital evidence in a criminal investigation. He specifically cited the use of the technology in the creation of records for officer-worn camera footage. In a blog post published in early November 2017, Davidson detailed how Blockchain can be used in law enforcement, particularly in establishing records for footage taken from cameras Read more …

The economist who describes himself as “Mr. Realist” and predicted the 2008 financial crisis has said Bitcoin “will find its end.” In an interview with Business Insider in Warsaw, Poland, Nouriel Roubini said that of all things, regulation would be the nail in the coffin for Bitcoin. He forecast: “I think that more and more countries will start to make cryptocurrency exchanges illegal like China did. New regulations will be adopted. So, this will find its end.” Roubini’s bearish views Read more …

More than 26,000 new projects related to blockchain were created on code repository GitHub last year, according to data collected by Deloitte. For its new report – titled “Evolution of Blockchain Technology: Insights from the GitHub Platform” and published today – the professional services firm drew information from the development platform, which plays home to the code for over 86,000 blockchain initiatives, including major projects like bitcoin. As a whole, the study charts the course of development of the technology through Read more …

Global shipping major UPS was accepted as member of the Blockchain in Trucking Alliance (BiTA) as of early November 2017. BiTA is a Blockchain consortium that is mainly focused on the trucking and shipping industry. In its announcement, the consortium claimed that UPS will assist in the development of standards around the use of Blockchain in systems used to track or monitor packages, facilitate payments between shipping parties and other industry applications. According to UPS director of enterprise architecture and Read more …

Regulation The respective financial regulators for Sweden and New Zealand have recently issued statements addressing initial coin offerings (ICOs).  Also Read: Sweden Latest Government to Auction Bitcoins, Turns Tidy Profit Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority [FSA] Has Issued a Statement Warning of the Risks Associated With ICOs Sweden’s financial regulator has issued a statement outlining a number of risks pertaining to ICOs. The document describes “ICO” as a “term used as the designation for launching a new token or Read more …

Tether is one of the most remarkable companies in the cryptocurrency space so far. Their business model revolves around issuing digital tokens pegged to fiat currency. Especially the USDT token is often used on cryptocurrency exchanges. Big was people’s surprise when the company introduced another 20 million USDT out of the blue. This move coincides with the Bitcoin price retracing over the past two days. It is not the first time we see these “coincidences” become apparent either. There have Read more …

Two months ago, when Chinese regulator issued the “Seven Regulatory Bodies” Announcement and shut down the Bitcoin trading, the whole world thought that China Bitcoin gates were closing. Though optimists were claiming that Chinese government might free Bitcoin trading under certain circumstances in the future, nobody anticipated that the day is coming this soon. CNY trading market is back On Nov. 1, ZB.com, a new cryptocurrency trading platform, began to serve sellers and buyers all over the world, including those Read more …

Covesting, a fintech startup is creating a platform to bring copy-trading and professional asset management to the cryptocurrency world. Copy-trading has been wildly popular in traditional financial markets, but it has yet to be implemented in the crypto-industry. Professional and amateur cryptocurrency traders can create a “Model” where they allow other investors to “subscribe”. When investors subscribe to a Model, all the traders the Model Manager executes, are also performed in the account of the investor in real-time. The Covesting Read more …

Russia’s Federal Agency for Tourism head, Oleg Safonov, has claimed that Blockchain technology has the capability to transform the country’s tourism industry. He further stated that the sector is on the verge of transformation from new emerging technologies like Blockchain. In his speech at the Kazan Tourism Forum 2017 in early November, Safonov said that Blockchain can be utilized to improve the quality of services provided to tourists. He claimed that by using the emerging technologies, tourists will be able Read more …