Porsche ‘First’ To Test Blockchain Technology For Cars | News

Automobile manufacturer Porsche is exploring Blockchain apps in its vehicles in cooperation with the Berlin-based startup XAIN, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported yesterday, Feb. 27. In their press release published Feb. 22, Porsche stated that the company is “the first automobile manufacturer to implement and successfully test Blockchain in a car.” Possible applications for Blockchain technology range from locking and opening car doors via an app, with the possibility for temporary access authorization, to new and improved business models through encrypted Read more …

Crypto Culture Platform Coins A New Way To Stop Touts | News

Cultural Places, a platform specializing in connecting cultural institutions and visitors is vowing to clamp down on ticket touts through Blockchain technology. The Austrian Company wants to tackle the inflationary effect touts have on the secondary ticket market by introducing its own cryptocurrency – the Cultural Coin. The coin, based on the Ethereum framework will allow consumers to buy tickets directly from museums, music venues and tourist sites, while providing a transparent venue for resale if they are unable to Read more …

Decentralized Google?How Will Unicorn Reshape the Subscriber Attention Economy

This post was originally published on source Feb 23, 2018 at 22:00 // PR Herbert Simon, a renowned Nobel laureate, argued that, with the exponential increases of information, what the valuable is not information itself, it will be the attention of the users. This is the economy of attention. But the subscriber attention economy has […]<br />The post Decentralized Google?How Will Unicorn Reshape the Subscriber Attention Economy appeared first on The Bitcoin News – Leading Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency News since Read more …

Dragon Inc.’s DRG Token Not for High-Rollers Only

Another strategic partnership to integrate Dragon as a universally accepted utility token for the entertainment industry. (ASEAN – March 1, 2018) Dragon Inc., which is on track to drastically transform the high-stakes and the junket gambling marketplace through its Blockchain-based solution, announced an agreement with Dragonbet8. Dragonbet8, which is already partnered with traditional industry leaders such as Visa & Mastercard are now proud to accept and fully integrate Dragon Tokens (DRG) into its payment solution after its launch. This move Read more …

Coinbase: BTC Buys And Sells Issue Resolved, Bitcoin P… | News

Digital currency exchange and wallet service Coinbase has resolved the issue of intermittent availability for BTC buys and sells, the platform reported today, Feb. 28 at 08:24 PST. It took the Coinbase maintenance crew almost seven hours to investigate and fix the issue where one of their processes was “causing Bitcoin buys and sells to become temporarily unavailable”. The platform announced the system outage on its official Twitter account today at 1:53 a.m. PST: [status] Investigating: A recurring issue with Read more …

Square Sees Bitcoin as a ‘Transformational Technology,’ Could Launch Cryptocurrency Exchange

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Digital payments firm Square views Bitcoin as a “transformational technology,” and analysts predict that the company could one day launch a cryptocurrency exchange. Bitcoin a ‘Transformational Technology,’ Says Square CEO Jack Dorsey The company made waves last year when it announced that it was launching a Bitcoin trading pilot program through Cash App, the firm’s peer-to-peer transaction platform. A month ago, Square released the feature to virtually Read more …

Rolecoin – a Groundbreaking Blockchain-Based Platform for Skill & Career Development, Announces ICO

RoleCoin, a revolutionary digital currency in the edtech space aimed to promote STEAM skills and career development globally announced its crowdsale starting April 15, 2018. RoleCoin will fuel the proof of progress economy in education through the STEAMRole app which connects students and young professionals worldwide with working Professional Role Models. The RoleCoin ICO public crowdsale will be conducted in 6 phases with aims to reach the CAP of 350,000,000 tokens in total. The company has already started the whitelisting Read more …

IOTA Threatens Researchers and Denies Critical Flaw – but Fixes it Anyway

Over the weekend, various high-level security researchers and academic cryptographers gave cryptocurrency project IOTA a failing grade – exposing a critical weakness and suggesting investors sell their coins while asking researchers to ignore or abandon the project. ‘Extremely Embarrassing’ The controversy began after a series of once-private emails from various IOTA team members and a group of external security researchers was leaked, putting on display the developers’ apathy and arrogance towards a critical flaw in IOTA’s foundation. First and foremost, Read more …

Goldman Sachs Investment Chief: Crypto ‘Bubble’ Burst… | News

The chief investment officer (CIO) of the Investment Strategy Group at Goldman Sachs, Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, said in an interview with Business Insider on Feb. 27 that cryptocurrencies are in a bubble, which, when it bursts, will impact only 1 percent of global GDP. Mossavar-Rahmani, who guides investment strategy for clients with over $10 mln in assets, said that cryptocurrencies are “the hot topic” among her clients and colleagues. She said that Goldman Sachs acknowledges the opportunities that can be brought Read more …

Porsche Begins Testing Blockchain Integration With Its Vehicles

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Big things are happening over in Zuffenhausen, Germany, headquarters of Porsche. According to a Porsche press release, the automobile powerhouse is making a major push towards integrating blockchain technology into its cars. In a partnership with XAIN, a tech startup located in Berlin, Porsche is reportedly working on developing blockchain applications with its cars. Things like locking and unlocking a vehicle, parking, or even enterprise usage such as loaning Read more …

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee Stays Bullish On BTC Price, Sees M… | News

Co-founder and Fundstrat strategist Tom Lee has repeated his prediction that Bitcoin (BTC) will reach $20,000 by mid-year and $25,000 by the end of the year. He also expects at least three publicly traded corporations to issue their own cryptocurrencies in 2018, writes CNBC, citing Lee’s Feb. 28 Fundstrat report. Lee’s price prediction reiterates comments he made in early January 2018, predicting Bitcoin could “easily double” this year. Despite BTC now trading at almost 53 percent of its December, 2017 Read more …

Germany Won’t Tax You for Buying a Cup of Coffee With Bitcoin

Germany won’t tax bitcoin users for using the cryptocurrency as a means of payment, the Ministry of Finance has said. The guidance, published Tuesday, sets Germany apart from the U.S., where the Internal Revenue Service treats bitcoin as property for tax purposes – which means that if an American buys a cup of coffee with bitcoin, it’s technically considered a sale of property and potentially subject to capital gains tax. Instead, Germany will regard bitcoin as the equivalent to legal Read more …