As Venezuela Takes Aim at Remittances, Bitcoiners Take Collateral Damage The Venezuelan government is cracking down on remittance payments with a new banking mandate, one that could put the country’s Bitcoin users on an even tighter leash.In a letter “addressed to all banking institut…… Read More
Shares in Italian Football Club Rimini Purchased With Cryptocurrency The Italian football club Rimini, which plays in the Italian Serie C division, has sold a portion of the team’s shares in exchange for cryptocurrency.The first-of-its-kind acquisition was made by Heritage Sports …… Read More
Blockchain Courses Popular With University Students, Coinbase Study Finds Crypto is making its entrance into the world’s academic scene, and students are lining up to learn.A recent Coinbase study reveals that University students want to learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain t…… Read More
Reddit Co-Founder Bullish Despite Bitcoin Volatility Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian has revealed his optimism about the future success of bitcoin despite the daily slump in price in an interview with Yahoo Finance. He believes bitcoin has the potential to be used…… Read More
Chaincode’s Residency Program Is Back, This Time With Lightning App Classes The Lightning Network, the second-layer solution designed to make quick, cheap and easy Bitcoin payments, is maturing. But widespread adoption, still a long way off, will require plenty more participants. An ecos…… Read More
South Korea Budgets Nearly $4.5B for Blockchain, Emerging Tech South Korea is planning to invest nearly $900 million next year to accelerate the development of blockchain, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.In an August 14, 2018, press release from the 5…… Read More
U.S. Investors Can Now Buy a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Note American investors can now invest in bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) through an Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) called Bitcoin Tracker One on the Nasdaq Stockholm Exchange in Sweden, per a Bloomberg report.The pro…… Read More
Paragon Partners With Civic Technologies to Deliver Transparency, Digital IDs to Cannabis Industry Paragon, a blockchain company that develops seed-to-sale tracking solutions for the marijuana industry, is joining hands with Civic Technologies Inc., a digital identity firm, to bring secure and trusted identity…… Read More
Bitcoiners Losing Faith in Twitter Inspire an Exodus to Mastodon It’s no secret that a growing number of Bitcoiners are unhappy with Twitter. A mix of perceived censorship through shadow banning and lack of serious action being taken by the platform to remove the notorious ether giveaway bots have aggravated calls for a decentralized alternative to the existing social media goliath. Although members of the community had been vocal about this for awhile, it seems that recent moves like the unexplained temporary suspension of BHB Network’s Giacomo Zucco yesterday or the simultaneous purging of Infowars’ Alex Jones’ content by Spotify, YouTube, Facebook and Apple have finally catalyzed the transition. Enter Mastodon, the distributed social media platform. Mastodon is both very similar to and very different from Twitter. At a glance, one might be forgiven for mistaking it for TweetDeck. Many of its features have been cloned, including the ability to tweet (or “toot”), retweet (“boost”) and like (“favorite”). Some enhancements have been added in, including more granular privacy controls and up to 500 characters available for microblogging. Where the platform really shines is in its lack of centralized oversight. Instead of users congregating around a single website, Mastodon is divided into “instances” — smaller communities that set their own rules around content and users (not unlike subreddits). Individuals registered with one Mastodon instance can communicate with users of another and have the ability to switch between a “local timeline” (seeing toots from users in their instance) and a “federated feed” (curating content from other instances). Bitcoin Mastodon The exodus from Twitter to Mastodon began with a number of users moving to the most popular instance, mastodon.social (boasting upward of 170,000 users). However, Opendime’s Rodolfo Novak has since gone on to create bitcoinhackers.org, an instance which, according to its “About” page, is dedicated to Bitcoin maximalists with “no scams, no shitcoin, no impersonation, no begging and no illegal content.” Thus far, it has generated a considerable amount of interest, nearing 800 users at the time of writing and repeatedly ranking in the top 10 most active instances per hour. It remains to be seen whether these numbers will continue to climb. The general sentiment appears to be that Mastodon will be used either in tandem with Twitter (an app for cross-posting across both platforms is currently being propagated) or as a backup network for users that have been banned from it. Ok so bunch of cool bitcoiners are discovering mastodon together right now on https://t.co/9EJlDOasTX it’s actually pretty fun ! — Francis Pouliot ⚡️ (@francispouliot_) August 9, 2018 This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine. … Read More
DJ Who “Turned Down Wall St.” Is On a Quest to Decentralize Music Festivals Independent DJ Justin Blau (known on stage as 3LAU) didn’t exactly stumble into the cryptocurrency industry — to say so would misrepresent how much thought he’s put into his blockchain-based event network, Our Mu…… Read More