Les dernières nouvelles sur Crypto-monnaie

Movements by the the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation in the US and the National Settlement Depository in Russia have shown a willingness to use blockchain as a tool to expand and improve CSD operations.

UPDATE: This piece has been updated with a statement from Gatecoin.

Apr 28, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Apr 28, 2016 at 10:27 p.m. UTC. The National Settlement Depository, Russia's sole central securities depository, has announced it has tested a blockchain-based voting system.

Distributed file storage startup Storj Labs is the latest blockchain service provider to join Microsoft's Blockchain-as-a-service offering.

Among the groups working toward this tomorrow today is the Museum of the Future, an ambitious project backed by the government of Dubai with the mandate to highlight how new tech breakthroughs are making these innovations possible.

Tech giant Microsoft has added five new services to its Azure blockchain-as-a-service solution, including decentralized prediction market Augur and Ethereum startup Slock.

Dec 9, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 10, 2015 at 6:37 a.m. UTC. The bitcoin world reacted with a mixture disbelief, open scepticism and aloofness at the latest claims that Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym of Australian Craig S Wright.

Roger Thomas Clark was charged with conspiracy to traffic narcotics and conspiracy to launder money.

Scotland should create its own digital currency, named 'ScotPound', an independent economic think tank has advised.

In the first of this three-part series, he discussed how banks dealt with the emergence of the Internet and how blockchain technology is causing these institutions a whole new headache.

Aug 5, 2015 at 8:31 p.m. UTCUpdated Aug 6, 2015 at 6:27 p.m. UTC. The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a number of responses stemming from a request for information on the topic of virtual currency.

Jul 8, 2015 at 17:50 UTCUpdated Jul 9, 2015 at 14:04 UTC.Uber has denied that it is currently integrating bitcoin as a payment option for its on-demand mobile ride-sharing services.

Developer Ryan Ramminger and Equiliv Investments were named in the settlement in connection with the development and distribution of a mobile app called Prized that contained hidden mining software.

Jun 18, 2015 at 15:45 UTCUpdated Jun 19, 2015 at 16:14 UTC. Polish payment processors and at least one bank in the country have closed the accounts of local bitcoin exchanges.

May 8, 2015 at 20:30 UTCUpdated May 8, 2015 at 22:16 UTC. Extortionist group DD4BC appears to be connected to a new wave of distributed denial of service attacks against organizations in Switzerland, New Zealand and Australia.

Apr 24, 2015 at 00:10 UTCUpdated Apr 27, 2015 at 15:09 UTC. UPDATE: Jackson Palmer indicates that his leave of absence from the crypto community includes a separation with micropayments project Neucoin.

CoinDesk is shutting down its operations on planet earth today.

So says Chris Ellis of the ProTip micropayments project that is seeking to create peer-to-peer mechanisms for people to support musicians, artists and other creators of digital media using bitcoin.

Mar 10, 2015 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Mar 11, 2015 at 17:12 UTC. Instant bitcoin and altcoin exchange ShapeShift has received $525,000 in seed funding from investors Barry Silbert and Roger Ver.

A slew of services have emerged in recent months that allow bitcoin enthusiasts the ability to use bitcoin and other digital currencies to create tradeable assets.

A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that the number of bitcoin and altcoin transactions will more than double by 2017 to 56 million, up from 24.7 million in 2014 and 18 million in 2013.

Micropayments startup NeuCoin has raised $1.25m in angel and seed funding from over 20 individual investors, including King co-founder Patrik Stymne, Uber SVP Emil Michael and Hotwire president Henrik Kjellberg.

As a result of the move, many of the remaining Mastercoin leadership, including chief architect JR Willet, CTO Craig Sellars and board member and BitAngels co-founder David Johnston, will migrate to Omni to solidify their message and clear up marketplace confusion that they feel has held back their efforts.

In addition to managing the development of the decentralized paycoin currency, GAW Miners operates a paycoin brokerage, an exchange for the currency and a network of coin-generating wallets - an ecosystem that many suggest counters the decentralized spirit of the cryptocurrency movement.

Bullion dealer Amagi Metals has inked a new partnership with digital currency payments processor GoCoin.

Gaming has long been seen as a potential use case environment for bitcoin and other digital currencies, given that the online entertainment sector is an established testing ground for new payment mechanisms and models.

Even in bitcoin's digital universe, the same basic economic rules apply, with price being determined by supply and demand.

Dec 2, 2014 at 22:45 UTCUpdated Dec 12, 2014 at 15:51 UTC. The development team behind the digibyte cryptocurrency project has received $250,000 in private investment and inked a new strategic partnership with Hong Kong-based web developer Tofugear.

An attempt to launch one of the first major regulated bitcoin-powered gaming platforms is struggling to alter this narrative, despite backing from a slew of international gambling stars.

A joint effort to raise money ahead of the holiday season is currently underway, combining the crowdfunding capabilities of both the litecoin and dogecoin communities.