Bitcoin $10,000 milestone is very near

Bitcoin has gotten as high as $9929 today. It is hovering just shy of the $10,000 milestone. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, …

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Bitcoin between $9500 and 9800 and could easily surge past $10,000

Bitcoin is trading between $9500 and $9800 today and could easily surge past the $10,000 milestone. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial …

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Bitcoin has another record as it passes $9400 and could reach $10,000 in days

Bitcoin has passed $9400 and has reached $9481. The combined market value for all cryptocurrencies is nearing $300 billion. Bitcoin’s market capitalization is now $157 billion. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It …

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Adding blockchain angle causes a surge in stock prices

Blockchain-related stocks provide an alternative for investors who want in on the boom but are wary of buying cryptocurrencies directly. Companies that touch anything related to blockchain see a surge in their stock price. * Riot Blockchain Inc., formerly known as Bioptix * Overstock (launched an exchange) * 360 Blockchain formerly known as 360 Capital …

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Singapore trying to be the first to put its currency on the blockchain

Deloitte and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched Project Ubin: to the put the Singapore dollar onto a Distributed Ledger (blockchain). The project started in 2016. MAS and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) announced on 5 October 2017 that the consortium which they are leading had successfully developed software prototypes of three …

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Hong Kong Considers Blockchain-Based Trade-Financing System

Hong Kong is looking into building a trade-financing system using blockchain technology, a senior official said. Blockchain, the decentralized encryption technology behind cryptocurrencies, could provide “great benefits” to trade finance in countries participating in China’s Belt and Road initiative, said James Henry Lau, Hong Kong’s Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, at a forum …

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Neufund creating tokenized economy

Neufund is an ecosystem of smart contracts operating on the Ethereum blockchain. Neufund is a community-owned fundraising platform. It acts as a bridge between the investment world and the blockchain space. By first quarter of 2018, companies will be able to raise equity on the Neufund platform. Startups and established companies alike can legally issue …

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Trading your time and attention for cryptocurrency

mytime is a decentralized blockchain platform with its own cryptocurrency — mytimecoin (MYTC). The number of services that require a human’s attention to operate is growing daily. However, our time is finite and will never be enough for all the activities which genuinely interest us. Our time is the most valuable thing we have. So …

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Blockchain software projects mostly Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple written in C++ and Go

The code for Bitcoin was published in April 2009. The number of projects on GitHub related to blockchain has grown significantly, averaging more than 8,600 new projects a year. In 2016 alone, there were almost 27,000 new cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. In 2010, organizations developed less than 1 percent of all projects. By 2017, their …

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