The internet has long been an area where new technology conquers the old. Old modems of 300 baud have been supplanted by ones that offer downloads of up to over 1 gig per second. Such innovations have led to text and still images once being the primary source of internet content being replaced by video streaming services like Netflix and YouTube.

People have become accustomed to being able to stream movies, sports, TV shows, and even funny dog videos onto their smartphones, tablets, and computers with just the click of the mouse or a touch. Yet a change is coming in online video distribution and consumption as the current juggernauts of online video content are stuck in the past with old models of operation. A number of new platforms based upon blockchain technology are leading the charge in revolutionizing video streaming.

Rising Upstarts are Pushing Video Streaming to the Next Level

The online video streaming marketplace will soon be disrupted and altered by new applications that are creating decentralized hubs by the power and flexibility of blockchain technology. Platforms like View.ly, Flixxo, and VirtuTV are seeking to overthrow the old king, YouTube, and transform social video hubs into social economies where everybody wins. Each of these applications takes a different approach to achieve these goals.

https://coinidol.com/blockchain-leading-the-video-streaming-revolution/

Lucyd is Decentralizing the AR Revolution

There’s a reason you don’t own smartglasses yet. There are many hurdles in the way of truly user-friendly augmented reality displays. At Lucyd, we have assembled an expert team and a portfolio of powerful of technologies to solve the biggest problems in AR. To build our first prototype and to create the Lucyd Lab AR blockchain, we are launching the LCD token sale.

We have 13 breakthrough AR patents that form a blueprint for Lucyd Lens, a pair of lightweight, next-gen smartglasses. Our technology comes from years of research by leading AR experts at the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. Some of the issues in currently available AR devices that Lucyd Lens aims to solve are clunky form factors, limited enhanced field of view, latency issues, light leakage, poor eye tracking, difficult controls, connectivity issues, high eye strain, and incompatibility with corrective lenses.

https://coinidol.com/lucyd-is-decentralizing-the-ar-revolution/

STK Global Payments announces Global Advisory Board

STK Global Payments, creators of the STK token, is announcing their Global Advisory Team, four weeks ahead of its public Token Generation Event beginning on November 13, 2017.

Built on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC20 token, the STK token will enable users to transact with cryptocurrency in global markets and at brick-and-mortar stores in real-time. “STK will bridge the gap between the 22 trillion dollar retail marketplace and one of the fastest growing currencies in the world,” said Miro Pavletic, co-founder and Director of STK Global Payments. “We’ve simplified the blockchain process so that you can use cryptocurrency as easily as you would a debit card or cash.”

https://coinidol.com/stk-global-payments-announces-global-advisory-board/

October 13, 2017, London, Financial Blockchain company Cashaa has announced the launch of its CAS tokens in a Token Generation Event (TGE) which will take place on November 6th with a pre-sale kicking off October 20, 2017.

Cashaa - rated as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Blockchain Companies in the world - is building ‘The next generation banking platform for the next billion’ which will potentially enable billions of banked and unbanked users to access the financial services.

The financial crisis revealed significant weaknesses in the existing financial system while more than 3.5 billion people are still unbanked or underbanked with limited or no opportunities to participate in the global economy. Transferring money for remittance or money lending across international borders is still complicated, time-consuming and expensive. Existing systems are slow and full of intermediaries, triggering higher exchange rates, weak counter-party risk checking, bureaucracy and extensive paperwork. The recent emergence of cryptocurrencies showed a silver lining to solve this issue. However, it turns out that consumers and businesses are struggling to leverage the benefits of the Blockchain infrastructure due to poor Usability, non-customer centric approach, and improper legal implementation.

Read the full article: https://coinidol.com/cashaa-announces-token-generation-event/

"I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones"

BitcoinTalk post in 2010
You hear stories like that all the time - someone bought, mined, or get payed in Bitcoins in 2011, dumped old computer, and then — bam! — the coins are worth 4 000 $ each in 2017. There is no use crying over spilled crypto milk — very few saw that coming. But what caused such massive cash influx into Bitcoin? Why it makes USDs — the backbone of the fiat financing — seem like a worthless peace of paper? Is BTC just a bubble? There is an answer that no one talks about.

Dark markets are Tor-powered, anonymous libertarian marketplaces, offering everything you can’t buy in Walmart— stolen IDs, cards, drugs, guns, pirated content. In general dark markets are ultra secure and anonymous, because the payments in crypto are anonymous thanks to tumblers or mixers, that basically use coinjoin protocol to launder cash. But most of the time FBI manages to find a way to either DDoS or shed a light on one or two markets each year.

The full article: https://coinidol.com/how-bitcoin-price-is-controlled-by-dark-markets/

How the “Unbanked” Can Get a Financial Start through Blockchain Tech

Interview with Anton Dzyatkovsky, co-founder of MicroMoney on how the “unbanked” worldwide can finally get a financial start through blockchain technology.

-         Anton, your company, MicroMoney, is promising loans for people who have no bank accounts or credit history. What is it about?

-         When two years ago I learned that 2 billion people in the world have no access to banking or basic financial services, I was shocked. They are not included into the global economy; they are deprived of some basic human right. Moreover, this system exists throughout the world and it is very difficult to change anything. It is a catch-22 situation – when a person needs to have a bank account in order to obtain a loan but financial institutions refuse to deal with unbanked people because they consider them too risky. Most unbanked people do not have credit histories and this is the main problem for them to become bank customers. Therefore, my company is here to change that. We provide an alternative solution for people to start building their credit and get loans, based on new technologies.

Read the full interview here: https://coinidol.com/how-unbanked-can-get-financial-start-through-blockchain/

Tokenization of Real Estate: from New Investment Options to the Futuristic Cities of Tomorrow

With the emergence of blockchain, lots of industries are looking into the options it can bring about. Starting as an infrastructure solution for a virtual currency, Bitcoin, the technology then evolved into something bigger.

Nearly ten years after Bitcoin was first announced, blockchain-powered solutions have expanded far beyond the financial industry. The immutability and utter security of the technology were appreciated by banks, financial institutions, logistics companies, the videogames industry, and many more.

Media reported that some governments tested the waters of innovations by putting certain property-related issues onto the blockchain. Thus, Ukraine’s government seeks to blockchainize real estate titles as of 2018. Earlier, it was announced that the technology will be employed for the same country’s land cadaster. Japan has announced the implementation of blockchain in its real estate ledgers this summer. All in all, governments seem to embrace the innovations.

Read the full article: https://coinidol.com/tokenization-of-real-estate/

These days, the names of cryptocurrency-related projects often include OÜ, which stands for the Estonian osaühing. Generally, it corresponds to Limited Liability Company, and implies that the company was incorporated in Estonia. The number of projects that have preferred this jurisdiction over others is steadily growing.

Estonia is, in fact, quite a progressive jurisdiction that has spawned initiatives like e-Residency and the Public Notary. The country also intended to hold the world’s first state-run ICO. Legal persons and individuals there are also interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The industry is booming there even though the government’s stance towards cryptocurrencies is anything but friendly.

Read the full article: https://coinidol.com/why-incorporation-in-estonia-is-the-new-black/

Globitex Launch Token Sale for Spot and Derivatives Exchange in Bitcoin

The project, which is co-founded by former Executive Director and Founding Board Member of the Bitcoin Foundation Jon Matonis, aims to scale Bitcoin economically in order to become a truly useful currency of global trade and settlement.

Institutional Bitcoin exchange Globitex, which is currently in limited beta, is holding a token sale to scale up operations with the aim of making Bitcoin a truly global currency. The exchange already offers institutional level FIX API for direct market access for algorithmic traders, paving the way for the virtual currency to become a universal medium of exchange across the full breadth of the international financial and commodity markets.

Bitcoin’s biggest problem: liquidity

Whilst the Bitcoin protocol has been undergoing concrete steps for Bitcoin’s technical scaling, Globitex’s founders recognise the chief issue holding back its wider use is liquidity. Bitcoin is still relatively thinly traded, with low volumes by conventional market standards. Despite being the ideal currency for international settlement across the spectrum of the financial and commodities markets, it cannot serve this purpose without a step-change in market depth and trading volumes.

https://coinidol.com/globitex-launch-token-sale/

SmartBillions Takes Gambling to an Unimaginable Level

The online lottery industry is currently suffering from a lack of growth. This is due to limited transparency and decentralization as well as hidden fees, convoluted rules, cheating, and a lack of trust. Third party involvement has also been shown to severely influence prize payouts and skew draw results, reducing the public’s trust in traditional lottery systems. The aim of SmartBillions is to provide the public with a fully transparent lottery system and freedom to participate for everyone around the world.

SmartBillions, is the world’s first lottery system that is completely transparent, decentralized, and fully anonymous. The platform is actually a smart contract that runs on the Ethereum Blockchain. It will allow people all over the world to partake in online gambling in a multibillion dollar industry that’s constantly booming.

How Is SmartBillions Different?

SmartBillions aims to eliminate the fear of cheating, unfair taxes, and strict regulations. Run on an entirely decentralized platform and not influenced by any organization, company, or party. The lotteries secure system ensures that cheating and unsportsmanlike manipulations are gone.

https://coinidol.com/smartbillions-takes-gambling-to-unimaginable-level/

Cryptopay Runs an ICO to Consolidate and Develop New Products

Cryptopay is not a new comer in the fintech arena, hence forget any MVP or technical white paper filled with dream features and written by wanna-be tycoons.

Cryptopay is actually a real company offering a rich set of products. A Bitcoin wallet to buy and sell cryptocurrency and fiat already counting 450k registered users and 90k+ cards issued worldwide. One among the most appealing features is to combine a Cryptopay debit card with your Bitcoin balance. Then starting from your bitcoins you can travel worldwide and make payments in thousands of points of sale.

Why ICO?

So why a company as Cryptopay is in the middle of an ICO? Aren’t ICOs that kind of instrument especially suited for garage ideas to get some money and start development from scratch? Well, think again. ICO are becoming a valid alternative to IPO also for more structured companies. It is the present and the future of venture financing and the smartest companies in the world are now looking seriously at this form of crowd funding.

https://coinidol.com/cryptopay-runs-an-ico/

BitJob Partners with Bitcoin Brains for ATM Access

The blockchain student jobs marketplace aims to help place crypto ATMs on University campuses around Canada.

BitJob, the first global marketplace for student employment to be built on the blockchain, has announced a new collaboration with Canadian bitcoin brokerage Bitcoin Brains. The partnership will leverage the student community, which BitJob aims to engage in cryptocurrency-related employment, to expand the country’s network of bitcoin ATMs and introduce a new generation of people to the benefits of digital cash.

The full article: https://coinidol.com/bitjob-partners-with-bitcoin-brains-for-atm-access/

The American corporation Simex inc. founded by a group of Russian developers and US investors is launching the trade of the Bitcoin for the Russian rouble in the territory of Russia and the US dollar in the USA on its own SIMEX platform.

The SIMEX platform is developed in accordance with the KYC and AML standards which allows it to operate practically everywhere in the world. The innovation of linking the internal bitcoin purse created on the SIMEX platform to the personal data of the account holder (individuals or legal entities) discloses a user’s identity and allows the regulator to track transactions of bidders.

Thus, the platform’s functionality makes the cryptocurrency market more transparent and user-friendly, as well facilitates regulation by various state institutions.

https://coinidol.com/simex-to-launch-bitcoin-trades-in-russia-and-usa/

How Blockchain will Crush Language Barriers? LangPie is not a Scam - Author

Coinidol does due diligence in researching the content matter before the publication of any text, especially if it's provided by a third party and paid as an advertising announcement.

Coinidol's team searched for information about the LangPie project on Google and found suspicion from users that it could be a scam.

We have an obligation to warn our readers to pay attention to this fact because this publication is provided by a third party.

Coinidol didn't carry out in-depth research of the project to prove or disprove this fact. But we have asked the CEO of LangPie, Cedric Hung, to comment on the main questions of the community.

He responded to Coinidol about the plagiarism of white paper and accusations of being a scam project:

“Well, first of all, we would like to underline that nearly all accusations in the article are unsubstantiated, and in the most concerning the one about the scam nature of our project.

Let me explain in details:

· About the publications in the mass media it is absolutely ridiculous, due to some evident rules of the market - PRs and Articles are paid (even on your web-site), but take a look at all projects, for example at KICKICO, there is a section on their web-site called “Media loves us!” where all mentioned articles are sponsored, moreover, some of them are posted on the official pages of their CEO Anti Danilevski as like the one in the Forbes Magazine, then why nobody says that KICKICO is a scam?

· About the situation with the first developer thanks to whom this article was written: Anastasia (our project manager who previously contacted you requiring for advertisement) as we were searching for a smart-contract developer - contacted the mentioned person. At first he agreed with the terms, and we have added information about him on our web-site, but several days later he wrote to Anastasiya that he withheld his consent. Then, we bade him farewell and replaced him by an another more qualified developer. So, the whole situation was just a result of a misunderstanding, which is now inflated by the blockexplorer’s author.

· About platform development. For instance, our blockchain development is aimed at the elaboration of the smart-contract not only for the ICO-round but also for the whole functioning of the platform in future. But at the same time we are searching for developers who will maintain further development of the platform. Moreover, it is all conforming to our White Paper and we have mentioned in the Road Map that the development of the MVP which will at first be server-based (backend) will be launched after the ICO-round, and only after successful tests showing stable results it will be powered by blockchain. You are able to check it in our White Paper.

The full article: https://coinidol.com/how-blockchain-will-crush-language-barriers/

First Crypto ETF offers key ICO participants membership on Board of Director

First Crypto ETF has announced it will give key investors the chance to have a say in the company. Any investor or group of investors who control more than 1.000.000 tokens can nominate an individual to become a member of the Board of Directors.

“It´s a natural step towards greater transparency, giving pre-ICO and ICO participants the chance to control the company´s daily business and activities,” said First Crypto ETF Chief Executive Officer Peter Vrabel. First Crypto ETF said it would help ward against the experience of some ICOs, which saw projects raise money only to disappear soon after. “This kind of behaviour is unacceptable,” said Vrabel. “Investors should not be victims.”

The full article: https://coinidol.com/first-crypto-etf-offers-key-ico-participants-membership-on-board-of-director/

Green Light for DOVU as Mobility Blockchain Project Hits $5 Million Milestone

The blockchain-based transport data initiative has issued over 100 million tokens, meeting its target raise and allowing the project to go ahead.

Blockchain mobility project DOVU is off to a flying start, raising over $5 million in Ether to date. The initiative aims to crowdsource high-quality transport data from large numbers of grassroots users, storing this on the blockchain and making it available to developers and companies in return for the DOV token. Access to these valuable datasets will drive innovation in the transport industry.

DOVU’s pre-sale was extremely successful, attracting a significant number of larger investors. This has placed the project in a strong position to go forwards: pre-sale contributions have already met the project’s funding requirements for several years. The main crowd sale launched on Tuesday and any additional funding will permit an accelerated development timeline, along with an increased marketing spend.

The full article: https://coinidol.com/green-light-for-dovu/

SimplyVital Health Welcomes Two New Board Members To Its Blockchain Healthcare Solution

SimplyVital Health, the healthcare startup utilizing blockchain technology to streamline medical record data sharing and storage, has announced the addition of Robert J. Wright Jr. and Tim Corvino to their advisory board. Both will help accelerate SimplyVital's vision of a faster, and more secure healthcare system.

SimplyVital Health is a healthcare solution that leverages Health Nexus, its blockchain ecosystem, to empower providers' transition to value-based care regardless of clinical affiliation. The principal tool, ConnectingCare, augments existing hospital care systems to extract data and create care pathway flexibility, prospectively track financials, maintain immutable records, and accurately monitor analytics. This frictionless, secure data exchange mitigates financial risk and improves patient health.

The full article: https://coinidol.com/simplyvital-health-welcomes-two-new-board-members/

Vibe Tokens Ready to Trade on Livecoin

After a record breaking crowdsale, Viberate, a platform for live music industry, is set to enter the world of crypto exchanges.

Starting October 6, Vibe tokens - the main cryptocurrency of the platform - will begin trading on Livecoin.net exchange. “Based on numerous questions regarding the first listing, we believe this is one of the most anticipated coins in 2017. We can't wait to see how the market will respond,” said Vasja Veber, cofounder and COO of the Slovenian-based company, who is also encouraging all supporters to open an account on Livecoin.net and “seize the opportunity”. According to Veber, bigger exchanges “will soon follow”.

https://coinidol.com/vibe-tokens-ready-to-trade-on-livecoin/

LoanBit blockchain driven platform offers a new level of safety and verification and utilises its own exchange.

A P2P Lending & Investment platform offers the future of crowd based lending, LoanBit is launching its own token sale and has just announced the dates. The crowdsale for the platforms ‘LoanBit Token (LBT)’ is scheduled to go live in November, with a presale beginning on 4th October 2017, and ending on 15th October 2017. The ICO offers a variety of incentives for early adopters. The sale of these tokens will assist the company in raising funds to aid the project's development.

Read the full article: https://coinidol.com/blockchain-driven-p2p-lending-investment-platform-crowdsale/

The blockchain mobility data initiative will gain crucial exposure at the exclusive summit in October for investors and emerging growth companies, bringing further momentum to its already successful crowdsale.

Transport mobility project DOVU will enjoy a high profile at the Monaco Growth Forum Blockchain Summit, where one of the project’s Advisors, LDJ Capital’s David Drake, will deliver a Keynote address. DOVU will deliver a presentation on the benefits of bringing blockchain technology to data sharing in the transport sector, creating a circular economy that aligns interests and benefits all stakeholders. Access to an audience of forward-thinking delegates from the investment community is expected to ensure that the project meets its funding targets.

Read the full article: https://coinidol.com/dovu-at-monaco-growth-forums/