Safe Exchange Coin Announces Anonymous Market Roadmap
In a world where centrally controlled marketplaces dominate our economic system, and privacy and anonymity are not honored - the Safe Exchange Coin organization announces a development roadmap for an anonymous marketplace that is hosted on a blockchain.

On February 14, Safe Exchange Coin published a Development Roadmap for Chille Blockchain, telling the world that their objectives are plans and ideas for making a private and anonymous marketplace possible.

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In a world where centrally controlled marketplaces dominate our economic system, and privacy and anonymity are not honored - the Safe Exchange Coin organization announces a development roadmap for an anonymous marketplace that is hosted on a blockchain.

On February 14, Safe Exchange Coin published a Development Roadmap for Chille Blockchain, telling the world that their objectives are plans and ideas for making a private and anonymous marketplace possible.

You can read the full article here: https://coinidol.com/safe-exchange-coin-announces-anonymous-market-roadmap/

Bitcoin’s position in the United Kingdom. Despite the government’s pro-blockchain position, the banks in the UK are still refusing to accept bitcoin as a payment method – such opinion was stated by financial writer Roger Aitken in Forbes. According to writer, the incidents such as refusing to support British Pound deposits and withdrawals by cryptoexchanges like Cryptopay are increasing. The situation was caused by few country bank's policies – cancellation of Great Britain Pound deposit and withdrawal facilities limited people to do Single Euro Payments Area transfers.

You can read and watch more news here: https://coinidol.com/koles-coin-news-digest-feb-17/

The Dutch pirate party is demanding the Dutch Government allow every citizen to choose the kind of currency they want to use, including when paying for state services. The Dutch pirate party is one of the over 40 pirate parties worldwide.

The pirate party is a community of youth who want free sharing of information and culture on the internet. Copyrighted material is not excluded from the materials available for free download on the Piratebay.org, a site that follows the ideologies of the pirate parties. Bitcoin enables the transfer of funds anonymously, which allows the maintenance of these pirate parties and hosting the Piratebay.org website.

You can read the full article here: https://coinidol.com/dutch-pirate-party-negative-side-of-bitcoin/

As Bitcoin become more powerful and more widespread day by day, many countries are now considering the best ways of harbouring the cryptocurrency. The Philippines is the latest country to consider guidelines that will shape the development of a regulatory standard for Bitcoin.

It’s indeed a fact proven that non-regulation of Bitcoin activities in a country can be detrimental to that country’s economy in many ways. For this reason, a lot of countries have formed committees who can work out the best ways of allowing Bitcoin to stay in their country. This regulation, in most cases, has no effect on users dealing in small amounts of Bitcoin, but users moving thousands of Bitcoin across the border always find themselves dealing head-on with such regulation.

You can read the full article and take part in the discussion here: https://coinidol.com/philippines-to-regulate-bitcoin-activities/

China is losing a good portion of its forex Reserves in, what is considered to be by many people, an attempt to raise the value of the Chinese Yuan. China, which got hit by hard monetary issues through most of 2016, still continues to struggle to completely offset its economic woes.After a series of attempts by the Government of China to put a halt to the capital outflow crisis, things have continued to worsen economically for China. With the forex reserves at six-year low with only $3 Billion, China seems to be heading in a bad economic direction. 

You can read the full article here: https://coinidol.com/china-undergoes-forex-reserves-loss-pushes-bitcoin-higher/

Charlie Lee urges the Litecoin Mining community to support the Segregated Witness Activation proposal now and open the blockchain frontier to amazing new possibilities.The Litecoin community has a chance to activate the Segregated Witness technology and open a new paradigm for blockchain technology. Charlie, founder and lead developer of Litecoin, urges the mining community to adopt his proposal and open the world to the new advantages that come with SegWit implementation.

You can read the full article here:  https://coinidol.com/litecoin-segwit-new-frontier-for-blockchains/

Charlie Lee urges the Litecoin Mining community to support the Segregated Witness Activation proposal now and open the blockchain frontier to amazing new possibilities.The Litecoin community has a chance to activate the Segregated Witness technology and open a new paradigm for blockchain technology. Charlie, founder and lead developer of Litecoin, urges the mining community to adopt his proposal and open the world to the new advantages that come with SegWit implementation.

You can read the full article here:  https://coinidol.com/litecoin-segwit-new-frontier-for-blockchains/

Migration ban affects bitcoin’s rate

Donald Trump’s politics had influenced bitcoin’s rate. Due to the sudden ban on entry to the United States for citizens of seven Arab countries, bitcoin’s rate increased by $40. Bitcoin is an international cryptocurrency, and the migration ban for the residents of the Arab countries can cause fluctuations in it’s rate. The decree caused discontent in Silicon Valley: Sam Altman, CEO of Y Combinator and Mike Belshe, co-founder of Bitgo, called FinTech community to oppose against migration ban.

You can read and watch more news here: https://coinidol.com/koles-coin-news-digest-feb-13/

Byteball, a Russian cryptocurrency platform based in Moscow, has announced an upcoming distribution of its Bytes crypto tokens. The first round of the distribution took place on Christmas day, December 25, 2016, and the second round is to take place on February 11, 2017, at 00:33 (UTC) hours according to information on Byteball’s website.

In an attempt to move away from the Blockchain technology, which Byteball claims is slow and affected by block size, Byteball has incorporated Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Which it claims will solve the problems related to block size and propagation time between nodes.

Is Directed Acyclic Graphs Technology better than Bitcoin’s Blockchain Technology?

You can read the full article here: https://coinidol.com/is-dag-better-than-bitcoin-blockchain/

Four people have been arrested in Venezuela for using the country’s electricity illegally by mining Bitcoins. Bitcoin mining is a very power-intensive activity consuming many units of electricity a day. Implying that if unpaid electricity is used, within just a few weeks, millions of dollars in power revenue could be lost.

Venezuela is a country hit by one of the worst economic downturns coupled with acute inflation, unemployment and food rationing. Recently, the government introduced a scheme whereby it sells subsidized to free electricity to some Bitcoin miners, neglecting other miners. The way miners are selected to receive the subsidies from the government is rather unclear. Some people devised a mechanism which would allow them to use unmetered electricity for bitcoin mining which unfortunately became theft and is punishable under Venezuelan law.

You can read the full article here: https://coinidol.com/miners-steal-electricity-in-venezuela/

ChronoBank cooperates with NEM to launch a ChronoNEM wallet. ChronoBank, an ambitious blockchain project that takes aim at the inefficient recruitment sector, is partnering with the versatile NEM cryptocurrency platform to create a separate wallet for the NEM ecosystem. ChronoBank will also issue Labour Hour (LH) tokens on the NEM network and use on-chain multi-sig, one of NEM’s flagship security features.
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The EDCON conference in Paris. The European Ethereum Development Conference will take place at the business school ESCP Europe on 17-18 February 2017. EDCON is organized by computer software company LinkTime with the support of developers from the Ethereum Foundation and community. The conference will cover Ethereum base-layer technology and research, information privacy, Ethereum consortium chain development and Ethereum-based applications. Tickets for the conference are available on edcon.io

You can read and watch more news here:   https://coinidol.com/koles-coin-news-digest-feb-9/

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has published a report on the distributed ledger technologies applied to securities market.

The report released on February 7, 2017, states that ESMA wants to understand both the benefits and the risks that distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and digital currencies may introduce to securities markets, and how it maps to existing EU regulation.

You can read the full article here: https://coinidol.com/esma-to-monitor-blockchain/

The Commissioner under the President of Russia on the Rights of Entrepreneurs, Boris Titov, recently suggested allowing businesses in the Kaliningrad, a federal subject of the Russian Federation located on the coast of the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania, to hold cryptocurrency accounts.

You can read more info here: https://coinidol.com/russian-ombudsman-proposes-businesses-bitcoin-accounts/

About 10,613 Tor-based websites on Freedom Hosting II were recently hacked by a group affiliating itself with Anonymous.

According to a report , Freedom Hosting II hosted up to 20% of all dark web sites. The hacker has published an announcement of his activities on the webpages he attacked:

You can read the full article here: https://coinidol.com/revenge-for-child-porn-dark-web-hacked/

Japanese merchants accept Bitcoin. The land of Rising Sun is planning to attract more than 20 000 merchants. According to bitcoin payment system ResuPress (RisurEs), the number of trading platforms accepting Bitcoin will increase in 2017. Through a partnership with E-net Systems Co an energy company in Japan, ResuPress has already enabled Japanese users to pay their electricity bills with the cryptocurrency.

You can read and watch more news here: https://coinidol.com/koles-coin-news-digest-feb-2/

South Korea chooses bitcoin. CEO of Korean bitcoin exchange Korbit Tony Lyu talked to bitcoin.com about the country’s adoption of bitcoin. According to Tony Lyu, bitcoin can be easily bought in Korea and remittance companies are already using cryptocurrencies. Additionally, a lot of expats are using Korbit to take an advantage of bitcoin for international transactions. Tony Lyu added: "I expect Korean bitcoin adoption to outpace the most other countries in 2017 year."

You can read and watch more news here: https://coinidol.com/kcn-news-digest-feb-1/

The first Blockchain-based augmented reality fantasy game in existence, Augmentors, has announced an ICO of its DataBits crypto tokens (DTB) starting January 30, 2017.

The game created by Michael Deon, is backed by some of the leading investors from Shark Tank South Africa.

During the 30-day ICO ending on February 28, 2017, the DTB tokens will be available in a ratio of 15000DTB: 1BTC. The ratio of DTB tokens to BTC will be reduced by 1000 at every 5 day intervals throughout the ICO period. Even if the platform fails to raise the required $1 million by the end of the stipulated timeframe, all funds raised will be directly put to use for developing the Alpha version of Augmentors, set for release by the end of May 2017 on Google Play Store and the App Store. The Beta version will soon follow.

You can read the full article and take part in the discussion here: https://coinidol.com/blockchain-based-augmented-reality-game-ico/

From observing the world economy situation, someone can easily understand we have reached dangerous times. Global debt has grown up to 230 trillion dollars with world GDP at 75 trillion dollars. The need to service this debt has led central banks to attempt to manipulate the economy through zero or even negative interest rates.

Due to the baby boom, many government bonds will expire by 2020. However, the ‘finance bubble’ will be significantly bigger. It has been clear for some time that there was another financial bubble, and that one day it would burst, not only in the United States but in the European Union too.

Coinidol’s correspondent has asked 8 experts: “What are your thoughts on if the world currency was Bitcoin and not the US Dollar?”

You can read the full article and take part in the discussion here: https://coinidol.com/world-economy-with ... th-part-2/