SWIFT is Now Developing a Distributed Ledger Platform

A new report from SWIFT details the settlement network operator's plan to develop a distributed ledger application platform.

http://www.coindesk.com/swift-seeks-develop-new-distributed-ledger-platform/

MIT ChainAnchor - Bribing Miners to Regulate Bitcoin

Based on the information I have available to me, it appears that the MIT ChainAnchor Project is in part an attempt to get Bitcoin users to register their real world identities and associate their transactions with those identities. Initially this would be on an opt-in basis, however it appears that ChainAnchor has a longer-term plan to bribe and coerce miners into only mining transactions from registered users, eventually prohibiting non-registered users entirely.

https://petertodd.org/2016/mit-chainanchor-bribing-miners-to-regulate-bitcoin

Gencoin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_XSewKQQa0

IT

DO IT! 

Also die Yesminer Tante von dem Betrüger hat mir jetzt meine versprochenen Miner geschickt:



zum selbermachen. hier kann man sich je nach lust und laune Miner mit verschiedenen Leistungen zusammenbauen. praktisch!

he said "easily".

wooOt? das ist Rufmord    -  du könntest mich auch BitCoinGuy nennen.  

außerdem sind Bitcoin und Litecoin doch Freunde - sie gehen immer Hand in Hand  


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@Greshamsches Geld

und danach ist Bitcoin wieder 100 Mal tot  

Money keeps pouring into blockchain startups

Fintech startups used to be focused on making traditional banks obsolete. Now, it seems like they just want to sell them services.

Among the young companies going that route is itBit, a blockchain startup that has a regulatory license in New York state that allows it to deal in digital currencies such as bitcoin. It’s developing a product called BankChain, which would apply blockchain technology to clearing and settlement processes for banks, and is in the middle of a $50 million fundraising round, according to a pitch deck sent to investors and obtained by Quartz. The deck indicated itBit expects the round to close this quarter.

http://qz.com/662596/startups-are-raising-huge-rounds-to-feed-wall-streets-fascination-with-blockchain/

Is Bitcoin Becoming More Stable Than Gold?

Digital gold is starting to look slightly more stable than its physical counterpart.

Since its inception several years ago, bitcoin has seen wild prices swings as advocates have tried to establish the nascent technology as a widely-used digital currency. But for the past three weeks, the price volatility of bitcoin has remained below or equal to that of safe-haven gold, according to data analysis from FactSet and CoinDesk.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/04/19/is-bitcoin-becoming-more-stable-than-gold/

ETFs’ ‘Spider Woman’ Argues for a Bitcoin Fund

When one of the first exchange-traded funds launched in 1993, securities lawyer Kathleen Moriarty received a gift from her legal assistant: a Spider-Man comic-book cover altered to depict the superhero facing off against a hulking Securities and Exchange Commission.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-chapter-for-etfs-spider-woman-1461058202

Greg Maxwell: Lightning Network Better Than Sidechains for Scaling Bitcoin

Over the past year or two, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been how the system is going to eventually scale to millions or billions of users. Two concepts often brought up during these sorts of discussions are the Lightning Network and sidechains.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/greg-maxwell-lightning-network-better-than-sidechains-for-scaling-bitcoin-1461077424

Bitcoin is Dead- Again, according to CEO Taavet Hinrikus

According to a financial CEO, Bitcoin is now dead, and he has a pretty good idea who will assume its throne as the premier global internet payment protocol.

https://bitconnect.co/bitcoin_news/bitcoinfront/details/121/

Bitstamp Close to Securing European License for Bitcoin Exchange

One of the world’s largest bitcoin exchanges is reportedly close to announcing a new deal with the Luxembourg government that would enable it to launch regulated and licensed services across Europe.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitstamp-europe-license-luxembourg/

it was taken at a fintech-exhibition roughly 1 year ago.