http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/BLU/13296507.htmlBlue Star Capital plc ("Blue Star" or the "Company") Update on SatoshiPay Blue Star Capital plc (AIM: BLU), the investing company with a focus on new technologies, is pleased to announce that its investee company, SatoshiPay Ltd ("SatoshiPay"), a UK incorporated private nanopayment software and blockchain company in which Blue Star owns approximately 19 per cent of the equity (expected to increase to 31 per cent subject to completion of the further investment in SatoshiPay announced by the Company on 4 July 2017), has agreed a proof of concept project with the IOTA Foundation to explore replacing Bitcoin with an alternative cryptocurrency, IOTA, as SatoshiPay's settlement network ("Project"). Since its 2015 product launch SatoshiPay has relied on the Bitcoin network to settle nanopayments. Initially Bitcoin transaction fees were negligible at below €0.01 per transaction. Due to Bitcoin's rising popularity in 2017, combined with stalling scalability improvements, the network's transaction limit is regularly reached, leading to congestion and an increase in fees to uneconomical levels. To sustain and enhance SatoshiPay's business model based on frequent low-value payments, SatoshiPay is seeking to replace Bitcoin with a more suitable distributed ledger technology. The IOTA network, with its token listed as 9th largest cryptocurrency on coinmarketcap.com at a market cap of €450m, offers zero-fee transactions with no limit on the number of transactions per second, making it unique among cryptocurrencies and an ideal ledger technology for SatoshiPay's future needs. While corporate entities such as Innogy, Canonical, Bosch, Cisco and Microsoft are building IOTA prototypes focussed on the Internet of things, SatoshiPay is IOTA Foundation's first partner to build a purely web-based application. The results of the project are expected to be available in August 2017. Tony Fabrizi, CEO of Blue Star said: "Working with the IOTA Foundation allows SatoshiPay to explore new technology with a clear focus on scalability of its business. We are excited about the potential new opportunities that could open up from this initiative and that SatoshiPay is taking steps to optimise its business model". SatoshiPay CEO Meinhard Benn said: "Working with the IOTA Foundation allows us to explore cutting edge technology with a clear focus on scalability and mass market roll-out. We couldn't be more excited and expect plenty of exposure and new opportunities to open up" This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014 ("MAR").
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Dr. Julie Maupin (G20, Max Planck Institute, Advisor to German government) joins IOTA https://blog.iota.org/welcome-julie-maupin-to-iota-14b9ac92478fOn being a part of IOTA Decentralized technologies today are presenting humanity with unprecedented opportunities to re-think the way we organize both our individual and collective lives. Everything is up for re-invention. From finance to social networking to democracy itself… there has never been a better time to be on the cutting edge. Thanks to its adherence to the golden rules of parsimony, modularity, and interoperability, IOTA has the potential to truly become the backbone of the Internet-of-Everything. Especially when considered in combination with parallel developments in artificial intelligence, the possibilities are staggering. I’m thrilled to be part of this budding community of pragmatic idealists. I look forward to contributing to the mission to ensure that IOTA develops in impactful ways that deliver broadly distributed benefits not just to the fortunate few, but especially to the many historically underserved segments of our planet’s amazing and diverse populations. We are thrilled to have someone as professional and passionate as Julie join the project. She has been assisting us behind the scenes for some time now, particularly the IOTA Foundation registration process, but also various other valuable tasks, and has been absolutely tremendous. Her expertise and vast experience overlaps perfectly with a lot of the upcoming plans for IOTA, so we expect great synergy. Everyone give her a warm welcome! |
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Demo. WRIO Internet OS. Introduction
......WRIO Internet OS is a cloud service with open source code, designed to navigate through decentralized, semantic and secure Internet. Some call it Web 3.0, and it is an evolutionary replacement of today’s Web 2.0. The project is based on Ethereum Classic blockchain enhanced with the functionality of a Intelligent Assistant......
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Eager cryptocurrency investors have sunk thousands of dollars into joke tokens https://qz.com/1023501/ethereum-ico-people-invested-thousands-of-dollars-in-useless-ethereum-token-uet/......Useless Ethereum Token is part caustic satire, part artistic intervention. Its anonymous creator, who goes by UET CEO, told the New York Observer: “I realized that people didn’t really care about the product. They cared about spending a little bit of money, watching a chart and then withdrawing a little bit more money. So why not have an ICO without a product, and do so completely transparently just to see what happened?”........ |
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http://www.sovereignhero.com/.....The HERO is a decentralized currency, double-backed by equity in BitShares. BitShares is backed by the revenue streams of our companies & their capital. These companies are backed by the huge audiences they can reach with their services. The result is the world's first Economy Backed Currency. All on a transparent, incorruptible, speed of light network. The HERO is a new kind of blockchain-based digital currency. It has all the advantages of crypto currencies (fast, cheap transaction, no middlemen, counterpart-party risk free, decentralized, accessible, etc.) but, unlike others, HERO has a predictable price. The HERO is a formula-pegged asset on the BitShares blockchain. It’s value is pegged to USD-denominated formular as simple as: USD since creation of the FED + 5% a.p.r. This predictability constitutes a USD-pegged, component and a yearly capital appreciation of 5%. This fixed yearly capital appreciation isn’t quite like interest as it does not pay out HEROs every once in a while, but instead, the USD-valuation of HERO grows at a fixed 5% per year....
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remember... https://www.reddit.com/r/decred/comments/6lmkov/ama_3_biweekly_ask_me_anything_thursday_with/djvdcpl/For July we are focusing on a few events we have lined up. One is the Chicago Bitcoin and Open Blockchain Workshop on Saturday July 8th. https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Open-Blockchain-Community-Chicago/events/241201767//u/_ingsoc and I will be announcing the second July event soon. We have two explainer animated videos in progress. One expected at any time, the other expected in late August/ early September. We are also working on a more edgy video with an expected release date in August. We are lining up a conference for the end of 2017 and early 2018, and pursuing speaking opportunities at these events. We have some managers producing material to be published with major outlets. This is something we will be regularly pursuing. We are planning opportunities to recruit new talent. We're also closely following the development roadmap and supporting these development releases with press releases and public education about the current events within the project. We are building up our international marketing strategy. We've just completed a Portuguese translation of the website and will be launching soon. We are pursuing website and wallet translations into many languages as well as adopting social media accounts to support other international markets. This is being spearheaded by @jz on #international_ops on the decred slack. We're making exponential progress in this area. Our twitter, reddit, facebook, and youtube accounts have been beefed up with a task force of moderators. You may have noticed an improvement on these fronts lately. Our telegram channel still needs some love, but it's on the radar too. (New contractor opportunities here.) We've recently converted a number of actively contributing community members into contractors, especially in the areas of design, marketing, social media, education, international operations, and promotion. If you have any talents in these areas and would like to contribute - just start doing it! #ideas channel on slack is a great place to get involved and then scale from there. There are so many people I'd like to recognize for these contributions, but it truly has been a team effort. Keeping up with the community growth is exciting. We have all been inspired by the ongoing posts on the Decred giveaway campaign, and the reach we have when working together: https://twitter.com/decredproject/status/879879216103292932Our YouTube channel featuring the Decred Assembly show will have guest Charlie Lee on July 10th.
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