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The 2016 year has given to crypto-enthusiasts a lot of news. KCN team has gathered the most important on own opinion events of the passing year. 42 banks of Japan have created New Blockchain Consortium. According to the Coindesk.com, 42 banks joined Japanese Blockchain consortium, including Bank of Yokohama, SBI Sumishin Net Bank and Mizuho… South Korea announced the creation of the first-blokchain consortium, which includes twenty-one investment company, and five blockchain companies. The forklog.com reported – The priorities of a consortium were the creation of blokchain platforms for members of the association. The political Pirate Party, aimed to make bitcoin as a legal payment currency in Iceland, has won the third place in the elections and reached 10 parliamentary seats. Cryptocoinsnews.com report, the “Pirates” have gained popularity by standing up for the privacy rights and personal freedoms.Dash has concluded partnership with Australia’s Living Room of Satoshi to integrate

Today, backup solution innovator Cryptosteel is announcing its official launch, following a successful Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign and the busy development that followed. As of right now, open-source Cryptosteel project schematics are permanently available for download on Github. In celebration, Cryptosteel is releasing a limited run of special editions featuring fully functional one-of-a-kind Cryptosteel prototypes and original artwork by artist Rafael Akahira combining the artist’s signature reduction woodblock technique with vivid imagery inspired by Satoshi Nakamoto’s infamous manifesto. Cryptosteel is the premier indestructible backup tool for optimal offline storage of private keys, passwords and wallet recovery seeds without any third-party involvement. The technology combines the age-old idea of engraving with a DIY assembly format and materials that are stainless, rust-free, and fireproof up to 1200°C/2100°F to survive extreme conditions and unthinkable abuse. Following

Blockchain Expo will be arriving in London’s Olympia on January 23-24, 2017, bringing together more than 1500 people across key industries for two days of world-class content from leading brands embracing and developing cutting edge blockchain technologies. The inaugural event will feature over 60 industry thought leaders including; Paul Kammerer, Specialist Corporate Strategy, Commerzbank AG, Mark Simpson, Innovation Engineering, RBS, Neil Pennington, Director of Innovation (UK) nPower, Jason Leibowitz, Distributed Ledger & Blockchain Strategist, Credit Suisse, Joe Roets, Senior Software Architect, The Walt Disney Company, Yisel Cho, Blockchain Specialist, HSBC and Johnny Voon, Lead Technologist at Innovate UK. The Blockchain for Industry track will explore the evolution of blockchain and its applications, whilst the free-to-attend Blockchain Technologies & Development track will look at developing and cutting-edge blockchain technologies. Industries including financial

No prohibit for individuals or companies from using cryptocurrencies. The Russian Federal Tax Service has published a letter on measures to control cryptocurrency circulation and exchange. Coinidol.com reports, the Federal Tax Service of Russia considers that operations with the purchase or sale of cryptocurrency should be treated as transactions with foreign currencies. MasterCard, an American multinational financial services corporation, is actively working with blockchain technology. S Bureau of the registration of patents and trademarks, published four patent applications by MasterCard, associated with the use of blockchain technology… The applications focus on methods and systems for authorizing, processing and securing blockchain-based transactions, with MasterCard arguing that a combination of blockchain and its existing payment technology could be a boon for those making digital payments. CoinIdol.com reports, it still doesn’t clarify if or how soon MasterCard plans to use Bl

CLOAKCOIN is a well-known cryptocurrency. It is one of the first coins to target the so-called anon coin market currently being dominated by the latecomers like Monero, ZCash, and others. There are also examples of many people abusing the anon coin market to turn it into an “easy come, easy go” market by creating Ponzi-like schemes around it. These fraudulent actions on their part have given the whole cryptocurrency market a bad reputation among serious investors. Unlike a majority of cryptocurrencies, CLOAKCOIN is a mature and serious contender, prepared to lead the anon coin market. Since the development of CLOAKCOIN was taken over by a dedicated team of enthusiastic organizers, coders and investors, it has turned into a highly sophisticated tool for private, secure and untraceable transactions. The CLOAKCOIN team has implemented a unique off chain peer-to-peer coin mixing arrangement called ENIGMA covered by a TOR like onion routing system named CLOAKSHIELD. The strong and indep

Europecoin is deeply rooted in the process of crypto education and bitcoin/altcoin telling. One of Europecoin’s aims is, to do one of the very few jobs, that a good managed altcoin could do better than Bitcoin. It’s the job, any so-called-country-coin, should have done, but failed to deliver: Getting closer to the people, by adapting to their local culture and in that way, fostering the deepest form of decentralization. A strong local economy Path to a modern form of regionalization, this is why Europecoin and its funding Partner Bitcoinsulting are about to publish a “localbitcoins” a-like altcoin/bitcoin person-to-person exchange and local education platform, to foster local trade and merchants inclusion, across Europe. When LocalBitcoins got banned in Germany, they decided to fill that niche and successfully launched a German version for Bitcoin and Europecoin: Bitcoin Treff. Now, the new, international portal, has been further developed, to provide additional altcoin markets a

BlockShow Europe 2017 is a major informational and networking platform for showcasing established Blockchain solutions. Don’t miss your chance to get a greater insight into the current state of Blockchain and meet the key industry value generators that will provide you with the first-hand knowledge about Blockchain is being successfully implemented in different parts of the world and what significant impact it has already had on the markets within and outside the financial sector. With our talks and panel discussions including such topics as the implementation challenges, Tokenization & Security, an insight from Banks and Enterprises, as well as the Existing Revolutionary Blockchain Solutions presentation, there couldn’t be more comprehensive outlook on the Blockchain industry! Whether you are a developer, investor or a corporation representative – BlockShow Europe 2017 has something to offer everyone. Startups get the opportunity to present their revolutionary Blockchain projec

On March 9, 2017 the first large conference for Blockchain developers and businessmen – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference – will be held in Tallinn. Representatives of leading IT companies, authors of startups and everyone who is interested in Blockchain technologies will come together. Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference – a net of conferences which comprises Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic – and Estonia. The last event which took place on November 10 in Moscow was visited by the representatives of IBM, Microsoft, Sberbank, “Skolkovo”, Higher School of Economics as well as Russian government. For leaders of IT industry Estonia is the leader in IT sphere with Blockchain developments supported on the national level. There is a project aimed at transferring medical charts into Blockchain for data protection and doctors’ quick access to them. At the same time, the country, which has Wi-Fi almost in every corner, is implementing a series of IT projects. In particular, one of them i

Satoshi Nakamoto, created Bitcoin and the Blockchain technology with a dream that they would be used as the better financial instruments for conducting business and governance. They were meant to improve our way of life. When used properly, Blockchain technology has a lot of good potentials and uses. Sadly crypto-currency space is rife with mis-use, failures and outright scams. A sad picture of a very good tool used in the worst possible way. Often the human factor is to blame. Good Karma Society (GKS) hopes to be the positive side of things. It will build on the good technology that Satoshi Nakamoto built and continue on the dream of its good uses. A little step at a time. From concept to concrete projects. The GKS is hardly a month old and it already resolved the many troubles that the old Karma (X11) community struggled with for sometime now. We are just starting on making many good dreams come true. We invite you to get involved and make a difference. The post It All Starts W

In this release: BOOST TO START-UPS. The European attention to blockchain; CONFERENCE IN BALTIC. Interview with participant; M-BLOCKCHAIN. Medical and marriage projects… To give Europe’s many innovative entrepreneurs every opportunity to become world leading companies is the main aim of the Commission’s Start-up and Scale-up Initiative, according to the official release. It pulls together all the possibilities that the EU already offers. Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, said: “Today’s local start-ups could become tomorrow’s global success stories. We want to help start-ups stay and grow in Europe. By helping them navigate the – often perceived – regulatory barriers to fully benefiting from the Single Market. By making it easier for them to have a second chance, without being stigmatised if their idea doesn’t succeed the first time around. And by improving access to funding by boosting private venture capital investment.” Wh

Today LiveCoin , a fast growing cryptocurrency exchange, has added 2 new exchange pairs: CLOAK/EUR and CLOAK/USD to its extensive portfolio. You can now change your FIAT currencies directly to Cloakcoins without having to use Bitcoins as stepping stones. For Cloakcoin this is another major milestone on its way to become one of the big anonymous coins in the cryptocurrency market. The cooperation with LiveCoin  will make it very easy for all to buy and sell Cloakcoins and an increase in trading volumes can be expected in the coming weeks. The post Cloakcoin now exchanged in FIAT markets, CLOAK vs EUR/USD appeared first on Bitcoin Garden .

On Thursday, the 10th of November, Moscow hosted Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia – the largest Eastern European annual conference on cryptocurrency and blockchain. Representatives of IBM, Microsoft, Sberbank, Skolkovo, as well as a number of entrepreneurs and founders of blockchain-based startups shared their views and developments. For the first time in Russia, participants were able to communicate with the representatives of the State Duma on Bitcoin regulation, as well as to meet with the developers of the first blockchain-based social platform in the Russian Federation. More than 500 participants and guests were divided into two streams: for financial experts and entrepreneurs. Elina Sidorenko, the representative of parliamentary working group told about the aspects of cryptocurrencies from the regulator’s point of view. The interdepartmental group headed by the speaker is developing a concept of national cryptocurrency – cryptoruble. According to Elina Sidorenko, Ru

In this release: The Japanese will soon be able to pay utility bills with bitcoin. Japanese Bitcoin market Coincheck has announced launching of new service “Coincheck Denki”, which will lead customers to make utility bill payments with bitcoin and save money — up to 4-6% from November. Payment implementation will be occurred through the company’s partner Marubeni Power Retail Corporation. Meanwhile, Lawmakers of USA have announced creation of the bipartisan caucus officially known as congressional member organizations by two congressmen – Jared Polis and Mick Mulvaney. According to Thehill.com, participants will discuss ability of decentralizing cybersecurity and revolutionizing industries using blockchain technologies. Bank companies, financial services are increasingly restating its positions to blockchain. 6 global banks have created the 1st blockchain-based interbank group for global payments – Global Payments Steering Group, comprised of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Santander,

Initially launched as TrumpInsane on September 2016, Insane Coin went through a community takeover and, after a complete re-branding and coin swap, it has been successfully relaunched with the brand Insane . The original coin was a parody against Donald J. Trump and his sometimes insane speeches. There was no ICO or Crowdsale, it was born as fully premined coin, with 2% PoS, and went across a free airdrop covering 98% of the total supply, approximately 21M coins. The founder of the TrumpInsane coin wanted the coin to be a strictly community coin and decided the best course of action would be a re-branding and re-release of the coin under a new name and new team. “There is no need to make a fussy thread, because the coin is out of my hands into yours and others.” – mountaind, TrumpInsane founder. So, in late September 2016 a new team took over the coin with a new vision and a road map for executing the new vision. The coin was re-branded from TrumpInsane to Insane and the majorit

Emercoin is preparing a new project aimed at introducing blockchain solutions to alternative power supply systems, alternative energy technologies, and the “smart house” concept. Mikhail Shlyapnikov , a famous blockchain enthusiast and downer of Kolionovo farm, and Tverdotop company are partners with Emercoin in this project. This project will utilize such blockchain functions as smart-contracts, crowdsale, and ICO. The project is based on a conservative model of the production development and the subsequent product maintenance with the use of IT. The Emercoin blockchain platform, with its service products and high network security, was chosen as a technological base for the project. The project is expected to be launched this December. Mikhail Shlyapnikov, one of the leaders of this project, told us about the details: creating a new blockchain platform  for integrating financial, project, and production complex solutions in the sphere of self-contained energy and heating supply

I hope that you guys are observing how most ICOs and IPOs and other initial coin offerings are supporting their teams. There are usually the automatic percentage allocated for them, for the sole reason that they created the currency. Which eventually leads to the team members dumping too much on the market when the price starts rising, killing momentum and trust over the whole thing and ending the viability and sustainability of the whole project and their related smaller endeavors. Good Karma Society took a different approach. Their new KarmaToken, launched last November 02, 2016, will be distributed to project leaders only according to the time and efforts they are spending for the development of the project. “In comparison here in our Good Karma Society, our leaders will only get KarmaToken by declaring the time/hours they can dedicate for the Society per day, 6 days a week. Encouraging sustained efforts of all interested parties, the rates of payment will be determined at this

On Thursday, November 10, IT giant IBM will present its vision of blockchain development in Russia and the world. Vladimir Alekseev, leading client technical architect, will offer a review of the most inspiring projects, based on this technology. IBM is one of first companies that have got to the top of the tree of developments based on blockchain, a decentralized block chain, containing data transfer information. IBM analysts are sure: the next year, 15% of world banks anyhow will use blockchain services. According to Karolina Martsantovich , leading engineer of IBM, blockchain is the technology that helps a company to determine methods of business operations, asset management and person identification on the back of the whole digitalization of the world. In the near future, b2b and b2c sector will apply blockchain just like today one uses http, Karolina Martsantovich is assured. The company has implemented thousands of code lines into the smart contract system called Hyperledger b

KarmaToken was recently launched last Nov. 02, 2016 , it is a new crypto-currency with a very unique approach to gain new Blockchain technology users. While many new crypto-currencies are emphasizing their advance technology with being anonymous and “smart contract” capabilities, KarmaToken on the other hand is focusing on being as simple, easy to use and transparent as possible. These qualities are deemed by KarmaToken leaders to be essential to the Good Karma Society’s ultimate goal of teaching children, teenagers and the massively growing mobile users around the world on the use and potentials of Blockchain technology to ultimately make them better and adept crypto-currency users. A minimum of 4,600,000 KarmaTokens is planned to be distributed for free to a selected Counterparty assets holders this coming December 3-9, 2016, giveaways are slated too for Indiesquare mobile wallet users and to the planned mobile App users which will soon be developed by Good Karma Society . For int

Meet one of the key speakers of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia – technology evangelist at Microsoft Konstantin Goldstein. On November 10, 2016 he will present corporation’s view of blockchain technology and scenarios of its application in business. Topic of the report of Konstantin Goldstein is “Blockchain as a new stage of technological development. Moving from words to code”. “Distributed ledger technology has the potential to become one of the catalysts for innovations. Blockchain is changing business models, excluding intermediaries, decreasing fraud level and increasing effectiveness”, the speaker is sure. Within the report he will cover the following issues: • what is Blockchain 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 and how it works; • what is Microsoft Blockchain as a Service; • scenarios and examples of Blockchain application in business. Konstantin Goldstein – technology expert, business coach and consultant with 15 years of experience in IT industry of Israel, the USA and

The LuckChain development team has just introduced a new concept to the cryptocurrency betting community. They have done this by creating a decentralized betting platform that is not only provably fair but also doesn’t rely on customers to use servers or websites to play the games. How has LuckChain achieved this? The games are integrated into the QT and rely on blockchain hash string verifications that are visible for all to see. “The core of betting game is the generation of blocks. we use blockchain consensus mechanism to guarantee the uniqueness and unpredictability of each block, eliminating the possibility of man cheating.” – LuckChain Developer You will not have to wonder if the games you are playing are fair, you can see for yourself. Also, you will not have to wait for deposits to clear or wonder if the website owner will allow you to withdrawal your winnings. The reason? All of the gaming will occur within the safety and privacy of your own wallet. “Our team is made up

Synereo , a company developing a decentralized tech stack , allowing web applications to exist without centralized servers, has got a major boost lately for its plan to “fundamentally redesign the way the internet works”, as its company slogan goes. The Tel-Aviv-based startup concluded a highly successful funding campaign last week, raising more than $4.7 million USD, selling both equity and AMPs – the platform’s innate cryptocurrency. Synereo was initially known for its attempt to create a decentralized social network, but after spending years developing a decentralized social media solution on the basis of existing blockchain technologies, the company announced lately that it had widened its operations considerably in order to develop its own blockchain enabled decentralized computation platform , capable of running all forms of decentralized applications, the company’s social network being one such application. With this move, Synereo placed itself in the forefront of the heat

Sberbank of Russia is one of the market leaders as for implementation of blockchain technologies, and Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia would be imperfect without its representative. On November 10, 2016 Managing Director for Technology Innovation center at Sberbank Ekaterina Frolovicheva will present the position of the leading company on the development of blockchain in banking system. Sberbank hits the headlines related to blockchain regularly. The Bank has joined the international project HyperLedger and is getting ready for the launch of a blockchain-based platform for trade financing. Internal document flow and customer service should shift to blockchain. Bank managers associate the project with the creation of a completely new ecosystem of foreign trade. Last week it has been revealed that Sberbank together with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation prepared a pilot project on blockchain-based document flow. Its main innovation is the possibility

Byteball is a new type of consensus algorithm that isn’t based on the typical blockchain already implemented in all the major cryptocurrencies. There is no mining or block chains and it isn’t based on either POS or POW. The system uses something called DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) which references one or more earlier transactions at the time that new transactions are occurring. I like to see things as simple as possible, and when I learned how Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are designed, I wondered do we need two separate entities — transactions and blocks, maybe we can get rid of blocks and build a simpler system? – Anton Churyumov, Byteball Lead Developer The native currency of Byteball is called Bytes; in fact the technology allows users to create their own tokens within it. Moreover, Byteball assets can be regulatory compliant to serve the mainstream financial sector. Users can issue any other tokens (assets), e.g. to represent debt. The debt can be expressed e.g. in fi

Where there is money, there are gangsters. Bitcoin is money, so if you’re dealing with it, you need to keep your eyes wide open. Started at begin of 2014, The Badbitcoin Project is made up of a loose group of IT Professionals, Bitcoin Enthusiasts, Investigators and Finance Experts with the aim of protecting new and existing bitcoin users, and of clearing a path through the fake sites, so the good actors can thrive. We want to see Bitcoin & The Blockchain become a successful evolution in the way we trade, bank and exchange contracts, and so we aren’t going to let a load of scammers and cheap thieves endanger this movement. Bitcoin, simply put, is a store of value, however, the blockchain it is carried on changes everything. – The Badbitcoin Project This site a precious resource, free to use and updated 24/7, and it is the first place where you should look before even thinking of investing your bitcoins. It can be really easy to misunderstand the bitcoin environment when it’s al

In a major endorsement, the acclaimed Silicon Valley-based NFX Guild announced its partnership with Synereo in developing an ecosystem of decentralized applications (dApps) on top of Synereo’s Blockchain 2.0 platform . In an unprecedented move, NFX Guild announced the Blockchain 2.0 Program within the Guild, where it will select up to 3 teams that are actively building their dApps using Synereo’s tech stack for the next class of the NFX Guild accelerator . This means that up to a fourth of NFX’s next class will be composed of dApp developers, who build their applications on top of Synereo’s Blockchain 2.0 platform . James Currier , Managing Partner at NFX, explained the Guild’s decision to choose Synereo’s technology for the project, stating: “If you do the analysis, Synereo comes out as the superior platform for developing decentralized apps. It runs fully distributed instead of massively replicated. It’s JVM top to bottom rather than Python. It’s forward compatible, vs other pl

Swiss Blockchain Company DECENT and Naughty America, one of the major adult content production companies in the USA, agreed today to work on a pilot project that will implement progressive Digital Rights Management (DRM) by utilizing the most recent advancements in Blockchain Technology, Digital Video Fingerprinting and Cryptography. The aim of this collaboration is to create a next generation content distribution platform in the adult video industry – which is plagued by illegal content sharing and concerns about privacy. And set a new bar in the future of digital content distribution systems by bringing in Blockchain technology for Intellectual Property (IP) protection and privacy into the current technology mix. Whether it’s interactive motion-controlled video, biofeedback, 360 or 3D video, the adult entertainment industry looks to perfect and broaden the commercialization of new technologies. Naughty America is no stranger to innovation – they are an adult industry leader – as th

Friday, September 23, the major blockchain event – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Kiev 2016 – took place. It is major not only due to the amount of participants and guests amounting to around a thousand but also due to the range of blockchain and cryptocurrency topics. As the program promised, the audience was divided into three sections: for newcomers, experts, and developers. The Pro block consisted of three sections: Fintech, Govtech, and Finances. Newcomers found out the concept of such terms as cryptocurrency, bitcoin, altcoins, blockchain, and smart contracts. According the section moderator Maxim Krupyshev, CEO of Cubits, this year, the knowledge level of newcomers was much higher. Almost everyone has already been familiar with the topic and wanted to improve their knowledge. Maxim Krupyshev : “People are much interested in this topic and ask cool questions. I have expected that the audience would be weaker. In general, the conference is conducted on the new level: th

In Moldova, the UN car fleet is testing a possibility of using the Emercoin blockchain. The project is being implemented together with the company DeePlace. The blockchain technology, as stated in the UNDP announcement, is to demonstrate the possibility of a more effective way of managing the UN car fleet in an emergency situation. “We think the blockchain could provide a more effective way of transferring and tracking funds. Changing our strategy according to the situations we face in this field is a work in progress but we are inspired by this”, UNDP said. They also noted that the ideas suggested by a decentralized ride-sharing outfit in Israel, Lazooz and driver-owned car sharing start up Arcade City were the reason for the project. Earlier this year The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced the launch of a program supporting technological start-ups and within the scope of the program the possibility of investment in start-ups and initiative related to the blockchai