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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 in...

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, Santan...

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 ...

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...

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 ...