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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 addi...

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...