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In what has been a highly anticipated view into the progress of Rootstock’s (RSK) technology, the official testnet called Turmeric was released earlier this month at the Labitconf in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the RSK team is headquartered. RSK’s Turmeric testnet will allow turning-complete smart contracts to be run on a virtual machine that bridges the Bitcoin Network. Miners will…

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Texas-based blockchain startup Factom, a company that provides businesses and governments with blockchain solutions to manage and store their data, has announced on November 18 that it will receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help them complete work on a blockchain-based medical records initiative. With a focus on biometric verification, identity management and medical records wrapped…

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A crowdsale which is attempting to set itself apart from the rest is the Janus token sale. With a cap of 7,000 BTC, or roughly $5 million, they are seeking to remodel the idea of what the DAO originally set out to be. As a curator and builder of blockchain-based business ideas, Janus will use the funds raised from the…

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Cameron Hejazi, the founder of Credhot, a Bitcoin-based link-monetization platform, has released a live testnet version of his latest project which is the on-chain Ethereum-based blogging platform Credsign. Having some success with his Credhot platform, which partnered with Coinbase to distribute payments for click-throughs on shortened links in Bitcoin, Hejazi has moved into the Ethereum development space and is looking…

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The cryptocurrency and blockchain space has grown considerably in the past few years, with heavy investment flowing from both capital investment to a new form of investment called the initial coin offering, or ICO, which is uniquely offered through blockchain companies and their technology. However, a new form of investment is being made possible through Title III of the JOBS…

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A post from Bitheus’ blog, a German-based Bitcoin ATM company, they announced that they had been sabotaged by an employee over an extended period of time. At the time of the announcement on September 21, at least 18 out of more than 30 of the BitXatm Bitcoin ATM’s, also known as Bitcoin Teller Machines (BTM’s), were affected, with no recourse…

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After what was likely an unpleasant Summer recovering after a damaging hack for the team at Gatecoin, the Hong-Kong based cryptocurrency exchange is starting to make their presence felt once again. They have announced themselves as being one of the early adopters of the 1st token from the online sports Dapp First Blood. While there has been some level of…

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Texas-based blockchain startup Factom has announced a Series A funding round this week and the list of investors brings both a heavy industrial and international focus to the growing business. Tim Draper was the leading investor in the $4.2 million round which is pegged to grow the team based in Austin, Texas, which currently stands at 29 employees. The hiring…

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For people who have needed to digitally sign documents online, a variety of very useful and convenient services have sprung up to allow anyone from their computer to not need to print, scan and fax paperwork. However, what Singapore-based Attores has done allows people to digitally sign, share and store documents in a whole new way – on the Ethereum…

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There are tiers of what people think of when the world ‘blockchain’ comes to mind. Firstly, there’s money and transactions being moved and transacted across a ledger of some sort like Bitcoin has revolutionized. Then there’s a smaller subset of people excited about smart contracts executing on platforms such as Ethereum and Lisk. What might play an even greater role…

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