Breakout Coin crowdsale ends on Thursday, raises over 700 BTC
Jul 07, 2016 07:08 am UTC| Digital Currency
Breakout Coin, the gaming industry payment coin, has announced that it has raised over 700 BTC (close to $500,000 USD) in its public crowdsale so far. The three-week long campaign on the cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex...
Genesis Mining extends X11 contract lifetime to 2 Years
Jul 07, 2016 06:47 am UTC| Digital Currency
Genesis Mining, one of the leading Bitcoin and Ethereum cloud mining companies, has announced that it is upgrading its ASIC X11 clients from one year to two year contracts. The company re-launched the X11 contracts last...
US Department seeks paper submissions on blockchain uses in healthcare
Jul 07, 2016 06:25 am UTC| Digital Currency
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it is seeking paper submissions on the topic of blockchain technology and its potential uses in thehealthcare industry. A notice which was filed on...
North Carolina Bitcoin Bill becomes law
Jul 07, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Digital Currency
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 289 into law, thereby expanding the states Money Transmitters Act to include activities related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Introduced last year, the bill...
Poloniex, BTC38, and Bittrex agree to distribute Ardor tokens to customers
Jul 07, 2016 05:06 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Nxt core development team last month announced a new child chain platform, Ardor, which will allow anyone to get into the blockchain space. Ardor uses child chains and incorporates all of Nxts latest blockchain...
Krypto Commerce chooses Jumio for AML/KYC services for cryptocurrency PoolMiners Card
Jul 06, 2016 13:01 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Digital ID verification company Jumio has announced that it has been chosen by Krypto Commerce, a Spanish cryptocurrency specialist, in order to provide services like know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering...
Social media platform Steemit distributes $1.3 million to reward users
Jul 06, 2016 12:47 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Steemit, a blockchain powered social media platform, celebrated July 4 by distributing digital currency payouts worth approximately $1.3 million, or 10% of Steems current market cap, to its user base. Half of the $1.3...
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