NEWS
Denmark is planning to digitise national currency
The digital currency called e-krone would be Danish reserve currency and would not replace the entire monetary system, at least in the nearest future.
A UK-based startup wants to „put” the energy sector into Blockchain
The startup called Electron has created the Blockchain-based platform using Ethereum that can help speed up energy supplier switches and cut costs accordingly.
The ARK crew launches an alpha testnet. Will it be Ethereum's competitor?
Apart from testnet, ARK also rolled out the mobile and desktop clients. Everything is available on its official Github account.
Steemit's Hard Fork doubles the market cap valuation of Steem
Steemit — the blockchain social media platform — has successfully completed the hard fork for the purpose of updating its economic model. In less than 3 weeks, the market cap valuation of Steem increased more than twice — from $22 million to over $50 million.
Blockchain-powered voting system in USA
There are speculations that Russian hackers could affect the latest US president election — in the favor of Donald Trump. New York University students have developed the blockchain solution that could prevent any meddling during the election.
Everex releases Chainy on the Ethereum blockchain
Chainy allows shortening URLs while eliminating phishing. It also enables broadcasting files and messages more securely.
Bitgive introduces Givetrack, the transaction transparency platform
Bitgive — the charitable organisation that supports Bitcoin donations — has announced the launch of Givetrack, the Blockchain-based platform for tracking nonprofit transactions.
FEED
10 CoinDesk's most influential people in Blockchain 2016
Just like last year, CoinDesk organised the year's poll where readers voted on the most influential figure in the Blockchain world in 2016. Check this out!
What do we know about the Blockchain technology after 2016?
William Mougayar — the author of the book „The Business Blockchain” — shares his reflections about the current state of the Blockchain evolution.
2017 as the year of Smart Contracts
Read the summary of the first-ever Smart Contracts Symposium and get familiar with 12 Smart Contracts game-changing uses.
A public database for the Planet
Trent McConaghy — the Founder and CTO of BigchainDB — talks about the weaknesses of current system architectures and introduces BigchainDB, and iPDB as a planetary scalable database.
The Math behind zk-SNARKs
Vitalik Buterin — the Ethereum co-founder — discusses zk-SNARKs from mathematical point of view.
4 unconventional Blockchain use cases
Read 4 surprising ways to utilise the Blockchain that could motivate people to build something extraordinary using this technology.
Unstoppable Blockchain as „the weapon” against governments
All of us heard about mass surveillance projects lead by governments and justified by our well-being. This article reminds us that a privacy is one of the basic human rights and also describes how technologies can help take back our privacy.
BLOCKCHAIN FOR NEWBIES
Onboarding tutorial that will guide you through the Blockchain basics
In the article, you can find a link to Google document which includes a list of links to basic information about the Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future
A great introduction to using blockchains as distributed databases. This article explains how the current information systems are built, what are their biggest issues, and how the Blockchain can help overcome those.
10 Bitcoin's facts to WOW your friends
Do you know for what first bitcoins were spent? Read the article and learn more.