What Ethereum’s DAO Disaster Means for Bitcoin Development
As The DAO struggles to find its path forward after multiple attacks, entrepreneurs must find a way forward. Is #bitcoin‘s #blockchain ready for them?
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Infographic: The Bitcoin Halving Explained
#Bitcoin was designed as an alternative to fiat currency, boasting a number of unique characteristics such as its finite supply.
At the time of writing, the price of Bitcoin stands at a 2 year high and though there are a number of theories as to why demand is increasing, the timing is in line with the upcoming #halving, where we will witness Bitcoin’s deflationary nature in action, regulating the amount that will be produced.
To fully understand how the halving, or as it has been dubbed “The halvening” works, you first have to understand how new bitcoin are created. Whereas more conventional, fiat currencies are issued by a governing body, Bitcoin is decentralized with no issuer. Instead, transactions and balances are recorded on a public ledger known as the #blockchain.
Maintaining a ledger which adds in excess of 100,000 transactions a day without a central authority is no small feat and is a task undertaken by “miners”, these people add enormous amounts of computing power to the network to solve complex math problems which verify that transactions bundled together into blocks are valid. In exchange for securing the network, miners are rewarded with newly created bitcoin as well as the small fees included with each transaction.
To control the supply, the amount of bitcoin that miners is regulated every 210,000 blocks which is approximately every 4 years. When Bitcoin was launched, the reward fee for mining a block was 50 bitcoins, this halved on November 28th, 2012 after block 210,000 was mined and sometime next month when the 420,000th block is mined it will again half, with blocks mined resulting in a reward of 12.5. This will continue until all 21 million bitcoin have been mined and at this point, the incentive for mining will be based purely on transaction fees alone.
Ultimately, this means that new bitcoin will become scarcer with production more expensive. The basics of supply and demand indicate that if demand for bitcoin were to stay the same, the price should in theory increase, however some economists do not agree and criticize deflationary currency suggesting that saving, rather than spending does not add value to an economy.
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7 Financial Firms to Build Post-Trade Blockchain for Small Businesses
Seven #financial institutions have partnered to explore how #blockchain tech could benefit #small enterprises.
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Finnish City Awarded €2.4 Million to Test Blockchain-Powered Shipping
An economic development firm owned by a #Finnish #city has been #awarded €2.4 #million to build #blockchain-powered smart #shipping containers.
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Euroclear to Develop Blockchain Gold Settlement System
Clearing and #settlement leader #Euroclear has announced its first partnership with a #blockchain industry business.
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Post-Trade Blockchain Startup in Limbo After Raising $10 Million
#Blockchain #startup Cryex is pushing back against reports it is seeking capital to stay afloat amid issues launching one of their core products.
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International Money-Tech in Zurich: Startup Pitches Round 1 and Speaker Profiles
This June 28th in #Zurich, #International Money-Tech is a #fintech event features 20 international digital payment and finance #technology company #pitches and offers 1:1 meetings in Zurich
Innovations presented will include digital currencies, mobile banking, peer-to-peer lending, crypto finance, new trends insurance tech, #robo advisors, among many others.
#Startup Pitches will inlcude:
Kantox, a pioneering firm in the foreign exchange industry, bringing light and fresh air to an uncertain, static market. Kantox offers a comprehensive FX management solution for SMEs and mid-cap companies.
Validity Labs educates patrons so they can adapt early an exploit opportunities rather than being rolled over by the #blockchain wave. Our courses, workshops and seminars provide hands-on education about smart contracts and the technology stack beneath it.
SynerScope, the next generation platform that provides analytics solutions to help discover critical information from massive amounts of data and turning it into useful insights. Synerscope combines Scientific Visualization Technologies, ultrafast predictive analytics and machine learning on top of its proprietary enterprise data navigation, -search and -linking. This technology stack provides enterprises high speed detection of abnormal behaviours and anomalies in complex data.
RaiseNow supports ambitious fundraisers to grow their online fundraising. Using solutions for all digital touch points – from SMS donations and mobile phone apps right up to peer-to-peer event fundraising and donation forms. The platform integrates your email and social media channels and makes everything tightly work with your existing fundraising and donor database.
Meniga is transforming the way #banks and advertisers use transaction data, by helping people becoming smarter consumers with great products. With current implementations worldwide Meniga is already serving +35 million consumers.
Speakers will include academics and executives from fintech startups and financial services firm including Roland Berger, Ascribe, the Ethereum Foundation, Nexussquared, Wikifolio, Crowdhouse, and more.
Stefan Greunz – Wikifolio, Head of Business Development
Stefan Greunz &8211; Wikifolio, Head of Business Development
wikifolio.com is Europe’s leading online platform for trading ideas by private traders and professional asset managers.
The Fintech company launched its Social Trading platform in Germany in 2012, followed by its Austrian launch in early 2013 and expanded to Switzerland in 2015.
All signs are pointing to continued growth,’ says Andreas Kern, CEO and founder of wikifolio.com, ‘during the past year we have at least doubled all relevant figures and we want to continue like that.’
More than 13,000 trading ideas called ‘wikifolios’ were already published, of which more than 4,300 are tradable as wikifolio-certificates at the Stuttgart stock exchange. So far 5.3 million trades in wikifolios triggered already a trade volume in excess of 7.9 billion euros.
Ming Chan &8211; Ethereum, Executive Director
Ming Chan &8211; Ethereum, Executive Director
Ethereum’s rapidly growing popularity has become the most talked about topic in #cryptocurrency ecosystem. It particularly came under spotlight when it crossed the $ 1 billion mark in March this year, making several cryptocurrency exchanges to announce their support for ether trading.
The market cap of Ethereum’s has once again surpassed the $ 1 billion mark as ether price recently found upward momentum and currently trades at $ 14.45 levels. Finance Magnates attributes this to the success of the DAO crowdfunding drive.Speaking with EconoTimes, Aurélien Menant, CEO of Gatecoin, said that the surge seen earlier in Ethereum’s market cap was partially due to some concerns about the future of #bitcoin, which have been recently addressed following the announcement of the upcoming SegWit and Lightning network upgrades that will improve the scalability of bitcoin. He attributed the subsequent drop in the market cap to a correction to an “overly excited market”.
If you consider that the market even grew anywhere near 1 billion in less than a year since it was released that is very impressive. We are still very bullish about Ethereum and believe ether’s value will increase in the long term, Menant added. Source.
Special offer: Register with code “fintech16” to get 15% discount for event tickets!
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Investor Tim Draper is Still Buying Bitcoin and Now Owns Ether
Two years after #buying roughly 30,000 BTC, #investor Tim #Draper is #still passionate about the #technology as well as competing #blockchain offerings.
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Deloitte Blockchain Leads Depart to Launch New Startup
Three members of #Deloitte‘s Rubix #blockchain team have left to found their own blockchain #startup.
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The Man Who Claims to Be Bitcoin’s Creator is Seeking Blockchain Patents
Alleged #bitcoin #creator Craig Wright is reportedly moving to secure #patents focused on #blockchain and digital currencies.
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