Could blockchain run a city state? Inside Dubai’s blockchain-powered future | ZDNet
Earlier this year, Dubai announced its intention to turn itself into the first blockchain-powered government in the world by 2020.
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For fork’s sake! Bitcoin Core braces for another cryptocurrency split • The Register
Bitcoin faces the possibility of yet another fork, a divergence anticipated by a code change proposal accepted by the developers of the Bitcoin Core client software.
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Bitcoin divides to rule
COMPARED with Brexit, Bitexit seems a piece of cake. On August 1st, without much agonising or awkward negotiations, a group of Bitcoin activists and entrepreneurs managed to create a second version of the crypto-currency.
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Bitcoin Is Splitting in Two. Now What?
IMAGINE LOGGING INTO your checking account and seeing that you now also have a second account, stocked with an equal amount of a new currency.
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Has the bitcoin civil war come to a peaceful end?
THE crypto-catastrophe seems to have been averted: the price of bitcoin is moving back up towards $3,000. Last week a majority of bitcoin “miners” signalled support for an upgrade of the system to increase its capacity
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Land grab: Governments may be big backers of the blockchain | The Economist
IN THE hills overlooking Tbilisi sits a nondescript building housing rows of humming computer servers. The data centre, operated by the BitFury Group, a technology company, was built to “mine” (cryptographically generate) bitcoin, the digital currency.
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A Plan to Save Blockchain Democracy From Bitcoin’s Civil War | WIRED
ON THE SURFACE, bitcoin is having a very good year. Its price reached record highs well over $1,000 after years of stagnation following a major crash. But if you pull back the curtain, the civil war rages.
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IBM, Maersk aim to speed up shipping with blockchain technology | ZDNet
IBM and Maersk will partner to use blockchain technology to conduct, manage, and track transactions in the shipping supply chain.
The companies said they collaborated on creating blockchain tools for cross-border transactions among shippers, freight forwarders, ocean carriers, ports, and customs authorities.
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An AI Hedge Fund Created a New Currency to Make Wall Street Work Like Open Source | WIRED
WALL STREET IS a competition, a Darwinian battle for the almighty dollar. Gordon Gekko said that greed is good, that it captures “the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” A hedge fund hunts for an edge and then maniacally guards it, locking down its trading data and barring its traders from joining the company next door.
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A rush to patent the blockchain is a sign of the technology’s promise | The Economist
FOR fans of bitcoin, a digital currency, the year got off to a volatile start. On January 5th one bitcoin changed hands for nearly $1,150—almost as much as the record set three years ago. It has since dropped by 33%.
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Blockchain Hype Takes Hit as Chain Releases Code for All to Use – Bloomberg
Time to put the blockchain hype to the test. After a year of promises that the technology would revolutionize Wall Street, anyone can now download an entire blockchain specifically built for financial services.
Chain, the San Francisco-based startup that’s working with Visa Inc. and has made a presentation on the benefits of blockchain to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, just released to the public the 30,000 lines of open-source code that make up its Core Developer Series.
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