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Blockchain startup OriginTrail has reached the hard cap of its token sale, raising a total of US$22.5 million for its supply chains blockchain protocol. OriginTrail is developing a blockchain protocol for data exchange between organizations along the supply chain. The technology promises to increase trust and efficiencies, and bring transparency to supply chains. “We are… Continue reading OriginTrail Raises US$22.5M For Supply Chains Blockchain Protocol

Cryptocurrency Dash has announced three new business partnerships with GoCoin, Strike Social and Piiko to enable Dash holders to pay for good and services at additional partnering companies. Dash has also unveiled a new US$300,000 initiative with the Arizona State University to accelerate research, development and education in the blockchain field. The integration of Dash… Continue reading Dash Announces New Business Partnerships And US$300K R&D Initiative With Arizona State University

There have been quite a few proposals to raise Bitcoin’s block size limit by way of a hard fork over the past three years, but none of them were able to gain consensus among the nodes on the network. The key selling point of such an increase to the block size limit has always been… Continue reading Op-Ed: Bitcoin’s High Fees are Forcing Companies to Optimize Their Interactions with the Blockchain, And That’s a Good Thing

Canadian startup ZED Network is looking to launch a new blockchain-powered global payments platform that promises to enable faster and cheaper remittances services. The platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering will be built on the Stellar distributed network with connectivity to bitcoin and ether as methods of payment. It intends to provide money transfer operators with an integrated… Continue reading ZED Network Eyes US$600B Remittance Market With Stellar-Powered Payments Platform

On January 18th the chairman of South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission Kim Sang-jo stated during a radio show that shutting down cryptocurrency exchanges is not realistic. During the interview, chairman Kim went as far as to say that banning cryptocurrency trading is “not realistic at all,” and warned the government about the immense economic impact such… Continue reading Cryptocurrency Exchange Shutdown Unrealistic: South Korean Finance Official

According to a study led by Cornell professor Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell research professor Robbert van Renesse, and LinkedIn researcher Adem Efe Gencer, Ethereum’s nodes are better distributed than bitcoin, and thus the network is more decentralized than bitcoin. The paper entitled “Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum” analyzed nodes in the bitcoin and Ethereum networks… Continue reading Cornell Professor Claims Ethereum is More Distributed and Decentralized Than Bitcoin

Blockchain startup Codex has unveiled its provenance-based protocol that aims to tap into the US$2 trillion arts and collectibles (A&C) asset class. The company is building the Codex Protocol Title Registry, a decentralized title registry for the A&C market comprised of Codex Titles. A Codex Title will include records of the ownership and transmission history… Continue reading Codex Unveils Blockchain Protocol For Arts And Collectibles Traceability

Singapore-based venture investment platform Hatcher+ has announced that shares in its individual portfolio companies will be listed on Funderbeam’s blockchain-based startup marketplace, providing investors with a secondary market on which they can buy and sell shares to interested buyers. A spokesperson for the company told CoinJournal that the new listings will go live in the… Continue reading Blockchain-Powered Startup Stock Exchange Funderbeam To List Hatcher+ Portfolio Companies

BTC.com, the first bitcoin wallet platform in the cryptocurrency market to integrate Bitcoin Cash and SegWit simultaneously, has recently implemented a dynamic fee system to automatically calculate the lowest fee users can attach to have their transactions processed on the Bitcoin blockchain network. In a blog post published on January 11th, the BTC.com development team… Continue reading BTC.com Lowers Bitcoin Transaction Costs Through Dynamic Fees and SegWit

This week, several Western mainstream media outlets have falsely reported that South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges were “raided” by local police and authorities. More inaccurate reports regarding the current state of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange market led the entire cryptocurrency market to decline in value, demonstrating a similar effect to that of the various “China… Continue reading South Korean Police Did Not Raid Cryptocurrency Exchanges, FUD Triggers Market