If building decentralized financial applications was the motto topic of Ethereal, the ethereum hackathon ETH New York was all about discussing the social impact of such applications. Speaking to a group of high school students at ETH New York, Mariano…
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Bitcoin Casinos: The Future is Here. The old way of Playing Slots, Poker & Card Games & Betting on Sports is.. Well, “Old.”
One of the biggest and main markets that have benefited from the emergence of Bitcoin gambling has been online casinos. While these have existed for the better part of a decade and progressed along with many other online gambling and betting…
Crypto Casino Rankings 2019 | Betchain Leads The Pack: Selected as Top Bitcoin Casino
Top Online Bitcoin Casinos are third party sites that rank Online Casinos that allow players to bet using cryptocurrency and cash out in cryptocurrency or fiat (cash). They have tested the so called “Top Online Casinos” for transparency, odds to win,…
Modern Day Gold? Bitcoin Cracks $8,000, Up 120% Year-To-Date
Bitcoin prices continued to march higher on Tuesday, trading through $8,000 for the first time in more than nine months. The price of a single bitcoin BTCUSD, +3.83% hit an intraday day high around $8,300 and in most recent trade the cryptocurrency was…
Bitcoin Price Surges: BTC Breaks 8,100
Bitcoin’s price has continued to extend its recent rally to a price level beyond $8,000. At 21:30 UTC today, the price world’s largest cryptocurrency rose as high as $8,195 on Coinbase, marking a 17.4 percent or $1214 increase during today’s…
Ethereum’s Reddit Moderators Rethink Approach After Community Flashpoint
Taylor Monahan, the CEO of crypto wallet startup MyCrypto, has been moderator for the ethereum subreddit channel since 2016. That year, the ethereum Reddit channel was just breaking over the 10,000 subscribers mark, according to SubRedditStats. Today, the same channel…
Ethereum Foundation Plans to Spend $30 Million on Ecosystem Development
The Ethereum Foundation plans to spend $30 million on ecosystem development over the next 12 months. The foundation’s executive director, Aya Miyaguchi, announced the plan at the ConsenSys-organized Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn on Friday. Over the past year, the foundation spent…
TechStars-Backed Alkemi Enters DeFi Race With $16 Million Liquidity Pool
A new type of decentralized finance (DeFi) app wants to boost crypto-market liquidity by offering you interest on your coins. Today at the Techstars Blockchain Accelerator demo day, Alkemi CEO Ryan Breen will unveil a crypto liquidity pool deal worth…
Murder, Censorship and Syria: Crypto and the Future of Uprisings
Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a reporter at CoinDesk, covering how cryptocurrencies are being used in areas of economic, social and political unrest. This article is part of her ongoing dispatches from Rojava, Syria. In August 2011, a hackerspace in Damascus, Syria,…
Former Obama Tech Officer Raises $3.7 Million for Blockchain SaaS Startup
Offchain Labs, a startup co-founded by a former Obama administration official, has raised a $3.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Pantera Capital and included participants such as Compound VC. Offchain Labs co-founder Ed Felten, a computer…