The Most Anticipated Bitcoin Projects in 2016
New cryptocurrency products, services, applications, and tools have been blooming year after year since Bitcoin was born. Exactly just what you would expect out of a free market. Developers come up with a great deal of fresh things practically every day and one can get lost in the maze of projects very easily. CoinTelegraph tried to make it a bit easier for readers to source through the supply and approached knowledgeable industry people with the question "what bitcoin projects, except your own, are you looking forward to or are you excited about most in the coming months?" Please, bear in....
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You may have missed it in 2016, but initial coin offerings, or ICOs, have become the dominant way to fund new cryptocurrency projects. In an ICO, a project sells part of the total token supply to early adopters in exchange for money with which to progress. ICOs have two primary benefits: they provide funding to the team to see the project through, and incentivize a community to contribute (who gain if the project succeeds and the tokens are worth more than they bought them for). Although 2016 witnessed a high number of ICOs, they are not a new phenomenon and some ICOs from earlier than....
Students, that demonstrate outstanding technical skills during the course on coding smart contracts, might receive the benefit of being employed by Ethereum Labs and ConsenSys. Exosphe.re, a community of experts involved in Startups, with the support of ConsenSys and Ethereum Labs is opening an EthereumCT r: 26 Stream at the Exosphere Academy 2016 in Chile. Exosphe.re’s Ethereum Curator, Moritz Bierling announces that attendees at the Academy in 2016 will be guided in their learning by Philip Saunders, CEO and Founder of PAX, a civic network built on Ethereum. According to Bierling, the....
All things considered, it appears China's crackdown on capital outflows is working. China has released their official economic growth numbers for 2016. As was to be expected, things are not looking great, although the sky is not falling either. With a 6.7% growth throughout 2016, the country falls short of expectations. Moreover, there are questions regarding the growth number, as it seems to reek of tampering. A previous report hinted at how 6.7% growth has been “achieved” for every quarter in 2016, which is an impossibly even number. The world’s largest economy continues to cause a lot....
As part of our 2014 recap, CoinDesk conducted a broad survey of the crypto 2.0 ecosystem to determine how the sector's emerging influencers believe it will evolve in 2015. Overall, the community perhaps most concerned with building on the potential of bitcoin's pioneering protocol expressed a bullish sentiment, voicing its opinion that 2015 will bring increased attention as its most-anticipated projects hit the market. The survey also asked respondents to name specific projects that they believe will have a significant impact on the crypto 2.0 ecosystem over the next year. The result....
Dubai's Global Blockchain Council (GBC), a public-private initiative between local businesses, government agencies and startups, unveiled seven new proofs-of-concept at industry conference Keynote 2016 today. Launched in early 2016, the GBC boasts more than 30 members, and the panel session saw new projects announced by IT giant IBM, telecom operator du and the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), among others. Projects ranged from initiatives aimed at enabling interoperability between loyalty platforms to reducing the illicit diamond trade. Held at the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, the....