Ethereum

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin recently blogged about the degree of abstraction that Ethereum offers as a protocol. Buterin notes: Rather than limiting users to a specific set of transaction types and applications, the platform allows anyone to create any kind of blockchain application by writing a script and uploading it to...

Santander InnoVentures, the venture funding unit of Spanish banking giant Santander Group, recently released a paper called Fintech 2.0, promoting technological innovations that will reinvent financial services. The authors of the paper believe that the combination of the Internet of Things, distributed ledgers - essentially blockchains - and smart contracts will...

Gavin Wood, co-founder of the blockchain-based network Ethereum project, today announced the roll out of the “eπ” Ethereum-on-Raspberry Pi Program. As part of the program, Ethereum is offering a kit for placing a full Ethereum Internet node on a Raspberry Pi mini computer. Wood noted: Included in the kit is...

Some of the more interesting discussions at this week’s Inside Bitcoins conference in New York City included panels on the Bitcoin startup ecosystem, the do’s and don’ts of Bitcoin investing, and institutional investing in Bitcoin. Bitcoin Startup Ecosystem The panelists discussed the prospects for starting up a company in the...

In its latest community update, Bitcoin 2.0 financial protocol Counterparty revealed news about its foundation voting, developer-level specification, new community videos, and a new version of developer application Counterblock. More interesting, Counterparty highlighted that co-founder Robby Dermody participated in an extensive interview on podcast show Epicenter Bitcoin, where Dermody discussed Counteryparty's growing crowdfunding role,...

The Innovate Finance financial technology conference on Monday was like its CEO Claire Cockerton - bright, bold, and beautiful. The speakers, content, and production were cutting edge in my opinion. It was as majestic as its location - London's famous Guildhall. Innovate Finance is a organizational vehicle set up by...

The group behind Nxt-based cryptocurrency Burstcoin have announced that users of Burst can start writing ‘customer ready Smart Contracts’ straight from the Burst wallet. The Burst team claims to have beaten Ethereum and Counterparty protocols to launching trustless smart contracts. They note that they  already have applications running on Burst...

The Nevada-based team behind application cryptocurrency Burstcoin revealed yesterday a case utilization of its Smart Contracts technology. Burst announced on BitcoinTalk forum the following: Today, 2015-01-25, at 01:24:10 PM (GMT), a completely decentralized Lottery was launched on BURST's blockchain. Holders of the BURST currency, which is traded at poloniex.com and...