Colored Coins

London startup Zerado has partnered with Chain of Things. We got an opportunity to speak to Zerado co-founders Tomasz Mloduchowski and Laura Bailey about the company's offerings. CoT: How was Zerado founded and what are the goals of the business? Zerado is a process consultancy - we help businesses understand...

This week Coinsilium held its Blockchain Tech Lab in London. A variety of speakers from different blockchain related companies have presented to audiences at Runway East about the workings of the technology and benefits it can bring to a wide variety of situations. Presentations on the bitcoin blockchain, RootStock sidechain,...

Courtesy of Coinspace.io A co-working space in Brooklyn, New York, called Coinspace, shares ownership via cryptocurrnecy or "colored coins", and plans to become a Distributed Collaborative Organization. According to co-founder Solomon Lederer, Coinspace is practicing radical transparency, with "public financials and fair and open decision making". The working space's expenditures...

This year, two improvements to Bitcoin network will permit the "colored coins" implementation, Open Assets Protocol (OAP), to also scale, according to Nicolas Dorier, CTO at Metaco. The two improvements, Segregated Witness and the new operation code OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY, will allow the Bitcoin network to scale to support more than 15...

Precious Investments Inc. has announced that it is expanding the range of options available for purchasing PinkCoin tokens by adding the ability to use BitGems Asset Management Ltd. (BVI) directly from its website. In addition, the PinkCoin cryptocurrency ticker symbol has been changed to PNIK to match the stocks OTC...

Coinprism recently announced the release of a javascript software development kit (SDK) for Openchain, its open source distributed ledger. The company announced on its blog: We are happy to announce the release of openchain-js, the JavaScript SDK for Openchain. It works both on Node.js and in the browser. The library...

Coinprism has revealed its new open source distributed ledger – Openchain. This new blockchain-like technology launches with a number of options, including a web-based wallet (for transactions and admin features), a test instance, deployment instructions and a forum. Openchain was noted by Coinprism as having instant confirmation of transactions, no...

Bitcoin tech startup Colu has launched a beta platform for developers and formed a partnership with Revelator, a cloud-based provider of sales and marketing intelligence for music businesses. The two Israeli companies plan to build a rights management AI for provision of secure issuance and distribution of digital assets, including...

With a projected US$1 billion in venture capital invested for 2015 and a rapidly growing user base, it is fairly obvious now that cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology have an important role to play in the development of global financial technology going forward. The question is whether digital currency could replace fiat...

Spaceman Wows Conference The most memorable development at the Inside Bitcoins Berlin conference on March 5th and 6th was the debut of Space-based banking tech startup SpaceBit. What got every attendee's attention was SpaceBit founder Pavlo Tanasyuk stepping on the stage wearing an imitation space suit and Devo like glasses....

The CTO of Monetas, Chris Odom, was a keynote at the start of today's Inside Bitcoins conference in Berlin. Odom, the author of the Open Transactions System, gave an upbeat assessment of the Bitcoin ecosystem's status. More importantly, he described how his company was making Blockchain transactions more secure. Odom...