Xaurum Rebirth Initial Coinage Offer (RICO) Announcement

On 18. 7. 2016 Xaurum, the gold based cryptocurrency, will enter its second phase of operation, it will acknowledge the will of its community, by splitting one old xaurum into 8000 new xaurum, and  increase the supply available on the markets, by making coinage open to  all at a considerable discount during the RICO event. For the duration of the RICO event, minting will be open to everyone willing to  participate. The funds collected during the event will be spent on gold, as determined by Xaurum coinage formula and the profit of creating new Xaurum will be distributed among the minters, in this case RICO investors.

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Xaurum - The Golden Blockchain

Keep an Eye on Bitcoin as the Next Financial Crisis Starts

Bitcoin is on a huge streak. Its performance over the last year has been outstanding and it has outperformed most asset classes, by a wide margin. It's probably the only asset class which beats out both gold and silver, in 2016. Why is it shooting into outer space?

Will bitcoin be a good investment in 2016?

Bitcoin has witnessed an exponential growth in recent months and has started gaining attention among the media and government authorities. Several multinational corporations and financial institutions have started embracing bitcoin as a legitimate payment system. Bitcoin is the most popular digital currency holding around 80% of the market share and its market cap is worth more than $10 billion currently. Bitcoin offers faster transactions with anonymity and reduced costs, making it an attractive choice for online traders. Some of the key reasons to considerBitcoin as a good investment for 2016 are listed below,

Lisk Community is Rapidly Developing Tools and Services for the Ecosystem

Bitcoin Press Release: Lisk, the blockchain application platform, has experienced a healthy growth of its community throughout these past few months. Community members have developed tools and services that enhance the Lisk experience.

July 27, 2016 Aachen, Germany – The Lisk team is excited about the communities’ involvement with the platform. Since launch, the Lisk platform has experienced growth from community projects. LiskSocket.com is a WebSocket service which provides real time information on transactions and new blocks on the Lisk blockchain. Also, the community has created several implementations of the Lisk API in different languages, e.g. C# / C#, Python, and Node.JS. Additionally, these community developers have been working on tools to provide more information about the network, the nodes, or to simplify the platform features. A few examples of these tools are:

• lisk-autoVote – a script which automatically votes on delegates from text files with delegate names, addresses and public keys
• LiskMonitor a stand-alone PowerShell script to do end-user monitoring on Lisk Main-net and Test-net nodes and delegates.
• lisktool.sh – a Lisk toolset for maintaining a Lisk server
• Lisk Army Knife – a forging failover and command line Lisk
• LiskMonitor (app) – An Android application to monitor delegate account status

Alternatively, if you’re looking for other ways of accessing the Lisk platform, a Lisk Lite Clientprovides a fast experience for viewing, depositing and sending LSK. The Lisk Lite Mobile Client by FreeWallet.org enables the same on Android and iOS smartphones. There is also the website LiskPaperWallet, which generates a paper wallet for the secure long-term storage of the digital currency LSK. Furthermore, blockchain enthusiasts are looking into Lisk for potential solutions of current real-world problems.

Blocksafe, an upcoming blockchain startup, will use a combination of Lisk, BitTorrent and Telehash to create their infrastructure for smart devices of firearms. LiskDice, an upcoming gaming solution built on the Lisk platform, just recently raised over 4000 BTC in its crowdfunding. The official Lisk forum and chat is thriving and new projects are coming up every other day.

**Please use all exchanges, websites, services, tools, and clients being linked to in this press release at your own risk! Please do your own due diligence. All projects described are just a small part of the ongoing community ventures.

About Lisk

Lisk is a blockchain application platform that offers JavaScript development tools to deploy sidechains and build decentralized applications on top of them. It comes with the ability to connect various different (decentralized) technologies to enable developers to build useful applications for the real world. Lisk was started earlier this year by Max Kordek and Oliver Beddows.

Learn more about Lisk at – https://lisk.io

Get started with Lisk at – https://lisk.io/get_started

Lisk Documentation is available at – https://lisk.io/documentation?i=lisk-docs/README

Media contact:

Name: Max Kordek

Email: business@lisk.io

City and Country Location: Berlin, Germany

Lisk is the source of this content. Virtual currency is not legal tender, is not backed by the government, and accounts and value balances are not subject to FDIC and other consumer protections. This press release is for informational purposes only.

COMMENTO ALLA SENTENZA IN FLORIDA SU AML E BITCOIN.

Stefano Capaccioli

Il caso della Florida è un po’ particolare e va ripercorso per comprendere la Sentenza del giudice Teresa Pooler senza cadere in sensazionalismi o titoli da “click”.

Quando si parla di  bitcoin appare spesso questo sensazionalismo, con il risultato che la miscela di  notizie vere, di notizie verosimili, delle teoriche speculazioni mentali e (spesso) della scarsa, se non nulla, conoscenza dello strumento determina un’immensa confusione.

COS' E' E COME FUNZIONA LA BLOCKCHAIN ?

Andrea Belvedere

La BLOCKCHAIN è quella “ cosa “ che ci permette d' inviare denaro direttamente e in modo sicuro,  da me a voi e a chiunque altro sia possessore di bitcoin, senza passare attraverso una banca, una società di carte di credito, quindi senza  passare da un intermediario . Tutte le transazioni che avvengono tra portafogli e quindi tra individui, vengono registrate sulla Blockchain, a partire dalla transazione numero “1”, se così possiamo dire .

Ethereum Hard Fork Creates Competing Currencies as Support for Ethereum Classic Rises

The Ethereum hard fork executed last week as a means of reimbursing investors who lost funds in the collapse of a major project has resulted in the creation of a competing currency on a blockchain replicating the platform’s original consensus rules prior to the fork.

Announced last week, a project called Ethereum Classic is continuing to mine a version of the blockchain in which funds were never restored to investors in The DAO. As observed here, the Ethereum Classic blockchain is now approximately 4,000 blocks behind the ethereum blockchain supported by ethereum’s original developers and community members.

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal: Hard Fork to Return Seized Silk Road Bitcoin to Ross Ulbricht

Title: Hard Fork to Return Seized Silk Road Bitcoin to Ross Ulbricht
Author: Satoshi Nakamoto 
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Created: 2016-07-20

Motivation

On October 1, 2013, an attacker exploited Ross Ulbricht’s Bitcoin wallet and drained 29,655 BTC from Ulbricht’s accounts. Later, the attacker drained an additional 144,336 BTC from the wallet, stealing a total of 173,991 BTC. At time of theft, this represented over 1.5% of the total bitcoins in circulation.



This raises a major security risk. The threat is not from the client protocol per se – but from the magnitude of the illicit redistribution of funds.

#GOHOBO from CINELLI-BOOTLEG on Vimeo.

Ethereum Price Technical Analysis – Buying Worked, Further Gains Eyed

Key Highlights

• Ethereum price continued to gain bids against the US Dollar and closed above the $12.00 resistance level.
• Yesterday’s idea of buying dips worked perfectly, as the ETH bulls defended the downside move.
• There is a new bullish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/USD, which is acting as a support area for the pair.

Ethereum price retained its bullish bias against the US Dollar, and my yesterday’s idea did well. Now, can ETH/USD trade further higher?

Major Support Level – $12.10

Major Resistance Level – $12.60

Criptovalute, Sistemi di Crittografia e Kulo di Angela - Strunzbank

Scopriamo assieme a Mario Draghi come il protocollo Bitcoin utilizza la crittografia per assicurare l'autenticità e la sicurezza delle transazioni, scambiandoci messaggi che non devono essere intercettati da Angela. Per fare questo utilizziamo due metodi di crittografia: la "crittografia asimmetrica" e la "funzione Hash".

INNOVAZIONE GREEN NELLE STUFE A PELLET DA FINANZIARE CON L’EQUITY CROWDFUNDING

Vesta, startup di Cassino, ha lanciato una campagna di equity crowdfunding su WeAreStarting per finanziare il proprio sviluppo

BITCOIN E LA TEORIA DI SATOSHI NAKAMOTO di Andrea Belvedere

Bitcoin è una valuta digitale basata sulla crittografia, cioè è una crittovaluta o criptovaluta. Non esiste come moneta di carta o metallo, ma come successione di bit , creati da un software open source. Sembra tutto molto nebuloso per chi non si intende molto della materia, ma non è indispensabile conoscere nei dettagli il funzionamento che c’è dietro la valuta per poterla utilizzare.

Monete virtuali. Le istruzioni e le avvertenze del Centro europeo consumatori

Sono sempre più numerosi i consumatori attratti dalla moneta virtuale percepita come uno strumento di guadagno facile che, tuttavia, può rappresentare un mercato ad alto rischio nel caso in cui ci si basa su schemi piramidali focalizzati semplicemente al reclutamento di un numero sempre maggiore di investitori.

Il Centro Europeo Consumatori ha realizzato delle linee guida per i consumatori sulla moneta virtuale spiegando che cos’è e quali accortezze adottare nell’uso.

On the Ethereum hard fork

The Ethereum community has elected to do a hard fork in order to resolve the DAO exploit. The MainNet block on which the hard fork will occur is set at 1920000, which should be reached on July 20 or 21 depending on your time zone.

In an email statement to clients last week about the hard fork we said: 

ETH deposits and withdrawals will be disabled approximately 1 hour before the hard fork activates. Trading will continue as normal during the fork. All ETH on Kraken after the fork will be tokens of the winning chain (i.e. the chain with the most work on it). ETH deposits and withdrawals will be enabled again once the winning chain has become clearly evident.

Some interpreted this statement to mean that we would not grant access to balances on the non-dominant chain under any circumstance but this was never our intention. The statement was written from the standpoint of a “winner take all” scenario where the non-dominant chain dies out fairly quickly. Since the outcome of the fork may be more complicated than this, we want to make a number clarifications here and assure everyone that we are making preparations to be ready for any outcome of the fork and will act accordingly.

How long will it take? Although the process may go smoothly and quickly, we want everyone to understand that we will be very cautious about waiting for a clearly dominant chain (with the most work on it) to emerge before enabling ETH and DAO funding again. We think this is unlikely, but depending on how things go, we may have to wait several days or more to be safe. You should not send any Ethereum or DAO deposits to Kraken until we have enable deposits. You can follow us on twitter (https://twitter.com/krakenfx) or our status page (https://status.kraken.com/) to learn when funding is enabled again.

Are my funds safe with Kraken? Yes. We are taking steps to ensure that Kraken balances on both chains are secure against any replay attack. You can read more about the replay attack here:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4t2jfq/security_the_oldtonewchain_replay_attack_and_the/

Our own Kraken developer Timon Rapp has written a technical guide for exchanges and expert users on dealing with the replay attack:

• https://medium.com/@timonrapp/how-to-deal-with-the-ethereum-replay-attack-3fd44074a6d8#.biqtsvw49

There are other ways to protect against the attack, but this guide has been at least partially endorsedby Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin.

What about my private wallets? Please be very cautious with your private Ethereum wallets and do not send any transactions during the fork to Kraken or anywhere else. Even after the fork you should be careful and understand the danger of the replay attack. If you only care about your funds on the dominant chain, then you do not need to worry about the replay attack.  

But if you care about funds on both chains then you will need to take precautions against the replay attack. Unfortunately, aside from the highly technical guide linked above there isn’t a comprehensive guide for more ordinary users on how to protect yourself. But here is one place with some tips and discussion that is aimed at a somewhat less technical level:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4t9mzg/quick_hf_safety_tips_for_users/

Hopefully a better guide to navigating the fork with your private wallet will be available soon onhttps://blog.ethereum.org/ or elsewhere.

Will Kraken offer markets for the non-dominant chain? While we haven’t ruled this possibility out, we do not at the present time intend to offer trading markets for the non-dominant chain. In our view it could possibly take several weeks or more before it would even be safe to do this.  

What about margin positions? We highly recommend that margin positions be closed before the hard fork starts since the fork may bring a lot of unpredictable volatility or other unusual market behavior and make margin trading much riskier than normal. Depending on how the fork resolves, in order to manage the overall exchange risk, we may need at some point to do at least a partial forced closure of margin positions. This means that margin traders may possibly experience at least a partial forced closure of their positions. We will make every effort to minimize the impact and only close positions to the degree that seems necessary, but we cannot guarantee that our decision will be ideal for everyone. Margin traders who are uncomfortable with this possibility should close their positions prior to the start of the fork.

What about The DAO? Caution should be exercised for all Ethereum blockchain operations during the fork, including DAO and any other Ethereum based tokens. DAO funding on Kraken will be offline during the fork and you should not send DAO transfers to Kraken or anywhere else during the fork. DAO transfers are also vulnerable to the replay attack discussed above, so you should be cautious about sending DAO transfers even after the fork.

Read more about the Ethereum hard fork

• https://blog.ethereum.org/ 
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum
• http://www.coindesk.com/hard-fork-ethereum-dao/

http://blog.kraken.com/post/147619017767/on-the-ethereum-hard-fork

POLO IS ADDING #STEEM!!!!!!!!!

POLO IS ADDING #STEEM!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/8320M8EZK0 #bitcoin #trading #traders #fintech #dashdc #steemit @steemit @Poloniex #BitcoinNews

— TheDashGuy (@TheDashGuy) 19 luglio 2016

SAP Collaborates in The First Blockchain Payment Between Canada and Germany

Blockchain technology is finally transitioning from experiment to usability concept in the financial world. SAP, one of the largest networks in the industry, partnered with ATB Financial, Ripple Labs, and ReiseBank AG to send an international blockchain payment. Transferring funds from Canada to Germany was a breeze, and the cost was minimal compared to traditional means.

Collaboration is a key component of making blockchain efforts a global success. With parties representing different continents, this cross-border payment transfer using blockchain technology was completed successfully. In total, ATB Financial transferred CA$1,000 to ReiseBank AG. The network used for this transaction is built on top of SAP and has elements of Ripple’s pioneering network of enterprise blockchain solutions.

ECB’s Mario Draghi Will Urge Governments To Speed Up Financial Reforms

The Brexit fallout will be causing a lot of economic uncertainty in the United Kingdom and the Eurozone. ECB President Mario Draghi will likely ask governments to boost the eurozone’s economy in the coming weeks. Most financial experts saw this decision coming from miles away. For the umpteenth time, it appears as if a helicopter money bailout is on the horizon.

iPayYou Allows Users to Send Bitcoin via Twitter

iPayYou, a bitcoin wallet that allows users to send bitcoin to people who don’t have bitcoin accounts, has introduced Pay-by-Twitter, enabling users to send bitcoin directly to Twitteraccounts.

iPayYou becomes the first full-service wallet that enables peer-to-peer payments over the Twitter social media network. Users can send payments via email without the recipient having a pre-created bitcoin account.

Making Bitcoin Easy

“It has always been our goal to build iPayYou into the world’s easiest and most useful bitcoin wallet,” iPayYou founder Gene Kavner told CCN. “Until now, bitcoin has been difficult to use by almost anyone not hugely involved in the development of bitcoin.”

The first step was to enable customers to use an email address as the primary way to send payments to one another, while still supporting all traditional bitcoin payment mechanisms, Kavner said. “Now, adding the ability to pay someone by simply knowing their Twitter handle is another step for iPayYou to expand on its ease of use.”

How It Works

Once payment has been sent, a Tweet notifies the recipient they have received a payment over iPayYou. The Tweet links to the iPayYou website for the recipient to accept the payment. The recipient can hold the bitcoin in their iPayYou wallet, send it as payment to another peer, or sell their bitcoin for U.S. dollars, which would be deposited in their bank account.

iPayYou’s unique ability to cancel transactions will also apply to the new Pay-by-Twitter feature, with users being able to retract their payment before it has been accepted.

To access their bitcoin, Twitter recipients need to open an iPayYou account, Kavner said. This is a simple process requiring verification of their Twitter credentials and providing their mobile contact for additional security.

“However, we do not require users to provide any banking information in order to access their bitcoin. This information is only required for U.S.A.-based users if they want to purchase additional bitcoin or sell bitcoin they already own directly with iPayYou.”

The fee to sell bitcoin on iPayYou for U.S. customers is about 0.5% plus a nominal network/service fee. The fee to purchase bitcoin is a flat 0.5%.

Also read: Bitcoin wallet iPayYou simplifies sending and receiving bitcoin

Twitter To Support Bitcoin

iPayYou’s mission is to offer easy ways to pay with bitcoin for everyday use. Twitter is one of the most popular social media networks.

“Twitter is used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide and now iPayYou has introduced bitcoin to these users for them to benefit from this payment service without having to be familiar with the cryptocurrency or learn the cryptic bitcoin addresses,” Kavner said.

In addition, Twitter allows payments to be made without the recipient needing to provide private information to the payer, such as their address, bank account numbers, etc. “This level of private payments is another iPayYou innovation that brings world-wide commerce to the 21st century,” Kavner said.

“We are using Twitter’s public API to authenticate users,” Kavner said. “This ensures that only the valid recipient can claim the payment.”

Support Presidential Candidates

In launching Pay-by-Twitter, iPayYou has included the Twitter handles of the three presumptive U.S. presidential nominees on their website. Users will be able to support their favorite candidate via the Pay-by-Twitter feature.

Kavner said iPayYou chose to use the presidential candidates to demonstrate how little information is needed to use the Pay-by-Twitter feature.

“What we have done is enable a great new way to make payments safely over Twitter by simply knowing the Twitter handle of the recipient,” Kavner said. “Such Twitter handles which can be sent a payment include not just the presidential candidates, but charities, specific causes, organizations, and of course, colleagues, friends and family members.”

iPayYou is working on expanding payment options to all other social media sites, including Facebook and LinkedIn, Kavner said.

Bitcoin advocate Roger Ver, an iPayYou investor, said iPayYou is one of the most exciting new bitcoin companies directed at consumers. He said it is an example of how iPayYou is promoting the mass adoption of bitcoin.

iPayYou will release its wallet on both iOS and Android platforms over the next few months

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ipayyou-allows-users-to-send-bitcoin-via-twitter/

Important announcements for all ETH traders

The ETH hard fork

As you may know, the Ethereum community has elected to do a hard fork in order to resolve the DAO exploit. The MainNet block on which the hard fork will occur is set at 1920000, which should be reached on Wednesday July 20 (this is only an estimate however).

How will Kraken handle the hard fork?

ETH deposits and withdrawals will be disabled approximately 1 hour before the hard fork activates. Trading will continue as normal during the fork. All ETH on Kraken after the fork will be tokens of the winning chain (i.e. the chain with the most work on it). ETH deposits and withdrawals will be enabled again once the winning chain has become clearly evident. We expect the hard fork process to be smooth and quick, but there is no certainty of this.

Where to find the latest news on the hard fork?

• https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum
• https://blog.ethereum.org/

Gilles Champollion

Condivisione pubblica  -  29 giu 2016

 

Ok, they took their decision, de facto a fork is a new cryptocurrency. At least they should be honest and change the name in Ethereum 2.0 - also changing the manifesto in "Ethereum 2.0 is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run more or less as programmed with possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference." GOOD LUCK - I'M selling ALL MY ETHER - BYEEEE

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Ethereum Price Technical Analysis 15 07 2016 - more positive signs

Ethereum price showed more positive signs, and traded higher. Can it continue to trade higher and can we buy more?

Key Highlights

• Ethereum price continued to trade higher against the US Dollar, and posted yet another break.
• Yesterday’s idea of buying dips in the ETH/USD pair worked, as it moved higher.
• There is a bullish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/USD, which can be considered as a support area on the downside.

Ethereum price showed more positive signs, and traded higher. Can it continue to trade higher and can we buy more?

HASHOCEAN Scam is Back as Bitsrapid (June 2016)

Steem Steams Ahead

Steem.it, the social media reddit-like crypto currency powered platform took everyone by surprise with a strong week pushing the price up 1500%, leaving the young currency in the top 5 biggest markets caps in the cryptosphere. 

Steemit is a new social media platform built on the Steem blockchain where the community rewards individuals for their posts, comments and votes. Steem can also be mined with computational power and through a delegated proof of stake system, in which users delegate steem power to masternodes that are chosen through a voting process. 

The rate of dilution is high at 0.2% or essentially a yearly doubling of the supply. 

See more here

Digital currency Steem soars to more than US$150mil in value in two weeks

NEW YORK: Steem, the digital currency behind the new social media website Steemit, soared more than 1,000% in value on July 12 to over US$150mil (RM595.13mil), two weeks after it first paid people who posted on its website, according to coinmarketcap.com.

Steemit essentially is a website that rewards or pays users who post content that gets multiple thumbs up from the site's participants. The reward given is the steem currency. Content on the site is not limited to digital currencies and users have posted varied topics from lasagna to a trip to North Africa.

Ethereum Price Technical Analysis – Perfect Bullish Break For ETH

Key Highlights

• Ethereum price finally showed some signs of life, as it traded above a major resistance against the US Dollar.
• Yesterday’s highlighted bearish trend line on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/USD was cleared to ignite an upside move.
• The price is now above the 100 hourly simple moving average, which is a positive sign for the bulls.

Ethereum price spiked higher against the US Dollar, and the last few hourly candles look very positive for more gains in the short term.

The current price action is very positive, as the price is now trading above the 100 hourly simple moving average. At this moment, the bears are defending the 61.8% Fib retracement level of the last drop from the $11.30 high to $10.08 low.

Major Support Level – $10.50

Major Resistance Level – $11.00

http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/07/14/ethereum-price-technical-analysis-perfect-bullish-break-eth/

HASHFLARE REDUCE BY 25% THE MAINTENACE Electricity Fee SHA-256 contracts and announce 20% discount on mining ETHASH

Dear friends, As Bitcoin mining reward halving is now history, it is our duty to keep everything running smoothly for all of you. For the last couple of months, we have been working hard installing new energy efficient SHA-256 hardware to our data centers, which will allow us to reduce our electricity expenses.

What is Steemit? The dynamic decentralized social network!

Steem: A blockchain based social media platform

Ethereum Vote Update

Ethereum Vote Update

The hard fork debate has debate is still in favor of the yes vote with carbonvote showing 4% of total ether having voted (3.2million ETH). The yes vote has 83% of the vote and the no vote has 17%. 

Read more here

U.S. tech company files bitcoin ETF application with SEC

SolidX Partners Inc, a U.S. technology company that provides blockchain services, on Tuesday filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an exchange-traded product that tracks the price of bitcoin.

Blockchain is the technology that powers bitcoin, the digital currency. SolidX provides blockchain-based software relating to the recording of digital records, transfer of assets, and identity, according to its website.

The ETF product will be called SolidX Bitcoin Trust and will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol XBTC upon regulatory approval, SolidX Partners said on Tuesday.

SolidX is the second company to file for a bitcoin exchange-traded product with the U.S. regulator. The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, owned by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, filed the first bitcoin ETF application three years ago.

Alex Tapscott: "Blockchain Revolution" | Talks at Google

Brexit Turns Bitcoin Into an Unlikely Haven Currency: Chart

While bitcoin is not exactly regarded as stable — it’s bounced around between $2 and $1,137 over the past five years — it’s become an unlikely haven for currency investors in the aftermath of Brexit. On Tuesday, the 10-day historical volatility of bitcoin dropped below the pound’s. Operators of bitcoin exchanges report investors swapping pounds and euros for the digital money, and Zurich-based Vontobel Holding AG is courting Swiss investors with the country’s first bitcoin-tracking structured product.

For a weekly update on structured notes subscribe to the Structured Notes Brief.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-08/brexit-turns-bitcoin-into-an-unlikely-haven-currency-chart