by Joseph Resher | May 28, 2020 at 11:39 | Featured
Cryptomining isn’t what it used to be. In short, you can’t really turn a profit in the current market climate with a small mining rig setup in your house. For many, it has become wiser to either join a mining cooperative or use colocation, or “mining...
by Brian Curran | Nov 28, 2020 at 22:21 | Blockchain
Amazon has announced a new blockchain product — Amazon Managed Blockchain — as a fully managed service built on the Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum open-source frameworks. A limited preview is currently available for Amazon Web Services (AWS) account...
by Brian Curran | Nov 13, 2020 at 23:05 | Cryptocurrencies
Amazon has been awarded two patents in digital signatures and distributed storage techniques by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The move follows a recent collaboration by Amazon with startup Kaleido on an Ethereum marketplaces targeting enterprises. Amazon’s...
by Brian Curran | Sep 26, 2020 at 13:30 | Bitcoin
Bakkt is planning on launching in November this year after a long and covert development period that preceded their launch announcement in early August. Bakkt is led by Kelly Loeffler as CEO, and her husband is the chairman and CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange...
by Brian Curran | Sep 24, 2020 at 20:56 | Cryptocurrencies
Airbnb - the giant online marketplace for hospitality sharing services — recently submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow the company to offer equity to its hosts. Following in Uber’s footsteps — who...
by Brian Curran | Sep 14, 2020 at 13:35 | Cryptocurrencies
BitBounce — a blockchain-based email spam service — has recently surpassed 600,000 active users and is growing at a monthly rate of roughly 12 percent, according to founder and CEO Stewart Dennis. With a similar model to Earn.com, BitBounce aims to...
by Brian Curran | Aug 30, 2020 at 15:23 | Cryptocurrencies
DFINITY — the decentralized blockchain cloud computer — announced yesterday that it raised an additional $102 million in funding from powerful VC firms Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto branch and Polychain Capital. Following an initial round of $61...