The FinTech Startup Company Bitbond recently acquired its license from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority or BaFin. This financial regulatory agency is an independent institution administered by the Federal Ministry of Finance based in Frankfurt and Bonn. Bitbond is an international P2P (Peer to Peer) lending platform that operates in Berlin. It provides reasonably priced loans…

The central securities depository of the Russian Federation or The National Settlement Depository (NSD) was successful in developing and testing an electronic (e-proxy) voting system that operates on a distributed ledger built with the NXT blockchain. The NSD with headquarters in Moscow is a member of the Moscow Exchange. It is a non-banking credit organization,…

The central bank of Singapore or Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) made an official announcement regarding its collaboration with R3, a Financial and Blockchain Technology Company. R3, based in New York (USA), is at the helm of a conglomerate composed of 70 of the largest financial institutions worldwide conducting R & D on Blockchain use…

Hey everyone! We're back with the final article in our Bitcoin History series, where we will cover events that happened between years 2014 and 2016. We've focused on events that had significant outcomes or direct effect over Bitcoin. I can only say that I'm very s to have been writing this series, as I have…

It was a tough weekend for the ambitious traders that were counting on the price reaching $800. Spikes above $750 were met with strong selling pressure and large sell orders eventually lead to the BTC/USD price dropping below $720 for a brief period of time before before Monday. Major Signals Resistance for upward spikes still…

The former Director General for Technology and Transformation (Martin Clements) of the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office is the latest top UK Government official to become a director of Blockchain startup SETL. Former Bank of England executive director Sir David Walker also joined SETL as board chairman. This new financial services firm is among the…

Bitcoin’s price seems to be struggling to get above $750, there seems to be quite a bit of selling pressure pushing the price further below $750. In Spite of what seemed like a breakthrough early in the morning of Sunday, the $800 targets seemed more unlikely as more markets came into play. Major signals ●    Bearish…

One of the proposed features of Bitcoin described as sidechains will most likely make significant progress in the short-term. The concept of sidechains (linked to the Blockstream start-up) is to make it easier to provide Bitcoin with new features. This is quite complicated because of the digital currency’s unique design. Blockstream is the foremost provider…

During the last couple of weeks, there's been considerable discussion on the main differences between Zcash and bitcoin, and how they affect one another's values, considering the fact that both are priced fairly high, when compared to most of the other digital currencies available on the market. With this in mind, there are structural similarities between…

The latest network data from Bitcoin revealed 27 percent of nodes globally are operating codes for Segregated Witness. SegWit was introduced by Bitcoin lead developer Pieter Wuiller during the 2nd Bitcoin Scaling Conference in Hong Kong last year (December 6 and 7). This forum was attended by miners, developers, business owners, and Bitcoin network users. In…