What are AI neural networks and how are they applied to financial markets?
Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber has been pioneering Deep Learning Artificial Neural Networks since 1991.
'Quickly made law is often bad law': EC plan to legislate Bitcoin after Paris attacks examined
Sian Jones of the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum has given evidence before the European Parliament.
Factom inks another deal in China, this time for blockchain notarisation services
Exclusive: Factom is partnering with Ancun Zhengxin which offers electronic notarisation at 100 notarial offices in China.
William Mougayar rolls 'The Business Blockchain' into Consensus 2016
Mougayar is cancelling his planned conference, 'The Business Blockchain', originally scheduled for April 19-20 in Toronto.
Ethereum innovator Digix Global announces plans for DigixDAO crowdsale
CEO Kai Cheng Chng explained how DigixDAO token holders can pledge support for projects using crowdsale funds.
Mining giant BTCC talks about road ahead for Bitcoin following failed 'coup'
IBTimes UK spoke to Samson Mow, COO of BTCC and co-organiser of recent Bitcoin scaling talks in Hong Kong.
RWE and Slock.it – Electric cars using Ethereum wallets can recharge by induction at traffic lights
Slock.it just signed a deal with Samsung and Ubuntu which is being presented at MWC 2016.
Ethereum-inspired Clearmatics to save OTC markets from eternal darkness
Robert Sams says 'the goal is automation without intermediation' and OTC markets are an abvious candidate.
Meet BigchainDB – 'the scalable blockchain database' hitting one million writes per second
BigchainDB co-founder Bruce Pon says the team has been inundated with inquiries since releasing its white paper.
MIT Cleantech Committee explores how blockchains can distribute renewable electricity
MIT Enterprise Forum hosts first ever Blockchain & Energy event on Monday 22 February.
Bitnation launches Decentralised Borderless Voluntary Nation Constitution with Ethereum
Susanne Tempelhof of BitNation was joined by Alex van de Sande of Ethereum, making the live broadcast.
Coinprism and Openchain chosen to join Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab
Coinprism is one of six startups to spend 12 weeks working with likes of Credit Suisse, RBS, Citi and State Street.
itBit Bankchain talks about heading to London and the Post Trade Distributed Ledger project
IBTimes chatted to Jason Nabi who is heading up itBit's new EMEA divsion and who also advises the PTDL group.
Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan: Bankers are dinosaurs and hipsters will grow tails
Zoltan Istvan is the founder of the Transhumanist Party and its 2016 Presidential candidate.
South Korea: KB Kookmin Bank to offer blockchain remittance services using Coinplug
A statement said the bank was also looking to do KYC checks on 'a public blockchain network'.
70% of Bitcoin's mining power is against 'contentious hard-fork'
Mining pools representing 70% of bitcoin network's total hashing power will not be supporting Bitcoin Classic.
Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project trumpets code contributions from across 30 founder members
The Hyperledger Project also announced a technical steering committee to review contributions.
Ethereum studio ConsenSys launches 'Internet-of-People' with digital IDs and assets secured on Ubuntu phones
The Nimbus/uPort/Ubuntu proof-of-concept will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress February 22nd, 2016.
Plutus combines Bitcoin and Ethereum to push contactless payments
Plutus targets contactless payments for groceries, bills, and Transport for London using token-based rewards scheme.
Gaming on the blockchain – the trillion dollar jackpot
Part 1 of gaming and blockchain article IBTimes spoke to Tyler Smith of FreeMyVunk, and Jon Neverdie Jacobs.
Next generation of machine learning rockstars will trade Google and Facebook for top secret hedge funds
IBTimes UK spoke to AI finance startup Walnut Algorithms about machine learning and the financial sector.
Factom signs smart city deal to roll out blockchain verification across China
Exclusive: Factom signed an MoU with technology consulting firm iSoftStone to shape a smart city strategy.
OTC securities blockchain builder Equibit closes $3m angel round
Toronto-based Equibit Development Corporation closed its angel round of financing with a $3m valuation.
Uproov launches 'Call Recorder Blockchain' for smartphones to record all phone calls
Uproov also has a KYC photo tool using smartphones in development, said co-founder Jon Bulich.
Blockstream: This is a marathon, not a sprint started with 'marketecture'
Blockstream has just announced $55m Series A funding and a partnership with PwC.
Could high-frequency trading tricks be killed off by a blockchain-based 'capital markets utopia'?
A report by Oliver Wyman and Euroclear considers a brave new financial system.
ConsenSys digital identity and wallet system uPort integrates with Digix Gold platform
Singapore-based Digix are formally collaborating with ConsenSys to integrate uPort on the Digix Gold platform.
Leaping into the future: Nigeria's rural microfinance community gets connected using Stellar and Oradian
IBTimes spoke to Joyce Kim, CEO of Stellar and Antonio Separovic, MD of Oradian, about the new Nigeria pilot.
Blockchain innovator SatoshiPay offers alternative to advertising for web publishers
SatoshiPay's nonopayment system offers new ways of monetising web content and digital goods in general.
DCG's Barry Silbert: 'We're excited by blockchain – but just as excited about Bitcoin'
IBTimes spoke to Digital Currency Group founder Barry Silbert about banking blockchains, innovation and BitPesa.
