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ChromaWay and the Swedish Land Registry test smart contracts for real estate sales
Telia and Kairos Future are also part of the blockchain-based real estate transactions proof of concept.
Credits scoops 'Best Blockchain Startup' at Europas awards
Credits beat off stiff competition from runnersup Clearmatics, Everledger and Provenance.
Blockchains, banks and zero-knowledge proofs
IBTimes UK talks to Prof Eli Ben-Sasson of Technion, Israel Institute of Technology on the Zerocash project.
SpectroCoin adding Dash to exchange and e-wallet
CEO Vytautas Karalevičius says cryptocurrency is a top option because of 'usage for actual payments'.
Microsoft to be main sponsor of Ethereum Devcon2 in Shanghai
The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016.
Poker and gaming token Breakout Coin opens crowdsale on Bittrex
The cryptocurrency which powers poker and gaming sites aims to sell 6.6 million tokens over the next 24 days.
Chinese mining giant BTCC talks about Bitcoin $700 price pop
IBTimes talked to Samson Mow of Bitcoin conglomerate BTCC at the recent Consensus 2016 conference in NYC.
Hacker puts 290,000 driver licence records for sale on the dark web stolen from government computers
The information was listed on The Real Deal marketplace, which also hosted the Myspace and LinkedIn breaches.
WAVES blockchain raises $16m after 'tsunami of Bitcoins' floods last days of crowdsale
WAVES raised 29634 Bitcoin via the initial coin offering (ICO) website and 460 in NXT Asset Swaps.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen meets with blockchain experts in Washington DC
The Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank heard from the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Chain and Bloq.
Ethereum prediction market Augur teams up with blockchain security experts Airbitz
Airbitz Edge Security encrypts, backs up, and synchronises private keys and account data across devices.
Russian cybercrime bosses found making $90,000 per year with ransomware
Russian ransomware bosses make an average 'salary' of about $90,000 per year.
Microsoft warns of ransomware ZCryptor that doubles as a virus and demands $500 in Bitcoin
The ransomware targets removable and network drives and has the ability to spread on its own.
ConsenSys and Microsoft tackle human rights abuses with blockchain-based identity system
Ethereum-based ConsenSys rallied support for its uPort identity system at ID2020 at the United Nations.
What the European Parliament vote on cryptocurrency regulation really means
Siân Jones, of the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum explains the recent MEP vote
Santander first UK bank to do blockchain-based international payments using Ripple
The new application is currently being rolled out as a staff pilot for payments of between £10 and £10,000.
Ethereum engineering course puts accreditation on the blockchain
The course from B9Lab aims to train 1000 developers this year and five times that amount the following year.
Cross-border payments experts debate Bitcoin remittances
IBTimes heard from Align Commerce, Azimo, WorldRemit and Blockchain Technology Limited (BTL).
Jeff Garzik's Bloq runs smart contracts like an 'Ethereum plug-in for Bitcoin'
BloqEnterrpise promises Turing-complete smart contracts plugged into Bitcoin, written in JavaScript and Python
Ping An becomes first Chinese institution to join R3 blockchain consortium
Ping An joins the global network of R3 partners united in its lab environment, the R3 Lab and Research Centre,
Meet blockchain-based sovereign ID ObjectChain Collab: the 'R3 of distributed identity'
IBTimes spoke to ObjectChain Collab MD Paul Ferris, who recently presented the idea at Consensus 2016 in NYC.
Won't pay? No problem, Cerber ransomware adds your PC to a botnet to send out DDoS attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have found ransomware modified to send DDoS attacks from infected PCs.
'Decentralised Uber' Arcade City wins Europe's biggest blockchain competition
GTEC handed out €50,000 in prizes to winners Arcade City, CargoChain, Clipperz and Helperbitz.
RISE Financial Technologies proffers 'secret sauce' for privacy on post-trade blockchains
CEO Thorsten Peisl: 'Transparency, the great benefit of blockchain, is an obstacle for financial services in particular.'
Ethereum's Viktor Trón talks about Swarm and the skeleton of Web 3.0
Swarm, the decentralised file storage and distribution solution, has just released its orange paper.
Genesis Mining launches Enigma, the world's largest ether cloud mining farm
Ether (ETH) is the native token of the Ethereum, used to power applications on the Ethereum blockchain.
Lisk releases modular cryptocurrency with sidechains
Lisk, which raised $6.5m in a crowdsale, 'is an app store for peer-to-peer apps for a blockchain or its sidechains'.
Ukraine's government and biggest banks fight corruption with blockchain-based property auction
Ukraine's Distributed Lab launched the eAuction platform in February with Oschadbank, PrivatBank and Microsoft.
R3's David Rutter on partnering with fintech firms across payments and smart contracts
Exclusive: IBTimes interviews David Rutter, the boss of banking technology consortium R3CEV.
SWIFT blockchain research warns of 'unrealistic expectations' and 'little short term payoff'
SWIFT Institute conducted interview and focus groups with 75 technology and post-trade processing companies.

