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'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.
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.
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.
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.
Los Angeles hospital paid $17,000 to hackers to get back control of its computer system
Bitcoin payment was quickest way to return to normal from chilling healthcare hack, says official.
What is ransomware: How to react if you are infected and should you pay the hackers?
As cyberattacks are reported around the world, here is everything you need to know.
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.
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'.
Bitcoin hard fork conspiracy treacherous
Daniel Friedberg, a principal at law firm of Riddell Williams PS in Seattle, considers the legal implications of a hard fork.
Bitcoin users have rubbish passwords just like the rest of us
Security research team finds bitcoin owners use passwords which can be easily and quickly guessed
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.
Valve introducing Bitcoin transactions to Steam
Digital distribution platform will apparently use BitPay API.
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.
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.
EU to combat terrorist funding streams with regulation of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin
Virtual currencies such as bitcoin are facing increased regulation to curb terrorist funding streams.
Blockstream: This is a marathon, not a sprint started with 'marketecture'
Blockstream has just announced $55m Series A funding and a partnership with PwC.
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.
Silk Road agent Shaun Bridges rearrested with passport and bulletproof vest day before sentence begins
Former secret service agent rearrested just one day before start of Silk Road prison sentence
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.
Skuchain: Here's how blockchain will save global trade a trillion dollars
IBTimes spoke to Skuchain about how blockchains will optimise antiquated, paper-based trade.
Ethereum-based credit rating and KYC platform Cetas picks up Citi innovation prize
Algorythmix has picked up first prize for the most transformative use of blockchain in Citi Mobile Challenge.
Citi Digital Money Symposium bets on India to become the new Kenya
IBTimes UK learns how India is replicating the success of mobile money in Kenya.
Isis: Bitcoin not used by Daesh terrorists, but dark web, Facebook and Twitter still common
Europol reveals no confirmed links between Isis terrorist funding and bitcoin cryptocurrency.
Ethereum's William Mougayar announces Business Blockchain books and conference
The Business Blockchain Conference will be held in Toronto on 18-20 April.
Barclays selects Smart Contract Templates internal team to join its Accelerator programme
EXCLUSIVE: Dr Lee Braine from Barclays details the bank's latest smart contract initiative.