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Blockchain in capital markets: Symbiont lists opportunities for smart contracts
Symbiont today announced a deal with Ipreo's loan settlement platform to overhaul global syndicated loans market.
Guardtime secures over a million Estonian healthcare records on the blockchain
Guardtime integrated its keyless signature infrastructure blockchain technology with Oracle's database engine.
London-listed Coinsilium launches week-long Blockchain Tech Lab
Blockchain Tech Lab will happen in London April 11-15 with the Blockcathon on 15-17 April.
Genesis Mining launches world's first Bitcoin mining fund for wealthy individuals and investors
Genesis said the Logos Fund officially filed Form D with the SEC last week.
Free and decentralised Bitcoin and cryptocurrency event CoinFest to hold massive Manchester meet-up
CoinFest UK will take place over two floors in Manchester's MadLab over the 8th and 9th April and is free to attend.
How will blockchains cross the clearing and settlement chasm?
Capital markets expert Larry Tabb highlights problems blockchains face doing real time clearing and settlement.
US: Hackers hold Melrose Police Station to ransom for the paltry sum of one bitcoin
Police regain control of encryption key after having to stump up just £320 to the cyber criminals.
Gaming on the blockchain II – A new kind of digital ownership
The second part of a series on gaming and blockchains includes Spells of Genesis, Alex Amsel and Peter Borah.
Barbadian Digital Dollar company Bitt partners with Colu and Netki for fiat currency on Bitcoin blockchain
Caribbean fiat currencies can have digital equivalents linked in a 1:1 ratio with Central Bank issued counterparts.
Microsoft Azure blockchain partner Manifold Technology aims at account reconciliation in retail banking
Manifold Technology started looking at pain points in complex and clunky rewards programmes involving banks.
Turkish hackers 'claim' hospital ransom attack: 'Feeble, weak-willed Americans made us $17k richer'
Hackers claiming responsibility for holding LA hospital to ransom in cyber attack mock US over the decision to pay up.
Blockchain experts provide contrasts and predictions on consensus protocols
IBTimes spoke to Peter Todd, Vlad Zamfir, Emin Gun Sirer and Jed McCaleb about consensus protocols.
'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.

