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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).
Alibaba, TenCent, Baidu and the top ten most disruptive mega-platforms
Haydn Shaughnessy, author of Platform Disruption Wave, talks about China's platform-based global power play.
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.
Hedge funds, big data and tail risk – the Millennium Bridge example
Jeremy Sosabowski PhD, CEO & co-founder, AlgoDynamix, talks about identifying endogenous portfolio risk.
Alibaba eclipse: What Harvard Business Review shouldn't teach you about disruption
Haydn Shaughnessy's latest book, Platform Disruption Wave, takes fintech to unprecedented geopolitical levels.
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.
Blockchain platform WAVES partners with 'Swiss knife' Bitcoin wallet Mycelium
Both WAVES and Mycelium are in the middle of crowdfunding campaigns.
Founder of Liberty Reserve online criminal bank sentenced to 20 years in prison
Arthur Budovsky was charged for laundering $8bn in criminally obtained funds over 8 years.
Bitcoin 'creator' Craig Wright admits he cannot prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto
Craig Wright admits he cannot move early bitcoins to prove he is creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Chain's Adam Ludwin: Financial services will become a software business
IBTimes spoke to Adam Ludwin, co-founder and CEO of Chain.com at Consensus 2016 conference in New York City.
Craig Wright to provide 'extraordinary' proof he is the creator of Bitcoin
As doubts loom over Wright's claim, he said the evidence would include an independently verifiable document.
Consensus 2016: Raising capital using 'blockchain' and the DLT centralisation paradox
Day at Consensus in NYC included how to avoid enterprise software hype cycles and banking collapses.
Deloitte to build Ethereum-based 'digital bank' with New York City's ConsenSys
Deloitte also announced blockchain partnerships with Bloq, Stellar and BlockCypher.
Consensus 2016: State of Delaware open for blockchain business
Delaware Governor Jack Markell spoke about the blockchain initiative being built by Symbiont.
Ethereum studio ConsenSys announces interoperable Bitcoin service BTC Relay
Using BTC Relay means developers can implement a 'Pay with Bitcoin' button in their Ethereum-based Dapps.
Consensus 2016: Bitcoin takes governance lessons from Ethereum
Governance of Bitcoin was riding high with news that Dr Craig Wright has reiterated that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright 'outs' himself as Bitcoin creator 'Satoshi Nakamoto'
Bitcoin creator has verified his claims through an official cryptographic demonstration.
Ethereum and Bitcoin payment provider Plutus announces crowd sale
The startup has released a white paper and welcomed some talent to the team from PayPal, Visa and Morgan Stanley.
Ethereum reinvents companies with launch of The DAO
Some have speculated The DAO token sale could garner as much as $100m worth of ether.