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Winklevoss twins bring gold-plated Bitcoin trading to London
Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded and run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has expanded to the UK.
Euroclear and itBit collaborate on gold market settlement blockchain
The two will explore the creation of "a next generation settlement service for the London gold market".
US Department of Homeland Security awards Factom funding for blockchain IoT project
Factom given $199,000 to advance the security of digital identity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
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'.
Allianz pioneers Symbiont smart contracts for catastrophe swaps
Smart contracts reduce the time and costs of managing catastrophe swaps and issuing insurance linked securities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.