Issue #113
1 - 7 February 2016
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In the meantime, to all of you celebrating the Lunary New Year, have a great time celebrating with your beloved family!
Bobby
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Latest News
Blockstream has raised $55m in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to $76m over two investment rounds.
An Israeli bitcoin startup focused on enabling bitcoin purchases with credit cards has recently closed a $7m Series A funding round.
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) has revealed it has developed its own digital currency nicknamed "MUFG coin".
Block Size Debate
Gavin Andresen explains why the increase of block size from 1 to 2 MB is not as simple as it seems.
Muneeb Ali of Onename wrote a piece explaining how Bitcoin Core is still strong.
Market
Court documents obtained by CoinDesk offer new details about an ongoing legal battle involving digital currency exchange Cryptsy CEO Paul Vernon.
Ecosystem
A description of Segregated Witness and some input from Bitcoin community
This page summarises some of the benefits of segregated witness that go beyond simply increasing the capacity of the block chain.
Mining
Marc Bevand gave his insights in breaking the fallacy that Bitcoin mining is wasteful.
Learn
Smart contracts can be thought of as "automated trustworthy workflow between parties without a central specific co-ordinator.". Here's how Antony Lewis think about them.
Found this tutorial on how to get started with Ethereum-Mist Wallet.
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