Issue #96
26 September - 2 October 2015
The big news this week is that of 13 new banks joining the R3 partnership to work together on blockchain technology bringing the total number of banks involved to 22.
Bobby
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Latest News
Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang Group has announced it intends to invest $50m in blockchain technology to improve its product lines.
Imperial College London has established a research center dedicated to blockchain initiatives.
South Korean bitcoin services company Coinplug has closed a $5m Series B funding round.
Market
Brian Armstrong shares his views on why Coinbase is applying for the Bitcoin patents.
Namecoin develoeprs provide a counter-argument on why OneName's Blockstore is less secure than using the Namecoin's blockchain.
Ecosystem
Although the United States is supposed to be the "land of the free," Erik Voorhees feels like an extremist when supporting financial privacy.
13 more banks have joined the coalition of leading Wall Street and City names looking to take the technology that underpins bitcoin to the mainstream financial sector.
Alternative blockchain project Ethereum has released new details about the state of funding collected during its initial crowdsale.
NeuCoin announced its launch on 23 September 2015, focussing on consumer adoption by targeting games, microtransactions and social media.
Prediction markets sound crazy. People “bet” on what the future will be, and the reported results end up accurate predicting the future.
Mining
Australian firm DigitalBTC is bowing out of bitcoin mining to focus on its consumer products, its CEO has said.
Learn
Google search data can predict the price of bitcoin, new research has found.
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