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8 May
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Twitter, Bitstamp, European Parliament: Monthly Recap about Bitcoin
Welcome to HolyTransaction’s fifth monthly recap for the 2016! Thanks for this month together.
April has been marked by continued interest in bitcoin technology from all around the world; during that time, the bitcoin price rose from a high of $469.31 on April 21st to a low of $435.08 on April 28th, according to Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.
6 amazing pictures about Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the money of Internet and what is the best way to communicate through the web?
Pictures, of course.
Thanks to pictures, in fact, we can communicate things that are very difficult to explain in words.
So, let’s see the top 6 of the best pictures about Bitcoin.
15 oddest places where Bitcoin is accepted
Nowadays you can buy almost everything with bitcoin.
As well as lots of e-commerce and famous worldwide brand that accept Bitcoin all around the world.
Also, you will find out there are several other shops where you can buy your favorite items with Bitcoin.
Click on the title to read the full list of the oddest places where bitcoin is accepted (for several of them you can buy a gift card for bitcoins on gyft.com).
That’s why $400 Bitcoin price is low
Today Daniel Masters, ex trader at JP Morgan, published an interesting article about the bitcoin price on Linkedin.
In this article, Masters comments the upcoming halving of rewards for the miners and its impact on the current bitcoin price.
Blockchain is the perfect technology according to the European Parliament
During the last week, a European parliament member gave a speech about consumer protection for the latest campaign that aims at realizing new rules related to the blockchain.
How Twitter can teach you everything you need to know about Bitcoin
Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in the world and there are over 307 million people that actively use Twitter.
Also, the greatest part of Bitcoin experts has a Twitter account; and this is a fact.
So, this is why you will find lots of info about Bitcoin on Twitter; you just need to follow the right people and bloggers.
Click on the title to read the full list of influencers you may need to follow on Twitter to deeply understand bitcoin and the blockchain.
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5 May
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How to use Facebook Messenger to create warranties on the Blockchain
The British advisory company Deloitte recently used the new Facebook Messenger API to create a program that store warranties on the Bitcoin blockchain and allows clients to buy items insurances even after their purchase.
Of course this is only an early version of the complete Deloitte project, which is capable of working without any applications to be downloaded by the user.
On the company website, Deloitte service designer, Frank van de Ven, explains:
“It allows users to add information regarding their purchases and associated warranty information on the blockchain, by using a Facebook Messenger bot.”
Facebook Messenger users are more than a billion from all around the world, so to allow startups create products for their clients, Facebook decided to expand its Messenger app, creating a new API that allows custom bots.
This news came on April 12nd, 2016 at the annual F8 of San Francisco. During this event, in fact, Facebook presented this new bot.
“Messenger Platform: Expanded access to the Messenger platform by giving you the ability to reach your customers where they already are with a new send and receive API. You will be able to build a custom bot in Messenger, providing anything from customer service to rich, interactive experiences such as automated responses or spawning a search”, explained Facebook VP Deborah Liu.
How the warranties bot works
The Deloitte warranty bot allows people to send a receipt image through the Facebook Messenger app.
Thanks to the Colu blockchain toolbox, this Deloitte feature creates a QR code and stores the bought item information on the well-known distributed ledger.
When people upload the warranty, the bot will allow items owners to transfer the warranty if the item will be resold.
It is a great idea for sure and we can’t wait to use this tool in the near future.
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4 May
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Amazon partners with Digital Currency Group
Always more companies are developing a private blockchain for their security reasons or aim at using the bitcoin blockchain for their business objectives.
In the latest blogs, in fact, we talked about companies such as DARPA or AirBnB who plan to use the blockchain for their private goals.
The “blockchain as a service” partnership
Well, today we want to talk about Amazon Web Services (AWS) who recently announced its collaboration with Digital Currency Group (DCG), one of the most important investors in the blockchain, to provide to DCG’s startups a secure place to work and a technical support for their projects related to bitcoin.
Amazon Web Services, in fact, provides cloud computing services for websites and applications, so the blockchain could be very useful to improve their database security and other objectives.
The DCG empire
The DCG startups portfolio includes almost 100 Bitcoin companies from all around the world, including Chain and RSK and recently it received a big investment from Mastercard, Western Union, New York Life, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and more.
In a recent post, Amazon Web Services developer Scott Mullins explained the partnership between AWS and DCG.
“Today in financial services, distributed ledger technology is at the forefront of any discussion related to innovation. AWS is working with financial institutions and blockchain providers to spur innovation and facilitate frictionless experimentation. DCG is a recognized leader in distributed ledger technology, and we are excited to work with them and their portfolio companies to provide laboratory environments for enterprise experimentation with blockchain technology on AWS”.
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30 Apr
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Blockchain is the “perfect technology” according to the European Parliament
During the last week, a European parliament member gave a speech about consumer protection for the latest campaign that aims at realizing new rules related to the blockchain.
The perfect technology
In fact, the Lithuania representative Antanas Guoga defined the blockchain a “perfect technology” during a speech before the Internal Market for Consumer Protection Committee, which is thinking about advancing a new proposal for cryptocurrencies.
Guoga explained:
“I’m sure a lot of us politicians haven’t got any bitcoins at the moment and we’re trying to make laws for something we don’t understand. I would suggest everyone to get some bitcoins and really learn about the system. It’s a huge leap forward and a huge opportunity.”
Guoga wants the European Commission to open a task force to monitor digital currencies.
The committee said yes
A voting on the proposal was held on April 26th and the result was 54-to-1 members that want the creation of a cryptocurrency task force.
This proposal will be voted by the entire European Parliament in the near future.
Watch the full video of the speech
Click here to listen to the entire Antanas Guoga’s speech.
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25 Apr
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Blockchain to be used on the battlefields by Darpa
The most popular research projects agency for defence, better known as Darpa, is studying a method to create a blockchain-based messaging platform to be used for battlefield objectives.
This DARPA’s project is still just an idea, but it comes out thanks to a website post on its official websites.
DARPA became very popular thanks to its revolutionary ideas and its goal of promoting emerging technologies.
In fact, back in the ’60s, DARPA created ARPANET, a primitive form of what today we call Internet.
The press release
According to the official press release, DARPA aims at creating a”secure messaging system” using a “decentralized ledger” to allow encrypted secrets.
The press release explains:
“There is a critical DoD need to develop a secure messaging and transaction platform accessible via web browser or standalone native application. The platform separates the message creation, from the transfer of the message within a secure courier to the reception and decryption of the message.”
The 3-steps model
DARPA believes it will need 3 stages to bring the project to reality.
- Development: “built on the framework of an existing blockchain framework”, using the blockchain as a model;
- Creation of prototypes and commercial-scale versions of the network;
- Deployment
Applications
According to DARPA, this system can be used within the DoD offices to interact in a secure way.
“By doing this, significant portions of the DoD back office infrastructure can be decentralized, smart documents and contracts can be instantly and securely sent and received thereby reducing exposure to hackers and reducing needless delays in DoD back office correspondence. As an example, Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPR) could be implemented using the secure ledger.”
The system could be also used for battlefield applications.
“Troops on the ground in denied communications environments would have a way to securely communicate back to HQ, and DoD back office executives could rest assured that their logistics system is efficient, timely and safe from hackers”.
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21 Apr
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How Twitter can teach you about Bitcoin
Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in the world and there are over 307 million people that actively use Twitter.
Also, the greatest part of Bitcoin experts has a Twitter account; and this is a fact.
So, this is why you will find lots of info about Bitcoin on Twitter; you just need to follow the right people and bloggers.
Below you can read the full list of influencers you may need to follow on Twitter to deeply understand bitcoin and the blockchain.
This list was identified using measures like the followers number, engagement frequency, amplification, quotes by important writers, etc.
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Dan McGinn @dan_mcginn
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20 Apr
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8 Ways to Become the MacGyver of Bitcoin
There are thousands of tools related to bitcoin and the blockchain, but only a few of these are very upstanding and useful.
These tools have being created by genious startups from all over the world, and they will allow you to become the next MacGyver of Bitcoin.
Below, in fact, you can read the list of tools we selected that are related to Bitcoin and the blockchain.
Cryptocurrencies Exchange Rates
Recently HolyTransaction created a new add-on for the Firefox browser only to see the exchange rates for cryptocurrency pairs.
This add-on allows you to see the exchange rates between the most popular currencies using only a couple of clicks.
Exchange rates are available between dollar, euro, bitcoin, litecoin, peercoin,dogecoin, dash, blackcoin and gridcoin.
Eternity Wall
Eternity Wall allows you to write text messages on the blockchain. Those messages cannot be deleted and, even if the Eternity Wall platform goes down or closed, the messages you wrote in here are guaranteed to persist. You can write everything you want: from love messages to contracts and more.
Open Bazaar
This is a peer-to-peer marketplace where you can buy everything using bitcoin as a method of payment. You just have to download the program and start doing some shopping!
Blockchain Info
Here you can see live all the transactions that happened on the bitcoin blockchain. Also you can read statistics, charts, and news about blockchain.info and related to the Bitcoin world.
This is platform that allows to donate bitcoin to people affected by natural disasters. Recently the Helperbit team won a Blockchain startup competition in Amsterdam. The website is still in development and you can read more details about Helperbit by clicking here.
It is a map where you can find all the shops and restaurants that accept bitcoin among their methods of payment.
Bitcoinity
Offers a succinct and graphical overview of the price of Bitcoins and market depth on the major Bitcoin exchanges.
BitLegal
This website explain everything you need to know about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies regulation all around the world.
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15 Apr
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European Parliament hosts a conference on Bitcoin
The European Parliament will host a conference on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
The four days event aims at educating MEPs about new technologies related to finance and economy.
To do so, the event has been organized together with the European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum (EDCAB), a new Bruxelles platform related to Bitcoin and the Blockchain.
The conference will start next week and will see the partecipation of World Bank, IMF, OECD, Nasdaq, Blockchain.info, Bank for International Settlements, United Nations and Europol, among the others.
Syed Kamall, the event host, explained:
“I am pleased to be hosting the exhibition on blockchain and virtual currencies in the European Parliament. Legislators internationally are now looking at this area and how to protect the consumer while stimulating innovation.”
Unfortunately the conference will not be public, but it could represent a great opportunity and an important turn around for the cryptocurrencies ecosystem.
Also, this means that the most insightful companies and banks from all around the world are starting to understand the revolution that Bitcoin and the blockchain represents for our daily life.
About EDCAB
EDCAB aims at helping shape a sound regulatory and policy agenda for virtual currencies and distributed ledger technology in the European Union. We engage with EU policymakers, legislators and key stakeholders on live and upcoming issues, addressing both challenges and opportunities.
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14 Apr
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5 podcasts on Blockchain and Bitcoin You May Need Right Now
Several leading minds in the Bitcoin world share their knowledge on the cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology.
That is why we have list the top 5 poadcasts related to the crypto sector.
Listen to these selected 5 podcasts to learn everything you need to know about Bitcoin and the Blockchain. Click on the images to listen to the podcasts.
1. Khan Academy teachs Bitcoin
Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that aims at educating people about several topics, including Bitcoin.
Some years ago, in fact, Zulfikar Ramzan, expert in computer security and cryptography, created nine videos in which he explained everything about bitcoin.
2. Andreas Antonopoulos talks about Bitcoin
Everyone knows who Andreas Antonopoulos is,and during this poadcast he talks about “The Other 6 Billion” or the 6 billion people who do not have access to financial services.
3. Token Talks by Wing Venture Capital
The show is an interview series with founders of emerging blockchain tech startups.
It’s for people that want to stay ahead of the curve of what’s happening in crypto.
4. Let’s talk about Bitcoin
Let’s talk about Bitcoin is a website where you can find all the most interesting and insightful poadcasts about the crypto world.
And, among their permanent host there is Andreas Antonopolous himself.
5. Anthony Pompliano on Off The Chain
Anthony Pompliano talks about bitcoin, explaining the origins of this cryptocurrency, how new currency was born and its future.
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13 Apr
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AirBnB hires ChangeTip employees
Recently Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk annonunced the possible blockchain application among the company plans for this year.
And now, the company hired several employees from the bitcoin service called ChangeTip.
Among the people hired by AirBnB there is ChangeTip’s CEO and co-founder Nick Sullivan.
Unfortunately we don’t have more details yet.
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Blockchain Project for AirBnb
This news is the pure expression of the optimism that AirBnb has for its blockchain project.
As we previously reported, Blecharczyk explained that blockchain is in the company’s mind.
These were Blecharczyk words:
“I think that, within the context of Airbnb, your reputation is everything, and I can see it being even more so in the future, whereby you might need a certain reputation order to have access to certain types of homes. But then the question is whether there’s a way to export that and allow access elsewhere to help other sharing economy models really flourish. We’re looking for all different kinds of signals to tell us whether someone is reputable, and I could certainly see some of these more novel types of signals being plugged into our engine”.
ChangeTip funds
Recenlty, on December 2014 ChangeTip raised $3.5m in seed funding for its micropayments platform.
The round was guided by Pantera Capital, according to a ChangeTip’s press release.
Other participants in the round were 500 Startups, Boldstart Ventures, CryptoCurrency Partners and Idealab.
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