1 Apr
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HolyTransaction Bitcoin Roundup March 2016
Welcome to HolyTransaction’s third monthly recap for the new year of 2016. This past month of March has been marked by continued interest in blockchain from everywhere; during that time, the bitcoin price rose from a high of $435.23 on March 1st to a low of $414.66 on March 31st, according to Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.
It’s time to Blockchain-ize things like sneakers with Chronicled
A new blockchain startup, Chronicled, is planning to blockchain-ize the growing multi billion dollar industry that is sneakers. The company has raised $3.4 million on Crunchbase for its mission. The phenomenon of thousand dollar shoes for the male market has somewhat been predicted by similar economic pressures in shoes for females. Chronicled will use the blockchain to bring accountability and cleaner profits to this and other similarly affected industries.
Even Disney wants a piece of the blockchain action
The most recent surprise blockchain job opening is from Disney. While the corporate giant has many diversified products, this is a prime example of blockchain technology’s ability to help any company save in the middle and back office. Disney also probably has an interest in forever securing their rights via multiple blockchains.
VISA is planning its own blockchain for internal use. They are hiring an engineer/developer to help them and are also working with Chain.com. VISA believes that this area will have a critical impact on the future of the industry and wants to get ahead of the curve. Other companies from around the world that are creating blockchain labs and teams include Hitachi, Phillips, and even Walt Disney.
Ethereum’s newest version, Homestead, has officially launched. The price of ether was very volatile around the release of this software as new users rushed in. Homestead replaces Frontier, and allows users to begin using the smart contract technology. Already, companies are being built around the Ethereum blockchain.
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31 Mar
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Disney wants to the develop its private Blockchain
The Walt Disney Company has announced its decision to develop a private blockchain.
Some days ago, in fact, the company published a job post for a “Disney Private Blockchain Intern” in Seattle, Washington within the Disney Technology Solutions and Services Business office.
But the job post has now disappeared, so probably this means that the position has already been occupied.
The job proposal
These are the words of the original job post.
“The Disney Private Blockchain team assists business segment users and developers research and develop software mechanisms to protect privacy in distributed ledger participation. DTSS Engineering Services (Keystone and DPBC) applications and services. We provide the support, consulting, and solutions to meet the tactical needs of our customer’s business”.
The main goal is security
So, the Disney Private Blockchain team will research and develop a software that aims at protecting privacy, but unfortunately Disney didn’t reveal more details about the blockchain network.
We only know that the project is about designing and implementing an access control using blockchain technologies for Disney Corporate, ABC, ESPN, Disney Interactive and Walt Disney Productions.
More companies studying the blockchain
Recently we read about lots of important and worldwide companies who decided to invest in the blockchain and/or in bitcoins.
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