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Blockchain Capital, which focuses on investing in bitcoin and blockchain startups, announced late February its intentions to raise $50 million for a new fund partly through the issuance of a proprietary digital token. The San-Francisco-based firm’s Managing Partner, Brock Pierce,…

Traditionally, hedge funds have been run by seasoned investment managers who have been strategically picking financial securities and assets to invest in to generate absolute returns for their investors. In the last ten years, many hedge funds moved on from…

With the highly successful crowdfunding of ICONOMI, raising more than $10 million collectively, it showed the world that the sector of financial management and hedge funds was in dire need of a fresh injection of innovation. While ICONOMI has stated…

Blockchain consultancy Blockchain Partners and digital asset crowdfunding platform TokenMarket announced that they are collaborating to offer consulting services to startups looking to raise capital through Initial Coin Offerings, also known as ICOs. ICOs have boomed in the past 12…

Major multi-billion dollar banks and financial institutions have begun to compete with one another regarding patent registry. Leaders of the global financial industry including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have assembled a series of patents necessary to commercialize the…

Barry Silbert, founder of Digital Currency Group, a bitcoin investment fund which oversees 19 major bitcoin exchanges across the world, announced that he would be entering 2017 with no public stock, fixed income or debt. Instead, he intends to focus…

It is now known that blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt the traditional financial model as well as the way how international transactions are carried out. This new technology is now seen as inevitable and it seems that a…

Since the 2008 financial crisis and the ‘Great Recession’, one asset stood out as the ‘safe haven’ investment that investors flocked to. That asset was gold. The price of gold increased by over 20 percent during the ‘Great Recession’ from…

Overstock is one of the biggest names in the Bitcoin and blockchain world. Not only is the company an early adopter of Bitcoin payments through the Overstock.com website, but they are actively exploring blockchain development. By investing in SettleMint, a…

The cryptocurrency and blockchain space has grown considerably in the past few years, with heavy investment flowing from both capital investment to a new form of investment called the initial coin offering, or ICO, which is uniquely offered through blockchain…

After what was likely an unpleasant Summer recovering after a damaging hack for the team at Gatecoin, the Hong-Kong based cryptocurrency exchange is starting to make their presence felt once again. They have announced themselves as being one of the…

Ever since the ICONOMI ICO kicked off a little while ago, there has been great interest in the project. The team has reached some significant milestones in the meantime, including surpassing the 10,000 Bitcoin mark for the ICO itself. At…

Compiled from contributions by Alexander Lielacher, Jamie Holmes, Joseph Young, JP Buntinx, Michael Scott and Nigel Dollentas. Santander sees Bitcoin as a Risk to Card Issuers A recent report issued by Spanish banking giant, Santander, highlights Bitcoin’s benefits over typical…

Since its inception in 2013, the Nxt Community always manifested a great commitment, and supportive engagement, for the project. Now, a leading investor within the community known as the ‘Megalodon’, referring to the fact this individual is the single largest…

Investors unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies may be hard pressed to select ones to build a portfolio with. At first, there was bitcoin and litecoin, analogous to gold and silver, but bitcoin’s dominance has been challenged recently by the rise of cryptocurrencies…

Since the Blockchain technology first appeared with the launch of the digital currency bitcoin in 2009, it has has been hailed to become as revolutionary and impactful on society as the Internet. This decentralized, open-source ledger software can be augmented…

Due to the open-source nature of Bitcoin and blockchain technologies, new cryptocurrencies enter the market on a regular basis offering different features than its pioneering predecessor bitcoin. One of these new cryptocurrencies is Lisk with the ticker LSK. Skip ahead…

Representatives from the blockchain industry including experts, consultants, and executives traveled to Philadelphia’s Democratic National Convention to discuss the application of blockchain technology to politics with political leaders and global representatives. At the 2016 International Leaders Forum, one of the…