Blockchain Startup Contest - Call for Applications | CoinDesk
The Blockchainhub Graz and industry partners initiated a Blockchain Startup Contest. 15.000 € in prize money will be given away within two categories, software and hardware startups. The application is still open until October 31, 2016. The entry requirem...BitTorrent Inc. Shuts Down BitTorrent Now, Kicks Out co-CEOs
In an email to staff, the BitTorrent founder has announced that the co-CEOs Robert Delamar and Jeremy Johnson have been removed from their respective positions and the directors' board. The Variety has learned from sources that the company is shutting dow...The Pirate Bay is a 'phishing' site according to Google
Google has issued another warning against The Pirate Bay. Will this be the end of the world's most famous Torrent site? By Czarry May Martin | Oct 06, 2016 02:41 PM EDT The Pirate Bay is a trusted Swedish-based Torrent site, which continuous to survive pr...New P2P Currency Exchange Banks On Transparency
International travelers like Sam Schubert know that exchanging one currency for another is not free. At least, it wasn't. Then uChange came along. The one-year-old startup's app, available in both iOS ( App Store) and Android ( Google Play), offers a "fee...ITWeb Africa
In the face of the growing number of reported peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms in Nigeria and other parts of Africa, public safety can only be protected by combating criminal activity and educating the public on blockchain. Schemes such as MMM Global, MMM Uni...#rpDUB speaker Shermin Voshmgir: What If the Internet Becomes Decentralized?
The vision of a decentralized web collides with the legal structures of today. But whose problem is that, and who is in charge of creating an interface between these forces? These questions are a pressing matter for #rpDUB speaker Shermin Voshmgir, and a ...Monero Loses Darknet Market in Apparent Exit Scam
cointelegraph.comCentralized markets will continue to do this to users until the middle man is removed from the equationLandbay follows Zoopla pairing with new rental comparison tool
Keep up to date with our Northern Powerhouse coverage. Click here for the latest news, opinion and advice. Technology Posted by Billy Wood on 03 Oct 2016 Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Landbay has launched a new comparison tool that will help tenants...Circle, Square, and Venmo: Payment Apps Let You Pay via iMessage
tidbits.comIt was easier to pay a friend back for lunch 17 years ago than it is now, at least if you had a Palm PDA. That's finally changing with the release of iMessage apps that allow peer-to-peer (P2P) payments directly within Messages.Synereo Favored Over Ethereum As Blockchain Platform
valuewalk.comSilicon Valley Selects Synereo Over Ethereum As Blockchain Platform Synereo scored a big win this week when NFX announced a major deal with Synereo. The two will be working together to build the decentralized web on top of Synereo's Blockchain 2.0 platfor...A Case for Decentralized Identity And How uPort Might Solve The Problem
When Bitcoin was released, people started to talk about (and eventually enjoy) the decentralization of money. Today, big companies have dedicated resources to Blockchain labs and research groups, each exploring a particular use case. But money isn't every...University of Glasgow students to use MaidSafe decentralized data network to build apps - EconoTimes
econotimes.comUniversity of Glasgow students to use MaidSafe decentralized data network to build apps Monday, October 3, 2016 12:40 PM UTC The University of Glasgow will be working with MaidSafe team, a start-up developing a fully decentralized and secure approach to t...Decentralized Exchanges: Goxed No More! - Deep Dot Web
Bitcoin was created as a trustless and censorship-resistant currency in which the holder has complete control over his funds. It gives people the ability to be their own bank and to transact directly with one another. Centralized exchanges, despite provid...SingularDTV
A Blockchain Entertainment Studio, Smart Contract Rights Management Platform and Video On-Demand PortalUmbra | a privacy platform by the ShadowProject
Shadow Project aims to provide a platform for complete privacy. We believe that privacy is a right for everyone, and that everyone should be able to access it easily. UMBRA is designed to include the largest range of features, from communication to commer...Introducing OB1 | Union Square Ventures
We have said many times that we believe in emergent, decentralized, start-up innovation. Institutions public and private, no matter how well intentioned, tend to protect their institutional interests, whether is it a current revenue stream, or a position ...YaCy - The Peer to Peer Search Engine: Home
A Peer to Peer Web Search EngineShadow privacy platform update: Where are we at? Let me tell you.
shadowproject.ioGreetings! If you've been curious about our progress, we're happy to announce things are moving forward at a great pace. We've spent the past few months working tirelessly on our code base. Productivity levels have been great; Our team has lots of positiv...When do you think blockchain tech will start to disrupt traditional systems?
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How the father of the World Wide Web plans to reclaim it from Facebook and Google
When the World Wide Web first took off in the mid 1990s, the dream wasn't just big, it was distributed: Everyone would have their own home page, everyone would post their thoughts - they weren't called "blogs" until 1999 - and everyone would own their own...Can OpenBazaar Make Free Trade Unstoppable?
The mission of OpenBazaar is to give everyone in the world "the ability to directly engage in trade with anyone in the world for free," says Brian Hoffman, the project's 33-year-old project leader. A peer-to-peer network for selling goods online, OpenBaza...How Blockchain Technology Could Decentralize The Energy Grid
One day, the energy grid could look completely different than it does today. Instead of big power plants sending electrons over long distances to people's homes, we might generate more power locally using solar panels, and homeowners might become makers a...Ethereum Hard Fork Creates Competing Currencies as Support for Ethereum Classic Rises - CoinDesk
The Ethereum hard fork executed last week as a means of reimbursing investors who lost funds in the collapse of a major project has resulted in the creation of a competing currency on a blockchain replicating the platform's original consensus rules prior ...Hard Fork Completed - Ethereum Blog
We would like to congratulate the Ethereum community on a successfully completed hard fork. Block 1920000 contained the execution of an irregular state change which transferred ~12 million ETH from the "Dark DAO" and "Whitehat DAO" contracts into the With...



