Blockchain-based microgrid gives power to consumers in New York — Aviva Rutkin, www.newscientist.com

Something odd is happening on President Street in Brooklyn. While solar panels on the roofs of terraced houses soak up sun, a pair of computers connected to the panels quietly crunch numbers. First, they count how many…

IBM has just open-sourced 44,000 lines of blockchain code on GitHub
thenextweb.com — Kirsty Styles

IBM is part of the Linux-based Hyperledger project, where the code will sit, whose founding members represent just about everyone who stands to lose if the whole world agrees to change the way it does interactions.

Spread Your DNA Across The Globe — Genecoin.me

Genecoin samples your DNA, turns it into data, and stores it in the world’s most powerful supercomputer: the Bitcoin network.

Humans currently preserve their genes by passing them down across generations. This is an incredible, but utimately unreliable…

Overstock.com Announces Historic Blockchain Public Offering — GlobeNewswire, NASDAQ.com

Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK) today announced at the 41st Annual International Futures Industry Conference its plan to complete the world’s first public offering using proprietary blockchain technology. The offering will allow…

Nasdaq Linq Enables First-Ever Private Securities Issuance Documented With Blockchain Technology— www.nasdaq.com

NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that an issuer was able to use its Nasdaq Linq blockchain ledger technology to successfully complete and record a private securities…

A Bitcoin-Style Currency for Central Banks — Tom Simonite
www.technologyreview.com

[R]esearchers have invented a Bitcoin-like system that could make digital cash more practical by allowing a central bank such as the Federal Reserve to control it.

The system, RSCoin, was…

Ethereum Blockchain Project Launches First Production Release — Jacob Donnelly, www.coindesk.com

Next-generation blockchain platform Ethereum has released ‘Homestead’ the first production release of its software, which was implemented at block 1,150,000 today.

The introduction follows Frontier…

16 Blockchain Technology Predictions of 2016 — Andrew Keys, ConsenSys

Many who used the terms “blockchain” or “distributed ledger”, may learn they actually meant Ethereum. …

Scalability will take prominence as the holy grail of public blockchain technology. Ethereum will establish itself as the…

On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture — Tony Arcieri
tonyarcieri.com

A skeptical look at the hype around blockchains from a self-described crypto “dabbler” who works on the platform security team at Square and who has some very interesting things to say here, and in the related “Death of Bitcoin.”

The Bitcoin Believer Who Gave Up — Nathaniel Popper, www.nytimes.com

Mike Hearn quits Bitcoin, and the NYT takes a look back at the rancorous block-size showdown.