Bitcoin

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…

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.

Craig Wright Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto According To New Text Analysis — David Gilbert, www.ibtimes.com

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.

Bitcoin XT Proposal Stalls, But Scalability Debate Continues — CoinDesk

When asked what the lack of consensus on the XT release means for bitcoin, Mike Hearn, who now has minimal involvement with XT, told CoinDesk in an email that he still believes capacity to be a problem on the bitcoin network. “Bitcoin has a strong status quo — XT has shown just how difficult it is to overcome.”

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.”

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…

The Stories That Shaped the Blockchain Narrative in 2015 —Amy Davine Kim, www.coindesk.com

General overview of major blockchain events by a lawyer who specializes in U.S. financial regulation.

The SEC Will Allow Stocks to Be Issued And Traded Over the Internet Via Bitcoin’s Blockchain — Cade Metz, www.wired.com

Public documents filed by Overstock show that the SEC has approved an amended Form S-3 that would allow the company to issue public securities via blockchain-based technology, and Byrne plans to announce…