Blockchain

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…

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…

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.”

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…

Start-Up With Bitcoin in Its DNA Stumbles on Fund-Raising Trail — Nathaniel Popper, www.nytimes.com

“The deal would need to improve materially for us to get involved,” said one executive at a financial firm, who has been looking at putting money into Ms. Masters’s company, speaking on the condition of anonymity because negotiations were continuing. “It’s not supercompelling.”