Crowdfund Insider: Ready, Set, $50M ICO! TraneAi Funding Open Source AI-Training Blockchain Ecosystem

Ready, Set, $50M ICO! TraneAi Funding Open Source AI-Training Blockchain Ecosystem
Crowdfund Insider

TraneAi, an emerging player in the rapidly expanding artificial-intelligence market, announced that it will offer the sale of $50 million in tokens to seed its decentralized, open-source AI-development ecosystem built on blockchain technology. "We believe that by building our solution for crowdsourced AI training data... Read More The post Ready, Set, $50M ICO! TraneAi Funding Open Source AI-Training Blockchain Ecosystem appeared first on Crowdfund Insider. Read the full story

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Inc. : This Company is Making Credit Available To 3 Billion People

This Company is Making Credit Available To 3 Billion People
Inc.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are paving the way for a financial revolution. Read the full story

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DZone: Blockwatch: Demystifying the ICO

Blockwatch: Demystifying the ICO
DZone

Welcome to the first installment of 'Blockwatch,' my semi-regular observations on the world of Blockchain related events, news and projects. Even if you aren't sure what Blockchain is, how it works, or why it's important, you might have recently encountered a three letter acronym with increasing regularity. An ICO, or 'initial coin offering' has gained popularity in the world of projects looking to raise money. To some, they are a trend that will quickly fade. To others, they are a skeptical way Read the full story

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International Business Times: Vitalik Buterin On ICOs, The Future Of Fiat And The Cypherpunk Community

Vitalik Buterin On ICOs, The Future Of Fiat And The Cypherpunk Community
International Business Times

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin caused quite a stir when he entered the hip Tel Aviv bar this Thursday. The open room overflowed with more than a hundred cryptocurrency fans and curious friends. Most were Israeli men from the local tech industry, from bald polo-shirt-wearing programmers to hacktivists with dreadlocks. There was even a rogue teenager, allowed in with his dad because the underage bitcoin trader idolizes Buterin. Read the full story

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Business Insider UK: There's more to blockchain tech than just bitcoin

There's more to blockchain tech than just bitcoin
Business Insider UK

Blockchain technology is not something you hear a lot as the term is not bandied about casually. It is not the cloud or the internet that you will understand and absorb it by the snap of your fingers. It's not your regular smartphone which you can easily touch. What is Blockchain Technology? Our lives revolve around the internet nowadays, everything we do is on the internet now. Our banking transactions, our shopping everything can be done online. Ours is slowly turning out to be an app-friendly Read the full story

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FORTUNE: Blockchain Startup R3 Sues Rival Ripple Labs

Blockchain Startup R3 Sues Rival Ripple Labs
FORTUNE

New York-based blockchain startup R3 has sued rival company Ripple Labs over a contract to purchase Ripple's digital currency XRP, according to a lawsuit filed in the Delaware Chancery Court on Friday. R3 and Ripple are two of the most well known blockchain companies and are both backed by large banks. In September 2016 the two companies had entered an agreement giving R3, the right to purchase up to 5 billion XRPs at a price of $0.0085 per unit at any point by September 2019, according to the Read the full story

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The Blockchain News: How Blockchain is Going to Change Accounting Forever

How Blockchain is Going to Change Accounting Forever
The Blockchain News

Blockchain came to the world's attention thanks to its role as the underlying technology behind Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency. However, Blockchain has much farther reaching possibilities than digital currency. Blockchain, a distributed ledger technology, has the potential for applications in the stock market, banking, and beyond. One industry that is sure to see disruption from Blockchain is accounting. From audit to bookkeeping, Blockchain has the potential to improve efficiency, Read the full story

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VentureBeat: What Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’ tells us about the state of blockchain

What Switzerland's 'Crypto Valley' tells us about the state of blockchain
VentureBeat

GUEST: The proliferation of blockchain startups and their mammoth ICOs show there's a lot of interest in decentralizing applications and services. And though it's an oxymoron, we're now seeing a few "centers" of "decentralization" emerging — a handful of cities engaged in serious jurisdictional competition to become the prime innovation hub for blockchain-based technologies. Places like Dubai, Singapore, and Zug, Switzerland are making efforts to position themselves in the lead, but Zug, known Read the full story

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Enterprise Times: Might the Federal Reserve bless blockchains?

Might the Federal Reserve bless blockchains?
Enterprise Times

The US Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed), in a new research paper , almost blesses blockchain. This is a significant development, though not yet one cast in stone. The paper is: "Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System; Federal Reserve Next Steps in the Payments Improvement Journey". Despite the title's length it makes for interesting... Read the full story

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Dice Insights: Why You Should Get a Job in Blockchain

Why You Should Get a Job in Blockchain
Dice Insights

Although experienced blockchain developers are in demand and command large salaries, the technology underlying blockchain is still in its infancy. The future for the digital asset platform looks bright—but it's also unpredictable. For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, "blockchain" is an interconnected series of records (known as "blocks") that are resistant to alteration or hacking thanks to strong encryption. Because of that security, blockchain can serve as a transparent register of Read the full story

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Bitcoinist.net: ICOBox Provides Solution for Unregulated ICO Market

ICOBox Provides Solution for Unregulated ICO Market
Bitcoinist.net

The sheer volume of money that has been flowing into crypto has raised eyebrows everywhere, with million dollar market caps being created over night. The ICOBox team has developed a platform to help new start-ups enter this insane world of lots of money. [Note: This is a sponsored article.] The Year of the ICO Hundreds of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have launched in the past year, giving blockchain based start-ups the opportunity to raise millions of dollars in mere days. This radical new way Read the full story

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Bitcoinist.net: ICOBox Provides Solution for Unregulated ICO Market

ICOBox Provides Solution for Unregulated ICO Market
Bitcoinist.net

The sheer volume of money that has been flowing into crypto has raised eyebrows everywhere, with million dollar market caps being created over night. The ICOBox team has developed a platform to help new start-ups enter this insane world of lots of money. [Note: This is a sponsored article.] The Year of the ICO Hundreds of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have launched in the past year, giving blockchain based start-ups the opportunity to raise millions of dollars in mere days. This radical new way Read the full story

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Best Products: 11 Powerful Brain Foods That Can Help Naturally Boost Cognitive Function

11 Powerful Brain Foods That Can Help Naturally Boost Cognitive Function
Best Products

If you're feeling foggy midway through the workday, overwhelmed with stress, or struggling to focus, don't fret — you're not alone! Luckily, there are some powerful brain foods that can naturally help boost cognitive function throughout the day to improve focus, clarity, and calm. From functional adaptogenic herbs to energizing snacks and elixirs, these brain foods will help you break out of that mental funk. Note: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Read the full story

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Futurity: We have 27 kinds of emotion, not just 6

We have 27 kinds of emotion, not just 6
Futurity

A new study has pinpointed 27 separate categories of human emotions, challenging an old assumption in psychology that most emotions can be categorized as happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, or disgust. Using novel statistical models to analyze the responses of more than 800 men and women to over 2,000 emotionally evocative video clips, researchers identified the 27 distinct categories of emotion and created a multidimensional, interactive map to show how they're connected. "Emotional Read the full story

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MarketWatch: Crypto exec says bitcoin is in a bubble — but it could still hit $5 trillion market cap

Crypto exec says bitcoin is in a bubble — but it could still hit $5 trillion market cap
MarketWatch

It's not quite the $500,000 forecast John McAfee wagered his manhood on, but Aaron Lasher, co-founder and CMO of Breadwallet, sees bitcoin's market cap exploding to as high as $5 trillion within the next 10 years. Read the full story

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Bloomberg: Elevation's McNamee Says Bitcoin Is Probably in a Bubble

Elevation's McNamee Says Bitcoin Is Probably in a Bubble
Bloomberg

Elevation Partners co-founder Roger McNamee discusses the rise of cryptocurrencies with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology." Read the full story

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Finance - Rolling Alpha: Bitcoin Hyperinflation: How To Print Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Hyperinflation: How To Print Cryptocurrency
Finance - Rolling Alpha

A couple of weeks ago, I tracked the performance of the Venezuelan stock market (under hyperinflation) against the performance of Bitcoin. At the time, I thought it was just a weird anomaly. But since then, I've been doing some thinking. And I'd like to throw something out there, into this unregulated world of cryptocurrencies. And please just bear with me until the end – there are a few things that I need to cover first. First, here's a reminder of that graph: The blue area represents the Read the full story

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Barron's: ETF Flopper: Bitcoin Investment Trust Sinks 20%

ETF Flopper: Bitcoin Investment Trust Sinks 20%
Barron's

Citron Research is bearish on this bitcoin fund, but not the digital currency itself. Read the full story

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Barron's: ETF Flopper: Bitcoin Investment Trust Sinks 20%

ETF Flopper: Bitcoin Investment Trust Sinks 20%
Barron's

Citron Research is bearish on this bitcoin fund, but not the digital currency itself. Read the full story

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Chron.com: The fifth largest cryptocurrency surges past $80 per coin

The fifth largest cryptocurrency surges past $80 per coin
Chron.com

Noah Luis Litecoin is riding the cryptocurrency wave. The fifth largest cryptocurrency on the market surpassed $80 per coin Friday afternoon, as more well-known digital currencies such as bitcoin and ethereum continue to reach new heights. Litecoin is up 12.98% since yesterday at $82.50 per coin. Read the full story

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MarketWatch: What will we see first: Dow 30,000 or bitcoin $30,000?

What will we see first: Dow 30,000 or bitcoin $30,000?
MarketWatch

U.S. stocks have been enjoying a strong run this year—over the past several years, really—but it's nothing like the gains that have been seen in digital currencies. The moves have been so dramatic that it seems reasonable to ask: what will come first, Dow 30,000 or bitcoin at $30,000? Read the full story

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Business Insider: Here are 8 of the most bizarre cryptocurrencies on the market

Here are 8 of the most bizarre cryptocurrencies on the market
Business Insider

The cryptocurrency market has exploded this year. Digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, are powered by distributed ledger technology and are not controlled by a centralized authority. Cryptocurrencies have been around for almost a decade but the rapid appreciation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies this year has peaked the interest of Wall Street and Main Street alike. Bitcoin, for instance, recently surpassed $4,800. It's up over 700% since 2016 and ether, the token powering the ethereum Read the full story

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