Cryptocurrency & Blockchain breaking news

Edgeless.io launches its ICO this week with the goal to be the first provably fair casino featuring a 0% house edge.

Zcash, a decentralized and open-source cryptocurrency that has complete anonymity on the blockchain, is causing a lot of worries within law enforcement as most agencies think it will harbour illicit transactions.

BitShares Munich, a Germany-based Blockchain Company offers a stack of financial products including payment systems and mobile banking on a Blockchain and has developed a new project called Stealth. Coinidol.com interviewed BitShares Munich CEO Christoph Hering about their new project.

On February 21, Alexandru Petrescu announces intent to invest in blockchain technology during the Decentralization Conference (D10e) in Bucharest Romania. This marks the world’s fastest growing economy participation in blockchain tech.

In a world where centrally controlled marketplaces dominate our economic system, and privacy and anonymity are not honored - the Safe Exchange Coin organization announces a development roadmap for an anonymous marketplace that is hosted on a blockchain.

In 2016 a new illegal industry emerged in the bitcoin ecosystem. Ransomware, a malicious program with the ability to encrypt a file or lock the user out totally from a computing device. Hackers invented a way of blocking user access to very important servers and demanding a ransom of bitcoin in exchange for an unlocking key.

iEx.ec presented a working demo of the world’s first distributed cloud computing network at the European Ethereum Conference EDCON this week. The French startup, founded by Gilles Fedak Ph.D and Haiwu He, Ph.D, certified experts in distributed computing, aims to be first to market with a new technology that uses blockchain smart contracts to redesign cloud computing.

The Dutch pirate party is demanding the Dutch Government allow every citizen to choose the kind of currency they want to use, including when paying for state services. The Dutch pirate party is one of the over 40 pirate parties worldwide.

As Bitcoin become more powerful and more widespread day by day, many countries are now considering the best ways of harbouring the cryptocurrency. The Philippines is the latest country to consider guidelines that will shape the development of a regulatory standard for Bitcoin.