Cryptocurrency & Blockchain breaking news

Blockchain and cryptocurrency courses are growing in demand as FinTech adoption rises. On September 15, B9lab, a company providing training on Blockchain, announced the graduation and certification of the first Ethereum Blockchain developers course students.

Apple announced the update for its iOS 10 mobile operating system and iMessages that will include the Circle payments app, this may also mean a potential integration of Bitcoin payments along with fiat via the Circle pay app system.

There are still only a few feature films and TV-series about digital currency and distributed ledgers with worldwide recognition. But the writers of new cyber-thriller “StartUp” may change that situation.

The first Blockchain-based system for smart guns, Blocksafe, announce a new project of building up an alternative solution managing access to weapons. Blocksafe launched a new crypto token crowdsale, called “Trigger” (TRIG).

The UAE and Kimberley Process is to use Blockchain technology to fight “blood diamonds” trading on the world market.

Bitcoin mining requires a lot of power to produce new blocks. But what if there was a supercomputer that could mine Bitcoins alone, without any need to use mining farms or the P2P community?

One of the newest cryptocurrency tokens, STEEM Dollars, designed as the reward token on the Blockchain-powered social network Steemit, strengthens its position on cryptocurrency markets and becomes one of the currencies that is gaining popularity faster than any other.

The first physical Bitcoin exchange might soon be opened in the center of Moscow, Russia. Despite the negative attitude of the Russian authorities, several cryptocurrency enthusiasts announced their plans to open a small physical Bitcoin exchange point on the Novy Arbat 8 Street. Previously they only worked through the LocalBitcoins service as BTC24pro, but have now decided to work offline.

Tether announced the launch of a new crypto euro-coin EURT, issued on the Omni Layer protocol. The new decentralized coin allows the transfer of digital assets priced in USD into Euros cheaper over the Bitcoin Blockchain.