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In an indication that cryptocurrencies may be entering a new life stage, where some value does have to lie behind the venture selling the tokens, David Drake has agreed to join the advisory team of BitMinutes, a cyber-currency that already has a business model using it, and a social mission at its core.

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London bridge is falling down, my fair Lady…

Rentberry is a decentralized rental firm that unites landlords and tenants at one platform with means of blockchain technology. With the well-established business since 2015, this online marketplace facilitates the organized listing of the properties by landlords and prospective bidding by the renters on such listing.

2017 is definitely the year you should start caring about your online privacy, and the number of VPN users has hugely risen those past few months. Why?

CRYPTOCREDITCARD's token pre-sale access until November 29, and ICO open on December 4.

The crypto-industry development has reached an unprecedented scale, and even the latest Ethereum platform-based blockchain development (Ether) sometimes takes quite a long time to cope with processing such a large influx of transactions in a few minutes.

Peer-to-peer and marketplace lending had been developing exponentially in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Alternative lending platforms, such as Lending Club, Zopa, and Prosper, came as an answer to credit terms tightening. Having less access to affordable loans, while still having huge demand for these kinds of financial services, borrowers needed a new solution. And peer-to-peer lending eventually eliminated the middlemen.

Interview with Anton Dzyatkovsky, co-founder of MicroMoney on how the “unbanked” worldwide can finally get a financial start through blockchain technology.

When one wants to get a big loan, to buy a car for example, no one will think that a bank is doing something bad and unethical by giving him a loan. But if someone needs to buy a microwave, people might think that this microcredit was given to him with a very bad intention. Why does this happen? Why do all these myths about the microfinance business still exist – we asked Anton Dzyatkovsky, co-owner of MicroMoney, a company which specializes in microfinance in Asia, to help us understand why there are so many myths and superstitions about small loans. This is what he told us.