



Introduction

Huffington Post: Cryptocurrency For Beginners - Bitcoin, Ethereum, And BitGold

Good starter article about crypto currencies including a video with journalist David Seman.





Business and Economy

John Rampton, CoinDesk: The 9 Mistakes I Made When Bringing Blockchain to My Startup

Use the knowledge in this article, if yu are sparting a blockchian startup!

Andy Greenberg, Wired: How to Prove You’re Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

What about the rumors that Craig Wright indeed is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Bitcoinist.net: Blockchain platform Waves raise more than $2m at the Start of the Crowdsale Campaign

Waves made $1 million, while user storms effectively took their servers down.

Jonathan Chester, Forbes: The Blockchain Wars: How Startups And Enterprises Are Competing To Create The Web 2.0

The rush for blockchain technology is indeed a war between startups and enterprises.

George Leopold, datanami: Blockchain Startup Reboots with AI, Machine Learning

The company Coinanalyst is now called Skry and they research in AI and machine laerning.

Ian Kar, Joon Ian Wong, Quartz: Airbnb just acquired a team of bitcoin and blockchain experts

So AirBnB doesn’t want to be distrupted by the blockchain while they are distrupting the hotel industry. So they bought themselves a research team.





Clare McDonald, Computer Weekly: Want to adopt Blockchain? Better start playing, says panel

If you are interested in the blockchain, then start researching it now. Or else it could be too late.





Research and Society

NewsBTC: Standards Australia Maybe Prematurely Calling for Global Blockchain Standards

A global standard for blockchain technology could very well be established in Australia

Chris Kanaracus: Don't believe the blockchain hype: Examining the weaknesses and risks

Know the weeknesses of blockchain technology, when working with it.

Niall Maye, The Cointelegraph: Blockchain Future: A Report From “The Centre Of The Revolution”

A look in the future based on the outcomes of the Money 2020 conference in Europe.



Michael Gord, Bitcoin Magazine: Second Annual Bay BitHack Hackathon Yields New Bitcoin and Blockchain Apps





Use Cases

B. Holmes: GameCredits develops in-game payment API for cryptocurrency

The first open-source crypto currencies with an API for game developers.

BewsBTC: Using Blockchain to Authenticate University Diploma

A interesting use case: save who has got which diploma in a decentralized ledger.

Ether.Camp: Ethereum Studio is ready

The long awaited Ethereum online tool for solidity smart contracts has finally arrived. The development environment is certainly worth a test ride.



Michael del Castillo, CoinDesk: Ethereum Used for ‘First’ Paid Energy Trade Using Blockchain Tech





Crypto Currencies & Security

Elliot Maras, CCN.LA: Multi-currency Wallet BIT.AC Allows Instant Cryptocurrency Exchanges

If you are struggling with a broad portfolio of different crypto currencies there is now a way to keep (almost) all of them in one secure wallet.



Lucian Constantin, IT News: Ransomware Authors Use the Bitcoin Blockchain to Deliver Encryption Keys

We all know the blockchain can be abused for illegal activity also. Learn how ransomware developers benefit.