Issue #76

9 - 15 May 2015

This week, my partner at CoinGecko, TM Lee gave a presentation on evaluating the potential of alternative cryptocurrencies at Inside Bitcoins Hong Kong. It's been a great week most definitely!

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Latest News

Honduras has agreed to use Factom to build a permanent and secure land title record system according to Factom's president, Peter Kirby.

TradeBlock did an analysis on Bitfinex to explain the huge drop in price mid-week.

Bitcoin security specialist Xapo has relocated its headquarters to Switzerland in a bid to boost customer privacy protections.

Market

What is stealth startup 21 working on? Documents suggest a comprehensive plan to use mining and micropayments to expand the bitcoin network.

A NYTimes article exploring the possibility that Nick Szabo is the real Satoshi Nakomoto. A real interesting read that got more facts right compared to the Newsweek "exposé"

Nasdaq has catapulted bitcoin into the headlines again this week, announcing that the world’s second largest exchange will be running a surprisingly forward-thinking pilot program: trading stock shares on a blockchain.

Ecosystem

A Redditor summarized the views of Bitcoin Core developers and show that not all core devs agree with Gavin Andresen's proposal to increase the block size limit to 20MB.

CoinDesk highlights the best pitches from Boost VC's Tribe 5 Demo Day, held at The Circus Club in Atherton, California, on 7th May.

Legal

MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde has published new criticism of New York's proposed bitcoin regulation.

Houman Shadab, a professor at New York Law School gave his opinion on itBit's recent obtainment of a New York banking law charter.

Learn

Ian Lee, FTMBA 10, Senior Vice President, Citi Ventures gives a talk at UC Berkeley on why Bitcoin will change everything.