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Gyft Unveils New Tech for Blockchain-Powered Gift Cards

Gyft has partnered with Chain to create Gyft Block, a digital gift card trading platform, as part of its drive towards 'gift cards 2.0'.

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Tecnología

OpenBazaar Raises $1 Million for Decentralised Marketplace

Decentralized marketplace protocol developer OpenBazaar, has raised $1m from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.

Dollars-funding

Tecnología

Blockstream to Release First Open Source Code for Sidechains

Blockstream has announced the release of the first open source code for sidechains, its signature project aimed at bitcoin scalability issues.

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USAA Studying How Blockchain Tech Could Decentralize Operations

Fortune 500 financial services group USAA has created a team to study how blockchain technology could decentralize its operations.

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CoinDesk Releases Cryptocurrency 2.0 Report

CoinDesk's latest research report, Cryptocurrency 2.0, is available to download from today.

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Swarm Targets Blockchain Governance in Platform Pivot

Swarm is pivoting toward decentralized governance, a decision that finds the project shifting away from its prior focus on distributed crowdfunding.

governance, government

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Wall Street Bank BNY Mellon Experimenting With Bitcoin Rewards

Developers for Bank of New York Mellon Corp have been experimenting with bitcoin for use in a newly created bank program.

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Factom Raises $140k in First Day of 'Software Sale'

Factom has raised 579 BTC, or roughly $140,000, through the first day of its software sale.

Factom

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ProTip App Proposes Bitcoin Solution for Content Monetization

In an interview with CoinDesk, developer Chris Ellis discusses the ProTip project and how it hopes to solve past micropayments challenges.

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Coinkite Tor Release Lets Developers Bypass Bitcoin Bans

Bitcoin wallet and technology provider Coinkite has announced Bitkit, its bitcoin wallet API, is now available on Tor.

Anonymity, privacy