This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. http://cryptscout.com Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency News 24/7 from CryptScout.com en-us http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=2006&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal With the exponential growth of cryptocurrency businesses, investing can be complex. This complexity has no doubt hindered mass adoption and prompted the need for trusted user-friendly tools to attract more traditional investors.Specializing in blockchain and smart contract technology, the Canadian technology company Rublix is building a network that could make - not just cryptocurrency trading - but any trading less complex. They are launching the Rublix platform so that investors across the 2017-11-07 18:20:12 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=2005&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal nnnnnnnnnAlongside Bitcoins meteoric rise in global interest andnprice has been a frenzy of activity aroundinitial coinnofferings ICO.According to the online coin offering trackerCoinschedule,nin 2017 alone there have been nearly 250 ICOs collectively raising over $3nbillion. This heightened interest combined with the potential for lucrativenreturns has prompted fears in some investment circles that we are facing anbubble. Indeed, the bubble seems to have already popped to some extent, withnf 2017-11-07 18:20:08 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=2004&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal In October 2017, LendEDU, a marketplace for financing loans, credit cards and other financial products, polled 1,000 Americans asking a series of questions related to Ethereum, Ripple and initial coin offerings ICOs. They did this to gain insight into the average Americans perception of cryptocurrency. The poll was conducted by online polling company OnePoll, which acted as a third party and was able to provide an age and gender breakdown of respondents. The poll was answered by 1,000 America 2017-11-07 01:15:08 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=2003&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal Alex Tapscott, CEO of NextBlock Global, a venture capital company investing in blockchain technologies, announced in a press release yesterday that he is canceling their plans to go public through a reverse takeover RTO of Nobelium Tech Corp., a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange TSX. Tapscott said the young company had stumbled in falsely listing some crypto and blockchain experts as members of the firms advisory board. He is currently talking to NextBlock investors to work out how 2017-11-07 01:15:06 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=2002&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal Blockstream is introducing Simplicity, a new programming language for blockchain-based smart contracts, intended for inclusion in Blockstreams sidechains and eventually in Bitcoin. The new language was presented by its creator, Russell O'Connor, Infrastructure Tech Developer at Blockstream, at the ACM SIGSAC Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security PLAS 2017.Simplicity is a blockchain programming language that is so simple, it fits on a t-shirt, O'Connor told Bitc 2017-11-04 04:15:07 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=17&ref=490&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal Amazon has registered three different domain names, all of them related to blockchain and cryptocurrency. 2017-11-03 12:55:06 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=2001&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal Bitcoin has had a quite a year thus far, to say the least. A 10x return since the beginning of the year has put bitcoin on a parabolic growth path that is testing the limits of this 2-year long bull marketFigure 1 BTC-USD, 3-Day Candles, Parabolic Growth EnvelopeThe gains have been incredible for those trading bitcoin for the last couple years, and it appears that this parabolic envelope is coming to a close. In order for this bull market to remain viable, it will need to keep up on a very ag 2017-11-03 02:20:13 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=2000&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal BTC Media, the largest media group in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, announced the launch of BTC Labs, a venture studio focusing on launching and incubating blockchain applications for the digital media industry on September 25, 2017.BTC Labs, in turn, introduced Storyboard Ventures, a venture financing arm of the organization, seeded with $2 million to fund forward-thinking and promising media projects. According to BTC Media, Storyboard Ventures will be vigorously searching for th 2017-11-03 02:20:05 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1999&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal nnnnnnnnnIn his book Down The Rabbit Hole Discover The Power of Blockchain, author Tim Leanhighlights the evolution of smart contracts and their use ensuing from thenblockchain. nnThe term smart contract was first coined by ancomputer scientist Nick Szabo, Lea writes. In his 1996 article in thenmagazine Extrophy, he broadly described a smart contract as thenability to bring refined legal practices of contract law to the e-commercenprotocols between strangers and the internet. nnIn their most 2017-11-02 19:05:07 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=17&ref=489&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal The malware has been around since last year and has been targeting popular cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, ZCash, Ethereum, Monero and others. 2017-11-02 15:30:08 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1998&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal Increasing improvements to blockchain technology which allows for the transfer of ownership without the use of a centralized third party such as a bank has resulted in the mass availability of blockchain smart contracts. A smart contract is a prewritten software program that automatically performs each party's obligation in an if-then format, while taking advantage of blockchain's decentralized verification system. Uber-secure cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, use the same type o 2017-11-01 17:45:06 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=4&ref=224&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal 2017-11-01 02:20:07 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1997&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal On the anniversary of the publication of Satoshi Nakamotos Bitcoin white paper, the price of Bitcoin reached a new all-time high, following the news that CME Group, one of the worlds largest derivatives exchanges, will launch a Bitcoin futures product on November 14, 2017.Futures or derivatives in general are understood by their relationship to risk. They are investment products that can be bought and sold in the future based on being pinned to a fixed price through a contractual agreement. B 2017-10-31 22:35:16 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1996&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal Artificial Intelligence AI startup SingularityNET, recently covered by Wired as the most tech-hype idea of the year, wants to democratize AI research and facilitate the emergence of human-level AI on a decentralized, open-source platform.SingularityNET operates on a belief that the benefits of AI should not be dominated by any small set of powerful institutions but should be shared by all. A key goal of SingularityNET is to ensure the technology is benevolent according to human standards, and 2017-10-31 22:15:41 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1995&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal The prime minister of Slovenias speech in support of blockchain technologythis week has solidified the countrys position as the leading blockchain destination in the European Union and a key player in the regulatory field.After the difficult ordeal of the economic crisis we are coming back to life, we are growing again, and we are finding that we are creating numerous success stories, which inspire us but also obligate us, said Prime Minister Miro Cerar. We have emerged from the crisis stron 2017-10-31 22:15:17 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1994&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal On October 27, 2017, disruptors in the cryptocurrency field gathered at the San Francisco Ethereal Summit.Sponsored by ConsenSys,the summit provided a diverse mix of panels and workshops that demystified the initial coin offering ICO or token generation event.Side note Vernacular is key. Referring to a token launch as an ICO is soSeptember. The process is now referred to as a token generation event. At the How to Launch a Token panel, token generation event veterans Galia Benartzi co-founder 2017-10-31 22:15:06 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1993&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal Todays native advertising world, where a publication's editorial content is paid for by an advertiser to promote their product or service is fraught with challenges threatening the ad industry. Due in part to the growing dominance of digital media giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, display advertising conversions continue to experience a decline. This trend has spurred efforts to find new solutions for navigating the prevailing advertising ecosystem in a scalable, trustworthy and 2017-10-31 19:30:25 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1992&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal nnnnnnnnnThe global healthcarenmarket is vast and complex, with equity funding to digital health companiesnhaving reached $5.8 billion so far this year. Within this space, myriad modelsnof healthcare delivery are being employed as breakthrough technologies are introduced. nnnnA concept thats gainingnincreased attention is the patient-oriented medical network. In this model, patients can manage and control their healthcare datanthrough a mobile electronic medical record EMR information theyre 2017-10-31 19:30:17 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1991&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal The hard fork part of the New York Agreement is scheduled to take place within about two weeks. This incompatible protocol rule change is set to increase Bitcoins block weight limit, to allow for more transactions on the network if everyone adopts the change. Otherwise, it will create a new blockchain and currency that may or may not be considered to be Bitcoin.The list of signatories of this agreement includes several of the largest Bitcoin startups and mining pools that, together, claim to 2017-10-31 19:30:06 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=17&ref=488&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal JsMiner and CpuMiner were discovered by Trend Micro in three Android apps, which could have significant consequences for users. 2017-10-31 08:40:06 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=20&ref=1990&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal After bouncing back and forth from $5100 to $6100, BTC-USD managed to squeeze out one more albeit short-lived all-time high. This article is going to present an update to the last discussion regarding the potential Wyckoff Distribution and provide a more contextualized, macro-view of the current bitcoin market. Before reading any further, I would like to emphasize the word potential within the context of this discussion because until the market actually reverses, this is nothing more than a p 2017-10-30 23:00:16 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=9&ref=6040&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal &8230nThe post Ethereum and Bitcoin Price Decline Again Major Factors For Mid-Term Recovery appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews.n 2017-10-30 10:45:45 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=9&ref=6038&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal &8230nThe post Catalonia Considers Separate Digital Currency and E-Residency Program appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews.n 2017-10-30 10:45:44 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=9&ref=6039&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal &8230nThe post Putin Approves Framework for ICO, Cryptocurrency Regulation appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews.n 2017-10-30 10:45:44 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2017-10-30 10:45:41 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=9&ref=6034&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal The post ICO Analysis Brickblock appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews.n 2017-10-30 10:45:41 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=9&ref=6032&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal &8230nThe post GBMiners We Havent Pulled Out of the SegWit2x Agreement appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews.n 2017-10-30 10:45:40 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=9&ref=6031&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal &8230nThe post BTC-e Users&8217 Funds Stuck in Limbo as Exchange Blames Third Party appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews.n 2017-10-30 10:45:39 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=9&ref=6030&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal &8230nThe post Bitcoin Cash Price Tops $500, Ethereum Price Rises 6 in Major Market Gains appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews.n 2017-10-30 10:45:34 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http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=9&ref=6025&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal &8230nThe post Cryptocurrencies Raise Significant Issues for Authorities Australias Central Bank appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews.n 2017-10-30 10:45:13 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5390&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n A recent report from the UK Treasurys National Crime Agency suggests that Bitcoin is a low risk for money laundering but high risk for cybercrime.n 2017-10-30 06:45:06 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5388&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n The number of crypto hedge funds continues to explode, with more than 120 dedicated hedge funds now active, seeking to catch the wave of growth.n 2017-10-29 17:15:41 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5389&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n Here you go.n 2017-10-29 17:15:41 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5387&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n During the audit of Bank of Korea by the National Assembly, its governor claimed that digital currencies like Bitcoin cannot be regarded as money based on the definition of the Bank of International Settlements. Find out more.n 2017-10-29 17:15:39 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5386&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n Find out which eight businesses are being launched by Japanese SBI Group.n 2017-10-29 17:15:35 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5385&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n Wouldl you believe that people in mainland China could trade and exchange Bitcoin againn 2017-10-29 17:15:31 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5384&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n Famous Wall Street investor Bill Miller has revealed that he invested 30 percent of his funds assets into Bitcoin in early 2016 and has posted 72 percent gains in 2017.n 2017-10-29 17:15:26 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5383&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n At the opening ceremony of the 7th Corporate Social Responsibility Lebanon Forum in late October 2017, Lebanese central bank Governor told that the bank bans the use of cryptocurrencies across Lebanon due to their resemblance of commodities.n 2017-10-29 17:15:21 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5382&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n Based on the new monetary law issued by Vietnam's central bank, Bitcoin and other virtual cryptocurrencies are already considered as illegal and their use will be prohibited in the country.n 2017-10-29 17:15:15 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=5&ref=5957&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal The authors of a new book explain what mainstream financial pundits still don't grasp about this space even if the markets are starting to get it. 2017-10-29 17:15:15 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=12&ref=5381&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal n AIHedge Funds millions in your pocketn 2017-10-29 17:15:07 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=5&ref=5956&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal Must ICOs choose between a non-compliant utility token or a complaint security token that doesnt work in commerce Jaron Lukasiewicz proposes a fix. 2017-10-29 17:15:07 http://cryptscout.com/news-portal/?id=1&ref=3754&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news-portal People will soon be able to buy and sell insurance policies using the blockchain-based platform, fidentiaX, which is creating the world&8217s first tradeable insurance marketplace. Note This is a press release. Most people do not know that insurance policies with cash value are tradeable on the market for higher returns. In 2014 alone, $57 billion 250,000 policies of the estimated $112 billion USD of policies lapsed and surrendered could have been resold on the market.nRead MorenThe post Fid 2017-10-29 05:05:10