Bitcoin News Radio Show, 5th September 2018
Listen to the 5 September 2018 Bitcoin News Radio Show below. [su_audio url=”https://anchor.fm/s/58aba88/podcast/play/1275751/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F2018-8-5%2F4422413-44100-2-c6dd2b370f974.mp3″] On this edition of the Bitcoin News daily radio show, we discuss how ShapeShift will no longer be anonymous, and new data which shows Lightning Network capacity has exceeded 100 Bitcoins. Hear about how marijuana publication High Times is accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum for […]
Chinese Justice Department Uses Blockchain to Track Parolees
Officials in the southern Chinese city of Zhongshan have instituted a blockchain system to track the movements of those on parole in the district. The new blockchain network is said to improve the quality of community correction that the justice department can serve, upgrading its ability to track parolees activities around the clock. Monitoring the community prisoners […]
Tech Giants Take on Opioid Addiction with DLT
IBM has announced that it is now planning to use a blockchain-enabled health surveillance system in order to collect data on antibiotics and opioids prescriptions by doctors. Opioid prescription abuse is becoming a problem worldwide with figures showing that their illicit use has now overtaken heroin. Globally, prescription opioid pain relievers are now among the […]
Great Barrier Reef Resort Looks to Crypto for Funding $216 Million Rebuild
Great Keppel Island on the Great Barrier Reef may once again begin to attract Australian tourists and others from all over the world, through cryptocurrency. After ten years of sitting dormant, the island’s resort off Queensland’s central coast was recently demolished. It was last bought by Sydney-based company Tower Holdings in 2006 and was shut down […]
High Times IPO Will Accept Bitcoin, Ether
Popular marijuana-themed publication High Times is accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum for shares of its stock, which are now being offered in an initial public offering (IPO) at USD 11 per share. In August 2018, it initially announced that it would be accepting crypto during the IPO. But on 13 August, it sent a statement to […]
Report: Crypto ATM Market to Hit $144.5 Million by 2023
Research And Markets has published a report on the Bitcoin ATM industry, and projects that it will grow from USD 16.3 million in 2018 to USD 144.5 million by 2023, with an average yearly growth rate of 54.7%. It is unclear what these amounts specifically mean, whether it’s the profit generated from the ATMs, the […]
ShapeShift Will No Longer Be Anonymous
The Founder and CEO of ShapeShift, Erik Voorhees, has announced that the exchange is launching a membership program and soon, anonymous trading will not be available. For years, ShapeShift has been an easy way for cryptocurrency users to convert cryptocurrency into other types of cryptocurrency. The process is efficient and completely anonymous, up to now […]
Lightning Network Capacity Exceeds 100 Bitcoins
The capacity of the Bitcoin Lightning Network has grown to more than BTC 100 for the first time, with more than 12,000 active channels and 3,300 nodes. To put this in perspective, in January 2018, there were fewer than 100 Lightning Network channels, and in May there were over 6,600. Clearly, the network is rapidly […]
