After Labor Day weekend, many ETH-USD traders were surprised to find a 30 market drop over the course of 3 days. After an initial drop to the $330s, the ETH-USD market suffered another blow as China announced it will be banning ICOs and conducting rigorous investigations into several of the newer coins such as NEO and OMG. This announcement from the Chinese government prompted several large Chinese exchanges to begin delisting coins under investigation. After all was said and done, the drop t
GreenAddress and its reimplementation GreenBits, the Bitcoin wallet that was acquired by blockchain infrastructure company Blockstream earlier this year, is the first mobile wallet to offer Segregated Witness SegWit transactions. This means that GreenAddress users are among the first to benefit from lower fees and faster transaction times enabled by the long-awaited protocol upgrade.The Bitcoin network is currently not being spammed, so transactions with low fees are getting confirmed howeve
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA approved the gene drug Kymriah for certain types of cancer. However, Kymriah costs $475,000 for one single treatment, Bloomberg reports, which is well beyond being affordable for average patients.In the U.S., the FDA approval process itself adds billions of dollars to drug development costs, which pharmaceutical companies must then recover, and also adds years to the drug availability timeline. The impression that suffering U.S. patients ar
n n n n The South Korean digital currency task force held a joint meeting to discuss the introduction of stricter regulation and monitoring of virtual currenciesn
n n n n Latin American social site Taringa has suffered a massive breach of user data with login details for nearly all of the sites users compromised.n
