IOTA
IOTA Gets Substantial Investment From Bosch Group VC
The Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) has made a significant investment in IOTA, according to sources close to both companies. This is the first investment in Distributed Ledger Technology for Robert Bosch VC.
IOTA, the cryptocurrency for the Internet of Things (IoT), has recently experienced explosive growth. The market cap of the IOTA cryptocurrency (MIOTA) grew 400 percent, reaching #4 among all cryptocurrencies after the company announced the launch of their Data Marketplace in late November.
In addition to the investment, RBVC Partner Dr. Hongquan Jiang will join the IOTA Foundation’s advisory board. Of particular interest to the RBVC group is IOTA’s “tangle” technology, which is a generalization of Blockchain protocol that lets machines on the IoT communicate and transact. Speaking about the recent investment, Dr. Jiang stated:
“We have been working with the IOTA team for more than one year. I’m very excited about IOTA’s innovative tangle technology, which could potentially become the standard underlying technology for trustless machine to machine communication, security and payment in the IoT space.”
SOURCE https://cointelegraph.com/news/iota-gets-substantial-investment-from-bosch-group-vc
ARK
ARK Hires New Core Developer
We are happy to announce the newest addition to our core team of developers — Kristjan Košič a technology/blockchain enthusiast from Slovenia.
Kristjan is always hacking and tinkering with state-of-the art technology and has an impressive collection of experiences. He is also a teaching assistant at one of the largest IT universities in Slovenia and will stay actively involved in the university setting. He will be ARK’s very own Technical Evangelist — promoting and spreading ARK technology.
SOURCE https://blog.ark.io/ark-hires-new-core-developer-fa1fd6e1e557
TRON
Announcement To Our Investors
In order to further protect the vital interests of our supporters and to promote the rapid development of TRON’s global network along with the continuous growth of Tron’s communities.
The 34.2518% TRX held by Tron Foundation, namely the 34251807523.9 TRX had already being locked up until January 1st, 2020. Tron Foundation TRX will not be withdrawn or traded.
The account address is: 0xa18ff761a52ce1cb71ab9a19bf4e4b707b388b83
During this period of time, TRON’s will be online also we will publish the corresponding address of this immediately.
We are working hard in order to provide security and supervision of all our investors, supporters and believers.
Tron Foundation
Source https://medium.com/@Tronfoundation/announcement-on-the-lock-of-trx-held-by-tron-foundation-e64bf861c7e0
CARDANO
(1/2) Warning: there is currently an unofficial Daedalus wallet on the Google Play store. We have no relationship with this venture and we seriously doubt this is a real wallet. Your money could get stolen so please do not download.
Source
https://twitter.com/CardanoStiftung/status/943149458623221761
- CardanoStiftung
BITSHARES
Cryptocurrency Bank AriseBank To Acquire 100 Year Old FDIC Bank; Partner With BitShares.
The Next Revolution is already Happening
Over the past few weeks, I've had the pleasure of meeting the next revolutionaries in the democratization of money. This was while looking to understand better the guts of the blockchain tech and how it differed from crypto to crypto. I had the pleasure of meeting with and speaking to several people involved with Bitshares and those involved at the periphery with Arisebank. During that time, by coincidence, Arisebank was in the process of doing the deal described in the headline. And I was able to look through the glass at this event where people were ,to my eye, looking to facilitate the transition from intellectual ideas to applications in reality. That is what Capitalism is in part about. Providing a service that fills a need and makes it easier which gets you paid. Not making a dollar and being apathetic if the service actually helped someone. Free market capitalism allows for new ideas to make it (or not) on their own merits. That is what I saw. The potential for self-clearing markets to reassert themselves and for money to get to where it is needed most without incumbent toll booth operators throttling ideas for their own benefit.
I saw people who will make a bundle of money by adding value to a system in need of overhaul. i spoke wit ha few on a guarantee of anonymity. One key person said to me in response ot me pointed question that blockchain is the beginning, Bitcoin may be the early pioneer, but like the Palm pilot, it was replaced by better tech. Why wed yourself to Blockchain?
Source http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-15/cryptocurrency-bank-arisebank-acquire-100-year-old-fdic-bank-partner-bitshares
DECENTRALAND
Reopening Our Terraform Registration to Include all Community Members"
Solving congestion issues, technical difficulties, dealing with Ethereum’s user experience, and allowing all members to participate.
Following the launch of our Terraform Event on December 15th, we were pleased to see thousands of community members participate in what’s becoming the largest virtual land sale in history. We’ve also seen major blockchain projects get involved, including Aelf, FBG Capital, and RCN.
The auction will end on December 22nd, excluding extensions made on parcels with last minute bids. If you need help participating, follow our comprehensive guide.
While we’re excited to see the outpouring of demand from contributors both large and small, we had dozens of community members that were locked-out of the event due to an array of technical issues, most notably the congestion on the Ethereum network, which prevented them from loading MANA to their auction balance. Others were only able to load a fraction of their intended amount. Overwhelming demand for the Terraform Event only exacerbated the congestion issue.
Because you could no longer load additional MANA into your auction balance, these community members had no way to participate.
While every project has been impacted by congestion issues on the Ethereum network, we’re committed to resolving these hurdles in a way that will serve the entire community. There is no perfect solution, but we believe that Decentraland is made strongest when everyone in our community can participate.
To rectify the issue, we’ll be reopening the MANA registration process. The long-term value of the platform will be maximized if more users have the ability to build and innovate within Decentraland.
To ensure fairness, we will allow every user to reload their auction balances with MANA, rather than grant that permission to an exclusive group of users.
Note: We’ll be leaving registration open for the remainder of the auction. You will be able to reload your balances at any time until the auction, including those parcels that receive a time extension due to last-moment bids, is complete.
Source https://blog.decentraland.org/reopening-our-terraform-registration-to-include-all-community-members-327ae70a1de9