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South Korea's Kakao Leads $15 Million Raise for Public Blockchain Startup Orbs

South Korean messaging giant Kakao has led an over-$15 million crypto investment in Israeli-based public blockchain project Orbs.

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Ethereum's Geth Software Upgrades Ahead of January Hard Fork

Geth has locked ethereum's upcoming Constantinople hard fork into its latest code release.

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8 Teams Are Sprinting to Build the Next Generation of Ethereum

CoinDesk looks at the eight teams across the globe spearheading the push to create ethereum 2.0 – the next iteration of the blockchain network.

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Block 7,080,000: Ethereum Devs Propose Activation Point for Next Hard Fork

Ethereum is moving closer to the activation of the long-in-the-waiting network upgrade known as Constantinople.

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Mastercard Patent Filing Outlines Way to Anonymize Crypto Transactions

Payments giant Mastercard claims to have developed a new way of keeping cryptocurrency transactions private using intermediary addresses.

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Swiss Post, Swisscom Developing New Blockchain Platform on Hyperledger

Swiss Post and Swisscom have teamed up to build an infrastructure for blockchain applications on Hyperledger Fabric.

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Crypto Anarchists Are Building Tools to Resist the State in Eastern Europe

A new centre for "crypto-anarchy" based in Slovakia is pushing for a return to what they believe are the technology's core political tenets.

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Intel Wins Patent for Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining

An Intel patent awarded Tuesday outlines a method for mining cryptos using the SHA-256 algorithm more efficiently.

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Developers Rally Around Ethereum 1x, A New Roadmap for Faster Scaling

Ethereum developers are aggregating efforts to implement ethereum 1x – a new proposed upgrade intended to act as the intermediary bridge to ethereum 2.0.

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Google Searches for 'Bitcoin' Just Hit Their Highest Level Since April

The number of Google searches for bitcoin has seen a notable uptick this week, now recording its most searches worldwide since last April.

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