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This Robot Plant Needs You and Bitcoin to Reproduce

The Plantoid, debuted at last month's Ars Electronica festival, relies on bitcoin to stay alive and – once it has enough – even reproduce.

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Visa Debuts Bitcoin Proof-of-Concept for Car Leasing

Visa and DocuSign have unveiled a new proof-of-concept that uses the bitcoin blockchain for recordkeeping.

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FBI: Malware Victims Should Pay Bitcoin Ransoms

Victims of malware, such as bitcoin ransomware Cryptolocker, should pay off the perpetrators, an FBI agent has advised.

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Software School Tackles Fake Degrees Using the Blockchain

San Francisco's new software engineering school, Holberton, has announced it will tackle fake degrees using bitcoin technology.

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London Law Firm to Digitise Contracts Using Bitcoin Technology

A London law firm has announced plans to digitise its legal agreements using bitcoin technology.

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Bitcoin Node Numbers Fall After Spam Transaction 'Attack'

The number of reachable nodes has declined further following an 'attack' that overloaded the bitcoin network.

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Blockstream to Launch First Sidechain for Bitcoin Exchanges

Nearly one year after the release of its white paper, bitcoin technology startup Blockstream has released its first commercial sidechains application.

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Inside Multichain: A Build-Your-Own Blockchain Service for Banks

CoinDesk breaks down Multichain, a private blockchain solution for banks that has seen a growing number of downloads.

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Blockchain Platform Setl Exceeds 1 Billion Transaction 'Milestone'

Blockchain platform Setl claims to have surpassed 1 billion transactions per day, in what it terms a "milestone" for scaling the technology.

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Meet Secco: The UK’s ‘Blockchain-Inspired’ Challenger Bank

Secco is a 'blockchain-inspired' challenger bank aiming to disrupt the sector "from the outside in".

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