This Week's Must Reads
| It’s safe to assume blockchain had a hectic week, and, yes, there were yet more big announcements these last seven days. Bitcoin has been busy too, though, with positive news for Mt. Gox creditors, disappointing news for Australian bitcoin firms, and a price on the rise... | 1. Business Chains
IBM unveils an all-in strategy to its blockchain-based solutions (CoinDesk, Ars Technica, WSJ), Nasdaq kicks off a trial in Estonia (CoinDesk, Nasdaq), and the EU’s central bank is warming to the tech too (CoinDesk, Financial News). | | 2. Voting Tokens New Australian political party aims to turn senators in to blockchain robots. Kind of. (CoinDesk, Reuters) | | 3. Mt. Gox money An investigation into the notorious, collapsed and much maligned bitcoin exchange claims to have made “significant progress”. (CoinDesk, Reuters) | | 4. No cartel Australian banks didn’t gang up to block services for bitcoin firms, a regulator says. (CoinDesk, Australian Financial Review) | | 5. To the moon Bitcoin’s price climbed to around $420 this week. Unusually, our examination of a goat’s entrails could not explain why. (CoinDesk) | | | | | Blockchain Quote of The Week "I will end 1MB blocks and protect our borders! We need to MAKE THE BLOCKCHAIN SAFE & GREAT AGAIN!" Trumpchain on Twitter – A bot that mixes Donald Trump speeches and tweets with comments from Reddit’s /r/bitcoin
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