Blockchain's Best

The winners of our Most Influential Survey, two more Year in Review articles, we talk to Swift, Kraken buys a bitcoin service View this email in your browser December 14th, 2016 "My job is making windows where there were once walls." – Michel Foucault Got this from a friend? SUBSCRIBE HERE We can now announce that the winner of CoinDesk's Most Influential Person in Blockchain 2016 survey is… (drumroll)... The DAO Hacker. While many will wonder why such a character deserves to be acknowledged, it's hard to deny that he (or she, or they) did change our tone on smart contracts, cause an irrevocable split in the ethereum network, and put a necessary dent in the all-too-shiny hype. Here is the list of the Top 10: The DAO Hacker Vitalik Buterin Andreas Antonopoulos Satoshi Nakamoto Adam Ludwin Pieter Wuille Don and Alex Tapscott Richard Gendal Brown Chris DeRose and Junseth Perianne Boring (Click HERE for more of our 2016 Year in Review series.)   Read the full story Share Tweet Construct, our invite-only developer summit, will take place this January in San Francisco. We're bringing together ~350 senior technologists from bitcoin, ethereum, hyperledger, and other blockchain communities, as well as related industries such as network security, identity + access management, and financial services. Want to come? 😎 APPLY TO ATTEND 😎 Wait, there's more: Deutsche Bank's 5 Lessons Learned From DLT in 2016 *Year in Review*: Deutsche Bank's David Watson and Edward Budd share their views on the state of distributed ledger technology (DLT), and highlight five lessons they learned during the past 12 months. They predict that DLT will be part of a broader technological evolution in financial services, and that for 2017 the shift to client engagement will continue. Read more. The Resurrection of Public Blockchains *Year in Review*: Angus Champion de Crespigny and Andrew Beal, both blockchain leads within EY Americas, believe that the future for public blockchains is bright. While there may be more uncertainty, the two argue that greater data integrity and security (as well as a more open development sandbox) give public blockchains the potential to become essential utilities going forward. Read more. Blockchain Isn't a Disruption, Argues Swift's Head of Banking Swift's global head of banking, Harry Newman, is not afraid of the blockchain. In conversation with CoinDesk, he reveals that he does not see the blockchain as disruptive, but as an opportunity to better serve Swift's members. If their ongoing work on blockchain proofs-of-concept continues to progress well, blockchain could one day become an integral part of Swift's platform. Read more. Digital Currency Exchange Kraken Acquires Bitcoin Service More acquisitions in the digital currency exchange space… Kraken has bought Glidera, which enables users to purchase bitcoin directly from their bank accounts. This service will be offered to Kraken customers as "Kraken Direct". Read more. Go to CoinDesk BTC: $778.83 -0.1%  ETH: $8.35 -0.5% @10:00 EST - More price details You're probably up to your ears in holiday shopping (it's the wrapping that gets me). But if you could take a couple of minutes to help us improve this newsletter, we'd really appreciate it. We've designed a survey to aid us in figuring out what kind of emails you would like to receive from us. Will you take it? No hard questions, I promise!   To say thank you, we'll enter your name in a draw for a $100 Amazon gift voucher . I hope you win, and can treat yourself to a nice holiday present. TAKE THE SURVEY  PRESS RELEASES   13, Dec - Press Release: FlashFX Uses Ripple and XRP 13, Dec - Press Release: CoinDesk and Brave Software Partner on New Content Revenue Model with Private Micropayments and Focus on User Privacy 08, Dec - Press Release: Nav Coin To Host Conference In New Zealand What do you think of the length of this email? What would you like to see that isn't here? We'd really appreciate it if you could take the survey mentioned above, but if you'd rather just drop me a line (reply to this email), that'd be great, too! And if you like it, how about sharing it with your friends by tweeting, posting or simply forwarding? We'd really appreciate it.  Share Tweet Copyright © 2016 CoinDesk, All rights reserved. You're receiving this email because you subscribed for updates on our website. Our mailing address is: CoinDesk 636 Avenue of the Americas New York City, NY 10011 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list