A “price calculation error” on CoinMarketCap led the site to list inflated prices for several coins on the platform.
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[promoted] GXChain and the Blockchain Data Economy
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Imagine a new digital economy, one that allows everyday people to take full control of their personal data. Complete with a public chain for data transactions and application development, this system would foster a trustworthy, domain-wide data exchange that capitalizes on the torrent of advancements taking place through blockchain technology.
A rapidly growing enterprise known as GXChain is on a steady course toward achieving this milestone. Launched in 2017 and led by a technical team in China, the company has a value proposition that is predicated on the safe, credible, efficient and free exchange of data to maximize its use and value.
Crypto Data Site CoinMarketCap Launches ‘More Robust’ API
CoinMarketCap, one of the most popular crypto data tracking websites, announced a new pro-level and fee-based API on Wednesday.
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Thomson Reuters Is Adding 50 Crypto Assets to Finance Data Feed
Thomson Reuters will soon track 50 crypto assets on one of its desktop finance feeds, thanks to a new deal with market data aggregator CryptoCompare.
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Credit Ratings for Unbanked With Blockchain Data Collaboration Protocol
Points (PTS), a blockchain data collaboration protocol for better credit scoring and inclusive finance, has announced $ 8 million in funding from traditional and blockchain venture capital including DHVC, Cherubic Ventures, Ce Yuan, Ontology Foundation, Nest.Bio Ventures, and Zhong Cheng Xin Credit Technology.
In an effort to make credit accessible to the world’s unbanked population of 1.7 billion people, Points uses blockchain technology and AI to develop a secure and configurable protocol that encourages trustless entities, including banks, institutions, tech companies and consumers to participate in sharing their proprietary data.
This Silicon Valley-Backed Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data
DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $ 3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others.
In a Medium post, the company, which describes itself as a “blockchain-based Wikipedia,” wants to make it “economically irrational” for false information to be shared. DIRT is looking to create a protocol for crowdsourcing information using the Ethereum blockchain to organize the world’s data and make it freely accessible to everyone.
Segregated Witness Removes One of Bitcoin’s Data Integrity Checks
The following opinion piece on Segregated Witness was written by Jonald Fyookball
In 2017, Dr. Peter Rizun noted that Segregated Witness (Segwit) changes the very definition of a Bitcoin as per the whitepaper: “We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures.” In this article, I would like to expand on that topic and add a key observation: breaking the chain of digital signatures is actually removing an integrity check in the Bitcoin ledger. Bitcoin is a distributed ledger system — a form of database. When it comes to databases in general, there are many different kinds of data integrity. One type, user-defined integrity, refers to a set of rules for a specific application (in this case, Bitcoin).
New Data Shows No Evidence of Bitcoin Price Manipulation as Whales ‘Hodl’
The mainstream media narrative that Bitcoin is a “ponzi scheme” and bagholders are selling is false, new data showing Bitcoin user ‘hodl’ behavior claims.
Whales Are ‘Hodling’
The findings, uploaded to Twitter by commentator and researcher BambouClub June 25, focuses on so-called ‘Bitcoin days destroyed’ (BDD) as a variable by which to judge investor sentiment, which he explains is “totally unaffected” by bitcoin price 00.
In line with other recent research pieces, BDD trends from Bitcoin’s creation in 2009 to the present day demonstrate that more Bitcoin holders are storing, rather than trading or selling, their bitcoins.
Medicine Adherence Data Will Transform Healthcare Provision Worldwide
Patient data, when used in the right way can decrease healthcare costs by reducing waste, improve patient quality of life, and ultimately save lives. Medicine adherence data in combination with patient data can go a step further to improve patient experience and satisfaction, increase medicine safety and usability. Improving data quality and analysis can be effective in areas such as predictive medicine, patient relationship management, management of healthcare and measuring the effectiveness of certain treatments.
Meet the Company Creating a Location-Based Data Market on the Blockchain
It is no secret in this digital age that data is king. Until now it has been easy for companies to utilize digitally collected data such as social networks, browsing history, and online purchasing trends to target consumers across the globe.
However, data from the physical world, such as geographic location and distance traveled, is not collected or distributed in an efficient, transparent manner.
Grapevine: Saving Healthcare Data and the World
In 2010, Regina Holliday brought her husband, suffering from kidney cancer, to a hospital and begged the doctors and nurses for her husband’s medical records. Five days later, she still hadn’t received them. On the sixth day, the man was transferred to another hospital, and the doctors couldn’t give him pain medications because they didn’t know what drugs he already had in his body. For a seemingly endless six hours, the man suffered from severe pain. The woman had to return to the first hospital to pry the records out of them to allow her husband to receive proper treatment.
CFTC Demands Crypto Exchange Data In Market Investigation
The U.S. regulator has subpoenaed four crypto exchanges to submit trading data as part of an investigation into market manipulation.
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Data Transactions Arrive on Waves Mainnet
Waves, an open-source blockchain platform that allows users to launch their own custom cryptocurrency tokens, now affords users the ability to upload arbitrary data to its blockchain.
Immutable Records
Posting data to any blockchain is nothing new. Almost every blockchain allows users to post data on it, though most are not designed with this purpose in mind. As such, bloating blockchains is generally discouraged — as is the case with Bitcoin.
Nevertheless, opening up the ability to store strings of data on a platform’s blockchain is absolutely critical for platforms wishing to acquire real-world use cases. Any application with goals to preserve an immutable record of patents, photos, smart contract data, permanent message, etc. requires a built-for-purpose solution.
Data Prediction Sites Show More Conservative Cryptocurrency Price Forecasts
There are a lot of members within the cryptocurrency industry who have tried to predict the price of digital assets like Bitcoin Core (BTC). Furthermore, there are also a ton of bigwig Wall Street types who also try to predict the price of cryptocurrencies — While some of their BTC forecasts predict the currency’s value will drop to zero, a few of them believe it will be $ 25-100K per coin by the end of 2018. Then there are organizations who use software and data analysis to predict the price of digital currencies and one research firm, Trefis Technologies, believes its year-end price prediction for BTC ($ 12,500 USD) will be accurate based on prior analysis.
Big Data and the Blockchain
We live in a world in which information and its appropriate usage are critical to the success of companies and individuals. Unfortunately, numerous issues arise in the process of data collection, distribution, and usage. Can Blockchain-based technology prove to be the long-awaited remedy for that?
Data usage is important across all spectrums, but it has turned out to be absolutely paramount for the advertising industry. And that’s a huge market. In fact, it’s growing so fast that according to Statista it hit $ 591 billion in 2017 — $ 209 billion of which was entirely dedicated to digital advertising.
Streamr, Hewlett Packard Enterprise partner to impel real-time data monetization
Blockchain-backed data platform Streamr and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have teamed up to incorporate the technology of a select vehicle, Streamr’s Engine and HPE’s interfacing in order to deliver vehicle data in real-time to the Streamr Marketplace, according to a press release CoinReport rece…
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Streamr Launches Real-Time Data Marketplace, Partners With Nokia and OSIsoft
Streamr, the blockchain-based data platform based in Zug, Switzerland, launched their real-time data Marketplace on May 16, 2018, during a presentation at Consensus 2018. This was followed by an announcement of partnerships with Nokia and OSIsoft.
The Streamr Marketplace connects data producers and consumers through a web-based application where data consumers can pay for access to real-time data streams listed by data providers. For example, a recent partnership between Streamr and Hewlett Packard Enterprise will allow vehicle data to be monetized in real-time. Vehicles generate data that is usable to third parties — it might be used to gauge traffic through a geographic region, or to fine-tune traffic signals, or to schedule road work, etc. Rather than just giving that data away for free, vehicle owners can make use of the Streamr Marketplace to monetize and trade that data.
“Honest Coinmarketcap” Claims to Provide Accurate Cryptocurrency Data
In the last 24 hours, $ 7 billion worth of bitcoin (BTC) was traded globally. That’s according to data provided by Coinmarketcap, the industry’s go-to aggregator of cryptocurrency data. Not everyone agrees with that figure however. “Honest Coinmarketcap” is a new project that aims to set the record straight and do away with inflated trade volumes.
Also read: Study Finds $ 3B Worth of Faked Cryptocurrency Volumes and Wash Trades
Promoted: Market.space Aims to Reinvent Data Hosting
Amazon AWS, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and Apple iCloud have built a gigantic industry around centralized cloud data hosting. According to Gartner, the global public cloud services market is forecast to be worth more than $ 305 billion in 2018, more than $ 355 billion in 2019 and more than $ 411 billion in 2020.
Though the industry is enormous and growing at warp speed, it is now being disrupted by a new decentralized storage and distribution paradigm that could liberate the world’s data from problematic silos.
Energy Production Data on New Blockchain
Evident Proof, the Ethereum blockchain and token based service that turns data into immutable proof of evidence chains, has partnered with Swytch – a blockchain platform for sustainable and renewable energy – to create a proprietary blockchain that will be used to capture energy production from generation equipment. The blockchain will be connected to IoT devices and data aggregators so the data can be fed into an Open Oracle to calculate token allocation and convert data into tokens.