The Argo Blockchain bitcoin mining pool has seen a major company shakeup with a big investment from a London-based oil and gold tycoon. | Source: ShutterstockRothschild-Linked Oil Tycoon Makes Waves in Bitcoin Mining Pool A big shakeup at Argo Blockchain, the beleaguered bitcoin mining company that owns Argo Mining, has revealed that a Rothschild-linked London oil tycoon with a shadowy past just did the cannonball dive into the deep end of the crypto mining pool. As if you needed any more evidence that bitcoin has found the bottom of its year-plus-long bear slump, with the foundations already laid for a massive bitcoin bull run in 2019! BITCOIN MINING FIRM FIRES TOP BRASS, ONBOARDS OIL BARRON Frank Timiș, a 56-year-old Romanian-Australian businessman worth over $2 billion with deep interests in oil and gold mining, was revealed as a part owner of Argo Mining after a company shakeup that led to the ouster of two top Argo executives. https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/966899493000052736

Blockchain Phone Fail: Start-up Sirin Labs, Lays off 25% of its Staff Sirin Labs, founders of the Finney blockchain phone are making 15 of their 60-person team redundant, as crypto winter bites back with sales of its flagship device “less than expected”. The market may be showing some positive signs as bitcoin, ethereum and others made strong gains in April, but the bear market continues to show its teeth, claiming the scalp of another start-up. Sirin Labs, founded by Israeli businessman Moshe Hogeg, first announced the $1,000 smartphone back in July. To much fan fare they claimed it was the world’s first ‘blockchain-powered’ handset, with one of its main selling points being it featured an embedded cold storage wallet. HYPE The aim was for people to use the phone’s internal exchange to swap tokens without having the hassle of switching tokens from wallet to exchange and back to another wallet, but despite the hype (and backing from Barcelona soccer superstar Lionel Messi) no-one was buying it, Globes reports, and the company had to cut costs. https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/966675988108529664

Crypto giant Binance is launching its own blockchain and that should scare Ethereum. | Source: ShutterstockBinance Births its Own Decentralized Blockchain to Challenge Ethereum By CCN.com: Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange with over 10 million users, has launched its own blockchain – the Binance Chain mainnet today, a highly anticipated blockchain protocol aimed to support decentralized exchanges (DEX). Binance will also open a decentralized exchange next week. https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/965612072812589056 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/965612072812589056

EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk’s Hyperloop set to use blockchain technology to revolutionise transportation Hyperloop will utilise blockchain technology to transform the transportation sector, according to the company's chairman Bibop Gresta Hyperloop Transport Technologies co-founder and chairman Bibop Gresta has revealed that plans are in place to utilise blockchain technology as an underlying solution to the “broken” transportation system. Transportation is broken “Transportation is broken. The way in which we travel sucks,” Gresta told Coin Rivet at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit. Hyperloop, which was conceptualised by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, is looking to launch an intercity transportation method that will take passengers from city to city in relative comfort while traveling at 760 miles per hour. The company launched the first two miles of a hyperloop in Los Angeles in 2018. Reports claimed that the cost of the project stood at $10 billion, but Gresta refuted those figures by stating that it cost “$150 million”. Hyperloop to use smart contracts “What do we need in the future?” Gresta continued. “We need a technology that allows us to get what we need in that particular moment. We have imagined this future. A passenger will be identified by the system and as soon as the system intercepts you, it will create a smart contract. This smart contract will stay in the cloud and will identify your biometry.” The Hyperloop co-founder went on to reveal that the future of transportation will rely on cloud-based blockchain technology to verify passengers and make traveling more streamlined and efficient. https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/965181390404677632

Blockchain Industry Needs 'Bluetooth Moment,' Expert Says (02:25) Cheddar 2.16K It seems like every time you turn around, there's a new cryptocurrency. One of these days, they'll have to converge, and when they do, it will be a watershed moment that will be similar in significance to blockchain as WIFI or Bluetooth were for communication, according to Charles Hoskinson, CEO and founder of IOHK https://watch.permission.io/s/MagvJYdk?referralCode=X3AE54

ShelterZoom Co-Founders: Why You Should Buy Your Next Home Using Blockchain (05:49) Cheddar 919 Closing the deal on your dream home is no easy task. It can take months of negotiations especially if there are multiple bidders. ShelterZoom co-founders Chao-Cheng Shorland and Allen Alishahi share how their app cuts that time in half using blockchain technology. https://watch.permission.io/s/RZRnJhqv?referralCode=X3AE54

Crypto-Friendly States Could Model Themselves After Pennsylvania, Blockchain Expert Says (01:32) Cheddar 892 Pennsylvania's new, relaxed approach to cryptocurrency regulation is narrow in scope, but could serve as a model for other state regulators adopting a "lighter touch approach," said Drew Hinkes, co-founder and general counsel at Athena Blockchain. https://watch.permission.io/s/fbAmsxjY?referralCode=X3AE54

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