Brandon Kostinuk
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Philip Sedgwick and Juan Martin Grisales have two things in common; they’re both business owners and they both see digital currency as the future. Sedgwick is the owner and operator at the Wirtshaus am Bavariapark beer garden in Munich while Grisales is CEO at Living Group, an organization of three companies engaged in international tourism.
The price of BitCrystals (BCY) reached its highest market value since EverdreamSoft first launched a token sale last summer. BCY nudged $0.38 cents yesterday, or 0.00061915 bitcoin, its highest valuation to date. The currency started August at around 8 cents, posting a four fold increase for the month. The market capitalization of BitCrystals is about US $11 million, or roughly 17,781 BTC.
Sean Ryan and Perry Woodin are ideas men, and founders of Node40, an incentivized node service and Dash masternode hosting provider launched in 2015. “In the world of distributed Peer-to-Peer (P2P) decentralized blockchain applications, stability is of paramount importance. Without stable nodes, the network can experience issues,” states the company site. The founders say that the most challenging aspect of running the business has been holding their focus and not branching out.
Spells of Genesis (SoG) is a blockchain-based trading card game (TCG) being developed by Switzerland-based EverdreamSoft. The company recently announced a September 2016 launch date for the game’s full release. However, players won’t have to wait until fall to test some of the latest developments surfacing out of the company’s Geneva headquarters.
Over the past couple of weeks, talk of The DAO], or decentralized autonomous organizations in general, has dominated the blockchain space. News of a near US $150 million (12 percent of total Ethereum tokens) investment from a network of investors has questions being asked, many of which fall within range of whether or not such a system is even viable.
Since the Bitcoin white paper was published in 2009, the identity of the now infamous pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto has been the subject of wide conjecture, with the most recent developments of Australian computer scientist Craig Steven Wright launching a renewed fervor of speculation, scepticism and perhaps even, hope.
Like most tales of birth, this story too begins over dinner. It was the start of 2015. Sean Ryan, 35, a New York software developer sat down for dinner with Perry Woodin, 42, New York web developer, app creator, cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor. The dinner took place at Ryan’s place of residence, which also happened to be a point of attack for his invited guest. “It was an ambush,” joked Woodin.