• Zachery Ty Bryan
    Bitcoin,  Ethereum,  Innovators,  Media

    Former ‘Home Improvement’ star is now an agriculture blockchain entrepreneur

    Zachery Ty Bryan’s new role is ‘Green Acres,’ blockchain-style

    Your food makes a lot of stops on its way from the farm to your plate. The agricultural production chain is riddled with middlemen—packagers, distributors, logistics, and beyond—each one of them taking their cut. The humble farmer ultimately receives a fraction of the value of his goods, and he is often the last person paid in the process. But in the same way that cryptocurrency technology circumvents the middlemen in financial transactions, it’s now being implemented to change how produce moves around the world while ensuring farmers make more money. It’s a project called Producer’s Market, and it has some unlikely star power attached to it: Zachery Ty Bryan of…

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    Asia & Australia,  Bitcoin,  Ethereum,  Latin America,  Media,  Ripple,  Tether

    Must-reads for August 31, 2018 (Labor Day Weekend): Ethereum futures, missing petros, useless bitcoins, Walmart robots, and more

    Here are the crypto stories you should be watching today

    Cboe, the exchange group behind the first market for bitcoin futures, is telling market makers that ether futures will soon be live (Business Insider) A source has told Business Insider that the CBOE, which launched the first U.S. regulated futures on bitcoin, is looking to launch an ether-based futures contract as soon as December. As of last week, the total open interest in the CBOE’s bitcoin contract equaled only 4,069 BTC, or a little more than $28 million.   Special Report: In Venezuela, new cryptocurrency is nowhere to be found (Reuters) The Venezuelan government’s much-hyped oil-backed cryptocurrency known as the petro is tough to find. It’s not in exchanges and…