EtherWorld’s weekly: September 17, 2017

(Blockchain eNewspaper)News

• Fujitsu to join hands with JBA
• Cryptocurrency and China –
  o Public Notice of the PBC, CAC, MIIT, SAIC, CBRC, CSRC and CIRC on Preventing Risks of Fundraising through Coin Offering
  o BTCChina Exchange will stop all trading on 09/30
  o China's Bitcoin Exchanges Receive Shutdown Orders and Closure Timeline.
  o Huobi, OKCoin to Stop Yuan-to-Bitcoin Trading By October's End.
  o Why Bitcoin exchanges closed in China?
• India Looking for a replacement of Rupee in cryptocurrency.
• Blockchain Startup Stack Partners With Mastercard To Launch The First Digital Money Account With Mobile Tap-to-pay Functionality
• Japan Becomes Largest Bitcoin Market as Traders Leave China.
• Chiasso, Switzerland Municipality to Allow Citizens to Pay Taxes in Bitcoin
• JP Morgan Bank buys 19000 BTC after it's CEO insults it.
• GDAX - A new all time high in daily volume. Over $650 million of $BTC, $ETH and $LTC have been traded in the past 24 hours on September 17, 2017.

New Projects & Whitepaper

• Hypergive- Secure digital food wallets for those in need.
• Enecuum Blockchain
• Fizzy - AXA Launched Ethereum-based Flight Insurance.
• Sweetbridge - liquid supply chains.
• Escrow My Ether - escrow agent for offline transactions, on Ropsten.
• Art of Ethereum -- original art tagged with a Chronicled nfc chip
• Solidified - audit platform for blockchain code

Project updates

• EOS - How to Start an EOS Meetup in your area?
• Ethfinex announces the ERC20 Tether in collaboration with Tether.
• Status Development Update for September 8 — 12, 2017.
• Chronobank.io - [ChronoMint wallet](link url) upcoming features.
• NEM - An interview with Lon Wong, president and founder of NEM Foundation

Good Reads on Blockchain

• Why Is It Important to Organize Blockchain Meetups?
• Understanding ERC-20 token contracts.
• How to write clean, elegant Solidity code using function modifiers.
• DomainSale: an on-chain secondary ENS market
• Off-Chain Computation Solutions for Ethereum Developers.
• Ethereum on Raspberry Pi: secure wallet and complete node with redundant storage

Hiring

• Consensys is hiring.

Hackathon or Competition

• Aventus Protocol DApp Competition Top 6 Finalists
• CCpost Contest No. 1 - Announcement.
• MBA BLOCKCHAIN VENTURE COMPETITION - MBA students will come together to develop product ideas and compete to win venture capital funding. Applications are open now through October 30th, 2017.

Developer's Update

• Geth 1.7 – Megara released on September 14, 2017.
• Tentative date of October 9th for Bytantium hard fork.
• The ERC-20 Standard is Formalized as EIP20.
• EIP712: "Standard for machine-verifiable and human-readable typed data signing with Ethereum keys"
• Vitalik explains pruning.
• 3 ENS improvement proposals: Auto reveal, Allow slow deposit withdrawal and Utility Rent
• Infura now running an authority node on Rinkeby.

ICO or Token sale updates

• KickCity update - Token-sale Terms
• Minerva token sale date changed to October 1, 2017.
• REcoin ICO -  the initial fundraising period and token pre-sale stage - is scheduled for August 7th - October 9th, 2017.
• AIRSWAP - October 10, 2017
• KICKICO - October 26, 2017.
• Grid+ - Pre-Sale (currently ongoing) and the public token sale starting October 30, 2017.
• DMarket – a decentralized marketplace to turn every virtual item into a real commodity - 1-15 of November 2017 (12:00 PM NYC Time, UTC-5)

Upcoming Events

• Blockchain Live in London, England - September 20, 2017.
• Europe’s Largest Blockchain Competition - September 22, 2017 Final cut-off for candidates.
• INDIA BLOCKCHAIN WEEK - SEPTEMBER 22-26, 2017.
• ConsenSys at Denver Startup Week - September 28, 2017.
• Central Bank Meets Blockchain - Barbados - September 28th, 2017
• Blockchain Solutions Forum 2017, Barcelona - October 3-5, 2017.
• CORE - 6 City MeetUp's in India - October 4, 2017 - November 17, 2017.
• ICO-Hypethon, Barcelona - October 6, 2017.
• ETHWaterloo - October 13-15, 2017
• Devcon3 -November 1-4, 2017. State Department issues Travel Warning
• BlockShow in Singapore by CoinTelegraph - Nov 29-30, 2017.

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