More than half a year ago, I became the first citizen on the blockchain, which was the second pilot project of Bitcoin 2.0 platform Bitnation. It was invented by Chris Ellis from World Crypto Network and Bitnation founder Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, who I met at a meetup last October. Citizen of the blockchain With a group of people from the meetup that could confirm my existence in time and space, we documented it with photos, signed it with PGP keys, time-stamped and hashed it, and put it on the blockchain. The PGP encryption and the blockchain make the ID secure. …

A Bitcoin conference “for the whole family” at Disney World Florida will play host to a one-of-a-kind event on October 5 – the world’s first blockchain marriage. As part of the range of governance services offered by startup Bitnation, Coins in the Kingdom will see Redboxjewels.com CEO and Bitnation advisor David Mondrus tie the knot with fiancée Joyce Bayo. In so doing, the act will be recorded forever within the blockchain. “We believe that like the blockchain, our love and marriage are forever and that our relationship is not defined by governments or the church. So enshrining our commitment to …

There's nothing like this (hopefully) million-Bitcoin question to catch our experts unaware: how much will Bitcoin be worth by Christmas? The last time we served as a medium between the indusrtry's professionals who made this prediction and you, our readers, was a month and a half ago. One interesting result is that the average price prediction this time remains little changed from then – US$2218 now compared with US$2072 previously. Never mind the long-term predictions; Cointelegraph wanted to stare into the crystal ball just a few months - and the answers we got were curious. Take a peek at the …