Alibaba’s Ant Financial Offers 1.8mln Bounty for Blockchain Competition Winners

Feb 28, 2019

Ant Financial, China’s largest online payment platform operated by Alibaba, is launching a blockchain innovation competition as part of its efforts to speed up development and implementation of the edge-cutting blockchain technology. The Ant Blockchain Innovation Competition, with the t...

Duan Xinxing: Capital, Talents and Attention from Atomic World Are Heater for Crypto Space

Jul 30, 2018

With the notable labels of former senior engineer of Lucent Bell Laboratories, scholarship recipient of Gates Foundation, organizer of TEDxNanjing…, Duan Xinxing is now, better known as the founder of Bytom blockchain. Inspired by a speech talking about bitcoin and blockchain are gre...

Founder of 8btc Chang Jia Talks About the Bitcoin Ecosystem and the Bytom Project

Aug 25, 2017

Chang Jia, founder of 8btc, has been holding bitcoin since 2011. He started writing sci-fi at university and won Galaxy Award——China’s top literary sci-fi award——three times in a row, 2006, 2007 and 2008. He has been dabbed a bitcoin evangelist and an idealist. He founded 8btc forum in ...

Bytom Adopts the POW Mechanism to Secure Blockchain Assets

Aug 17, 2017

The vision of Bytom is to bridge assets of atomic world to that of the byte world. To achieve it, we must guarantee the security and stability of the Bytom system. As such, our developers chose to adopt the proof-of-work system at the first place. But how to make the Bytom mining more energy-...

Former Vice President of OkCoin Duan Xinxing Joins 8BTC to Tap Into the Profit Potential and Uses of Blockchain

May 12, 2017

Note: In this series, we will take you inside the mind of Duan Xinxing, former vice president of OkCoin, for his insights on the blockchain technology and his story with Chang Jia, founder of 8btc. What’s your story with blockchain and why joined 8btc? It’s really a long story. I ha...

WINGS picks Chandler Guo to access Chinese exchanges, Ethereum Classic community

Dec 9, 2016

Drafting Chinese angel investor in Bitcoin and Ethereum startups, Chandler Guo, onto the WINGS Foundation’s Board of Advisors will widen the platform’s access network across the East-West crypto market including to connect some of the world’s top digital currency exchanges.   ...

Synereo Bringing Decentralized Social Media to China

Oct 27, 2016

Author Andrew Wagner Synereo's first and most well-known decentralized application is their Social Media Layer, a decentralized social media platform. This could have revolutionary applications in mainland China, where social media is heavily controlled by the government, and the Chin...

Andreas Antonopoulos AMA with the 8BTC Community

Jul 31, 2016

The Chinese Bitcoin community is one of the major stakeholders in the digital currency ecosystem. Thanks to their active participation in mining and trading related activities. One of the leading Chinese Bitcoin community, 8BTC.com had a chance to interact with Andreas Antonopoulos in ...

Gavin Andresen is Not Giving Up on Bitcoin Classic

May 11, 2016

During a recent AMA on Chinese Bitcoin community website 8btc, Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen confirmed that he’s not giving up on Bitcoin Classic and the project intends to proceed with their development plans. Andresen also reiterated his past statements regardin...

8BTC Interview with BTCChina

Nov 8, 2013

  Bitcoin continues to grow in value and BTC China, the lead Chinese Bitcoin exchange and one of the lead Bitcoin exchanges in the world, is expanding tremendously. Bitcoin Magazine received a transcribed and translated copy of Yang Yang of 8BTC’s interview with Bobby L...