Researchers analyze BTC profitability and predictability

A team of researchers studied the value of technical analysis in predicting bitcoin’s future price movements. Simple trading techniques that rely on the moving averages (MAs) were found to be significant in predicting the future of bitcoin price.
Do BTC price movements correlate with search spikes in Google Trends?

There is a significant relationship between bitcoin price movements and Google Trends data for keywords relevant to bitcoin . This is true too for other major cryptocurrencies such as ethereum and ripple.
Internet of Services (IOS) – a novel highly scalable blockchain

Internet of Services or ‘IOS’ is a new blockchain paradigm innovated to particularly solve the scalability issue associated with most cryptocurrencies. IOS is an under-progress blockchain platform, which was developed by a team from Singapore. IOS was launched last year in December and is said to have the potential to process up to 100,000 secure transactions per second.