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Blockchain.info has experienced an outage for several hours while under a DNS attack on October 13, 2016. According to the report, at approximately 5:42 AM EST, the attacker changed Blockchain.info’s DNS servers. Within minutes, our internal systems alerted our infrastructure team who immediately began to assess the attack.

BlockCypher and Shocard have announced their partnership to provide the market’s first identity management solution that scales across public and permissioned blockchains. Now ShoCard uses BlockCypher, the leading Blockchain Web Services company, to provide identity solutions on a combination of public and permissioned blockchains that can be integrated with existing company systems.

Vound announced it has released Intella 2.0 of the flagship Intella range of comprehensive eDiscovery and digital investigation software solutions, as well as the web-enabled, Intella Connect 2.0. The new releases substantially expand Intella’s feature set to include innovative Bitcoin cryptocurrency detection, several leading cloud sources – Dropbox, Office 365 (incl. OneDrive), SharePoint, and Gmail – skin tone analysis, restructured UX, and significantly improved search result times within the same cost-effective platform.

Japan is reported to end sales-tax collection on purchases of virtual currencies in the spring, a move likely to propel the growth of bitcoin and others as alternatives to traditional money. The change would reduce costs for buyers and relieve operators of virtual-currency exchanges of the administrative burden related to the tax.

ShapeShift.io has integrated the Augur Reputation (REP) token, a tradable blockchain asset bestowing votes to users of Augur's prediction market platform. Customers anywhere in the world can now buy or sell Augur REP instantly along with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash and dozens of additional blockchain assets.

Epik Holdings, a the world's leading full-service, all-inclusive registrar, as well as the leading provider of domain leasing services, announced it has integrated Bitcoin as a supported method for payment and disbursement.

Di Iorio, CEO and founder of Blockchain interface and wallet Jaxx, has recently announced that Jaxx is now planning to support Monero.

Kuperman LLC, a corporate development advisory firm recently released a study regarding Blockchain technology startups in New York City. The study found that so far in 2016 more than $80 million was invested in Blockchain startups operating in New York City; none of these investments were Bitcoin related.

The Blockchain Technology Market is estimated to grow from USD 210.2 Million in 2016 to USD 2,312.5 Million by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 61.5%, states a new market research report "Blockchain Technology Market by Provider, Application (Payments, Exchanges, Smart Contracts, Documentation, Digital Identity, Clearing and Settlement), Organization Size, Vertical, and Region - Global Forecast to 2021", published by MarketsandMarkets.