Cryptocurrencies are today posting modest gains market-wide, with all of the large-market cap coins seeing green. Thursday, Oct. 4: cryptocurrencies are today posting modest gains market-wide. All of the top twenty coins by market cap are tipping into green, as data from Coin360 shows. Market visualization by Coin360 Bitcoin (BTC) is up by 1.2 percent […]
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Sierra Leone is set to create a national, blockchain-based credit bureau. On September 27, at the 73rd Session of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio made an announcement where he declared that his country had set a new goal to create a national, blockchain-based credit bureau to “radically transform” the […]
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‘MoneyTap,’ a consumer-focused blockchain payments app co-developed by Ripple and Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings, has now gone live. Ripple-powered payments app MoneyTap has now gone live, according to an official tweet October 3. The consumer-focused service was co-developed by Ripple and Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings. According to the product’s website, MoneyTap […]
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A recent study by ReportLink states that blockchain in the U.S. manufacturing market will increase from 2020–2025. A recent report by technology research company ReportLinker shows that blockchain technology in the U.S. manufacturing sector is expected to grow significantly from 2020–2025. While preparing the report, the authors split blockchain usage by application, end use, and […]
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Two U.S. representatives have proposed a bill that would, through a working group, find a common definition for blockchain technology for forthcoming legislation. U.S. Reps. Doris Matsui and Brett Guthrie have recently proposed a bill dubbed the “Blockchain Promotional Act 2018” in the House of Representatives, according to an announcement on Matsui’s website Monday, Oct. […]
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As investments in cryptocurrency have grown in popularity, and value, security breaches have increased in parallel, with millions of dollars in Bitcoin and other digital currencies stolen from digital currency wallets around the world. In a fintech environment, there are numerous standards that are followed to maintain a level of data security to protect people’s assets. […]
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A study into JPMorgan’s digital transformation initiatives has revealed that blockchain is a key technology for the bank’s roadmap. A study into JPMorgan’s digital transformation initiatives has revealed that blockchain is a key technology for the bank’s roadmap, according to a press release published by ResearchAndMarkets.com (RM) October 3. RM has analyzed JPMorgan’s enterprise-wide strategies […]
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Israel’s national securities regulator has started using blockchain to improve the cybersecurity of its messaging system. The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) has started to use blockchain to improve the cybersecurity of its messaging system, online newspaper Times of Israel reports today, October 3. The government regulator has reportedly embedded the technology into a system dubbed […]
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Brazil’s antitrust regulator has obliged 10 crypto exchanges to answer questions about issues with their bank accounts. Brazil’s antitrust regulator has sent a questionnaire to crypto exchanges whose banks accounts have previously been closed, major Brazilian financial newspaper Valor Economico reports Tuesday, October 20. The Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), operated by the […]
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The computing giant IBM is becoming an established label in blockchain innovation, with numerous projects in action well beyond the experimentation phase. Just in the last month, the firm launched TradeLens with shipping behemoth Maersk – offering a shipment-tracking network across 20 port and terminal operators and 235 marine gateways globally. That’s as well as […]
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