Cardano (ADA) CEO, Charles Hoskinson signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. Under this agreement, Cardano will train blockchain developers in integrating blockchain technology with coffee production in the agriculture industry. A group of developers will be trained in Cardano code by the end of 2018, and it is expected […]
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Health care insurers UnitedHealth Group, Humana and MultiPlan have partnered with provider Quest Diagnostics in a study on utilizing blockchain technology to improve health care data. They are not the first companies to look at marrying healthcare with the blockchain. Medicalchain is one health records company looking to solve this problem, which currently has voluntary […]
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While regulators in Japan are tightening up on the cryptocurrency and ICO industry, the Japanese IT manufacturer, Fujitsu has opened an international Blockchain Innovation Center in Brussels, Belgium, according to a press release. Fujitsu describes itself as a “global information and communication technology (ICT) company.” As a leading ICT company in Japan, it offers a […]
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0chain has announced a partnership with NEO Council to collaborate on dApp scalability, using the 0chain decentralized cloud platform. Together, the two organizations hope to help dApp creators with their computing and storage needs. According to 0chain founder, Saswata Basu, “0chain is the fastest and most flexible, free decentralized cloud that allows dApps on NEO […]
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At the Bosch Connected World Conference, Volkswagen announced that they would cooperate with the Berlin-based company, IOTA in developing decentralized technology for connected cars. This comes shortly after the automotive supplier, Bosch invested in IOTA last year. Volkswagen Chief Digital Officer, Johann Jungwirth described the potential of the partnership. Besides the geographic proximity of the […]
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The World Economic Forum held its 48th annual meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland this past week. Topics included expected subjects like renewable energy and UBI – Universal Basic Income provided by the governments of the respective countries. Cryptocurrency mining could arguably be considered a method for producing a basic income, assuming that people see value in […]
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