South African Solar Energy Blockchain Startup Raises $3 Million, Plans to Expand Across Continent

The blockchain peer-to-peer renewable energy platform has now closed its $4 million Series-A funding round. South African blockchain peer-to-peer renewable energy platform Sun Exchange obtained a $3 million investment from Arch Emerging Markets Partners, thereby closing its $4 million Series-A funding round, according to a statement issued Monday. Sun Exchange allows international clients to buy […]

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No, Blockchain Technology Cannot Solve Everything

Distributed ledger technology has the potential to solve a lot of economic and social problems, but there are some that we have to solve ourselves. The crypto community was rightly aghast at the “Bitcoin Will Save Us” poster donned by a protester against racial injustice in Dallas last week. Christ pic.twitter.com/BmRmlZnMWa — Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) […]

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South Korean City Opens Public Services to Blockchain-Based ID App

South Korea’s second-largest city, Busan, will let its citizens access government services using a blockchain-based identification app developed by Coinplug. Busan, the second-largest city in South Korea, has launched an identification app that uses a public blockchain to verify citizen information. The app was developed by Coinplug, a Korean startup working within the regulatory sandbox […]

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Dash Sees 100% Rise in Commercial Payments Through Latin American Partnerships

Dash has announced a 104% rise in commercial payments through Q1 2020, along with increased adoption, trading volume and price performance. Privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Dash has announced its first quarter of 2020 financial report to investors, revealing solid growth in adoption and commercial payments. According to the report, commercial payments using Dash grew 104% for Q1, […]

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