Eftpos Australia Launches DLT Micropayments Pilot With Hedera

Australia’s leading point-of-sale technology provider, Eftpos, is launching a proof-of-concept exploring DLT-powered micropayments in partnership with Hedera. Eftpos Australia, the country’s leading point-of-sale technology provider, has announced a partnership with distributed ledger technology (DLT) firm Hedera to conduct a micropayments proof-of-concept using an Australian dollar stablecoin. Eftpos chief executive Stephen Benton described the collaboration with […]

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Digitized Europe: The Shift to a Cashless World

Emerging technologies such as blockchain are reshaping the landscape of the traditional financial system in Europe. By spring 2020, it became inescapable that we now live in a world with an unraveling future. The once-imminent shift, now fueled by the coronavirus outbreak, has accelerated the pace of technological adoption, and the financial field was among […]

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UK Gov’t Includes Blockchain in Negotiation for US Free Trade Agreement

The United Kingdom has included a mention of the blockchain industry in its pre-negotiation agenda for a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. The United Kingdom’s Department for International Trade recently published its agenda for negotiation of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Contained within the wide-reaching document, blockchain is identified […]

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Weaponizing Blockchain — Vast Potential, but Projects Are Kept Secret

“Emerging technologies such as blockchain have the potential to define the war industry over the coming decades,” former NATO Secretary General Rasmussen tells Cointelegraph. When Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that blockchain and artificial intelligence would “revolutionize war,” as Cointelegraph reported on Nov. 4, did he take things a bit too far? Jet engines […]

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Smart Cities Offer Promises and Concerns Over Privacy

Smart cities promise new horizons, but there are privacy concerns. The promise is great for so-called smart cities, which will deploy a network of interactive sensors to achieve efficiency and innovation. The smart city vision includes driverless cars, renewable energy to aid a city’s power consumption, energy-efficient buildings, and communications systems that work with the location’s […]

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UK: Driverless car makers face jail if they cause harm

  UK government spokesperson Baroness Buscombe confirmed driverless car makers will face jail if their vehicles cause harm. Buscombe was responding to a parliamentary question on the subject. She asserted that existing health and safety law “applies to artificial intelligence and machine learning software”. The response helps to settle a debate between academics and legal […]

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