Simba Chain, a cloud-based smart contract startup, is building a blockchain data management system for the U.S. Department of Defense. Simba Chain, a blockchain startup backed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has won another contract from the United States government. A long-established favorite of the U.S. military authorities like the U.S. Air […]
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The Austrian government is backing a project that would let citizens submit data about industrial waste heat spots for district heating, receiving tokens as reward. An Austrian project is set to use blockchain to help find waste heat hotspots in the cities of Vienna and Graz. Launched by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) on […]
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The United Nations has released a report to raise governmental and international awareness for blockchain’s application in the seafood value chain. Blockchain has become one of the most discussed technologies in relation to supply chain management, given its ability to provide transparency and traceability within a number of value chains. The Food and Agriculture Organization […]
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Smoother conditions follow Bitcoin’s third block subsidy halving on Monday, but anticipation is building as fiat continues to wane. Bitcoin (BTC) was fighting for $9,000 support on May 12 as more public praise surfaced amid continued dismal conditions for the world economy. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 BTC price unmoved by halving Data from […]
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Anthony Pompliano argued that government stimulus measures will drive the adoption of alternative stores of value and non-correlated assets at Consensus. Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, the co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital, argued that the United States government’s response to the COVID-19 lockdown will drive new users to adopt cryptocurrencies. During a discussion with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao […]
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Bitcoin miners are not likely to see capitulation and especially a “mining death spiral” after the 2020 halving due to four major reasons. A popular narrative revolving around the Bitcoin (BTC) halving is that it may trigger the capitulation of miners. But, it is premature to suggest many miners will shut down in 2020 and […]
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Gibraltar’s minister for digital and financial services spoke to Cointelegraph about regulating market manipulation in the blockchain sector. The British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, a pioneer of blockchain-friendly regulations, will introduce a new regulatory principle for the DLT sector addressing market manipulation risks in the coming months. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Albert Isola, Gibraltar’s […]
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In the final block, Miner f2pool immortalized a NY Times article highlighting the similarities between the 2008 financial crisis and today. Just before Bitcoin experienced its third halving, which cut the block reward from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC, the miner who extracted the cryptocurrency’s final block had a special message for all HODLers. F2pool, […]
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Two of the cryptocurrency space’s most outspoken critics of central banks spoke about failures during the current coronavirus pandemic and how Bitcoin could have prevented them. Saifedean Ammous and Eric Voorhees spoke at the Consensus: Distributed conference, May 11, focusing on concerns over the actions of central banks and government in response to the current […]
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Top crypto industry and policy experts debated the privacy ramifications of state-issued virtual currencies during the first day of Consensus. Crypto industry leaders and law experts debated the privacy implications of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) during the ‘Money Re-Imagined’ panel as part of Consensus:Distributed on May 11. Lawrence Summers, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary […]
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