Xerox was awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a blockchain platform that can track amendments made to electronic documents. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded Xerox a patent for a blockchain-driven auditing system for electronic files, according to a patent filing published Nov. 13. Xerox — known […]
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Japan and Brazil are the target of a new cryptocurrency-based remittance service based on Ripple. Japanese bank holding and financial services company Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) said it will use Ripple (XRP) to create a new cross-border payments service to Brazil in a press release Nov. 9. MUFG, which has demonstrated an increasing […]
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Japanese insurance company Sompo has partnered with pan-African crypto-enabled remittance platform BitPesa. Japanese insurance company Sompo has partnered with pan-African digital payment platform BTC Africa, also known as BitPesa, according to a press release published Nov. 11 by Asia-focused English-language publication Nikkei Asian Review. Sompo Holdings Inc. reportedly invested 570 million yen ($5 million) Nov. […]
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A new patent from IBM identifies the need for a blockchain-based science research safeguarding tool. U.S. multinational IT company IBM plans to use blockchain to aid scientific research and provide a record of its results, a new patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revealed Nov. 8. IBM, originally filing the concept […]
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The central bank is China comes out against crypto air drops, while a flood of fake Elon Musks take Twitter promising crypto giveaways. Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, […]
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ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin said that his firm is interested in “promoting the [Ethereum] ecosystem” rather than “controlling it.” Blockchain will “probably take a little longer” to develop than the internet, because it is “much more complicated,” ConsenSys creator Joseph Lubin told German media outlet t3n in an interview, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported Nov. 9. […]
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ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin said that his firm is interested in “promoting the [Ethereum] ecosystem” rather than “controlling it.” Blockchain will “probably take a little longer” to develop than the internet, because it is “much more complicated,” ConsenSys creator Joseph Lubin told German media outlet t3n in an interview, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported Nov. 9. […]
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The new shipping blockchain alliance includes nine of the world’s leading companies within the industry of shipping logistics and operations. Nine major terminal operators and shipping companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch an open digital platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), The Maritime Executive, a major industry source for maritime […]
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IBM and data storage firm Seagate have announced a joint initiative to fight counterfeit hard drives using blockchain technology. IBM and data storage firm Seagate have announced a joint initiative to fight counterfeit hard drives using blockchain technology, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Nov. 8. The project will reportedly use IBM’s Blockchain […]
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U.S. company Salesforce, which operates a cloud-based mailing platform, has patented a blockchain solution to distinguish between spam and regular emails. U.S. software company Salesforce has won a patent to detect spam emails using blockchain technology. The patent filing was published on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website Tuesday, Nov. 4. Salesforce, which […]
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