China’s latest bond issuance on the ledger is a sign of trust placed into the blockchain technology, but not everything may be rosy. The Bank of China has recently issued 20 billion Chinese yuan ($2.8 billion) of special bonds, which it has sold in order to fund small and micro-enterprise businesses, according to the China Development […]
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A long time ago, in a white paper far away… Episode IV – A New Hope A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… or maybe 2008 just feels like a long time ago. It is a period of civil war. Rebel cypherpunks are under the leadership of 900-year-old Jedi Muppet Satoshi Nakamoto, […]
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U.S. Congressman introduces bill which aims to bring regulatory clarity to cryptocurrency industry. Paul Gosar, an Arizona Congressman, has introduced a draft bill, aimed at finally bringing regulatory clarity to the cryptocurrency industry in the United States, according to a Forbes article published on Dec. 19. The Crypto-Currency Act of 2020 sets out which Federal […]
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Blockchain has a great future in the ticketing industry, according to experts. However, integration will not be an easy process. Ticketmaster, one of the largest event ticket distributors in the world, announced in October 2018 that it had acquired Upgraded, a blockchain technology company specializing in live event ticketing. By applying blockchain technology, Ticketmaster set […]
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IOVLabs is one of the most relevant companies in the blockchain world and we we have interviewed its CEO, Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar. Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar is the CEO of IOVLabs and co-founder of the NGO Bitcoin Argentina. During Labitconf 2019, he gave a presentation entitled “How Bitcoin, RSK and RIF are shaping the internet of […]
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The Oil & Gas Blockchain Consortium successfully piloted a blockchain-based system for Authorization for Expenditure. A group of 10 major global oil and gas firms including heavy-hitters like Chevron and Shell has successfully digitized industry balloting using blockchain. The Oil & Gas Blockchain Consortium (OOC) successfully piloted a blockchain-based system for Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) […]
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Even though Maker has refused to explicitly acknowledge the vulnerability claims put forth by Zoltu, experts see their validity. At the start of December, the Maker Foundation hosted a number of governance polls on its website to ease rising concerns following allegations put forth by developer Micah Zoltu in regards to how hackers with enough […]
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Multinational IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services launched the Quartz DevKit, which the firm claims can build blockchain apps 40% faster. Multinational IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) launched a blockchain app development kit (DevKit). According to an announcement published by TCS on Dec. 16, the new Quartz DevKit is a low-code web-based integrated […]
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An inside look at the Telegram Open Network competition with an analysis of the contest’s task. Amid news of its recent spat with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, relatively few people have likely heard about Telegram’s Open Network competition that occurred some weeks ago. It was a milestone event that transformed the once-miniscule […]
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NFTs are finding applications beyond gaming. Microsoft has been quick to adopt them, but does this mean these tokens are actually becoming popular? Ever since the game CryptoKitties was released in November 2017, the concept of nonfungible token has been ingrained in the minds of developers and investors in the crypto community. However, 2019 has […]
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