Following the partnership with Hotels.Com, Lolli now has two of the world’s top three travel websites including Booking.com. Bitcoin (BTC) rewards shopping app Lolli has expanded its business by adding major booking service Hotels.com to its partners, the company announced in a blog post on June 25. With the new partnership, the New York-based firm […]
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A senior executive at the firm revealed a deal was weeks away from becoming official after over a year of preliminary work. Global accounting giant Accenture will sign a formal deal with Canada, the Netherlands and other parties to use blockchain in identifying travelers. The company’s managing director of capital markets, David Treat, confirmed the […]
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sponsored A mobile payment protocol says it wants its governance mechanism to encourage community participation, all while being easy to understand and to adopt. A “next-generation” mobile payment protocol has unveiled new features — including “incentives” for users who own and run the nodes that perform vital roles on its network, including the verification of […]
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Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber and others have allegedly each invested around $10 million in the governance consortium. Facebook has allegedly sealed backing from over a dozen firms that include Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber for its soon-to-be-unveiled cryptocurrency project. The news was reported by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on June 13. Source ostensibly familiar […]
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From fixing ads and loyalty programs to ensuring ethical sourcing of products, here’s how blockchain can make retail more efficient. Cryptocurrencies have gone a long way since the day when, nine years ago, Laszlo Hanyecz had paid 10,000 bitcoins for two large Papa John’s pizzas, marking the first purchase of tangible goods for digital money. Although […]
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The crypto market dropped off $19 billion as the price of bitcoin briefly dropped to $8,000. On May 30, overnight, the valuation of the crypto market dropped by $19 billion as the price of bitcoin (BTC) briefly dropped from $9,000 to $8,000 — a staggering 11% within a few hours on exchanges like Bitstamp. The […]
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Crypto users in Iran resort to p2p bitcoin exchanges following the shutdown of LocalBitcoins. Iran’s plan to battle international sanctions through the use of a state-sponsored cryptocurrency has been brewing for over a year now. It’s been a viable and exciting option for a country that had been cut off from the global economic community […]
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Telangana plans to establish the country’s ostensibly first blockchain district by offering tax relief, resource subsidies and financial grants. The Southern Indian state of Telangana plans to establish the country’s ostensibly first blockchain district, local newspaper The Hindu Business Line reported on May 27. The planned district will reportedly aim to establish an ecosystem for […]
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Decentralized credit and loans: better for borrowers and better for the economy. In the feverish quest to decentralize anything even remotely open to decentralization, one of the most promising areas is finance and the financial industry. This shouldn’t be too surprising, given bitcoin and the origins of blockchain technology, but at a time when even […]
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For the first time in three years, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays have managed to speed up commercial real estate transactions using blockchain. The first properties record are to be digitized in England and Wales. Recently, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), with the participation of enterprise software company R3, successfully […]
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