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Blockchain To Ensure ‘Ethical Provenance of Gold’, Protect Miners...
The global luxury jewelry industry and the mining industry are exploring blockchain technology to improve efficiency, tracking of materials, and enhancing transparency. Most...
SpaceChain Sends Blockchain to Int’l Space Station
SpaceChain announced Thursday that its blockchain-based hardware wallet tech is about to reach the International Space Station (ISS). The technology is on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket...
German Firm Raises €1.4 Million in First Blockchain IPO
A fundraising platform from Berlin, Neufund, just completed the first blockchain-based IPO for a company called Greyp, raising €1.4 million. The world’s first blockchain-based...
Ukraine Gov’t Collaborates with Belarusian Crypto Exchange
Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation has signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) with the Belarusian crypto exchange Currency.com. Ukraine Wants to Learn from Belarusian...
RIFT Protocol by ILCoin: 5GB Block Proves Scalability is Not a...
After the successful release of its new RIFT protocol in the second half of November, ILCoin Blockchain Project has introduced 5Gb blocks – setting the new industry record both...
Is a Blockchain Based Future in China Really a Good Thing?
Crypto markets are still cooling off from a massive bout of FOMO that originated from China last month. The state’s new endorsement of blockchain technology sent a shock wave of...
Alibaba, OneConnect Leads China’s Blockchain Patent Race
Alibaba and OneConnect scored the highest in China’s recent Blockchain Patents list after they both filed IPO prospectuses at the same time. The development of blockchain...
What is Blockchain Technology? How Secure is it?
Bitcoin’s inception in 2009 introduced the concept of hard money to the world. A peer-to-peer financial settlement system which is free from centralized control. It also gave an...
Bitcoin-Friendly Governments Will Be Biggest Winners, Tim Draper Says
Billionaire Tim Draper has praised Bitcoin for breaking the world’s borders and acting as a global currency system. He told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that technologies like...
Could China’s War on Cash Herald a New Global Crypto Revolution?
There are no mixed signals with regards to blockchain and crypto coming from China at the moment. The People’s Republic is full steam ahead on distributed ledger technology as it...
China Launches Digital Bank Consortium Blockchain Investment Fund
A fintech company in China has launched a global digital bank consortium blockchain investment fund with the aim of creating a leading digital bank. China Turning Digital Cao Tong...
Will China Adopt Blockchain for its Social Credit System?
They said blockchain would bring freedom by challenging world governments and greedy financial institutions. But what if blockchain is the ideal tool to enable totalitarianism? What if...