BMW Group Asia, Intel and Nielsen are now corporate partners of the Singapore government-supported blockchain accelerator Tribe. Tribe Accelerator announced the news Friday, saying that the three firms will share their knowledge and subject expertise in their respective fields with Tribe’s startups in order to help build an “inclusive” ecosystem…
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Prosecutors in China have charged four suspects said to be involved with operating an alleged $2 billion cryptocurrency pyramid scheme. According to a news release issued by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued Wednesday, a local prosecutor’s office in Hunan province has charged the four individuals as part of a wider crackdown…
Almost half of the 26 listed banks in China say they have implemented blocking technologies in 2017, according to the reports. The Chinese industry publication CEBNet reported that 12 out of 26 public banks in China, according to published annual reports, implemented blocking technology in their work last year. These…
The national Swiss mail company Swiss Post intends to integrate a new block-based solution developed by the startup Modum into its work. Thanks to the new technology, the delivery of parcels with medicines and other temperature-sensitive products will become more safe and qualitative. The company Modum is based in Zurich…
When we are dealing with such an unstable market as the cryptocurrency market, the most difficult task is to limit losses. Many investors, unfortunately, learned about it from their own experience during the recent fall of bitcoin. And the rollback does not happen: the crypto currency is continually trying to…
The words of the crypto currency and the blockchain, which were known by a few only several years ago, are now everywhere. In this article, we will take a closer look at the fundamentals of the technology, consider the variants of its application, and outline possible ways for the development…
Payment giant Mastercard announced Thursday that it was hiring 175 new technology developers, including blockchain specialists. The developers will work out of Mastercard’s office in Leopardstown, Ireland, where the firm’s research and development arm, Mastercard Labs, is headquartered. The new hires will work on creating more efficient payment systems, according…
Great Britain has long been a “classic offshore” with low tax rates and excellent conditions for doing business: a developed banking system, the existence of large stock exchanges and so on. The UK is good for setting up a holding company, but the release of tokens in the course of…
Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM), as well as the creator of the infamous crypto-exchange Mt. Gox, said that the cryptocurrency and its core technology (block) should remain decentralized in order to succeed in the future. In an interview with Fast Money from CNBC, McCaleb said that…
Blockchain technology’s immense potential, while well-documented, continues to get lost in the hype surrounding the increasing value of cryptocurrencies and the oft-astronomical raises of initial coin offerings (ICOs). Though it has ushered in one the most disruptive technologies in decades, the distributed ledger movement remains in its infancy stage, relative…