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…
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Chinese businessman Mike Kai in an interview for a local newspaper Sina Finance said that he could achieve his personal goal – to accumulate 10 thousand bitcoins. Mr. Kai is the founder of the well-known photo application in China Meitu. He is also known as the angel investor of start-ups.…
The company Odyssey Group will install in the territory of Argentina 4000 crypto-ATMs. This became possible after the Central Bank of the country allowed to place ATMs not only in banks. Before, only two local companies worked in the Argentine ATM market: Banelco and Link. The new rules made it…
Over the next 2-3 months, Ethereum will implement the Casper hybrid protocol, which will combine the parameters of the Proof-Of-Work and Proof-Of-Stake consensus algorithms. During the conference Edcon, the founder of the platform Vitalik Buterin told about the upcoming update and the system of rewarding the steakers. We emphasize that…
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…
As you know, the oldest bank of the UK Barclays is one of the world’s largest financial conglomerates with a wide representation in Europe, the United States and Asia. All financial operations of the conglomerate are carried out through a subsidiary bank of Barclays Bank PLC, which ranks second among…
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…