Andrew Yang, one of the candidates for the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., wants to modernize voting via blockchain technology. Yang said it is “ridiculous” that in 2020, Americans are still standing in line “for hours” to cast a vote in...
Blocko, a Samsung SDS-backed blockchain infrastructure provider based in Korea, has raised 9 billion won (~$7.5 million) in a Series B+ funding round. Korea’s major banks such as Shinhan Bank and KEB Hana Bank participated in the round, according to...
Cryptocurrency-focused research company, Digital Asset Research, has released a new bitcoin price prediction model based on scarcity—i.e. how few bitcoins there are left to be mined. The model estimates that Bitcoin’s price could reach as high as $60,595 by May 2020,...
Fnality International, which is building a blockchain-based system for settling financial transactions, has hired three new members for its senior management and advisory teams. Two of the new members, Gary Chu and Adam Clarke, are former executives of Swiss investment banking giant UBS,...
Square Crypto is on the board with a big-time hire from within the cryptoverse. Matt Corallo, former engineer at Chaincode Labs and cofounder of Blockstream, has joined Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Square Crypto to help advance the company’s Bitcoindevelopment efforts. “Matt will...
Jeff Garzik used to exchange emails with Satoshi Nakamoto before the anonymous creator of Bitcoin disappeared years ago. He doubts Satoshi has resurfaced again. When an internet posting Sunday claimed to come from Satoshi, and promised to reveal his or...
Global shipping and collaboration have become the norm over the past few decades, bringing the need for added verification of the parties involved. Telecom giant Vodafone is part of a group of mainstream players working in collaboration with IBM, utilizing...
You may have heard some rumblings recently about the bitcoin dominance rate. This measures the weight of bitcoin in the crypto universe, by taking its market cap as a percentage of the total market cap for all crypto assets. Traders and investors...
Hong Kong Free Press, a leading independent publication relied upon for its impartial coverage of the Hong Kong protests, now accepts donations in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. “We’ve seen a flurry of donations today! Help us pay for freelancers, safety gear, overtime, insurance etc,” writes...
Ethereum developers just finalized the approved updates for their mainnet fork, bringing the total number of accepted EIPs (Ethereum Improvement Proposals) to four, with many more ‘tentatively accepted’. The long-debated hard fork, dubbed project “Istanbul,” will be released in two parts. The first,...
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