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Hong Kong based alcoholic company Madison Holdings Group agreed to buy a majority stake in Japanese cryptocurrency exchange BitOcean according to local media news. However, why does a company famous for selling top-end French wines in Asia want to go for a cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform? Well, it seems the company is now interested […]
Health activism that matters. The UNODC, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, has partnered with blockchain based healthcare, telemedicine and telepsychology company doc.com to look for the promotion and expansion of free healthcare access in Eastern Africa. In a letter from the United Nations and signed by UNODC’s Regional Representative for East Africa, […]
Arthur Hayes, BitMEX CEO, affirmed that Initial Coin Offerings would return in not later than 18 months and with it, Ethereum will rally to at least $200, in an interview with Cointelegraph on Wednesday. Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform BitMEX is one of the largest trading platforms in the world. Well, its CEO […]
Japan based Bank Mizuho is planning to introduce its new own cryptocurrency in March to facilitate payment and remittances at no costs, and to fight against credit card charges. Mizuho would become the first big bank with its own cryptocurrency. Bank plans to launch the new cryptocurrency in March according to news published by Nikkei. […]
The United States based bank Bank of America is betting on blockchain technology to develop an ATM as a service according to a patent filing published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Christmas day, December 25, 2018. As for the latest of more than 50 blockchain related patents filed by Bank of America, […]
Seoul School of Integrated Sciences and Technologies, better known as aSSIST, will start offering a master’s degree in cryptocurrency in 2019 according to a press release published by the educational centre. According to the school, the new course is “a master’s degree program in the blockchain, crypto economics and token economy courses from technological, crypto […]
Menlo Park based social media giant Facebook is reportedly developing a cryptocurrency that would allow its users to send and receive money through its messaging app WhatsApp, according to a news published by Bloomberg. Facebook will create a stablecoin, a cryptocurrency pegged to a traditional currency, but the project is still in its early stages. […]
Deutsche Bahn, the German railway operator, has agreed with blockchain integration platform Unibright to research about ecosystem tokenisation via Blockchain, according to a press release published on Tuesday, Dec 18. “Consulted by Deutsche Bahn / DB Vertrieb GmbH to work on content for a workshop of an internal entrepreneurship program,” says the press release, “Unibright […]
The “Token Taxonomy Act” has been introduced to the US House of Representatives on Thursday according to the US Congress. The idea is to change a 1933 definition of securities. Representants Warren Davidson and Darren Soto introduced an ACT “To amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to exclude […]
Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Litecoin could be on the dark side in 2018, but there is a mining-related topic that is on fire this year, the crypto mining malware activity rose by 4,000 percent in 2018 according to a report published by McAfee. California based cybersecurity company published its annual McAfee Labs Threats Report, and there […]