After banning domestic exchanges from trading bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, the People's Bank of China may be thinking of developing a domestic currency after all. China seems to be eager to join the "cryptocurrency hype", especially after the total market capitalization of digital currencies hit $200 billion, with the major driver being Bitcoin, which surpassed the…
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As blockchain has already disrupted industries and countries from Russia to Australia, Malta is not in line to disrupt the online gaming industry through blockchain. Time of Malta reported: "The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) is leading by example in establishing Malta as a frontrunner in this regard, and, in the White Paper published in July…
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Despite Bitcoin's hockey-stick price chart over the last week, hitting $7,500 level, still, the general perception of the digital currency is that it can be largely used for illegal purposes like drug and human trafficking, terrorist financing and others. Now, Vatican City is working with major financial institutions to better understand the use of crypto…
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After blockchain found numerous applications in industries such as real estate and healthcare, the food and beverage industry is also being disrupted by the technology. Bet365, a company that creates technologies to streamline supply chains in various emerging economies, has just announced that it had lended two programs with three partners in Africa, Europe and North America…
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India seems to be going out on a limb with the technology of blockchain, since many Indian companies are now using it for improvement of various services and products. The India Times reported that Bajaj Finserv, the holding company of Bajaj Group's NBFC and insurance firms, is using blockchain technology for services like travel insurance, for…
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Chaineum, the first French ICO boutique, and Lightyear.io, an organization that supports partner activities for Stellar, an open source blockchain network, have announced a partnership to collaborate in the ICO space. Through the partnership, Chaineum will use the Stellar network to support some of its upcoming ICOs. Founded by Laurent Leloup, an expert in blockchain…
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The word blockchain has been swirling around the public space for quite some time now. Bitcoin and the other 1,000 digital currencies have a total market capitalization of around $170 billion. Blockchain has disrupted a series of industries from the technology companies to the agriculture companies in Russia. So, it is interesting to understand the…
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Kochava, the leading mobile attribution and marketing analytics platform, today announced XCHNG, an open and unified blockchain framework for the digital advertising ecosystem. The XCHNG blockchain-based system of record enables the tokenization of an insertion order (IO, or a contract to buy advertisements) with the supporting immutable infrastructure to facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers…
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Decentralized energy platform company, ImpactPPA today announced the launch of its blockchain technology to disrupt renewable energy finance and accelerate global clean energy production. ImpactPPA’s platform and tokenization model allows users of the software, the “SmartPPA,” to rapidly fund and deploy clean energy solutions, including wind and solar, by using the crowd and the blockchain…
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"Blockchain goes green with revolutionary water technology" reads the Genesis Research and Technology Group website. Blockchain has disrupted many industries and sectors, but the WaterToken is the world's first chemical-free plasma technology platform based on blockchain. The Genesis RTG water recycling systems treat 500 bbl/per hour using its patented and proven process known as "pulsed…
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