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Blockchain in healthcare with consortium thinking
Blockchain is becoming the answer to many health problems. Chrissa McFarlane (Forbes) lists the benefits: above all ease of access to data, decentralization, security, efficiency and coordination.
Credit Suisse, the blockchain to manage investment funds
Credit Suisse has successfully tested the blockchain to manage investment fund operations. Tom Wilson (Reuters) explains that one of the main problems in this sector concerns the complexity of the transactions.
Public transport becomes bitcoin friendly in Argentina
In 37 Argentine cities now you can pay public transport tickets (metro and bus tickets) in bitcoin. Emilio Janus (Bitcoinist) notes that this is an important step towards the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies. This is a decisive step for their application in...
Blockchain, these are the reasons for the Chinese leadership
Fiorenzo Manganiello (Forbes) lists the three conditions that allowed China to become a global blockchain hub: institutional investors linked to corporate players, a network of universities and incubators that facilitate the growth and development of blockchain...
The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance is going into a a blockchain consortium
The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance announced that has joined blockchain consortium R3 to develop applications and solutions on their Corda platform. Miranda Karanfili (Cointelegraph) explains that Corda is a blockchain platform that allows for institutions to...
Toward an increasingly decentralized bitcoin
Yogita Khatri (Coindesk) cites a Canadian financial services company Canaccord Genuity Group's report. The document indicates - among the reasons for decentralization - “increased competition” among mining chip manufacturers. This news, underlines the report, is...
Fintech: 2018 record year for investment, Alibaba is the leader in the industry
According to the CB Insights analysts, in 2018 the fintech companies have raised $ 39.57 billion (+ 120% compared to 2017) as the result of 1,707 offers. Adeyemi Adepetun (The Guardian) quotes the report entitled "2019 Fintech Trends to Watch", highlighting that $ 14...
United Arab Emirates will become a blockchain hub by 2021
Dubai royal Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum is backing cryptocurrency fund management company Invao, a Liechtenstein-based firm that is interested in the UAE market. Matthew Martin (Bloomberg) underlines that UAE plan to become a blockchain investment hub by...
Google invests in the blockchain, here’s the news
Google has decided to invest in the blockchain and has launched a suite of tools for open source developers: among them there is datasets for all the transactions and metadata in eight cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ethereum. Michael del Castillo shows the...
Cryptocurrency, Kraken confirms itself as world leader
Kraken, rated the most secure digital asset exchange, announced the acquisition of Crypto Facilities, a world-leading, regulated cryptocurrency trading platform and index provider. As reported by the Associated Press, it is Kraken's largest acquisition and one of the...
Facebook enters the blockchain industry
Facebook has concluded its first acquisition in the blockchain space: it is Chainspace, a small blockchain startup founded by researchers from University College London, specializing in decentralized “smart contracts” system that could facilitate payments and other...
An ETF backed by tech giants
ARK Investment Management has just launched its first fintech exchange traded fund (ETF). It spans across three areas of technology: mobile payments, artificial intelligence and blockchain.Kate Rooney (CNBC) explains that the "ARK Fintech Innovation ETF" includes...