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Blockchain to avoid illegal drug trade
Robert Hackett on Fortune talk about blockchain applied to business management and cites the collaboration between Accenture and DHL, the German leader in shipping. The two companies used the blockchain to track the drug distribution. In particular, the technology has...
Fintech, UK is an international leader
Billy Bambrough on Forbes explains that fintech startups have revolutionized the financial services industry, captured around one-third of new revenue. In the United Kingdom, thanks to government policy, 63 percent of the fintech companies took around 14 percent of...
Blockchain, advantages in legal field
The Guardian explains that the blockchain can be applied to the legal profession and regulatory environment. On the newspaper the website Primavera Filippi, a researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris and faculty associate at Harvard...
Hong Kong, a regulation for cryptocurrencies
The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong is studying a regulation for cryptocurrency trading platforms. South China Morning Post reports it. Some Hong Kong trading platforms are cooperating with regulatory bodies to attract mainstream investment trading. The...
Blockchain, a new private protocol to increase operation volumes
A new study by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has shown that the Blockchain can increase the volumes of the U.S. equity market through a private protocol. Private Blockchain has different privacy and sharing models, data storage, smart contract...
The Blockchain in the Brazilian presidential elections
Ana Berman on Cointelegraph reports that Fernando Haddad, candidate for the Brazil Workers' Party, has published his government plan through the blockchain to avoid fake news. Haddad is not the only presidential candidate to apply this technology. During the election...
Blockchain: a faster and safer platform is coming
Gina Clarke on Forbes explains that a secure Blockchain-based platform concerning databases could be launched through innovations about consensus processes and functions. The platform is called "supernode proof-of-stake" or SPoS and needs specialized hardware. The...
China leader in bitcoin market, U.S. invest in ripple
China is the world leader in bitcoin mining controlling more then 70% of hashes of the main cryptocurrency. Billy Bambrough on Forbes explains that China produces most of the bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining equipment worldwide thanks to cheap electricity prices. So...
The price of bitcoin is linked to the price of equities
Bitcoin is not meant to be linked to material assets and equities, but bitcoin's trends often are similar to other markets and stock indices trends. Clem Chambers on Forbes explains that for an investor this is the right time to bet on cryptocurrencies, as it is...
World Bank President: Blockchain has “huge potential”
The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, said that the distributed ledger technology, (core idea of the Blockchain), has "huge potential". Ana Alexandre on Cointelegraph reports a Kim's statement at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Banks’...
Cryptocurrency: “Bitcoin as stable as dollar and oil markets”
Dan Falvey, on Express, quotes a report published on Chaos magazine. The research shows that bitcoin, as regards stability, could be compared with dollar, oil, stock and bond markets. The authors of the research examined the Bitcoin's price between 2012 and April 2018...
Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is rising
Today Bitcoin has opened rising 10 percent, with an increase of $10 billion to bitcoin's market capitalization in a few minutes. Billy Bambrough reports it on Forbes. This morning's rise in the bitcoin price all but erase the losses bitcoin recorded late last week,...