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A Canadian Indigenous Community’s Ambitious Blockchain Trek

The Inuit, an indigenous people in the northern Canada town of Rigolet, Labrador, regularly face a challenging scenario — frozen rivers and streams are their only transportation routes in and out of town. With the impact of climate change, consistently warmer temperatures have created...

, by Michael Scott

Blockchain Companies May Face Issues Complying With EU Regulations

Companies that use blockchain to store data could face new troubles in Europe due to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Starting May 25, all 28 EU nations will be applying the GDPR, which sets new standards for any holder of sensitive data, from Amazon to your...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin Blockbuster to be Distributed Using Blockchain

Independent film No Postage Necessary is a dramatic comedy about a computer hacker and a whole lot of missing Bitcoins - the perfect plot for the first feature film to be released using blockchain technology.The film is teaming up with Vevue, a peer-to-peer video network app running on the Qtum...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Facebook’s Problems Could Help Blockchain Growth

After The New York Times and the Guardian's Observer reported Saturday that political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users, many other privacy issues with Facebook came out.Mitch Steves, analyst at RBC Capital...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

CEO of Twitter: Bitcoin Will Be World’s Single Currency

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and payment company Square, has spoken of his strong belief in the future potential of Bitcoin in an interview with The Times, published on Wednesday.Dorsey, who himself is a noted Bitcoin investor, thinks Bitcoin will overtake the dollar in importance as it becomes the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Why Accountants of the Future Will Need to Speak Crypto

Anwar Halari, The Open UniversityIf you haven’t already heard of Bitcoin, you either haven’t been paying attention or you’re a time traveller who just touched down in 2018. Because by now, most of us will have heard of Bitcoin and some of us have even jumped on the bandwagon,...

, by Anwar Halari

Morning News: G20 Needs Recommendations, NSA Monitors BTC Users

G20 Asks for Crypto Regulation Recommendations by July NSA Has Been Monitoring Bitcoin Users since at Least 2013 Japanese Luxury Clothing Store to Start Accepting Bitcoin Experts: Phishing is a “Serious Threat” for Crypto InvestorsCatch up on the most essential cryptocurrency and...

, by Tim Alper

IBM: “Smaller Than a Grain of Salt” Computer Will Use Blockchain

IBM, an American multinational technology company, estimates that the world’s smallest computer - “smaller than a grain of salt” - will use blockchain to “ensure an object’s authenticity from its point of origin to when it reaches the hands of the customer.”In a...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

The Two Faces of Crypto Elitism

Whenever a new idea, invention, or any area of human interest surfaces, elitism does as well. It is regarded as a way to discriminate based on the idea that one’s group is somehow above others. It could be argued that this competitiveness and desire to be better than others is part of human...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Coca-Cola to Fight Forced Labor Using Blockchain

Coca-Cola and the U.S. State Department, along with a Bitfury, blockchain technology company, and a cryptocurrency Emercoin, are launching a project using blockchain’s digital ledger technology to create a secure registry for workers that will help fight the use of forced labor and other...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

The Race to Put Cannabis on the Blockchain

Blockchains and the marijuana industry have much in common. Both are often maligned and misunderstood; both are in early stages of development, where new players are throwing everything at the wall in the hope that something will stick.It may therefore come as little surprise that a handful of...

, by Simon Chandler

CIS Gamers and Social Networkers Cultivating Crypto-friendly Future

The CIS’ burgeoning gaming industry and social networking world is looking to for exciting new cryptocurrency and blockchain-related crossovers in 2018.As the love for e-sports intensifies, crypto’s newest CIS champion, Belarus, was most recently the venue for the inaugural Play2Live...

, by Tim Alper

S Korea Academics Are Batty for Blockchain – And the North’s Keen Too

Reports allege that North Korean universities are also training a new generation of blockchain experts.South Korean universities are responding to heightened demand for cryptocurrency and blockchain knowledge among the country’s youth with a slew of new fintech and crypto-themed courses and...

, by Tim Alper

Bitcoin is “On the Edge of Mass Cryptocurrency Adoption”

Thursday, March 15th will go down in history as the day Lightning Network’s software lnd 0.4-beta version rolled out for the very first time. What does it mean? And is it already for everyone?Bitcoin has seen its share of problems throughout its relatively brief history, but mostly in the way...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Can a Bank Hear Crypto Investors? Yes, in Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein’s Bank Frick has become the country’s first institution of this kind to add cryptocurrency trade to its product portfolio. The bank, which does not engage in retail banking and works exclusively with professional clients and financial intermediaries, says it aims to place...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Morning News: Huawei’s Sirin Deal?, S Korean Gov’t to Regulate Crypto

Catch up on the most essential cryptocurrency and blockchain news stories breaking in Asia and the Americas while the rest of the world was asleep.S Korean Finance Minister: "Gov’t Will Regulate Crypto" South Korea’s Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon has reiterated that regulation remains...

, by Tim Alper

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