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South Korean Universities Sign Ripple, Blockchain Deals

Two major South Korean universities have penned wide-ranging blockchain-related deals.The newly-founded Blockchain Security Research Center at Korea University’s Graduate School has signed a partnership agreement with Ripple, which will see the American firm provide financial and technical...

, by Tim Alper

Supply Chain Might be First to Show Value of Blockchain. In 10 years

In spite of all the hype surrounding blockchain, proving the tangible benefits of the technology may be longer than some might expect, experts say, adding that the earliest viable applications will likely be in supply chain management, rather than financial services.Anoop Nannra, head of the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Binance’s Fund Head: “We’d like the ICO bubble to break”

Valuations in the initial coin offering (ICO) market are high and unreasonable and if the bubble bursts, it’s a good thing for the industry, Ella Zhang, the head of Binance Labs, a blockchain incubator, founded by the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, told Bloomberg. “We’d like...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Samsung and KT Launch Two Blockchain Platforms

Two of South Korea’s biggest companies have announced the launch of blockchain products that they claim will shake up the country’s finance and energy sectors.Telecoms giant KT says it has completed work on a blockchain-powered energy brokerage platform that will allow small-scale...

, by Tim Alper

Blockchain Isn’t for Everyone, Says Man Who Raised USD 100m in an ICO

Kik CEO Ted Livingston raised almost USD 100 million by selling cryptocurrency last year. This year, he’s warning people away from blockchain - the technology that made it all possible.“Almost nobody should be looking at blockchain,” he said at the True North tech conference in...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

At Least Three New Investment Funds Aim to Bolster the Crypto Space

Within only a few days of each other, three crypto industry giants Binance, Huobi and Block.one all announced their launch of separate investment funds for blockchain-based systems. The move could mean a lifeline for struggling startups with groundbreaking ideas - if they can get the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

R3 Blockchain Consortium Receives Major Financial Boost

A leading American foreign exchange settlement provider, CLS, has invested USD 5 million in R3, a company that aims to build blockchain-powered apps and networks for financial institutions.Per Reuters, the deal will see CLS take a seat on R3’s board of directors, and follows investments from...

, by Tim Alper

Chinese President Hails Blockchain – as Crypto Biz ‘Leaks’ Abroad

Chinese President Xi Jinping says that blockchain technology is bringing about “breakthroughs” in the country.Speaking at a meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi said that the country needed to “build a powerful world of science and technology more than any other time in...

, by Tim Alper

A Key Insight For the Blockchain Came in 1991

When Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, published the founding document of Bitcoin in 2008, it had just eight citations of previous works. Three of them were papers co-authored by physicists Scott Stornetta and Stuart Haber, and published in 1991-1997.Bitcoin’s roots lie in...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Chinese Giant Introduces Blockchain-powered Encyclopedia Services

Chinese search engine giant Baidu says it is using blockchain technology to ensure accuracy and traceability for its online, user-created encyclopedia Baidu Baike – China’s equivalent to Wikipedia.Per China Money Network, Baidu Baike users can now look at blockchain-logged historical...

, by Tim Alper

Average Blockchain Project Dies In 15 months, Chinese Official Claims

For over 80,000 of all blockchain projects ever launched globally, only 8% are still being actively maintained and the average life span is only around 1.22 years, or less than 15 months, according to an official from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), reported...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

12 Unexpected Problems Blockchain Is Supposed to Fix

There is always a time, shortly after the inception of a technology - especially if it’s something different from what the market already has - when everybody wants a piece of the cake. From Big Data to artificial intelligence, businesses often trust those new technologies will be exactly...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Oman Medical Training Center in Blockchain Deal with Gov’t Provider

A major medical training center in Oman has struck a deal with a newly established government blockchain services provider to enable “electronic transactions” powered by blockchain technology.Per newspaper the Muscat Daily, Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB) sealed an agreement with...

, by Tim Alper

How Blockchain Can Make Forgeries A Thing of the Past

Fake diplomas are big business. Said to constitute a billion-dollar global industry, they present the world with an unfortunate problem, insofar as many of the buyers of such diplomas are people in positions of acute responsibility.In fact, forgeries aren't only a concern for the professional and...

, by Simon Chandler

How to Regulate the Future Now and How to Unchain Blockchains

Countries need to experiment, learn, make mistakes and collaborate if they want to succeed in the emerging world of blockchains and tokens.This could be one way to summarize the content of talks delivered at a conference ‒ “Blockchain – The Game Changer of the 4th Industrial...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Blockchain-Based Marine Insurance Is Live

Consultancy EY, data security firm Guardtime, tech giant Microsoft and ship operator Maersk had joined to build a blockchain-based marine insurance platform back in September 2017, meant to be the first real-world use of the nascent technology in the shipping industry. This technology is now live...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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