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“AirBnB for Computers” Announces the Big Step

“AirBnB for computers”, one of the earliest Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the Golem Project after two years of development announced yesterday that the “big step,” aka the mainnet launch, is here."From being one of the first crowdfunded projects, way past the challenges we...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

How to Mine Bitcoin for Free and Make USD 5 a Year

In another effort to find ways to mine crypto as cheaply as possible, from combining the excess heat from your mining rig to grow tomatoes or heat your own room to moving to small towns where electricity is cheaper, using Google may just take the prize for most original idea.Uri Shaked is an...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Expert: Blockchain Could Stop a Repeat of Samsung Securities Crisis

Oh Jung-geun, the chairman of the Korea Finance ICT Convergence Association, has implored South Korean securities companies to adopt blockchain platforms to avoid a repeat of the crisis currently engulfing Samsung Securities.A Samsung Securities administrative error saw the company mistakenly hand...

, by Tim Alper

Major S Korean Hospital to Use Blockchain Platform for Medical Records

The Hanyang University Medical Center has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain venture MediBlock as the center looks to move its medical records onto a blockchain-powered platform.The university says it will work in conjunction with MediBlock to build a platform that helps store...

, by Tim Alper

Majority of U.S. CFOs Don’t Expect to be Affected by Blockchain

It would seem that many Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) believe blockchain and other fintech innovations will not affect their businesses. Even those who do are slow to respond, according to a survey by the International Association of Financial Executives Institutes (IAFEI) and a group of partners...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Major Think Tank Tries to Save Blockchain Industry From GDPR

Blockchain technology may be fundamentally incompatible with Europe’s new privacy rules, in its recent blog post claims Coin Center, a Washington DC based think tank backed by major blockchain industry players. Commenting on the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to take place...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Can Blockchain Be Controlled?

Vasilis Kostakis, Tallinn University of Technology; Primavera de Filippi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and Wolfgang Drechsler, National University of SingaporeThe headlong pace of technological change produces giant leaps forward in knowledge, innovation, new possibilities...

, by Primavera de Filippi

Valuing Your Blockchain Data

Damon Rasheed is a co-founder of Advantage Data, a data consultancy company, CEO and founder of Rate Detective, an Australian financial comparison site. Damon has had more than 20 years experience working with data and has been involved in setting up several successful internet startups that have...

, by Damon Rasheed

Blockchain’s Fight Against Piracy Will Empower Independent Artists

Online piracy will cost the global economy at least USD 52 billion annually by 2022, according to Digital TV Research. However, while such a figure suggests that the world's online pirates are living in an era of quasi-unlimited gratification, the blockchain is on its way to give copyright holders...

, by Simon Chandler

Blockchains Are Learning How to Scale, But At What Price?

This comparison is hardly flattering for both blockchains, and it underlines the challenges they and other distributed ledgers face if their designers ever wish to scale them to the point where they're used by much of the globe.Fortunately, recent months have witnessed growing indications that...

, by Simon Chandler

Crypto Job Popularity on the Decline, Blockchain Still Wanted

Interest in cryptocurrency-related jobs has declined in parallel with a slump in crypto prices, according to employment search engine Indeed.com. Blockchain, however, remains as attractive to job seekers as before.According to a new report released Wednesday, crypto-related searches on the site...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Why Healthcare Needs Blockchain

Dr Tal Rapke is a trained doctor and former pharmaceutical executive, founder of Australia-based startup ScalaMed, a mobile prescription exchange system powered by blockchain. He is also a mentor at Blockchain Centre Vilnius.Any one of us in the healthcare industry will tell you – we’re...

, by Tal Rapke

Ford Awarded Patent for Car-to-Car Crypto Transactions

Ford was awarded a new patent that suggests the automaker is considering using crypto in vehicle communication as a way to reduce traffic. The patent, published Tuesday, is titled “Vehicle-to-vehicle cooperation to marshal traffic” and was filed back in September 2016. Its main focus is...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Cryptomatoes, Blockchain Pigs & Habanero Coins: Crypto in Agro

Blockchain and crypto are everywhere, even in the places we would not expect them to be, such as agronomics. The science of soil management and the production of field crops does not seem to have much in common with digital assets designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin Puzzles: A New Rewarding Pastime

Puzzles have always been a popular pastime with many, in all their different iterations. Now fans of both crypto and puzzles get the best of both worlds with crypto puzzles. Solving the puzzle gives you the key to the wallet with the reward, to be claimed by the fastest brain in the race.On Friday,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

European Utilities to Start Trading with Each Other Using Blockchain

European utilities are planning to use blockchain technology to begin direct trades with one another, Reuters reported. Blockchain in this instance has already been tested by energy operators for wholesale trading, but for now, it will go live only for a selected few.Enerchain, the initiative in...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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