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China Leads by Number of Blockchain Patents Filed

According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, 2017 was a lucrative year for blockchain patents, in which the absolute lead goes to China, as the Financial Times reports.Out of a total of 406 patents filed last year, more than half of them — 225, to be exact - were filed by the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Startups Lead the Blockchain Revolution in the Travel Industry

Trond works as a consultant to the travel industry and as advisor to blockchain startups. He is also a hobby cryptocurrency investor, and writes about the blockchain and ICO space. Follow him on trondbjoroy.com and connect with him on LinkedIn.The travel industry relies in large parts on decades...

, by Trond Bjorøy

Morning News: USD 93m Blockchain Investment, Crypto Board Game

Upbit Parent Company to Make USD 93m Blockchain Investment Developer Unveils Crypto Board Game Web-Based Comics Take a Hit Hong Kong Mobile Data Trading Platform Eyes New MarketsCatch up on the most essential cryptocurrency and blockchain news stories breaking in Asia and the Americas while the...

, by Tim Alper

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

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

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

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

Google Trends: How Is Crypto Holding Up?

-What’s the best search engine in the world? Google? Yahoo? Bing? -Hold on, let me google that for you…Since Google is synonymous with search engine, checking Google Trends to see how interested people are in crypto is a failsafe way to get a pretty good picture. I mean, it’s not...

, 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

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

Blockchain: at the Core of the Energy Sector Revolution

.Inese Dosé, Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Latvia.The Blockchain has created an exceptional hype around its utilisation by many industries. The technology facilitates transactions between parties by using computer algorithms without the need for third-party involvement. It...

, by Inese Dosé

Veteran Internet Entrepreneur’s Simple Idea For Simple Token

Jason Goldberg, Founder and CEO of Simple Token, a network for consumer apps tokenization, believes every company, from “a global brand to an emerging app maker,” should be able to easily issue branded tokens and “transform its business into a dynamic economic ecosystem,” he...

, by Julia Travers

Blockchains are Helping the Internet of Things to Move Beyond Hype

Ever since Wired ran a story in 2015 documenting how cybersecurity experts managed to hack into a Jeep Cherokee, media outlets have been awash with warnings on how the internet of things (IoT) ‘isn't safe.’ While cyberattacks are nothing new, the fact that the IoT involves connecting...

, by Simon Chandler

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