South Korea to get first blockchain-based digital currency ‘BOScoin’
Dec 15, 2016 07:01 am UTC| Digital Currency
BlockchainOS, a South Korean blockchain startup, has announced that it will officially launch digital currency BOScoin, which it describes to be an improved version of existing cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether,...
U.K. startup Electron seeks to leverage Ethereum blockchain in energy sector
Dec 15, 2016 06:47 am UTC| Digital Currency
U.K.-based firm Electron has built a demo platform on Ethereum blockchain and in a dummy representation of the countrys energy market, it showed that energy supplier switches can be executed up to 20 times faster than...
Blockchain startup Bitwage wins French Tech Ticket competition
Dec 15, 2016 05:57 am UTC| Digital Currency
Bitwage, a blockchain-powered payroll processor, has won the French Tech Ticket competition and is now qualified to join one of Frances top incubators, CoinTelegraph reported. The French Tech Ticket is a program...
XBRL US and ConsenSys form working group to develop standards for blockchain tokens
Dec 15, 2016 05:41 am UTC| Digital Currency
XBRL US, the nonprofit consortium for the digital business reporting standard, together with blockchain startup ConsenSys, has announced the formation of a working group dedicated to developing standards for tokenization...
R3 blockchain consortium adds financial services company ‘Credicorp’
Dec 15, 2016 05:24 am UTC| Digital Currency
U.S.-based financial innovation firm R3, now comprising over 70 members across theindustry, has added Peruvian financial services company Credicorp to its blockchain consortium. Credicorp is the first Spanish-speaking...
Blockchain app platform Lisk achieves first milestone of mainchain stabilization in Inception phase
Dec 15, 2016 04:53 am UTC| Digital Currency
Lisk, the blockchain application platform, has announced that it has achieved first major milestone in its roadmap towards widespread adoption with the stabilization of its mainchain, along with the improvement in its...
FxWirePro: DASH/ USDT faces strong resistance at 200- day MA, good to buy on dips
Dec 14, 2016 13:18 pm UTC| Digital Currency
DASH/USDT pair has slightly declined after jumping till USDT9.540 levels (Poloniex). It is currently trading around USDT9.27 at the time of writing. Ichimoku analysis (Daily chart): Tenkan-Sen level:...
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