Jun 06, 2016 11:37 am UTC| Digital Currency
American Express has published an article from financial industry veteran Frances Coppola that discusses the various aspects, features and challenges of bitcoin and its future in the international payments...
Expertus partners with Ripple for blockchain testing in banks
Jun 06, 2016 11:20 am UTC| Digital Currency
Expertus, a Canada-based financial technology company, announced today that it has teamed up with distributed ledger technology provider Ripple in a pilot program for financial institutions which would examine the...
Wall Street Blockchain Alliance partners with Positrust to launch certification programme
Jun 06, 2016 10:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA), a non-profit advocacy group for blockchain technology, in partnership with Positrust LLC, an industry leading technology company, has unveiled the WSBA Certification Framework...
Bitcoin startup Purse rolls out new features for power users
Jun 06, 2016 10:12 am UTC| Digital Currency
Purse.io, a leading online marketplace for digital currencies,has added new features in order to improve user experience on its platform. The new features will help power users boost their productivity. Weve recently...
Global regulators won’t stand in the way of blockchain technology, says ASIC chairman
Jun 06, 2016 10:12 am UTC| Digital Currency
Greg Medcraft, chairman of Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said that global regulators are attuned to blockchain risks. He also stated that blockchains must be able to operate with each other and...
MIT Media Lab releases code of blockchain-based Digital Certificates Project
Jun 06, 2016 09:21 am UTC| Digital Currency
MIT Media Lab has announced the release of version 1 of its code for Digital Certificates Project that involves a set of tools to issue, display, and verify digital credentials using the Bitcoin blockchain and the Mozilla...
SatoshiLabs announced TREZOR Password Manager for high security
Jun 06, 2016 07:33 am UTC| Digital Currency
SatoshiLabs,a Prague-based Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer, on Friday announced a new lightweight application called TREZOR Password Manager which is a secured cloud solution to store and manage passwords with...
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