True Global Ventures’ fintech startup challenge to focus on blockchain, insurance and credit scoring
Jul 11, 2016 06:37 am UTC| Digital Currency
Venture capital firm True Global Ventures, in collaboration with its partners, has announced that it will hold its next Fintech event in Stockholm this coming fall (November 1 2), following the success of its previous...
Incentivized Blockchains Make Most Sense Economically
Jul 08, 2016 22:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Digital Currency
Network sustainability indisputably better in quid pro quo arrangement with node operators Blockchain network sustainability is about good economics. Perry Woodin, founder at Node40, a node hosting service for...
Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-up: July 8, 2016
Jul 08, 2016 11:15 am UTC| Digital Currency
It has been quite an interesting week for the digital currency and blockchain community. History was made with the launch of Zugs bitcoin pilot project and North Carolina Bitcoin Bill, which has been signed into law. Here...
Nexuslab festival gives a peek into future of blockchain
Jul 08, 2016 06:58 am UTC| Digital Currency
The first ever Nexuslab festival day was held on 7 July in Zurich, Switzerland, attended by nearly 170 investors, industry experts and journalists. The event marked the grand finale of the successful first round of...
Successful blockchain experiments demonstrate Myanmar’s favorable cloud-computing environments
Jul 08, 2016 06:44 am UTC| Digital Currency
Infoteria, a Japan-based software development firm, has been working with Myanmar microfinance firm BC Finance on an experiment to create a low-cost and highly reliable blockchain infrastructure to record financial...
GovCoin Systems tests blockchain-based platform for social welfare payments in UK
Jul 08, 2016 05:06 am UTC| Digital Currency
GovCoin Systems Limited, a London-based fintech company, together with its partners Barclays, RWE npower and University College London, is trialling a new platform based on blockchain technology for UKs Department for Work...
How blockchain could help musicians make a living from music
Jul 07, 2016 17:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Digital Currency
In the decade and a half since Napster, its got harder for musicians to make a living, at least from recorded music. Falling CD sales, illegal downloads, the low payments from legal music streaming platforms such as...
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