Microsoft to sponsor Ethereum developer conference Devcon2
Jun 14, 2016 12:24 pm UTC| Digital Currency
The Ethereum Foundation has announced that Devcon2, the Ethereum developer conference, will be held in Shanghai, from 19 to 21 September, 2016. The event will showcase the latest research and development work supported...
Jun 14, 2016 06:57 am UTC| Digital Currency
Berklee College of Musics Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship (BerkleeICE), in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, has announced a new The Open Music Initiative (OMI), which aims to solve the most pressing issue in...
PwC to explore potential blockchain benefits for wholesale insurance
Jun 14, 2016 05:09 am UTC| Digital Currency
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the leading multinational professional services firm, in collaboration with Z/Yen, a commercial think-tank, consultancy and venture firm, is launching a Long Finance research project to...
Conference discusses how blockchain would track solar power production
Jun 13, 2016 15:03 pm UTC| Digital Currency
The Chain of Things IoT, Blockchain and Security Conference was held earlier this month in London. The conference was attended by companies, nonprofits and consortiums that discussed how blockchain technology that...
The DAO Proposal Framework v1.0 released
Jun 13, 2016 13:14 pm UTC| Digital Currency
According to latest reports, the DAO proposal framework is complete and version 1.0 has been released. Parties interested in submitting a proposal to The DAO token holders now have a guideline to do so, The Merkle...
Blockchain technology is very promising; says MasterCard international markets president
Jun 13, 2016 11:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
Ann Cairns, international markets president at MasterCard in an interview to EurActiv.com said that blockchain technology has higher scope and a very promising technology which MasterCard sees as a good thing for the...
US government discusses potential of big data, blockchain, fintech and more
Jun 13, 2016 11:23 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain technology that underpins digital currency such as bitcoin has been gradually moving from the hype phase, seen for the most part of 2015, to actual experimentation phase with the advent of various blockchain...
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