Innovation Ignition Competition invites blockchain projects for healthcare
Dec 21, 2016 10:08 am UTC| Digital Currency
Innovation Ignition Competition launched by Telehealth and Medicine Today, has called for projects that usetechnologies like blockchain, AI, sensors, AR robotics, among others, for application in thehealthcare...
Trump picks bitcoin and blockchain enthusiast Mick Mulvaney as Budget Director
Dec 21, 2016 10:02 am UTC| Digital Currency
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Mick Mulvaney, a conservative Republican congressman from South Carolina and bitcoin enthusiast, as the U.S. Budget Director. With Mick at the head of OMB, my Administration is...
E-commerce giant Overstock secures $10.9m through blockchain stock issuance
Dec 21, 2016 08:33 am UTC| Digital Currency
Online retail giant Overstock.com, Inc.last week announced the closing of its rights offering of Blockchain Voting Series A Preferred Shares and Voting Series B Preferred Shares. This offering is historic in that we...
Blockchain firm Factom releases next version of software ‘Factom Federation network’
Dec 21, 2016 06:57 am UTC| Digital Currency
Factom, a blockchain-based data management solution, has announced the release of the next version of its software Factom Federation network. The company spent past years in developing and testing its decentralized and...
ICONOMI.index fund and Open Fund Management Platform outline to be available on 28th December
Dec 21, 2016 06:56 am UTC| Digital Currency
ICONOMI, a fund management platform for blockchains and cryptocurrencies, has announced that early access to the ICONOMI.index fund will be given to the first public testers on 21 December while the ICONOMI Open Fund...
FxWirePro: BTC/EUR hits fresh year high, good to buy on dips
Dec 21, 2016 06:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/EUR is seen trading well above on Wednesday marking a new high of the year. The pair breaks recent high of 765 and hitsafresh year high at 779.80 levels (COINBASE). It is currently trading around 778.25 at the time of...
Dec 21, 2016 06:19 am UTC| Digital Currency
In a new survey, IBM Institute for Business Value has found that healthcare organizations are moving fast in the sphere of blockchain adoption, seemingly faster than the financial industry. IBM Institute for Business...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects