Bitcoin exchange Coin.mx individuals extradited to US from Israel
Jun 10, 2016 06:51 am UTC| Digital Currency
The US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, together with the FBI and the USSS, has announced that two individuals associated with the now-defunct US bitcoin exchangeCoin.mxhave been extradited to the US...
Man claims to have hacked 32 m Twitter handles, demands 10 bitcoins as ransom
Jun 10, 2016 05:42 am UTC| Digital Currency
In a recent online post, LeakedSource, a collaboration of data found online in the form of a search engine, has stated that Twitter credentials are being traded in the tens of millions on the dark web. A user going by...
IBM opens Watson Centre to drive development and commercialization of AI and blockchain technologies
Jun 10, 2016 05:31 am UTC| Digital Currency
IBM has opened an incubator which will bring together different businesses, organizations and nearly 5,000 IBM cognitive solutions professionals in the Asia Pacific region to co-create business solutions that leverage IBMs...
Dubai telecom ‘Du’ brings blockchain technology to healthcare
Jun 10, 2016 05:24 am UTC| Digital Currency
Dubai-based telecom company Du has collaborated with Dubais Global Blockchain Council (GBC) to test blockchain technology and its applications in identity and authentification systems. Both the firms are experimenting...
Hong Kong based ASTRI to work on blockchain-based white paper
Jun 09, 2016 13:11 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Hong Kong-based Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) will prepare white paper on the blockchain technology for the country. ASTRI will be working on a paper at EmTech Hong Kong which is MIT...
Banks missing important opportunities presented by bitcoin; says venture capitalist
Jun 09, 2016 13:04 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Fred Wilson, venture capitalist and co-founder of Union Square Ventures, called out leading global banks during The Future of FinTech Conference in New York for not paying attention to the bitcoin. Wilson believes banks...
Blockchain could ensure proper implementation of AML/KYC rules; says Hong Kong regulator
Jun 09, 2016 12:42 pm UTC| Digital Currency
TheHong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has come out in support for blockchain technology, saying that the technology has the potential to ensure proper implementation of Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects