Bitcoin usage in Canada grew 100 pct in past one year: Report
Jun 02, 2016 06:16 am UTC| Digital Currency
A recent study published by Technology Strategies International Inc., a leading technology market research firm based in Canada, has found that the value of contactless payments made by Canadian consumers more than doubled...
Mediachain to build an open media library; receives seed funding from blockchain VCs
Jun 02, 2016 05:30 am UTC| Digital Currency
New York based Mediachain; an open source platform using blockchain technology to track media ownership has received funding from two largest VC investors in blockchain, Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz to...
Blockchain entertainment studio SingularDTV teams up with ConsenSys
Jun 02, 2016 05:28 am UTC| Digital Currency
SingularDTV(S-DTV), a first-of-its-kind blockchain entertainment studio, is entering into a partnership with ConsenSys, a developer of decentralized applications and end-user tools for blockchain ecosystems, to build a...
Ethereum is poised to be the leading blockchain: Bitwage President
Jun 02, 2016 04:40 am UTC| Digital Currency
Digital assets exchange Uphold delivered its promise by adding support for Ether on its platform, which followed the support for Litecoin rolled out in May. Jorge Pereira, Executive Vice President, Chief Product ...
Uphold adds Ether to its bouquet of cryptocurrencies
Jun 01, 2016 15:10 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Cloud based financial services platform Uphold today announced that it has added the support for Ether on its platform. Starting today, Uphold members can now buy or convert value to Ether with just a few clicks, right...
QIWI to create a blockchain consortium of Russian banks, says report
Jun 01, 2016 12:35 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Russian publication Izvestia reported that QIWI, publicly traded Russian payment service provider will create a consortium of Russian banks which will develop standards for the application of blockchain...
BigchainDB introduces internet-scale blockchain database IPDB
Jun 01, 2016 12:04 pm UTC| Digital Currency
BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database, has announced the launch of the Interplanetary Database (IPDB) an internet-scale blockchain database for the world. Blockchain technology is enabling a decentralized world...
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