Ukraine: 1st attempt at E-Voting
NEM announced that The Central Election Commission of Ukraine (CEC - Центральна виборча комісія) had made a first experiment concerning the possible uses of its own blockchain for regional...
Bithumb: US$ 35 million revenue for Q1 2018
The mastodon Bithumb victim of a hack last June of $ 17 million sees its revenues approaching close to US$ 300 million with an...
Decentralized digital identity solution: NEO & Swisscom Blockchain
The project that will bring SSI to reality: Swisscom Blockchain presented its Self Sovereign Identity solution at the 2019 NEO DevCon
How Blockchain is disrupting identity management
In the digital space, the need for a digital identity becomes stronger and stronger as the technology progresses. Here, governments are no longer responsible for the authentication in the majority of the cases, but private companies such as Facebook or Google act as third party identity providers for many digital services.
United States: 80% decrease in criminal activity via Bitcoin
The United States Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) says criminal activity via cryptocurrencies has fallen sharply in the last five years. While bitcoin transactions...
Switzerland: cryptocurrencies accepted in a 2nd Bank
Maerki Baumann, a Zurich-based private bank, announced that it will manage the cryptoassets of its customers. In Switzerland, it is the second private bank...
Bitmain: investment of US $ 500 million
The mastodonte Bitmain has announced its intention via a press release to create a blockchain data processing center and a Texas-based bitcoin mining site...
The World’s First Share Dispenser
For the first time in the history of finance, it is now possible to obtain shares of a corporation directly via its website. No...
Venezuela: Petro nowhere to be seen
Yet formally announced by the President of Venezuela in person, the local cryptocurrency, the Petro, should have been issued with, not only oil reserves...
Russia: “Cryptoassets are not a threat to financial stability”
President of Russia's Central Bank doesn't want to call cryptocurrencies by their names. Elvira Nabiullina prefers the nickname "Cryptos-Things". Last month, Elvira Nabiullina was...