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Unexpected Candidate to Support Crypto – Mosque in UK

Masjid Ramadan or Shacklewell Lane Mosque in London seems like an unexpected candidate to drive crypto adoption forward, but that is exactly what they are doing. The mosque is set to become one of the first mosques to accept cryptocurrency for the mandatory almsgiving, zakat and sadaqah, CCN...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

The Holy Grail of Digital Identity Is Not Entirely Sovereign

Self-sovereign identity would let people own the digital information that identifies them and choose when to share it. The ID information will still need to be established or underwritten by centralised institutions.In April, an American tech company IBM joined a little-known not-for-profit...

, by Simon Chandler

Customers to Control & Sell Data over Blockchain Through Nokia

Following the privacy concerns raised by the Facebook fiasco, major companies are proposing a new solution: letting customers control, and if they wish sell, their own data. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, an American IT company, and Nokia, a Finnish IT and consumer electronics company, among others,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

PayPal Will ‘Certainly Support’ Crypto Once it Stabilizes

PayPal CFO John Rainey told CNBC that they don’t see much interest in cryptocurrencies due to volatility threatening the viability of their merchants’ businesses. However, he did not rule out that the payment giant will support crypto in the future.Rainey said in his interview,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Australia Looking to Issue Blockchain-powered Welfare Payments

The Australian government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) says it plans to use blockchain technology to deliver welfare payments.The news comes just days after the government handed the DTA some USD 521,000 to fund blockchain-related research.ZDNet reports that the DTA’s acting...

, by Tim Alper

Sberbank Oversees Russia’s First Blockchain Corporate Bond Deal

Sberbank CIB, a subsidiary of Russian banking giant Sberbank, claims it has successfully conducted Russia’s first ever blockchain-powered commercial bond transaction, in conjunction with the central National Settlement Depository (NSD).Sberbank, in a statement, claimed that it has overseen...

, by Tim Alper

The Jimmy Song-Joe Lubin ‘Bet’ Probably Won’t Go Ahead

On Monday, two prominent crypto figures infamously struck up a little wager. Joseph Lubin – the founder of Ethereum "production studio" ConsenSys – bet that there will be mainstream adoption of a blockchain-based platform within five years. His bet was picked up by Bitcoin Core...

, by Simon Chandler

HTC Makes ‘Exodus’ to Blockchain with New Crypto-friendly Smartphone

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has announced it will release a blockchain-powered Android handset called the Exodus. HTC says the device will feature a pre-installed universal cryptocurrency wallet, and will provide support for decentralized blockchain apps. No exact date or price details have yet...

, by Tim Alper

Amazon’s New Partnership Is Another Step into Blockchain

Cloud computing company Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of an online retail giant Amazon, has partnered with a blockchain incubator ConsenSys to create the two firms' business blockchain cloud service, Kaleido.Announced at the Consensus 2018 conference in New York on Tuesday, Kaleido is...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Florida County to Accept Crypto for Services, Tax Payment

The Seminole County of Florida announced on May 14th that starting this summer they will begin accepting cryptocurrency as payment for various services offered by the county, in an attempt to eliminate high fees and improve payment accuracy and efficiency. According to the official press release,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Japanese Farmers Begin Organic Vegetables Blockchain Pilot

Farmers in Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture have announced that they are working with a Tokyo-based tech services provider on a pioneering blockchain pilot that will see organic vegetables grown in the prefecture logged on a distributed ledger.Per Nikkei, officials in Ayo, a town in Miyazaki...

, by Tim Alper

30% of Surveyed Businesses Plan to Spend More on Blockchain

Senior-level financial executives usually hold the power over whether blockchain as a solution will be implemented or not. Their interest in investing resources into the cutting-edge new technology has got stakeholders holding their collective breath, to see whether the technology is worth...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Blockchain Helps Financial Giant to Take ‘a Major Step’

HSBC Holdings, the UK headquartered one of the largest financial services organisations in the world, completed a transaction using blockchain, showing that the technology is commercially viable for trade finance. This was called “a major step in boosting efficiency and reducing errors in the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Facebook Plans Its Own Cryptocurrency – Report

A social network giant Facebook is exploring the creation of its own cryptocurrency, a news website Cheddar reported, citing "people familiar with Facebook’s plans".The company doesn’t have plans to launch an initial coin offering (ICO), while the network will likely need to make...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Huawei Targets Chinese Users with Bicoin Wallet App

Chinese smartphone giant Huawei has made BTC.com’s Bitcoin wallet app available in its AppGallery, a smartphone marketplace that will come preinstalled on its newest devices – and made available to users of older handsets in “coming months.”Bloomberg quotes Alejandro de la...

, by Tim Alper

Bahrain Wants to Launch Blockchain-powered Vehicle Registry

Bahrain’s General Directorate of Traffic (GDT) has claimed it will launch a national, blockchain technology-powered vehicle registration system.Per state-run news outlet Bahrain News Agency, the GDT is now looking for a technical partner “to design and implement” its new...

, by Tim Alper

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