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The Regulations That Could Help Reduce Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint
10.3.2021
The price of bitcoin has hit record prices this month, and that’s bad news for the climate. As the price of the currency shoots up, so does the energy consumption as people are incentivized to mine more bitcoin. And a new paper published Wednesday in the journal Joule estimates that by the end...
Craig Wright Plans to Take Legal Action Against BTC Developers, Hopes to Recover Over $3B in ‘Stolen Bitcoin’
25.2.2021
Craig Wright, the individual that claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, seems to be planning to initiate legal action against a number of open-source blockchain developers. Wright’s legal team, Ontier LLP, has allegedly sent letters to programmers who work on blockchains like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash...
The Graph explores integrations for Bitcoin, Polkadot, and other Layer-1 blockchains
16.2.2021
Blockchain data indexing protocol The Graph is considering Bitcoin, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain among others after launching on Ethereum
Blockchain firm aims to build crypto city in Nevada desert
14.2.2021
CEO Jeffrey Berns says the smart city could incorporate digital currency payments for goods and services as well as records on the blockchain
Chainlink Supporter Deutsche Telekom Has Quietly Started Staking on Blockchains
10.2.2021
Never mind bitcoin on the balance sheet, a subsidiary of Europe’s biggest telco is taking a stake in DeFi
Chinese Hospital Issues First Electronic Bill on Blockchain
13.1.2021
The People’s Hospital of Chengmai County has issued the first electronic bill on its blockchain-based invoice management platform in South China’s Hainan province, which brands itself as the country’s blockchain hub
IOST in the First Batch of Blockchains to Support HUSD Stablecoin
13.1.2021
PRESS RELEASE. IOST, an enterprise-grade, decentralized, and ultra-fast network oiled with the Proof-of Believability consensus algorithm, is integrating the HUSD stablecoin, according to an announcement on 13 Jan 2021. HUSD is a safe and secure dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Stable Universal...
Shanghai Government Invests $5M in Blockchain Startup Conflux
12.1.2021
The Shanghai government has invested over $5M in public permissionless blockchain startup Conflux while putting the project in the list of 57 companies that focus on emerging technologies such as 5G and aerospace
Most Important Crypto Regulation Yet? Banks Can Treat Public Blockchains Like SWIFT and ACH
5.1.2021
A new interpretive letter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency paves the way for stablecoins and public blockchains to be fully integrated in the financial infrastructure
Top US Banking Regulator: Banks Are Authorized to Use Public Blockchains and Stablecoins for Payment Activities
5.1.2021
The top banking regulator in the U.S. has announced that national banks and savings associations in the country can use public blockchains and stablecoins for payment activities. Experts say this is good for bitcoin and its importance should not be understated. Banks Can Use Public Blockchains...
Crypto Markets Jump on OCC Approval for Banks to Use Blockchains
5.1.2021
The price of bitcoin and native tokens for other stablecoin-supporting blockchains jumped after the OCC approved banks to use public blockchains
'Dumb' Blockchains Keep Gaing Adoption, Gold Is 'Lame' - Vitalik Buterin
28.12.2020
We live in a world where blockchains and cryptocurrencies are well poised to play an important part, though for reasons much more complex than many people think and it has "as much to do with cultural forces as anything financial," according to Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin...
PayPal-Backed Identity Platform Acquired by Nevada’s Blockchains LLC
1.12.2020
An identity management provider backed by PayPal, Foxconn and others has been acquired by Nevada-based holding company Blockchains LLC
Bitcoin Cash Has Split Into Two New Blockchains, Again
15.11.2020
Bitcoin Cash split into two blockchain again, but one of the new chain has received no hashpower so far
Algorand-Backed Axelar Raises $3.75M in Seed Funding to Help Blockchains Communicate
13.11.2020
Axelar is a decentralized protocol designed by the founding members of Algorand to make it easier for dapps to work across blockchains
US Election Results Written on Ethereum and EOS Blockchains
4.11.2020
After major news agency Associated Press (AP) declared that they are "bringing verified election results to the blockchain," those results have now been officially written on the Ethereum (ETH) and EOS blockchains.
"The Associated Press has counted the vote in US election since...
$100 Million Accelerator Fund from Binance Now Supports PARSIQ, a Reverse-Oracle Blockchain Platform
3.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. PARSIQ is a working platform that makes blockchain events consumable and blockchain data actionable. It allows users—both individuals, companies, enterprises—to monitor any events across different blockchains in real-time and at scale and connect those events to...
OCC’s Brian Brooks Against Government Issued Digital Dollar – Supports Regulation of Privately Issued Stablecoins
31.10.2020
The acting director of the U.S. Office Comptroller of Currency (OCC) Brian Brooks says the creation of the U.S. digital dollar is a terrible one because the government is not good at building things. Instead, Brooks believes tech companies, which already possess the know-how, to be in a better...
From DeFi to DeOps: How Public Blockchains Could Replace ERP Systems
26.10.2020
As DeFi does away with middlemen in finance, "DeOps" could reduce the need for intermediaries in large-scale supply systems
Vortex Blockchain’s Registration Revoked for Failure to File Reports With SEC
23.10.2020
The company had failed to file any reports with the commission since Dec. 31, 2019