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Bitcoin Cash Captured More Than 10% of Darknet Sales Last Month

12.2.2020
2019 was an interesting year for darknet markets (DNMs) and a number of marketplaces closed for a variety of reasons. Despite the closures, crypto payments on DNMs doubled for the first time in five years. Moreover, statistics from the blockchain analytics provider 1000x Group show digital...

Australia’s Blockchain Roadmap Isn't Music to Everyone’s Ears, Draws Criticism

12.2.2020
Australia is serious about blockchain and has recently released a five-year national strategy on the technology. So what is it exactly, and what effect will it likely have on the local industry?

US Congressman Challenges Fed Chair on Threat of China’s Digital Currency

12.2.2020
Congressman tells Federal Reserve Chair that the U.S. is at the tipping point of issuing its central digital currency

New Canadian Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin QCAD to be Regulated by FinTRAC

11.2.2020
Canada Stablecorp’s new CAD-pegged stablecoin QCAD will start being regulated by major local AML authority, the FinTRAC, by June 2020

Blockstack Pauses App Mining Pilot Due to Challenges in Running Program

11.2.2020
Blockchain startup Blockstack has paused its App Mining pilot until it resolves the key challenges

From Star Trek to Wikipedia: Crashing Bitcoin SV Fails to Impress

11.2.2020
The Bitcoin SV network and the infamous Craig Wright have been publicly scrutinized by two well known individuals. Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales criticized BSV technology and said he doesn’t think recorded data from Wikipedia would be beneficial stored on a blockchain like BSV. Moreover...

Vermont Turns to Home-Grown Blockchain Company to Track Hemp With Ethereum

11.2.2020
Vermont state regulators will begin recording the production of hemp – a low-THC cannabis strain popular in textiles – on the ethereum mainnet this year

Crypto Fraud Now Exposing Legacy Banks to Compliance Issues, Reports CipherTrace

11.2.2020
Banks who ignore crypto could be setting themselves up for trouble in more ways than one

Mastercard, Binance X and Ripple's Xpring Join the Blockchain Education Alliance

11.2.2020
The Blockchain Education Alliance now counts Mastercard, Binance X and Ripple’s Xpring among its members

Major Food Safety Firm Neogen to Test a Use Case For Blockchain

11.2.2020
U.S.-based food and animal safety Neogen Corporation has partnered with blockchain firm Ripe Technology for tracking food and animal sources. The connection will allow Neogen to use the Ripe blockchain to track sources for products, as well as resolve issues such as recalls. Neogen is hoping that...

JPMorgan Might Merge Quorum With ConsenSys - Report

11.2.2020
Within the next six months, U.S.-based investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase is likely to announce that its blockchain unit Quorum is merging with major bockchain company ConsenSys, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the plans. Both companies are already in talks over this potential...

Huobi to Join Kakao’s Klaytn Global Blockchain Governance Council

11.2.2020
Huobi Global announced on Tuesday that it has joined the Governance Council of the multinational public blockchain project Klaytn. The Klaytn project is lead by the South Korea based global Internet behemoth Kakao, and the governance council includes some of the biggest names like LG Electronics...

$118 Million of Plustoken BTC on the Move Again – New Dump Incoming?

11.2.2020
Plustoken’s stash of bitcoin is on the move again. The haul of ill-gotten gains, amassed during a long-running Ponzi scheme that accrued 187,000 BTC, has been sporadically liquidated, impacting the market price of bitcoin in the process. At 2:46 a.m. today, a known Plustoken address moved...

Report: JPMorgan Considers Merging Blockchain Unit with Consensys

11.2.2020
JPMorgan Chase is reportedly considering a merger of its blockchain unit Quorum with the Ethereum-focused firm ConsenSys

JPMorgan May Merge Its Blockchain Project With Ethereum Studio Consensys: Report

11.2.2020
The banking giant is apparently in talks to merge Quorum with ConsenSys, the ethereum-focused software developer and investor

Chinese Insurers Tap Blockchain to Speed up Coronavirus Payouts

11.2.2020
Blockchain tech is reported to be speeding up insurance claims processing amid the coronavirus outbreak

International Safer Internet Day: Using Blockchain Tech to Secure the Internet

11.2.2020
An Unsafe Internet The Safer Internet Day (February 11) only reminds us that the internet can be a dangerous place: it has little in terms of security features designed to protect the privacy of user data or address the needs of today’s rapidly growing e-commerce industry. Since the internet...