Luxury groups want to let consumers use blockchain to verify goods
“Luxury groups LVMH and Prada along with Cartier announced Tuesday they are joining forces on a blockchain that will allow consumers to authenticate their goods. […]
US Air Force Funds Shipping Container 3D Printing Facilities Secured by Blockchain
“Blockchain innovator SImple Blockchain Applications (SIMBA) has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant by the U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office (AFRSO) to develop next-generation […]
Trust The Vote is Creating an Open-Source OS to Make the Election Process Completely Transparent, Auditable & Secure
The TrustTheVote Project is working with election officials to create innovative publicly available election technology because there’s a looming voting machine crisis. To better understand […]
Global Blockchain in Energy Market Top Players Analysis
“The Global Blockchain in Energy market report enumerates highly classified information portfolios encompassing multi-faceted industrial developments with vivid references of market share, size, revenue predictions along with […]
Out With the Old: Blockchain to Bring Transparency to Recycling Sector
“Insead executive Michael Peshkam, co-authored a report that was shared with Cointelegraph titled “Transforming Plastic Pollution Using Blockchain.” The document states how blockchain technology can […]
EDAG CityBot to Use IOTA Tokens for Digital Payments
“Envisioning a future city that is clean, worth living, quite, smart, and friendly, the CityBot is more than a concept. At first, it is an […]
U.S. Postal Service Counters Trump Attacks On Mail-In Voting With A New Blockchain Patent
“As news of Trump trying to shut down the United States Postal Service (USPS) and stall mail-in voting captures the headlines, the U.S. Patent and Trademark […]
Indian State of Telangana Is Interested in Using Blockchain for E-Voting
“The Southern Indian state of Telangana may soon develop and test a blockchain-based electronic voting system to facilitate remote voting. Speaking at a webinar conducted […]
Bank of Korea launches a department devoted to blockchain and AI
“The Bank of Korea has reportedly chosen to establish a “Digital Innovation department” through organizational reform in the second half of this year, according to […]
World Economic Forum Looks to Blockchain to Restart Global Economy
“The World Economic Forum published a report looking at how the deployment of blockchain-based solutions can address the supply chain inefficiencies and failures that have […]
New App for COVID-19 Combines Blockchain With Web Inventor’s Privacy Tech
“The United Kingdom’s Open University has developed a COVID-19 proof-of-immunity app that combines blockchain with a privacy-preserving data solution from web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. The […]
Voting on a blockchain
“The “blockchain” concept on which cryptocurrencies work might be extrapolated to many other areas of life, such as voting systems, where it’s incontrovertible chain of […]
Blockchain Firms Team Up on Private Coronavirus Testing App
“Genobank, a blockchain project seeking to offer consumers ownership and control over their DNA data, is preparing to launch an app on EOS-based blockchain platform Telos to […]
Virginia Lawmaker Pushes for Blockchain-Powered Elections, Local Commerce
“In a bid to foster the adoption of distributed ledger technology-based (DLT) applications and services in her county, Delegate Hala Ayala recently provided two payments […]
Big Pharma Urges FDA To Use Blockchain For Drug Trafficking
25 leading pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, logistic partners, and other representatives of the pharma supply chain have published a report arguing in favor of adopting blockchain technology to […]
Coinbase Becomes First ‘Pure’ Crypto Firm Approved as Visa Principal Member
“Coinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, has been made a Visa principal member. Announcing the news on its blog Wednesday, the firm said the news marks it […]
Blockchain For The Environment: It Is Real And It Is Here
“…what can the new blockchains do for the environment? As a paper presented to the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, or ECEEE, argued: Blockchain […]
The Domain Startups Building an Uncensorable Internet on Top of Ethereum
Last weekend at ETHDenver – one of the conference circuit’s top gatherings of ethereum coders – decentralized internet alternatives were on display, including Ethereum Name […]
AI, Blockchain technology to rescue modern slaves
“For years people have been knowingly or unknowingly consuming goods made by millions of forced workers worldwide. Now, technology is forcing them to reflect on […]
Three Reasons IOTA will Elevate Blockchain
“Commonly referred to as blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT) is about to live up to the hype. At Software AG, we truly believe that blockchain […]
Electronics Giant Bosch Files Patent for a Digital Payment System Based on IOTA
“IOTA partner Bosch has filed a patent regarding, “Method and device for operating a digital payment system,” which also includes a device, a computer program, and a […]
Swiss Real Estate Company Closes $134 Million Deal Using Blockchain
A building on the prestigious Banhofstrasse in Zurich, Switzerland was successfully tokenized and sold on the blockchain today. The new owner of the building is […]
Why the World Economic Forum Is Creating a Blockchain ‘Bill of Rights’
“If the last few years have taught us one thing, it’s this: Users are not magically protected as technology evolves. Rather, user protection is something […]
Turkish City Developing Crypto and Blockchain Solutions for Public Services
Konya, the city of the world-famous poet Rumi, might not come to mind when talking about technology, especially blockchain and cryptocurrencies. As one of the major cultural centers […]
Using Blockchain to Build “Charities” that automate Elinor Ostrom’s 8 Principles for Managing a Commons — An ‘Ostrom Compliant’ Cyber-Physical Commons
“Few people have contributed as much to our knowledge of the sustainable management of the commons as Elinor Ostrom. Winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in […]
LinkedIn Says Blockchain Is Top Skill for 2020
“Last year, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and analytical reasoning led LinkedIn’s global list of the most in-demand hard skills,” LinkedIn wrote in the report. “They’re all […]
How Blockchain Can Address Food Waste And Hunger
“According to the World Food Program (via KPMG), 821 million people — nearly 1 in 9 on the planet — go to bed on an empty stomach. […]
California City Set to Revolutionize Bond Market With Blockchain Issuance Layer
“Berkeley, California, is planning to raise $3-5 million via “micro bonds” using a blockchain settlement layer to bypass the ailments caused by middlemen. This could […]
Chinese Courts Increasingly Use Blockchain Technology To Settle Cases
China’s smart courts are reportedly applying a variety of innovative technologies including blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) to decide on millions of legal cases. On […]
Smashboard app is using blockchain to help victims of sexual abuse in India
“The internet can be a tricky place to out sexual assault offenders. Will anyone believe your story? Will you be trolled? Will the conversation endanger […]
Exclusive: This Doctor Wants to Use Salesforce Blockchain to Cut Cancer Drug Development Costs in Half
“Good afternoon, readers. Dr. Laura Esserman is on a mission to bring the blockchain to health care. I can already hear the audible groans and […]
Travel Company Allows Customers to Book Flights with Bitcoin
Alternative Airlines, a travel company based in the United Kingdom, has partnered with cryptocurrency service Utrust to facilitate payments with crypto. On Nov. 13, the […]
UPS Ships Beef to Japan, Tracked and Monitored Using Blockchain Tech
“UPS has delivered a bunch of blockchain steaks to Japan. The global shipping giant announced on Monday that, in partnership with blockchain livestock tracing firm […]
BMW, General Motors, Ford to Start Testing Blockchain Payments in Cars
“Five major automakers — BMW, General Motors, Ford, Renault and Honda — will start testing a blockchain car identification and payment system next month in […]
HTC’s Latest Blockchain Phone Can Run a Full Bitcoin Node
“Taiwanese electronics manufacturer HTC has launched its latest blockchain phone, the Exodus 1s, which enables users to support the bitcoin network. Unveiling the device Saturday […]
Samsung Prepares to Unleash Blockchain Strategy at Annual California Developer Conference
According to a press release by BusinessKorea, September 2, 2019, Samsung Electronics will present its blockchain corporate strategy in October at the annual Samsung Developer Conference 2019 in San […]
Power Ledger Launches DLT Platform to Foster Clean Energy Monetization
In a blog post on September 9, 2019, Power Ledger (POWR), an Australian energy trading software company and distributed ledger technology (DLT) project, announced that it […]
France: 25,000 Major Retail Stores to Accept Bitcoin in 2020
“By early 2020, support for Bitcoin payments will be launched at over 25,000 sales points for 30 French retailers, including sportswear giant Decathlon and cosmetics […]
Not Book Smart but Street Smart: What Is a Smart City?
” New technology such as the Internet of Things (IoT)—a networking capability that allows data to be sent to and received from objects and devices—is […]
IOTA Foundation to Launch Industry Marketplace, the World’s First Autonomous, Decentralized Marketplace
” The IOTA Foundation, a non-profit organization delivering the world’s first scalable, feeless and decentralized distributed ledger technology, today announced the launch of the ‘Industry […]
5 Blockchain Breakthroughs Coming in the Next 5 Years
“In almost every industry you can think of, blockchain is poised to cut out middlemen, dramatically improve transparency, and multiply the efficiency of countless transactions worldwide. While […]
[VIDEO] IOTA is a project that remains at the bleeding edge Internet of Things technology
Coin Bureau’s review of IOTA’s Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), the next generation of blockchain tech being designed specifically for the Internet of Things (IoT) economy.
Why IOTA is a project worthy of your trust: understanding the basic principles of Smart Cities and Tangle
“A Smart City Hackathon was held this year. This event was sponsored by Groupe Renault, Engie Lab CRIGEN [who has been involved with the Jaguar […]
First Blockchain-Exclusive Birth Certificates Recorded in Brazil
“The first birth certificates to be recorded by exclusively using blockchain technology were issued in Brazil. As Cointelegraph Brasil reports on Sept. 1, Álvaro de Medeiros Mendonça […]
Blockchain, the missing link for reporting?
“Big companies claim most of the business headlines. Small firms are the ones we patronize every day. That’s why I was triply compelled by one […]
Blockchain May Be Used in FDA Medical Reviews and Recalls
“The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may incorporate blockchain to improve drug and medical products reviews and recalls. In a speech at the Office of the National […]
Japan to Solarize Its Burgeoning Digital Economy, Expert Take
“Society is now witnessing the implementation of digital currencies, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology worldwide. These new digital technologies necessitate very high consumption of […]
Samsung Adds Bitcoin Support To Its Blockchain KeyStore
“It looks like Samsung has finally got its house in order after it added support for Bitcoin $BTC▲2.11% in its Blockchain KeyStore. Despite the cries of mass […]
How data science in and for Africa can blaze new trails
“The term “data science” was coined by scientists working at the social networks LinkedIn and Facebook in 2008. A few years later, they dubbed it “the sexiest […]
Experts Say Now Is the Time to Invest in Crypto, and eToro Makes It Easy
” When cryptocurrencies first started popping up 10 years ago, for the most part, only gamblers and speculators invested in them. But a lot has changed since […]