Faster payments using blockchain , Patent awaits by American Express

Financial services giant American Express, popularly known as Amex, is looking at blockchain technology to expedite payment transactions. The travel services arm of Amex, also called the American Express Travel Related Services Company, had filed a patent application for a…

Korea Is Pushing The Frontier For Acceptance Of Cryptocurrencies

Companies in Korea Are Even Giving Out Reward Points In The Form of Bitcoins Author – Kate Yong Big Lead with Bitcoin As one of the most advanced and connected countries in the world as well as home to Samsung,…

4 Tips for Investing in Crypto this 2018

So far, the cryptocurrency market has been in a wild bearish ride from the open of 2018 until today. As of press time, Bitcoin is sideways trading at the $6,800 level. As we saw the bubble burst in January, market…

Secure audit information on a blockchain ? Google awaits Patent !

Internet giant Google is planning to secure audit information using the promising blockchain technology. On September 2017, they had filed a patent for the proposed technology solution, and it has been recently released by the US Patent and Trademark Office…

Credit Score Transparency Technology on a Blockchain ? Patented awaited by Royal Bank of Canada

Before the year 1995, credit score was a mysterious 3-digit number which most of us didn’t understand, only the loan officers in the banks knew what it was. With steady growth of credit-based economy, many more understand it better now,…

Encrypted Group Chat on a Blockchain, Patent awaited by Cisco

Global tech giant Cisco has filed a patent application, for a technology solution which will utilize blockchain technology to set up secured group chats. The patent application was filed in December 2017, and has been recently released by the US…

The Ultimate Trading Strategy during the Crypto Bear Market

The first thing that traders learn when entering the cryptomarket is buying Bitcoin, Litecoin, or Ethereum. Some of these beginners started trading crypto because of news about traders earning millions in the cryptomarket. Those stories of crypto millionaires really did…

Intel patents hardware accelerator for Bitcoin mining

Before the year 2018 ends, cryptocurrency mining operations in Iceland will have consumed more energy than the household energy consumption of the country. Cryptocurrency mining is very energy-intensive. This may change. Tech giant Intel has patented a hardware accelerator technology…

IBM to enter $300 billion crypto market, following blockchain innovation

Several tech giants have announced their entry into blockchain, and are currently pursuing multiple projects, proof of concepts (PoCs), and pilot projects utilizing this technology. However, they have typically been silent vis-a-vis cryptocurrencies. This is changing now, with global tech…

US Sanctions could Include Digital Wallets – US Treasury Department

The US economic crackdown on countries like Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela as well as individuals whom the US believes are somewhat a threat to national security or are in a way aiding countries and other individuals who…