German automobile giant BMW is working towards eliminating Cobalt produced by child labor from their batteries. They have partnered with Circulor, a London, UK-based blockchain start-up for this project. Majority of companies manufacturing electronic and electric vehicles need a large…
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Bitcoin and Stock Market Prices Correlated? Wall Street Journal Article Thinks So
Governments and major financial institutions and authorities have always considered Bitcoin as a speculative investment, which means that it may or may not be a legitimate asset that people should be investing in. For the most part, this is because…
Indian government functionaries continue to discourage cryptocurrencies
The Government of India (GoI) doesn’t regard cryptocurrencies as legal tenders, and senior GoI functionaries continue to discourage use of cryptocurrencies. The latest statement from Mr. Shaktikanta Das, former Secretary of Economic Affairs in GoI, a senior official who was…
Massive malware attack, installs crypto-miner on Windows Systems
The trend of hijacking unsuspecting users computer to mine cryptocurrency continues, and the attacks take different forms. On March 6th, Windows Defender Anti-Virus (AV) detected and largely blocked a malware that infected nearly 500,000 computers and installed cryptocurrency miner code…
The Grand Rig Heist: Icelandic Police Are Searching for Hundreds of Stolen Bitcoin Miners
Icelandic police are investigating what is termed as the biggest thefts ever reported in Iceland. Hundreds of cryptocurrency miners have been reported stolen, leading to a series of arrest in an ongoing Bitcoin Heist investigation. The thieving spree occurred on…
CULedger works with Evernym to launch Digital ID for Credit Unions
CULedger, a consortium of USA-based credit unions, and Evernym, a blockchain development company, has launched MyCUID, a blockchain-powered digital identity system. This will protect the credit union members from identity theft and fraud. An estimated 2 billion people in the…
Singapore Based DeepBrain Chain powers their Artificial Intelligence platform with blockchain
By Guest Author – Anujit Singapore-based DeepBrain Chain, or DBC, is powering their Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing platform with blockchain technology. They introduced their cloud-based AI computing platform in May 2017, and already count Microsoft, Samsung, Lenovo, and Siemens as…
Bitfury launches solution to help law-enforcement agencies in investigating crimes committed using Bitcoin
Author – Anujit , Bangalore, India San Francisco, California, USA-based Bitfury, the Bitcoin mining giant and blockchain transaction processing company, has launched a collection of tools called Crystal that will help the law-enforcement agencies in investigation of crimes committed using…
Wyoming House Approves Two Bills Exempting Utility Tokens from Securities Laws
The Wyoming House of Representative passed two pro blockchain and cryptocurrency laws in a landmark; 60 to 0 vote, making it a blockchain friendly state for blockchain startups. Bitcoin miners are already setting mining shop taking advantage of the state’s…
The Medical Blockchain Project AIDOC powered by an Artificial Intelligence has been Officially Launched and could have Huge Potential
By Guest Author – Marequitta According to the IDC (International Data Corporation) the global medical data volume will reach 40 trillion GB by 2020, which is approximately 30 times the size of what was accumulated back in 2010. This then…
Tornado Cash Receives $3.3M in Ether Following Poloniex Hack Theft
In a shocking incident that sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency community, a skilled hacker managed…
Bitcoin’s Long-Term Investors Now Possess More Than 76% of All BTC for the First Time. Details below
In the ever-fluctuating world of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, affectionately known as BTC, is currently undergoing a…
