Microsoft announced that it has joined Hyperledger. “We believe that developing standards and open specifications, as well as collaborating on implementations of them, is critical to removing customer blockers and accelerating blockchain as a mainstream technology. Through our work related to the EEA and TTI,...
Economist Nouriel Roubini has called out Facebook’s soon-to-be announced cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin, saying it is not really crypto. “It has nothing to do with blockchain. Fully private, controlled, centralized, verified and authorized by a small number of permissioned nodes. So, what is crypto or blockchain about...
Bitcoin, the world’s most well known digital currency, has crossed the $9,000 mark for the first time in over a year, according to a report by CNBC. The coin was buoyed by the news that Facebook will potentially launch a cryptocurrency of its own. Bitcoin...
Nevada has passed regulatory sandbox legislation that aims to continue blockchain investment and development in the state. According to CoinDesk, Governor Steve Sisolak signed the following bills into law: SB161, which creates a regulatory sandbox for emerging tech companies through a program in the Department...
IBM, KPMG, Merck, and Walmart announced that they have been selected by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a pilot program that addresses requirements to identify, track and trace prescription medicines and vaccines distributed within the United States. The project will create...
New rules by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), which will require cryptocurrency businesses to verify the identities of anyone sending or receiving more than $1,000 worth of digital assets, are set to go into effect on June 21. According to John...
Security researchers have revealed another cryptocurrency mining malware that has already installed itself on Oracle servers. According to The Next Web, the malware attacks Oracle WebLogic Servers to install a Monero cryptocurrency mining bot. It is able to stay hidden because the malicious code is...
Digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that its Visa debit card is now available in six additional European countries. The company debuted the card in the U.K. in April. At the time, Zeeshan Feroz, CEO of Coinbase U.K., said the Coinbase Card is funded by customers’...
Retail giant Target revealed that it has been working on a blockchain-powered solution for supply chain management since mid-2018, and has recently pledged to support the Hyperledger Grid project, which is a supply chain framework that has seen participation from food giant Cargill, one of...
