Tiny San Marino Has Big Plans to Become a Top Blockchain Hub The Republic of San Marino, a tiny microstate entirely surrounded by Italy, unveiled ambitious plans to become one of the world’s leading blockchain hubs.San Marino Innovation, the Republic’s innovation arm, has …… Read More
Saudi Telecom and ConsenSys Boost Blockchain Infrastructure in Middle East Saudi Arabia is rebuilding its country’s industry and government infrastructure in line with its Vision 2030 commitment to become a world leader in the adoption of blockchain infrastructure technology.ConsenSys, …… Read More
Minds Wants to Offer a Blockchain-Based Alternative to Facebook The decentralized social media platform Minds is making moves to implement the Ethereum blockchain into its core features. After launching in 2015, Minds.com has quickly grown to one million registered accounts a…… Read More
“Real Users”: Bitcoin Donations Helped These Earthquake Survivors Recover This is the second in a series by Aaron van Wirdum focusing on real people who use cryptocurrencies. Read about his earlier experiences in Italy here: “Real Users”: In This Mountain Town, Everyone Knows About Bit…… Read More
“Real Users”: In This Italian Mountain Town, Everyone Knows About Bitcoin He’s scribbling a series of 12 words on the blue paper handed to him by one of the two women at the other side of the desk. Marco is his name. Graying hair, blue jeans, and still wearing the fat, black winter coa…… Read More
Washington Post Adds Support for Brave Browser, Basic Attention Token The Brave browser and its Basic Attention Token (BAT) just added another verified mainstream publisher to its list of partners.According to original posts on Reddit, the Washington Post recently integrated with Brave to accept contributions in BAT o…… Read More
Overstock Ups Investment in Bitt, Furthering Digital Currency Issuance by Central Banks Today, Overstock’s Medici Ventures doubled down on its investment in the realm of digital currency for central banks. The additional $3 million dollar investment in Caribbean blockchain-based digital payment provider Bitt.com signals a reaffirmatio…… Read More
“Cryptocurrency,” “Blockchain” and “ICO” Make Their Merriam-Webster Dictionary Debut Anyone needing an established definition for “cryptocurrency,” “blockchain” or “ICO” now has a trusted resource: the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. On March 5, 2018, Merriam-Webster announced the addition of 850 new words, phrases and new meanings for …… Read More
Op Ed: Lobbying Efforts Promote the Blockchain Industry Around the World Well-known crypto companies such as Coinbase, eToro, CryptoCompare, CEX.IO, BlockEx, CoinShares and CommerceBlock have recently announced the creation of CryptoUK. As stated on their official website, CryptoUK is a self-regulatory trade association …… Read More
Op Ed: Why Millennials Migrate to Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency in Droves Millennials welcome new industry dynamics, but they have their own motivations for supporting the ascendancy of open-source, decentralized blockchains, many of which are unique to trends common for their generation. Regardless of the reasons for the…… Read More