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A new Bitcoin POS on the Colombian-Venezuelan border aims to help refugees

A new Bitcoin POS on the Colombian-Venezuelan border aims to help refugees

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There’s a new cryptocurrency exchange, which intends to help refugees. The location of the exchange is Colombia-Venezuela border, right next to the bridge over the Tachira river. Now all travellers have an opportunity of using POS service to apply crypto coins to purchase items. The location of...

Manufacturers of Japan enter a blockchain-backed data sharing agreement

Manufacturers of Japan enter a blockchain-backed data sharing agreement

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A data sharing arrangement was made between 100 influential Japanese corporations. There are corporations among these 100, that are globally known, like Mitsubishi Electric or Yaskawa Electric. This project was specially designed to advance productivity, decrease risks of info leaks and make...

The central bank of Russia is thinking about the digital currency launch

The central bank of Russia is thinking about the digital currency launch

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Russia’s central bank chief said that the bank may create its own digital currency. On an appointment with students, chairwoman Elvira Nabiulina mentioned that it is not possible to perform this project rapidly but the majority of world’s central banks, including Russia’s, are taking into...

Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Libra!

Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Libra!

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In his post, Mark said that Facebook is cooperating with 27 organizations and together they are launching a non-profit Libra Association and a currency called Libra. The main mission of the Libra is to create a worldwide financial infrastructure that will empower people all around the world said...

Breez launches a lightning-powered iPhone app for Bitcoin payments

Breez launches a lightning-powered iPhone app for Bitcoin payments

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Breez is presenting an iOS version of their application. According to information provided by the corporation, this’s going to be the primary app that runs on Neutrino, a lightning network client for Bitcoin. Roy Sheinfeld, the founder of Breez, announced that the corporation has fixed the puzzle...

As the rumours about Facebook’s coin launch are thickening, MoneyGram and Ripple finally became partners

As the rumours about Facebook’s coin launch are thickening, MoneyGram and Ripple finally became p...

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Yesterday was the day when a long-awaited partnership has become real. Riplle Inc. declared that now they’re partners with MoneyGram. Is this because Facebook decided to launch the coin these days? As the blockchain firm says itself, this partnership is going to make MoneyGram become a user of...

New CEO of Chia Network is Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent

New CEO of Chia Network is Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent

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Bram Cohen, the author of BitTorrent, has become the CEO of Chia Network. The company had two co-founders Bram Cohen and Ryan Singer, last-mentioned stepped away from his position to focus on family priorities. In August 2017, Bram Cohen moved from his first project BitTorrent to create an...

Korean crypto exchanges are starting to accept liability for hacks

Korean crypto exchanges are starting to accept liability for hacks

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Some of the South Korean crypto exchanges have presented serious updates in their terms and conditions. Now, according to these updates, they’re going to accept liability for all the possible hacks and issues with services. Yonhap News Agency has reported that the Fair Trade Commission of South...

Alior bank in Poland applies Ethereum blockchain for new authentication feature of documents

Alior bank in Poland applies Ethereum blockchain for new authentication feature of documents

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Several banks all over the world have already tried themselves in the usage of blockchain technologies. Commonly, they are implementing systems on permissioned ledgers that only invited participants can join, but Poland’s Alior bank took the game to a higher level. Alior bank declared that it...

Iceland’s currency will be the first traded e-money in Europe

Iceland’s currency will be the first traded e-money in Europe

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Reykjavik-based Monerium was confirmed as the initial electronic money institution by The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland (FME). News that the Monerium was approved to provide fiat payment services on the blockchain and apply it all over the European Economic Area was announced on June...

Two companies are cooperating for enabling Ether payments in Amazon

Two companies are cooperating for enabling Ether payments in Amazon

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Two blockchain-based startup companies are cooperating for enabling Amazon shopping with Ether. CLIC Technology declared its alliance with Opporty platform on June 14. They are teaming up for developing an app-like extension for browser, which is going to let Amazon buyers pay for goods with Ether,...

Crypterium launches crypto card for global payments

Crypterium launches crypto card for global payments

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Crypterium produced a Crypterium card, which is the primary crypto card, that will be accessible all over the world. Crypterium is a startup corporation that is oriented on financial technologies and is Estonia-based. They decided to create this card after that they realised Coinbase Card is...

Google connects cryptocurrency project with a new blockchain oracle

Google connects cryptocurrency project with a new blockchain oracle

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On 13 June in a blog post, Google announced that Ethereum app developers that are using Google software will have an opportunity to integrate data from out-of-chain sources via a partnership with Chainlink. Chainlink is a company that provides on and off ramps for data necessary to run...

Blockchain project of IBM and Maersk is now going to explore Russia's market

Blockchain project of IBM and Maersk is now going to explore Russia's market

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On June 6 Maersk released news, that the blockchain project they have created with IBM, will now operate in Russia too. TradeLens is a blockchain-based platform which was specially designed for improving worldwide trade. And now it’s going to Russia. Maersk also declared about its contract with...

Ex-director of Google is now a member of Square team

Ex-director of Google is now a member of Square team

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Square, which is a payments corporation, has its first member of a new crypto team. And it is Steve Lee, former Google director. This news was announced by Twitter on June 12. But the company didn’t mention what is going to be the new role of Lee. And they even declined to comment it. The founder...

Blockchain program for master's and PhD students will be added in UBC

Blockchain program for master's and PhD students will be added in UBC

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Graduate students will have an opportunity of studying a blockchain educational plan in the leading research university of Canada, the University of British Columbia. This type of educational plan is the prime in Canada as the university reported. The whole program includes four spheres: clean...

Crypto exchanges are facing their biggest threat

Crypto exchanges are facing their biggest threat

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The major reason why all the cryptocurrencies have increased reputation is that they offer transactions that are not controlled by the government. But it seems it’s time to say goodbye to this uncontrolled method. Alexandra Wijmenga-Daniel, spokeswoman of Financial Action Task Force - a...

Central Bank of Philippines is concerned about the increasing usage of cryptocurrencies

Central Bank of Philippines is concerned about the increasing usage of cryptocurrencies

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The leader of the Central bank in the Philippines informed about the threats that the country can face because of growing cryptocurrency appropriation. On June 10, Benjamin Diokno, who is the head of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, was cited by The Philippine Star, as he said the organisation,...

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