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Bitmain technologies Ltd., one of the chief crypto mining hardware corporations, decided to start an IPO in Hong Kong in September 2018. It even registered an IPO on the HKEX, but the attempt faced with some hardness and the corporation stopped the process. Now, as Bloomberg reported, the mining...

In the last 15 months, Bitcoin’s price became higher than $10000 on cryptocurrency exchanges for the first time. This rate was reached at 7:35 pm Eastern time. Basing on 24 hours statistics, Bitcoin is bypassing top 10 cryptocurrencies with 7% gains. A 12% hike of trading volumes brought to this...

Popular Japanese instant messenger Line, whose user base has more than 200 million people, can get a license to launch a crypto exchange in Japan as early as this month. It is reported by Bloomberg, citing informed sources. According to the publication, the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA)...

Two of the world’s greatest software corporations flocked to a Hyperledger consortium. After this event, the corporation from the Linux Foundation began gathering more steam. It was reported this week that 8 large enterprises would start their blockchain path by joining Hyperledger. Besides two...

Mark Zuckerberg wrote about the start of the Libra project in a Facebook post on June 18. People started congratulating Zuckerberg for this new achievement, while governments started diminishing this extremely unexpected project. Maxine Waters, the chair of the US House Financial Services...

All people who use or used Slack in their life divide into two categories: once, who think that it’s one of the best tools for messaging and once, who thinks that it’s just a bunch of notifications coming straight to their face 24/7. No matter which category is your, it’s obvious that Slack...

The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and OJSC Russian Railways came into an agreement according to which there will be created a blockchain platform for issuing discount tickets for suburban routes. This is reported by the Gudok. The new system will be created in the framework of the...

Immediately, several well-known politicians in Germany received letters threatening of “execution” from an anonymous author, who extorted bitcoins from them. About it reports Koelner Stadt Anzeiger. These threats were sent to the mayor of Cologne, Henriette Röcker, the mayor of Altena,...

Bancor Decentralized Exchange has announced that it will soon stop providing services for US residents. In a statement, the company notes that it is forced to take this step due to the uncertainty surrounding the regulation of cryptocurrency in the country. New rules will come into force on...

Digital Asset is a software company that is operating on a blockchain. It has its smart contract programming language, which is known as Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) and now it’s going to be integrated with R3 Corda, Amazon’s database service AWS Aurora and Hyperledger Fabric. At the...

The famous messaging platform from Japan LINE will be able to open a cryptocurrency exchange in the country soon. LINE is really close to getting a license from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA), it can even become real in this month. Owning the license will let the company run BitMax...

Finextra published that starting from March 2020 The Italian Banking Association (ABI) is going to deploy blockchain technology to manage reconciliations. The primary thing that’ll be implemented in the banking system of Italy is the distributed ledger technology for agreements acceleration....

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...