Ripple obtains its BitLicense from New York DFS
Jun 14, 2016 05:19 am UTC| Digital Currency
New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has granted BitLicense to XRP II, LLC, a digital asset native to the Ripple Consensus Ledger. According to the press release on Monday by the department, Maria T....
PwC to explore potential blockchain benefits for wholesale insurance
Jun 14, 2016 05:09 am UTC| Digital Currency
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the leading multinational professional services firm, in collaboration with Z/Yen, a commercial think-tank, consultancy and venture firm, is launching a Long Finance research project to...
Conference discusses how blockchain would track solar power production
Jun 13, 2016 15:03 pm UTC| Digital Currency
The Chain of Things IoT, Blockchain and Security Conference was held earlier this month in London. The conference was attended by companies, nonprofits and consortiums that discussed how blockchain technology that...
The DAO Proposal Framework v1.0 released
Jun 13, 2016 13:14 pm UTC| Digital Currency
According to latest reports, the DAO proposal framework is complete and version 1.0 has been released. Parties interested in submitting a proposal to The DAO token holders now have a guideline to do so, The Merkle...
LTC/USD trades well above $5, jump till $6.95 likely
Jun 13, 2016 13:12 pm UTC| Digital Currency
LTC/USD continued its upward move and reached all-time high at 5.37 at the time of writing and jump till 6.95 is possible. It currently trades at 5.45 levels (KRAKEN) at the time of writing. Ichimoku analysis of the...
Blockchain technology is very promising; says MasterCard international markets president
Jun 13, 2016 11:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
Ann Cairns, international markets president at MasterCard in an interview to EurActiv.com said that blockchain technology has higher scope and a very promising technology which MasterCard sees as a good thing for the...
US government discusses potential of big data, blockchain, fintech and more
Jun 13, 2016 11:23 am UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain technology that underpins digital currency such as bitcoin has been gradually moving from the hype phase, seen for the most part of 2015, to actual experimentation phase with the advent of various blockchain...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects