EcoCoin blockchain project wins international energy hackathon 2016
Oct 21, 2016 12:05 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain project EcoCoin has won the Dutch international energy hackathon Hackenergy 2016 that was sponsored by ENGIE Nederland, Energy Academy Europe, the City and Province of Groningen and backed by Groningens IBM...
Blockchain and big data make inroads to China via IBM Bluemix
Oct 21, 2016 11:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
IBM has announced that it has partnered with 21Vianet Group, Inc., a leading Chinese carrier-neutral internet data center services provider, in order to make its cloud computing platform Bluemix available in China. As...
CognitiveScale launches Blockchain-with-a-Brain to deliver AI applications
Oct 21, 2016 09:21 am UTC| Digital Currency
CognitiveScale, theprovider of industry-specific machine intelligence software, has announced that it is using blockchain technology to its customer engagement and process intelligence products for healthcare, financial...
R3’s blockchain platform Corda to go open source
Oct 21, 2016 06:53 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Corda platform, developed by a group of over 70 of the worlds biggest financial institutions participating in the R3-led consortium, is making its code open-source, as reported by Reuters. The blockchain platform...
Chinese government explores blockchain technology, releases white paper
Oct 21, 2016 06:05 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Chinese government has released a white paper focused on blockchain technology in order to actively guide the development of the technology and its application in the country. CoinDesk reported that the release of...
Onchain to provide framework for Alibaba’s blockchain-powered email evidence repository
Oct 21, 2016 04:50 am UTC| Digital Currency
[The article has been updated to clarify that Alibaba Cloud is using Law Chain, whichremains a separate entity] Onchain, the open-source universal blockchain system, has partnered with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba...
Bitfury bags “Best Pitch” at EY Blockchain Startup Challenge
Oct 20, 2016 10:51 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Bitfury Group, a leading full service blockchain technology company, has won Best Pitch among six participating startups at the Ernst Young Blockchain Startup Challenge. Bitfury won #BestPitch on #Blockchain...