New course on Ethereum engineering hosts accreditation on blockchain
May 27, 2016 07:07 am UTC| Digital Currency
A new course on Ethereum engineering which teaches developers on how to use Ethereum and aims in training over 2000 engineers in next two years will be hosting accreditation on the blockchain technology. The course is...
BTCC introduces titanium physical bitcoins – ‘BTCC Mint’ coins
May 27, 2016 07:05 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTCC, one of the leading bitcoin exchanges in the world, has launched its new line of titanium physical bitcoins. BTCC Mint coins are physical coins with digital currency inside them. They are created with pure...
Europe moves forward to set up digital currency taskforce
May 27, 2016 05:52 am UTC| Digital Currency
The European Parliament on Thursday gave a nod to the setting up of a taskforce to monitor virtual currencies, like Bitcoin, to prevent their use for money laundering and terrorism financing purposes. The proposal was...
Santander banking group partners with Ripple to launch new payments app
May 27, 2016 05:28 am UTC| Digital Currency
Santander, the Spanish banking group of U.K. has announced to launch a new payment app in partnership with distributed ledger Ripple before the end of 2016. This move by the bank would make it the first bank in the U.K....
US CFTC grants full registration to bitcoin Swap Execution Facility TeraExchange
May 27, 2016 05:20 am UTC| Digital Currency
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Thursday that it has issued Orders of Registration to TeraExchange, LLC (Tera), a New Jersey-based provisionally registered Swap Execution Facility (SEF),...
Nasdaq launched blockchain fueled financial framework
May 27, 2016 04:44 am UTC| Digital Currency
Nasdaq has launched the Nasdaq Financial Framework which has opened its blockchain services to over hundreds of market operator clients across the globe. Nasdaq financial framework is a harmonized approach to delivering...
VR cryptocurrency Voxel will power dozens if not hundreds of games and worlds, says Voxelus
May 27, 2016 04:41 am UTC| Digital Currency
Voxelus, the virtual reality (VR) content creation platform and marketplace, has been able to carve a niche for itself in the VR and gaming space within a year. It partnered with a cloud based financial services...
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