UPS-Backed Blockchain Consortium Aims to Disrupt the Logistics Industry
As blockchain becomes ubiquitous across consumer and enterprise applications, we will continue to see more and more large scale disruption of traditional sectors that...
More Blockchain Use Cases Needed
An official from the U.S. Treasury has written an optimistic article on the blockchain, calling for more relevant use cases, proofs of concepts and...
Australian Govt. Awards Grant to $8 Million Blockchain Energy Project
Australian-based solar startup Power Ledger, among others, is to receive AU$8.25 million in funding from the Australian government for a cutting edge project using...
Singapore, Bitcoin-Friendly Philippines Aim for Blockchain Cross-Border Payments
The central banks of the Philippines and Singapore have forged a FinTech agreement that could result in cross-border payments over a blockchain between their...
Moldova to Use Blockchain Identities to Fight Child Trafficking
Moldova, an impoverished nation whose children are preyed on by sex slave traffickers, plans to use blockchain technology to eradicate child trafficking, in cooperation...
American Express Opens Ripple-Based International Blockchain Payments Channel
American Express has announced the creation of a blockchain-based business-to-business payments channel that will enable businesses to settle payments between the U.S. and the...
Stanford University to Host Bitcoin Blockchain Workshop
Stanford University’s Computer Science buildingStanford University has since Saturday been playing host to a Bitcoin workshop that has featured several big players in the...
Zennet Uses Blockchain Technology to Pay for Distributed Computing
An early Beowulf cluster at MIT. Notice that none of the hardware is incredibly expensive by itself, but combined it can do the work...