Tag: Blockchain

  • ​Clifford Sarkin Appointed to Millennium BlockChain (MBLC) Board of Advisors

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    Millennium BlockChain Inc. (OTC: MBLC) is pleased to announce that Clifford Sarkin has joined the Company’s board of advisors. Sarkin is a strategic advisor to technology leaders of major blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. An attorney and seasoned executive, Sarkin has deep expertise in emerging technologies, corporate law, transactions, M&A, private equity and venture capital. Sarkin […]

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  • Thai Bank Will Add Euro, Pound to Ripple Blockchain Retail Remittances

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    Thai ‘big four’ banking institution Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) is adding euros and sterling to its Ripple-powered blockchain remittance platform. The SCB, one of Thailand’s biggest banks, is adding the euro and the sterling pound to its retail remittance offering powered by San Francisco-based blockchain giant Ripple, the Bangkok Post reports. SCB strategy chief Arak […]

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  • $270,000: Brazil’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Foxbit Down for 72 Hours, 30 BTC missing

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    Foxbit, Brazil’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been down for over 72 hours, reportedly because of a bug that allowed its users to withdraw their bitcoin balances twice. The problem saw the company lose a total of 30 Bitcoins, at press time worth roughly $270,000. Through a livestream on YouTube, the company’s CEO João Canhada and […]

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  • Crypto & Blockchain Companies Join Forces To Create New Global Trade Group Dedicated To Promote Growth And Development Of Blockchain Technology

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    Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA) Names Steering Committee & Launches Search for Executive Director SAN FRANCISCO, and CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Several leading companies in the crypto/blockchain ecosystem have come together to establish the Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA), a global, non-profit organization focused on lobbying behalf of the industry within all levels of governments, corporations, and communities. The news […]

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  • Scandinavian Crypto-Exchange on the Verge of Collapse After It Fails to Find Banking Partners

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    One of Finland’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Prasos Oy, is being faced with a real threat of closure after several banks refuse to do further business with the company. As things currently stand, many North European exchanges are facing similar issues due to a lack of regulations surrounding digital assets. Prasos Oy, in particular, is just […]

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  • How Blockchain can ‘revolutionise’ the world

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    Proponents of blockchain technology say that it is set to revolutionise the world with wide-reaching applications in finance, academia, and international trade. Blockchain – known as distributed shared ledgers – is a technology that records and verifies transactions based on cryptography. “Blockchain technology is not only be connected with money, is more about economy’s structure,” […]

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  • 2018 Global Blockchain Investment Summit Will Take Place in Silicon Valley

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    Uncovering Quality Projects around the World and Connecting the Global Blockchain Communities SILICON VALLEY, Calif., March 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The blockchain technologies and their applications are developing very fast, and a technological and financial wave revolving on blockchain is overwhelming the entire world. How to get first-hand information about real blockchain technologies and how to […]

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  • Centralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Explained

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    1.What is a Centralized Cryptocurrency Exchange? It is an online platform and most common way to trade cryptocurrencies. This includes buying/selling cryptocurrencies with fiat (fiat/crypto paring) as well as buying/selling cryptocurrencies with other cryptocurrencies (crypto/crypto pairing). They can be viewed as an online marketplace for the entire cryptocurrency network. 2.What does it mean for an exchange to […]

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  • Telecom Egypt Covertly Redirecting Internet Users To Crypto Mining Sites, Report Says

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    Devices found at Telecom Egypt demarcation points have been found to be surreptitiously redirecting Egyptian Internet users to advertisements and cryptocurrency mining sites, according to a report published by Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto Friday, March 9. The technology research lab’s report explains that the scheme, referred to as Adhose, operates via middleboxes, […]

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  • What you need to know about blockchain and cryptocurrency in the US and China

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    BOSTON, March 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — In 2018, China’s official media organ People’s Daily published a full-page report entitled “Leveraging Blockchain to Become a Leader in the Digital Economy”, again emphasizing that blockchain ushers in a new era as the catalyst of a next-generation technology revolution. In the capital market, prices of blockchain concept stocks have fluctuated wildly. The […]

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