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Turkish University Launches Blockchain Center at a Boston University

May 8, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Blockchain, Business, Education, News

In a bid to provide the relevant information and infrastructure needed for the study of distributed ledger technology (DLT), Turkey’s BlockchainIST, Bahcesehir University (BAU), the region’s first university-level center for blockchain research, has erected a state-of-the-art DLT center at Boston’s Northeastern University, reports Daily Sabah on May 8, 2019. The...

Chi-X Kicks Against ASX’s Move to Replace CHESS with Blockchain

Australian Securities Exchange Opens Blockchain-based Customer Development Environment

May 8, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Blockchain, Exchange, Finance, News

On May 7, 2019, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Australia's primary securities exchange, announced the opening of its Customer Development Environment (CDE), a blockchain-based equity clearing and settlement platform which can be used by its customers for interacting and experimenting. ASX Joins the DLT Bandwagon Per the announcement, ASX has...

Report: Over 60 Percent of Crypto Exchanges Have Zero Trading Volume

May 7, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Crime, Exchange, Finance, News

The Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI), a platform dedicated to curbing the menace of data manipulation by Bitcoin trading venues, cryptocurrency exchanges and market participants in the cryptospace, has released its April 2019 market surveillance report. The document outlines the exchange space including fake trading volumes, wash trading and other shady...

dApp Transaction Volumes Hit New Highs in April

May 7, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Altcoins, Blockchain, Ethereum, News

April was an excellent month for Ethereum, as users of Ethereum-based decentralized applications (dApps) transacted a whopping 776,000 ether (ETH). This marks a new high in both ether and USD value, though the number of newly deployed dApps has also hit a 15-month low, according to a Diar report on...

Programmer Discovers Cryptojacking Malware on GitHub

Hackers Attacking GitHub Repositories for Bitcoin Ransom

May 6, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Cybersecurity, News

GitHub, a platform where software developers from across the globe discover, share and build software, is now being attacked by hackers who aim to hijack and encrypt users’ code for a Bitcoin ransom, according to a Vice report on May 3, 2019. Code for Bitcoin Per sources close to the...

Mysterious Chinese Hacker Group on Supply Chain Hijacking Spree

May 6, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Business, Cybersecurity, Development, News

While cyber attacks link cryptojacking and fingerprinting have become known to the masses, software supply chain attacks are also fast gaining momentum. In the latest, Barium, the mysterious Chinese-speaking cyberpunks orchestrating such attacks are advancing with each passing day, according to a Wired report on May 3, 2019. Rising Supply...

West Ham United becomes First English Club to Join Socios.com

May 1, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Business, News, Tech

In a bid to evolve its global fan engagement strategy and expand global audience, West Ham United Football Club, an English Premier League has strategically partnered with Socios.com, a blockchain-based fan engagement platform to officially launch a Fan Token which can be used by holders to influence certain club decisions,...

Microsoft Outlook Security Breach Targeted Bitcoin Accounts

April 30, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Crime, Cybersecurity, News

Earlier in April 2019, Microsoft Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook email accounts suffered a severe security breach. Now, a good number of the victims have revealed that their cryptocurrency wallets were hacked during the ugly incident, reports Motherboard on April 29, 2019. Microsoft Customer Support Account Hacked Per the report, the...

SoftBank Inks $1 Billion Partnership Deal with Wirecard

April 26, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Business, News

Wirecard, a German internet technology and financial services company, has inked a strategic partnership deal that will see SoftBank Group Corp., a Japanese multinational conglomerate, invest over $1 dollars in the form of convertible bonds in the former. The investment will enable Wirecard expand its digital payments products and service...

TrustToken Launch Four more Fiat-Pegged Stablecoins

April 25, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Altcoins, News, Stablecoins

TrustToken, the creators of TrueUSD (TUSD), a dollar-backed stablecoin, has announced the launch of four more non-volatile cryptoassets, including TrueAUD, TrueEUR, TrueCAD, and TrueHKD, in a bid to make the TrustToken platform a one-stop shop for tokenized currencies, according to a blog post on April 24, 2019. TrustToken Taking the...

Bitfury Join Forces with Final Frontier to Launch Bitcoin Mining Fund

April 24, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Business, Finance, Investment, Mining, News

Bitfury, one of the leading infrastructure providers for the Bitcoin blockchain, has collaborated with Final Frontier, a Swiss-based artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain investment firm, to launch a regulated Bitcoin mining fund, according to a Reuters report on April 24, 2019. Exposing Institutional Investors to Bitcoin Mining Per sources close...

John McAfee no Longer Interested in Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto

April 24, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Commentary, News

John McAfee, the eccentric British-American cryptocurrency evangelist and computer programmer that founded McAfee Associates, one of the earliest software firms in the world, has suspended his plans of unmasking the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, reports Bloomberg on April 23, 2019. McAfee Backpedals Per sources close...

Top Israeli University Sues Professor for Unlawful Practices

April 23, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain, Business, Commentary, News

The Israel Institute of Technology, the Technion, which functions as a public research university in the region, has filed a lawsuit against professor Eli Ben-Sasson, a senior lecturer at the Technion’s Faculty of Computer Science, for allegedly using the institution’s intellectual property to establish his blockchain startup, reports local news...

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Blockchain-based Art Platform Artory Raises $7.3m to Improve Data Integrity

April 23, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain, Business, Investment, News

Artory, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) powered art registry that claims to track provenance of art and valuable collectibles, has raised $7.3 million in its Series A funding round and it says the funds will be used to improve data integrity, functionality and other areas of its business, according to...

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Microsoft Security Expert says Cyber Criminals now Targeting Korea

April 23, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Commentary, Cybersecurity, Mining, News

Microsoft Korea has urged individuals and businesses in the region to adequately protect their computers and other devices against new cyber attacks such as supply chain compromises, cryptojacking, and phishing attacks, by regularly backing up their data on cloud platforms and keeping security software as well as operating systems up...

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