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Brotopia: Gender Bias Is Blockchain’s Favorite Meme, but is the Wrong Metric

December 12, 2018 by Liam J Kelly at Blockchain, Business, News

On December 11, 2018, LongHash reported details on the lopsided gender stats in the blockchain space. The analysis iterates one of the most common injustices in the space, but what’s more important is the fact that these figures haven’t changed much since initial reports on the same subject. Hashing out...

West Virginia’s Blockchain-Based Military Mobile Voting App Attracts Negative Attention

Samsung Files for Three Blockchain-Related Applications in the European Union

December 12, 2018 by Pratik Makadiya at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, News, Platform, Tech

Electronics giant Samsung has filed for three blockchain-related trademark applications in the European Union on December 10, 2018. Some tech websites suggest these applications are related to the company’s plan to offer a cryptocurrency cold wallet on its phones. Details on the Trademark Applications The trademark applications are named "Blockchain KeyStore,"...

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Proof of Keys Celebration Encourages Individuals to Take Control of Their Digital Assets

December 12, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Exchange, Finance, News

The Proof Of Keys Celebration hosted on January 3 is encouraging members from the Bitcoin community to demand and take possession of their bitcoins currently held by trusted third parties. According to the Proof of Keys video uploaded on December 9, 2018, Trace Mayer, the host of the Bitcoin Knowledge...

Ethereum Community Band Together To Create Crypto Job Board During Hard Times

December 12, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Altcoins, Blockchain, Ethereum, Finance, News, Platform, Tech

During the bearish cryptocurrency winter, many blockchain and cryptocurrency-related companies laid off large numbers of staff, from ConsenSys trimming down 13 percent of the team to Steemit laying off 70 percent of their staff. Maria Paula Fernandez’s, the organizer of ETHBerlin, has on December 7, 2018, leveraged Twitter and Github...

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State Farm Catches Blockchain Fever, Trials DLT for Auto Claims Subrogation

December 12, 2018 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins, Blockchain, Business, Ethereum, News, Platform, Tech

State Farm, a large group of United States-based insurance and financial services firms offering automobile insurance products, loans and more, has announced on December 10, 2018, that it’s testing a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based solution that could help speed up the subrogation process for auto claims. Blockchain for Faster...

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1.3 Million Bitmain S9 Bitcoin Miners Go Offline as Crypto Price Crash Continues

December 12, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, Finance, Mining, News

The total hash rate of the Bitcoin network has fallen by 31 percent since November, representing around 1.3 million Bitmain S9 miners that have been turned off as they struggled to stay profitable in the bear market, BitMex revealed in a report on December 10, 2018. Bitcoin Miners Suffer the...

Blockchain Ecosystem ARK Joins Hands with Crowdsourced Security System Bugcrowd

December 11, 2018 by Pratik Makadiya at Altcoins, Blockchain, Business, Development, News

ARK, a blockchain ecosystem, announced that it has sought out security and penetration testing services from world's leading crowdsourced security platform Bugcrowd on December 11, 2018. The move makes up a part of a precautionary measure to find out vulnerabilities on the ARK ecosystem. Exposing Vulnerabilities with the World’s Best...

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South Korea’s Second Largest City to Develop Blockchain-Enabled Virtual Power Plant

December 11, 2018 by Eddie Mitchell at Adoption, Blockchain, Business, News, Regulation

The South Korean government will be spending four billion Korean won (KRW) ($3.500.000) to create and deploy a “virtual power plant” based on blockchain technology reports local media outlet Yonhap News on December 10, 2018. According to the report, the city administration of Busan, the second most populated city in...

UNICEF Joins the Blockchain Movement, Set to Fund Various Blockchain Projects in Emerging Economies

December 11, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Blockchain, Development, Finance, News

In a bid to make it easier for innovators in emerging economies to solve real-life problems with distributed ledger technology (DLT ), the UNICEF Innovation Fund, has announced a move to invest heavily in six blockchain startups in developing and emerging economies, according to a press release on December 10,...

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Australian Anti-Encryption Bill Reminds the Globe “Why Crypto?”

December 11, 2018 by contributor at Blockchain, Business, Crime, News, Regulation

The Australian government has passed a controversial anti-encryption bill that allows law authorities to forcefully access sensitive consumer data encrypted by popularly-used technology companies and social applications, reported The Hacker News on December 10, 2018. Data Down Under Formally known as the "Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018," the act...

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