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Major Companies Plan to Track Sea Food and Clothing Using Blockchain

May 15, 2019 by Mohammad Musharraf at Adoption, Blockchain, Business, News

Blockchain has found a tremendous use case in supply chain management. A Forbes post published May 15, 2019, revealed that Bumble Bee Foods plans to use blockchain for seafood tracking. Also, a press release on PR Web explained how Avery Dennison and EVRYTHNG’s partnership with 1017 ALYX 9SM will allow...

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Across the Border: Blockchain in Cross-Border Payments

May 15, 2019 by Tokoni Uti at Blockchain, Finance, News

Even as blockchain is being widely used in cross-border payments, we look at the potential for widespread adoption, as well as the progress made thus far. An Offering for the World There is a lot of speculation that surrounds the future of blockchain and how it will be used in...

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Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Complete: Summary of Upgrades and Changes

May 15, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Development, News

The long-awaited bi-annual hard fork on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has been rolled out as of 15 May 2019. Schnorr signatures and recovery from SegWit addresses are the biggest takeaways from the hard fork. Network Upgraded Bitcoin Cash's network has finally rolled out its long-awaited upgrade; the BCH network hard forks...

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The Five Blockchain Principles of IBM

May 15, 2019 by Eddie Mitchell at Adoption, Blockchain, Business, News, Tech

Technology typically adds positive value to society, and as such, it can deliver demonstrable good for the world; according to IBM, blockchain can further this sentiment. In an IBM Blockchain Pulse blog post, May 13, 2019, the tech behemoth lays out the guiding principles it adheres to, which it believes...

IOHK and Polymath Partner Up for First Security Token Blockchain

May 14, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Adoption, Blockchain, News, Regulation

Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the company behind Cardano and the Ouroboros protocol, are launching the worlds first security token blockchain alongside security token issuance platform Polymath, as announced on May 13, 2019, at Consensus. This blockchain will be the first of its kind with Hoskinson as the chief architect. ...

How a Banking Consortium is Leveraging Blockchain to Scale Efficiency

May 14, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Adoption, Blockchain, Business, News

J.P. Morgan led banking consortium, Interbank Information Network (IIN), is using blockchain's network effect to move a staggering volume of workflow to a distributed ledger, as reported by Forbes on May 13, 2019. Enterprise Blockchain Advancing In October of 2017, J.P. Morgan (JPM) quietly initiated a tiny network of their industry competition...

Crypto Spring: $8,000 Bitcoin and Consensus 2019

May 14, 2019 by Liam J Kelly at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, Event Coverage

As Bitcoin moved within $100 of $8,000, many cited the “Consensus effect.” Each year, for the past few, at least, the price of the pioneer cryptocurrency has often jumped a few hundred dollars during the week of the three-day event. As the space appears to be stepping out of a...

New Jersey: Rutgers Business School Offering Blockchain Courses

May 13, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Adoption, Blockchain, Education, News

Rutgers Business School, a 90-year old United States-based institution of higher learning, has launched its Blockchain Hub. It is a student-run initiative aimed at educating and training students on distributed ledger technology (DLT) courses at its Livingston campus, according to a report by local media outlet Daily Targum, May 13,...

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Blockchain Reorgs: Historical Effect and Differing Perspectives

May 13, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocyclopedia, Exchange, Tech

After the recent Binance hack where the exchange lost $40 million, Jeremy Rubin made a blockchain reog suggestion to Chanpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance. Jeremy Rubin, who is deeply involved in the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, spoke to Zhao over his live stream where Zhao was describing the hack and...

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PayPal May Be Opening Up to Digital Currency

May 13, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Adoption, Bitcoin, Blockchain, News

PayPal’s ambivalent stance over the digital currency might be changing as CFO John Rainey has stated that the payment processor has created teams to study both blockchain and cryptocurrency, as reported by Forbes on May 10, 2019. PayPal previously allowed merchants to receive payments in Bitcoin but removed functionality after...

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