As reported by Korean news site IT Chosun Sunday (Korean source), LG is rumoured to be preparing its own blockchain-centred phones for launch. Citing an industry source, IT Chosun revealed that LG is conducting research into Dapp and blockchain companies, including arranging meetings with several local Dapp developers. Although there...
New York-based tech giant IBM has doubled the number of employees on its technical steering committee (TSC) of Hyperledger, a multi-project open-source initiative supported by The Linux Foundation, and established to enhance cross-industry blockchain technologies. Six out of a total of 11 TSC members (for 2019-2020) work for IBM, according...
San Francisco-headquartered digital asset exchange Coinbase might be releasing a new token, according to its head of institutional sales in Asia, Kayvon Pirestani. Pirestani, a former executive at Morgan Stanley, says Coinbase is considering launching an initial exchange offering (IEO) platform, in addition to other capital-formation tools. Pirestani’s comments came...
As part of a great move to increase compatibility with Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC) completed its Atlantis hard fork earlier today, after concerns over exchange support. Due to the nature of a hard fork, the update lacked backwards compatibility, meaning individuals and companies all over the crypto community were...
Wall Street Gone Blockchain Some of the world’s most powerful investors and CEOs have long denounced Bitcoin. Warren Buffett, for instance, has claimed that the cryptocurrency is nothing more than an asset with no intrinsic value, or something with not much more value than his suit button. Yet, the funny...
New cryptocurrency projects are not raising as much capital as they did during 2017 and 2018. During the first half of 2018, the average initial coin offering (ICO) generated $25.5 million, according to data compiled by “Big Four” auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). EOS, the largest ICO project that conducted a...
EOSIO, the blockchain of popular crypto asset EOS, may already be one of the leading smart contracting chains, but its development hasn’t stopped. On Monday afternoon, Block.one, the Hong Kong-based industry development firm, unveiled more details about EOSIO’s first massive upgrade — EOSIO 2. Here’s more information. Introducing EOSIO 2:...
Interview with Alex Karasulu, chief executive and founder of OptDyn, the company behind the Subutai Blockchain Router and Subutai PeerOS Alex has a 25-year background in the open source software community and is renowned for his original authorship of the Apache Directory Server, used by IBM for its Rational Directory...
In brief: Steem (STEEM) is up 130% in the last 24 hours according to Coinmarketcap.com. Justin Sun recently bought the decentralized Steemit platform. However, the community has seen it as a hostile take over. The community has planned a hard fork of Steem tomorrow, March 20th, at 10 am EST. ...
In brief: The privacy of citizens across several countries is at stake as their governments are using phone surveillance technology to track their movements. Countries that have used phone data to track the spread of the virus include China, Israel and Iran. The United States government has been musing on...
In brief: On 16th April, 2020, the team at Purse.io made the difficult announcement stating they were shutting down operations. The team was in the process of dissolving the company when acquisition offers came knocking. On the 16th of April, the team at Purse.io informed the crypto community and fans...
In brief: Ethereum’s Co-Founder, Vitalik Buterin, believes it is time for alternatives to centralized social media. His remarks were in response to the recent decision by Twitter to flag some of President Trump’s tweets as ‘misleading’. Censorship on social media is on the rise. More so since it was determined...
