Category: Blockchain

April 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NetLeaders announces the sale of its 100,000th DasCoin license

NetLeaders, the community of empowerment, has just announced that it has recently achieved a significant milestone with the sale of its 100,000th DasCoin License. DasCoin license holders are provided with Cycles that represent network capacity across DasCoin’s proprietary Consortium Blockchain technology that is Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliant. These cycles can…

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April 17, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

TopiaCoin - Facebook's "new enemy"

Mark Zuckerberg is literally under fire these days, after it became known that Facebook has been misusing users' data in multiple ways. Cambridge Analytica was accused of using data provided by Facebook to get insight into people's voting "habits", preferences etc. After Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress, the scandal seems to…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Lithuania introduces blockchain-based companies in 2019

Lithuania has informed that it is looking to become the first ever country to offer entities from around the world the opportunity to register and manage companies using blockchain technology. These Virtual Limited Liability Companies (VLLCs) would benefit from an innovation-friendly “sandbox” regulatory system that helps newcomers to set up operations. VLLCs would give companies a…

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April 17, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

How Blockchain may help homeless people

The city of Austin, Texas, is among the first ones in the world to be putting blockchain to a very useful task: helping the homeless. While the problem exists around the world to different extents, a universal solution to identifying homeless people and taking care of them has not been found. And while investors disagree…

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April 12, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Africa Master Coin on the Horizon

Africa is the poorest populated continent in the world as of 2018, and foreign direct investments have been of primary importance to the African population for many decades now. Because of the high level of corruption, especially in Northern Africa, the idea of a domestic cryptocurrency has long been in discussion. Now, according to media,…

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April 12, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

The first Blockchain ETF is here

The very first blockchain ETF has been launched by First Trust Global Portfolios. According to press release, the First Trust Indxx Innovative Transaction and Process ETF is going to physically track what is called the Indxx Blockchain index. The Blockchain Index is currently investing in a variety of companies whose major investments come from the…

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April 12, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Extracting value from "dead coins" - the CoinJanitor project

As the heat from the cryptocurrency market is sweeping across industries, sectors and countries, it is not really surprising that there are a lot of coin that do not manage to "fulfil" their roles for several reasons. Among the many thriving ICOs and coin-related offerings, there are quite a few that are now called "dead…

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April 02, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

The first blockchain-based Hollywood movie is here

Piracy and movie rights are two of the most critical issues for Hollywood yet to be resolved. Pirate website such as PirateBay and others are constantly “abusing” the producers’ rights when it comes to movies. Now, to the rescue comes blockchain. According to recent news, the first ever blockchain-based movie is called “No Postage Necessary”.…

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March 29, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

8base launches blockchain-based platform and collaborative ecosystem

8base has announced the launch of its novel collaborative software development ecosystem. 8base leverages blockchain technology to allow software authors, contributors, and users all over the world to work in concert to rapidly and cost-effectively develop and launch enterprise-class software. The company is founded by Albert Santalo, who has a longstanding track record of conceiving,…

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