The Pentagon is currently facing a logistics problem and the total value of the inventory that it manages totals around $100 billion. The Defense Department has to track every supplier, every part and type of inventory it operates and the sole scale of the amount of inventory it has to deal with creates a logistics…
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Business Insider reported that Oracle introduced its Blockchain Cloud Service on October 2nd, as the company is making steps to outcompete giants like Microsoft and IBM. Obviously, the new cloud service will be used for sharing data in a more secure way. While the service will be made available to users later this year, Oracle was…
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Unlike other countries that may believe the technology behind Bitcoin, Blockchain, is a "fraud" and may trigger financial crisis in the future, Ukraine is turning to blockchain to manage its farmland registry. Bloomberg reported that Ukraine believes that the system they are using now for managing the land ownership may be subject to fraud and…
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Crypto Valley Association (CVA), the Swiss-based not-for-profit association supporting the development of blockchain and cryptographic related technologies and businesses, today distributed a paper on behalf of MME and Blockhaus, proposing a new method for token classification. Both MME, the leading Swiss consultancy firm for law, tax and compliance in Blockchain applications and Blockhaus, a developer of decentralized investment banking platform…
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Blockchain research and development pioneer nChain and software provider Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) announced a joint Gigablock Testnet Initiative to test the bitcoin network's ability to handle significantly larger block sizes. This global test network is another step in nChain's growing collaboration with BU on initiatives to help achieve massive on-chain scaling of the bitcoin network.…
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As reported by Bloomberg today, Bitcoin is facing another possible split in November, which would mean that the world will have three different versions of the cryptocurrency. With the growing popularity of the currency, miners and developers seek new ways to diversify the increasing “hunger” of the population. One of the “Bitcoin gurus”, Roger Ver,…
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According to CoinDesk, the US Senate passed a $700 billion defense bill that includes a mandate for the Department of Defense to conduct a study on blockchain and the technology behind it. On September 18th, along with the US military defense spending budget, an amendment suggested by Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, proposed a potential…
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Quantum computing may be the next big thing. The concept of quantum computing comes from the fact that unlike the bit in the classical silicon computer, which is basically a binary choice of either one or zero, a qubit (the core of quantum computers) will alternate between one, zero or a position of in-between these…
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ICOBox, the provider of SaaS (software as a service) ICO technology, marketing, and legal solutions, announced that has launched a “blockchain jumpstarter” platform aimed at helping launch 800 ICOs in the first year of its operations, targeting $12 billion in total amount of funds collected. ICOBox’s ICOS token is the first token to provide its…
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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) just announced the Coco Framework, innovation that will advance enterprise adoption of blockchain technology. Current blockchain protocol technology requires complicated development techniques to meet the operational and security needs of enterprises. The Coco Framework reduces this complexity, and when integrated with blockchain networks addresses critical needs for commercial adoption like high-transaction speed,…
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