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Dr. Joseph Chen-Yu Wang Joins Ambrosus as Project Manager
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Accenture Names Iliana Oris Valiente To Head Blockchain Innovation
Bitcoin finally passed the long-awaited $6,000 mark for single-coin pricing today, surpassing the mark in early morning trading before slightly retreating at mid-day.
Legacy bitcoin began its climb yesterday at the $5,600 mark, reaching the summit today before retracing to the $5,900 level.
Ronika Carter of Watson LLP in Orlando, Fla. is a regulatory attorney who believes licensing of cryptocurrency businesses and exchanges in the US is inevitable.
She talked with Block Tribune about what a national licensing program would look like and how Japan is a possible benchmark for implementing any domestic licensing.
Maxim Blagov is the Co-founder and CEO of Enjin, a social gaming platform.
Blagov has 15 years of expertise in creative direction, project management, and UX design. He is an expert in concept & strategy development for large interactive applications,
Mastercard won’t take bitcoin payments. But it will allow you to transfer money over a blockchain using its proprietary technology for payments to goods and services providers.
A select few banks and merchants were invited to be part of the experiment. The technology in Mastercard’s case is strictly for cross-border payments between businesses.
Jaguar Land Rover-backed information platform DOVU has raised $6 million via an initial coin offering (ICO). The platform will reward users who voluntarily submit data, such as weather and traffic reports, with DOV tokens. The concept is that the token will incentivize getting more information onto the network for instant updates on conditions.
South Africa’s Sun Exchange, a peer-to-peer solar equipment leasing marketplace that manages revenue collection and distribution through its blockchain system, has raised $1.6 million in seed financing from several strategic partners. Its goal is to accelerate global access to solar power.
Sun Exchange allows individuals to purchase solar cells in solar projects which are mostly situated in emerging markets that are solar-rich,
Hong Kong digital currency exchange Bitfinex , the third-largest by volume, will terminate all services for US customers by November 9. The exchange has urged all US-based customers to withdraw their holdings before the deadline.
In August, Bitfinex announced it was canceling service to US customers on its platform because of impractical regulations and policies imposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Moving Media, the owner of payment gateway Payment21, has received a Swiss Directly Subordinated Financial Intermediary (DSFI) license form the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), a regulatory arm of the Swiss government. Payment21 is the first bitcoin company to gain full regulatory compliance from the Swiss financial regulator.
Japanese Internet conglomerate GMO Internet has released an open source know-your-customer (KYC) software based on blockchain technology. The KYC software is part of the fifth phase of the GMO Blockchain Open Source Software Project (GMO Blockchain OSS).
GMO said the new KYC software reduces human and financial costs of identity verification through use of the blockchain.
Josh Dettman is the co-founder of Compcoin and its President of Institutional Trading at FinTech Investment Group, which uses artificial intelligence to execute Forex trades.
Investors tap into the ART system by means of Compcoin, a proprietary token that is exchange-traded, then let ART’s bot trade 24/7 using machine learning, Read more »
