The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is launching a new accelerator that will help entrepreneurs pursue ventures in the blockchain space.
Called the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, the program is a joint venture between Berkeley Engineering’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology,
Zug, Switzerland’s SophiaTX has started a Blockchain Academy. Now open for applications, SophiaTX Academy aims to provide business professionals with the right blockchain know-how to transform companies globally.
SophiaTX is one of the first public blockchains and one of the first projects extending business applications with blockchain while ensuring data safety and security.
FinTech Consortium, an incubator that aims to further the development and acceleration of the FinTech ecosystems, has partnered with Georgetown University to launch a development program in FinTech.
The program, a three-month online, interactive course, is specifically designed for professionals with at least two years of experience in financial services or technology.
Cryptocurrencies occupy an interesting space in tax law. They are treated as property, and as such you are required to claim short- and long-term capital gains/losses on your tax returns. Some digital asset exchanges (ie. Coinbase and Gemini) will send US investors 1099-K forms if they have over 200 trades and $20,000 in total sales proceeds in the tax year.
The New Year to-do list for an SMB owner can be daunting. No doubt you’re thinking about myriad administrative and organizational needs relating to accounting and finance, staffing, your product and service road map for the year and more. In the course of all this productive planning,
Piers Courtney, an analyst at crypto broker GlobalBlock, explains the anticipated update to the ethereum blockchain, a move that will reinvigorate the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap.
Ethereum Constantinople
Terms such as soft, hard and fork are currently words on everyone’s lips in the cryptosphere.
The co-founders of the Circle app, Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, hosted a Reddit Ask-me-Anything on cryptocurrency last Thursday.
This week, USDC surpassed $300 million in market cap and has earned support from six new companies, bringing to nearly 100 the number of exchanges,
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has established a new education center in Manhattan to explore blockchain technology for various use cases.
NYCEDC is a non-profit organization that serves as the city’s primary entity for promoting and implementing economic development.
GeniusLink, a unit of tech and financial services firm General Electric (GE), has teamed with ODEM, creator of the on-demand education marketplace, to support management of experts and on-demand consultants using blockchain technology.
Launched in 2013, GeniusLink is GE’s Expert Operating System –
Traditional escrow is designed to give piece of mind, and protection, to sellers and buyers who exchange large sums of money. But in 2017, that protection was threatened by nearly $1 billion in escrow fraud[1]. For consumers who’ve relied on escrow in past transactions,
