Heritage is a blockchain-enabled donation platform created by A^3, the Silicon Valley part of Airbus, the aerospace/flight company. Airbus is providing a decentralized application to accept and manage donations for itself and it’s charitable partners from cryptocurrencies on the Ethereum blockchain. The team has already held an internal fundraiser to test the platform to the …
iMorpheus, the anonymous cryptographer and the founder of TAU Coin and their new Proof of Transaction (PoT) technology reveals his identity. PoT, the technology invented by iMorpheus, is a brand-new consensus mechanism where users collectively maintain the network security through everyday economical behavior – transactions measure over one year. In PoT consensus, no advantage is …
Los Angeles’ first Blockchain Week will be on October 19th-25th, 2018. The following conferences and Universities are partnering : Crypto Invest Summit, StartEngine Summit, Women of Crypto, Expert Dojo, UCLA, and USC. They are offering a pass that gives access to ALL official LA Blockchain Week events at one low price at LABlockchainWeek.org. The LA …
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, said there isn’t an opportunity for yet another 1,000-times growth in anything in the [Blockchain] space anymore. Growth in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the blockchain community through its first six or seven years was dependent on marketing and trying to get wider adoption. To be clear, I never said …
Everything is for sale. If capitalism needed a motto that should be it. However, up until now “everything” didn’t include data. The gigantic profusion of digital information in the modern world is the price of doing business. It stands to reason then that organizing this data in such a way that it can be mined …
StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. (https://www.startengine.com/) will host the StartEngine Summit on October 19th, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. This is StartEngine’s third crypto conference that focuses on ICOs, the tokenization of securities and alternative assets, and the trading of those tokens on the secondary market. The theme of this fall’s summit is “Tokenize the World,” and …
Tencent is working with the Chinese government to link travel documents with a WeChat app to facilitate border crossings between the three territories (Hong Kong, Macau and China) that still require special travel permits.
China’s first quarter 2018 retail sales were 10% more than the US level. China was at $1.436 trillion and the US was at $1.306 trillion. China’s overall retail is growing at 9% per year or double the US rate. China’s ecommerce is growing at 21% per year. China Second phase of Urbanization China is creating …
DESICO has a solution to some of the regulatory problems in the cryptocurrency market, especially in the area of fraudulent ICOs. 2018 is referred to by some as “the year of regulation”, with institutional money waiting to enter the space. DESICO looks to change that. Even amidst current uncertainty and bear market price action, the …
Esprezzo is a blockchain middleware company based out of the Cayman Island, Boston and San Francisco. The project was borne out of pain points in other projects. Remy Carpinito previously built a company called Campus tap. They tried to create identification systems for colleges. Interview with Remy Carpinito Unfortunately, the technology was too early. The …
Iran is launching a cryptocurrency backed by its national fiat currency the Rial. Transactions will be recorded on a private blockchain based on open-source Hyperledger Fabric technology. The Central Bank of Iran will control the issuance of new tokens at their discretion. The new cryptocurrency would help move money and avoid sanctions. Venezuela has tried …