The Metropolis (Ethereum 3.0) hardfork upgrade is scheduled for late September. It will be the first upgrade since Homestead (Ethereum 2.0) from early 2016. Innovations are known for Metropolis: Anonymity – “Zero Knowledge Proofs” (zk-snarks) will allow the Ethereum Blockchain to perform anonymous transactions on a higher level in the future. This is like Zcash. …
A decentralized online quantum cash system, called qBitcoin, is given. Researchers designed a system which has great benefits of quantization in the following sense.A Firstly, quantum teleportation technology is used for coin transaction, which prevents an owner of a coin from keeping the original coin data after sending the coin to another. This was a …
China’s central bank has declared that initial coin offerings are illegal and should be halted immediately. More than $1.8 billion has been raised through the 135 initial coin offerings listed at CoinSchedule in 2017. The Chinese committee has prepared a list of 60 exchanges which will be subject to inspection and a report. In the …
Bitcoin briefly surged past $5,000 on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index but then sold off. The total value of all publicly traded cryptocurrencies was $166 billion. The total values was down more than 7 percent from a high of nearly $180 billion last night. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
The central Bank of Papua New Guinea is running blockchain trials. Central Bank Governor Loi Bakani described the blockchain trials underway at the Bank of PNG and introduced the PNG Digital Commerce and Cryptocurrency Association for the growing number of Papua New Guinea tech entrepreneurs and businesses interested in blockchain technology. Banks and central banks …
One of the largest flatbed trucking fleets in the US has joined the Blockchain in Trucking Alliance (BiTA). PS Logistics, LLC, a leading national transportation and logistics company, joined as a charter member, to help advance the transportation industry through smart technologies and standardized performance standards. The Blockchain in Trucking Alliance (BiTA) formed August 2017 …
Fundstrat Founder Tom Lee forecast that the cryptocurrency Bitcoin could rise to $6,000 a coin by the middle of next year. Bitcoin like Gold The big driver of this 29% rally through mid-2018 would be greater public awareness of bitcoin as a method of payment and as a store of value like gold. He maintained …
Microsofts Coco framework for enterprise blockchain that is 100 times faster for transactions shows that Microsoft will likely create a new Cryptocurrency. Although Microsoft is a backer of Ethereum, Microsoft will likely release new iterations of Cryptocurrency that are able to handle national scale transactions. National adoptions of cryptocurrency need to have tens of thousands …
Blockchain is a transformational technology with the potential to extend digital transformation beyond a company’s four walls and into the processes it shares with suppliers, customers and partners. A growing number of enterprises are investing in blockchain as a secure and transparent way to digitally track the ownership of assets across trust boundaries and to …
Coinbase the Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin exchange had a stock offering and raised $100 million with a $1.6 billion valuation. Coinbase exchanges about $25 billion worth of cryptocurrency. The Bitcoin market cap is around $65 billion, with the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem now being worth $140 billion. The South China Morning Post reports that some are …
Bitcoin and Etherium have been surging for months. There seems to be an increasing amount of capital flows into bitcoin from around the globe. “The biggest driver right now is you’re starting to see institutional investors take a keen interest in the entire sector,” said Brian Kelly, founder of Brian Kelly Capital, which recently launched …