Visa To Hire Employees For Its Crypto Department Published: 19/03/2019 at 18:52 Visa, one of the largest payment companies in the world, has opened a vacancy of a technical product manager who will work in the Visa Crypto department. The new employee will be responsible for Visa's strategic development in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. He will manage the product roadmap and will be accountable for working…
Craig Wright Files 155 Blockchain Patent Applications Published: 19/03/2019 at 17:45 Craig Wright, an Australian computer technology scientist and famous entrepreneur, has filed 155 blockchain-related patent applications since August 2017, according to a recent study by The Next Web (TNW) journalists. All patent applications were published on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)…
Six Banks To Issue Stablecoins On Blockchain From IBM Published: 19/03/2019 at 12:07 Six international banks have reported an intention to develop their own stable tokens pegged to fiat currencies with the help of the IBM blockchain platform which is based on the Stellar technology, Cheddar reports. IBM and the Stellar crypto platform made a joint statement at the Money 2020 Asia conference in Singapore.…
Australian Government To Continue To Support Blockchain Published: 19/03/2019 at 11:03 The Australian government announced a national strategy and a roadmap of the blockchain technology development and allocated the additional 100,000 Australian dollars ($71,200) from the state budget for these purposes, according to a press release. The leaders of the country's industrial department and the department for…
Blockchain's Potential Impact On Intellectual Property (IP) Industry Published: 18/03/2019 at 20:15 Since it emerged, blockchain has slowly but surely been attracting the attention of numerous industries. Some of them saw the potential for improvement, while the new technology seriously disrupted others. However, one industry, in particular, may end up feeling a strong impact by going blockchain, and that is the IP industry. IP,…
IBM: Quantum Computing Threatens Blockchain Published: 18/03/2019 at 18:13 Specialists of the IBM corporation have called quantum computing potentially dangerous for the field of cryptocurrency and for cryptographic tools used in decentralized networks, according to Coindoo. Jesse Lund, the head of the blockchain development department of the corporation, believes that the reverse engineering method…
Blockchain To Accelerate Development Of World Economy – Joseph Lubin Published: 18/03/2019 at 15:01 Joseph Lubin, one of the Ethereum founders and the head of the blockchain startup ConsenSys, reiterated his support for blockchain technology at the SXSW conference in the American city of Austin and stated that it would contribute to the tenfold increase in the world economy growth rates in the next 20 years. Sometimes humankind…
Partner at Squire Patton Boggs Danica Šebestova To Discuss Legal Issues of Blockchain Published: 16/03/2019 at 16:00 Blockchain is used in different spheres: from finances and logistics to medicine and gambling industry. However, while implementing blockchain, companies should consider legal side of the technology. Legal issues of blockchain will be discussed on March 22 at the Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague. A partner at Squire…
Tendermint Completes Work On Cosmos Hub Blockchain Published: 15/03/2019 at 19:05 Tendermint has announced on Twitter the official launch of Cosmos Hub, the first of a series of blockchains on the PoS consensus algorithm, which will enter the Cosmos ecosystem. The Tendermint experts completed the work, which lasted for the past three years. Their main task was to ensure the compatibility of various blockchains,…
French Commercial Courts Are Switching To Blockchain Published: 15/03/2019 at 17:47 In France, court secretaries will use a blockchain-based platform to register the legal status of companies and to record any changes in their activities in the decentralized ledger. This is reported in the official statement of the National Council of Clerks of France. Workers of the commercial courts will be using the distributed…