Billionaire Norwegian Air CEO Bjørn Kjos launched the Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) in April, a company executives say “will explore and exploit potential opportunities that lie in blockade and ledger technology.” The company raised $250,000 in a first capital round and is owned by a company called Observatoriet Invest, although Stig Kjos-Mathisen, Kjos’ son-in-law and chairman of […]
Bitmain — the largest and most established manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining chips — is considering an IPO, or initial public offering. This could potentially open the company’s books to the world and allow the stock market to assign the company real-time value. Bitmain’s 32-year-old founder Jihan Wu says he’s chiefly examining the possibilities of a […]
Shopin — a universal shopper profile that delivers personal shopping experiences through retailers’ apps, websites and stores — says one of its token distributors has been hacked and roughly $10 million in a variety of cryptocurrencies has been stolen. Representatives of the platform have released the following statement: “On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Shopin distributed […]
Bitmain CEO Jihan Wu categorically denied that the mining hardware manufacturer secretly uses its newly-developed devices before making them available to the general public. Wu made this claim during an interview with Fortune, hitting back against rumors and reports that, after developing an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miner for a new hashing algorithm, Bitmain will […]
Enterprise blockchain startup R3 is burning through cash at a breakneck pace and could be out of money by the first quarter of 2019, sources say. R3 Could Be Out of Money by 2019: Report Citing interviews with two former employees, Fortune reports that R3 — which in 2014 launched a high-profile banking consortium that […]
The energy supplier for Quebec, Canada, has temporarily stopped providing power for new digital currency mining projects. Hydro-Quebec claim that the move is to ensure that they can continue to supply the rest of the province with power, as well as exploring other developing industrial sectors. Hydro-Quebec to Propose Strategy for Blockchain Firms to State’s […]
R3 is reportedly running low on cash – and judging by the social media response, the crypto-community isn’t showing much sympathy.
The Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy believes that central banks are not yet ready to issue institute-backed digital currencies.
At a vote of the coalition launching EOS last night, process troubles and a visit by the software’s creator seemed to cause the latest delay.
It’s time to move past the inefficiency of antiquated organizational structures, and blockchains are the key. So say the creators of DAOstack, a solution that’s designed to intuitively move people into systems of decentralized governance and away from the traditional top-down hierarchies that predominate the planet today. DAOstack CEO Matan Field was the featured guest […]