The travel and tourism industry is a major revenue driver for the global economy. In 2016, economists estimated that the travel and tourism industry contributed about $7.6 trillion to the global economy – thereby being responsible for as much as 10.6% of the world’s GDP. In fact, the travel and tourism industry is one of […]
The post Is Starbucks having an ICO? appeared first on CCN Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz raised a few eyebrows when he brought up cryptocurrency during a conference call discussing the company’s latest quarterly earnings. The former CEO told listeners he believes that widely-accepted digital currencies will arrive within the next few years. Schultz also […]
The post New Hardware Wallet Giza Device to Become All-In-One Security Solution appeared first on CCN This is a sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. The number of internet users crossed the 3 billion mark in 2017. This […]
Zcash’s latest private Powers of Tau ceremony used nuclear waste in a small aircraft to generate random code, helping to ensure the network’s privacy.
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a blockchain report aimed to assist businesses considering adopting the technology.
Defining criteria for digital asset will move forward the whole industry and simplify the jobs of investors and regulators, says Pavel Kravchenko.
In Davos at this year’s World Economic Forum, Bitcoin has continued to be a polarizing subject, attracting both criticism and praise from business figures, industry experts, and world leaders. Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert J. Shiller had the following to say about the cryptocurrency: “I tend to think of Bitcoin as an interesting experiment, not a permanent […]
The post ‘The Biggest Theft in History’: What We Know So Far About the $530 Million Coincheck Hack appeared first on CCN It’s official. Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck was hacked in what is believed to be the largest exchange theft ever carried out. This story is continually developing, but here’s what we know so far. […]
Hydro-Quebéc (HQ) is a public utility that manages the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec, Canada, but it finds itself in a position of generating more power than its customers need. In an article from Le Journal de Québec, Éric Martel, president and CEO of HQ, relates how HQ is facing a death […]
The InsurePal crowdsale that started on January 16, 2018, closed in under 80 seconds, making a record in the history of ICOs so far. The distributed social proof insurance platform reached its token sale hard cap of $18 million within first two minutes of the crowdsale. With the latest success, the platform’s IPL tokens are […]