Visa credit card association founder Dee Hock is a world-leading expert in payment systems. While an official in 1968 at a local bank in Washington State franchised by Bank of America to issue BankAmericard, Hock became chairman on a committee to create what would become Visa in 1976. Hock is open-minded and outspoken. He has […]
Is the future of bitcoin in Europe? Acceptance and further developments behind the digital currency have been active and apparent in areas such as the United States and Southeast Asia. Coinbase recently announced its expansion into Singapore, and several major players such as Kraken make their home on American soil, but that’s not to say that there […]
Bitcoin businesses and the New York Department of Financial Services have had a rocky relationship over the past several months. While the NYDFS and their former head honcho Benjamin Lawsky, who served as the organization’s Superintendent up through June of this year have sworn that their methods are being invoked to provide aid and financial security, […]
Global banks, financial institutions and organizations have begun to research about the potential applications of the blockchain technology that may restructure traditional financial and banking systems. Over the last few months, multinational banks including Citibank, JPMorgan and UBS have built research teams and startup acceleration labs to acvively develop prototypes of blockchain based applications and […]
Europe’s bitcoin companies explain why they think the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology lies in their continent, not the US.
Bitcoin price continued into a fifth wave and a higher high today – finally breaking out of a ten-day sideways draw. The prospects going forward were discussed during last month’s analysis and remain unchanged. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now […]
Take a look at what drove bitcoin and blockchain headlines in the past week.
The block chain offers the most significant records and identity authentication technology available in more than 5,000 years, and government should take the lead in adopting it. That’s the message that Brian Forde, director of the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative, delivered in a recent presentation to a group of government information managers. The […]
Brazil-based bitcoin startup Rippex has announced the former founders of digital payments gateway PagSeguro have joined its team.
Blockchain technology company Tieron is working with the Connecticut Technology Council (CTC), a non-profit organization encouraging local technology development. With this partnership, the CTC and Tieron plan to run a trial on finding government survey data using blockchain technology. Blockchain is the public ledger of bitcoin transactions, which are updated and verified by a network […]