Report: Top Blockchain Use Cases Are in Payments, Security and Settlements

A new report has indicated the major benefits of blockchain and DLT, according to financial institutions using the tech

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JP Morgan Blockchain Report: Bitcoin (BTC) Price, Stablecoins, Payments

JPMorgan Chase published its annual report on the blockchain development worldwide. Mostly, it covers the adoption models, use-cases and challenges the technology faces

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90% Of Blockchain Platforms Obsolete by 2021, Report Says

On June 3, global research and advisory firm, Gartner, released a report in which they state that 90% of… The post 90% Of Blockchain Platforms Obsolete by 2021, Report Says appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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A Headline In Search Of A Report: Media FUD Continues

You may not be one of the 793 subscribers to MERLtech news (it stands for monitoring, evaluation, research and learning) – but you might have heard of a recent report published by the website, which has been cited extensively over the last few days as further evidence that blockchain technology is worthless.

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Report: Blockchain Market to Be Worth over $28 Billion by 2025

A report into the projected growth of the current blockchain market by Meticulous Research has produced some incredibly bullish forecasts for the industry. By 2025, it’s expected to have grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 74.

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Undercover report: Crypto media accept cash to mislead readers on ICOs

The dark net, assassination markets, money laundering. Cryptocurrency and blockchain can sound like a dodgy place sometimes, at least we can trust the news outlets that report on them though… right? Wrong.

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UK Gov’t Show Leadership as a new report by embracing Blackhaven Technology

The report offers appointing Chief Blockchain Officer and an international blockchain competition. In a report published on July 4th, Eddie Hughes called on the government to “show leadership” by making the technology and its benefits a priority.

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The UK government must appoint a ‘chief bureaucrat’ lawmaker

A lawmaker in the U. K. has called for the government to advance the use of blockchain in the public sector. In order to pursue applications that rebuild social trust and boost transparency in government, Eddie Hughes, a member of Parliament from the U.

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EU Regulator: legal uncertainty still faced by DLT in trade finance

An EU banking regulator has published a new report exploring the benefits and risks associated with the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in finance. In a report published on Tuesday that discusses the rising trend of financial technology, the European Banking Authority (EBA) highlighted two banking-related use cases of blockchain: cross-border trade finance and

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Uk Government Should Appoint ‘chief blockchain officer’ Says Lawmaker … A lawmaker in the . has called for the government to advance

A lawmaker in the U. K. has called for the government to advance the use of blockchain in the public sector. In order to pursue applications that rebuild social trust and boost transparency in government, Eddie Hughes, a member of Parliament from the U.

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Used Blockchain to Rebuild Societal Trust and Saved 8 Billion, Report tell UK Governor

UK housing minister Eddie Hughes released a report into blockchain July 4, calling on the government to “show leadership” by making the technology and its benefits a priority. The report, ‘Unlocking Blockchain,’ makes several key proposals, using state projects currently underway in Estonia as the standard authorities should follow at home. “The state should focus

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Blockchain “could” save the UK government billions of pounds and reshape social structure, a new report claims

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NVIDIA to Unveil Its Next-Gen GPU in August

A Wccftech report suggested that Nvidia could launch its much-awaited next-gen graphics card in August. The shipping of the card to the companies add-in-board (AIB) partners could begin in August/September.

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Weekly Blockchain Industry Report [June 23-29]

Check out the report created by OK Blockchain Capital covering main trends of blockchain industry over June 23-29, 2018, with strong focus placed on the market overview, analysis of the newly listed and closed public sales projects, along with topical news on global governmental policies.

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Dodgy Crypto Miners Target Linux Systems, a New Report Reveals

WatchGuard released its latest internet threat report for Q1 2018, which suggested that cryptocurrency mining threats are on the rise. About 98. 8% of common Linux/Downloader malware variants found in the first quarter were to target Linux-based computers with crypto miners.

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A 20% Crash in GPU Prices Imminent After Falling Crypto Valuation

Falling prices of digital currencies have finally started to take a toll on the GPU industry. Per a report in DigiTimes, plummeting crypto values will have a knock-on effect on GPU costs, which are expected to drop by 20 percent this July.

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EU Parliament Destroys Bearish Claims in New Report

A new report titled “Virtual Currencies And Central Banks Monetary Policy: Challenges Ahead” by the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament is making headlines for presenting a supportive stance on digital currencies in the Eurozone.

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Official Report Says Russian Military ERA Is Launching Blockchain Research Lab

Russian Ministry of Defense announces the launch of a lab designed to research and develop blockchain technology. As of now, the main focus will be to analyze how the technology can be used to detect cybersecurity attacks, according to a newspaper report published on Friday.

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More Than 2 Million Bitcoin Public Keys Under Hijackers’ Radar

A new report published on Bleeping Computer showed the intricate difficulties of using long and complicated digital wallet addresses. Over 2. 3 million Bitcoin addresses are being monitored by clipboard hijackers who take advantage of the complexity of wallet addresses to dupe users.

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EU’s Report on Cryptocurrencies: Says Officials “Should Not Ignore” Them

The EU’s Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies released a report entitled “Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead.

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Bank of Finland Releases Scathing Crypto Report, Calls Digital Currency a “Fallacy”

Bank of Finland crypto report calls blockchain a “centralized ledger” and digital currencies a “fallacy”

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EU Research: Cryptocurrencies Are Not a Major Threat to Sovereign Currencies

The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs received a Monetary Dialogue titled “Virtual Currencies and Central Banks Monetary Policy: Challenges ahead” recently. The EU Report was confident that cryptocurrencies are “unlikely to challenge the dominant position of sovereign currencies and central banks.

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SharesPost Suggests 15x Potential Growth in Crypto and Blockchain Valuation in 10 Years

SharesPost, which is a private capital markets research company, recently, revealed its shocking findings of the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. The report titled “Investment Strategies for Blockchain: A $2.

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TechCrunch: Dead Now Over 1000 Crypto Projects

More than a thousand of crypto projects are “already dead” as of June 30, 2018, according to a recent TechCrunch report. The news outlet has based its claim on data from two websites: Coinopsy and DeadCoins.

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Hong Kong SFC Says It’s Keeping a Close Watch on ICOs

Hong Kong’s financial regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), says they are keeping a close watch on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs), as stated in the 2017–2018 annual report titled “Regulation for Quality Markets,” released on June 27.

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SharesPost Report Estimates Blockchain Opportunity Exceeding $2.5 Trillion By 2028

Following news that the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) has created a working group dedicated to helping local blockchain companies open bank accounts, we thought readers might be interested in comments from Gianluca Giancola, Co-founder of Zug-based blockchain-powered loyalty ecosystem qiibee.

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Tap the Black Chain in the Reverse Giants Data Transformer Boost

A group of reinsurance giants have said they will jointly develop a blockchain system in an effort to boost transparency in the industry. Comprising the group are are multinational giants including General Reinsurance Corporation and Hannover Re, the report said.

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Overstock Evolutes To Cryptocurrency

The compulsion of blockchain technology is trending globally among well-established companies, and big retailers such as Overstock. com are making a beeline for it. The popular retailing giant launched its own cryptocurrency tZero in 2017, amid the break neck buzz that crypto currency was generating at that point of time.

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PwC Strategy& collaborates with Crypto Valley Association for 2nd Global ICO Report

Strategy&, PwC’s strategy and consulting division, in collaboration with the Crypto Valley Association (CVA), a not-for-profit established to foster the growth of the blockchain ecosystem in Switzerland, have.

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Stock Exchanges Yet to Join Blockchain Revolution, Nasdaq Study Finds

Stock exchange operators and market infrastructure providers are not adopting blockchain at the same pace as other sectors, according to a report by Celent and Nasdaq.

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Apple Founder Wozniak Believes Blockchain Is A Bubble, Not Just Bitcoin

‘Bitcoin is a bubble’, it’s the phrase that seems to hit more crypto-headlines than anything else and is usually followed by a tepid report regarding some vague tech-expert who is no doubt trying to spread a bit of FUD, in order to look informed, in tune and in order to make a big of money through publicity.

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ING Bank: Crypto Uptake Will Multiply

A prominent bank brought an unexpected boost to the crypto industry. ING Bank released the findings of its latest crypto research report and claimed adoption could increase rapidly in the European region.

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Nasdaq Report: Only Five Percent of Stock Market IT Providers Have Deployed Blockchain

A report commissioned by Nasdaq says that only five percent of IT providers for stock markets have implemented blockchain in any form

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Chinese Crypto Ranking: Bitcoin Not Among Top 15 Cryptocurrencies According To Updated Crypto Index

In the latest report by the Chinese Center for Information Industry Development, CCID, announcing top cryptocurrencies based on specific metrics not known to the general public, show Bitcoin not being the most valuable cryptocurrency as hyped.

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Weekly Blockchain Industry Report

Daren Kong Transalated by Billy Lau Market Overview The past week’s daily average global market capitalization of cryptocurrency was $283. 2 billion and the daily average transaction volume was $12. 24 billion, indicating a decline of 6.

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Cryptocurrencies Are Now Finances That US House of Representatives Staff Need to Disclose

Cryptocurrencies are now officially part of the finances that each U. S. House Of Representatives staff should disclose. Cryptocurrencies owned by the house members will be considered as “other forms of securities.

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South Korea’s Ministry of Finance Says 10 Percent Crypto Tax Not True

South Korea finally responded to recent rumors stating that it will impose a 10 percent tax on cryptocurrency trading profits. According to a recent report, the country’s Ministry of Finance had already denied the existence of such a taxation scheme.

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Bitcoin dropped by China’s crypto ratings index and puts EOS in top slot

Just days prior to launch, EOS had also seen serious bugs raised by a Chinese internet security firm that required urgent patches to be issued. The report said that loopholes in EOS’ code could expose nodes to attackers, giving them the ability to possibly take “full control” of transactions. In its assessment, the CCID blockchain research team

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Blockchain Remittance Corridor Opened to Philippines by AlipayHK

Ant Finance, the payment affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has launched a blockchain-based cross-border settlement service for consumers. According to a local news report, Ant Finance announced the blockchain remittance service at a press conference in Hong Kong on Monday, saying it will initially be rolled out for consumers sending funds between Hong Kong

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Fallacies

Stay on top of the best stories in the bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. “The report is correct about price stability and potential scaling issues,” Jeremy Gardner, CEO of Ausum Ventures, told Bitcoin Magazine.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Fortunes and Fallacies

This week, leading South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb experienced a major hack, while Mt Gox, the most notorious exchange to be hacked in bitcoin history, is also back in the news.

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Ukrainian Police Arrest Four People for Running Fake Crypto Exchanges

The Ukrainian National Police announced the arrest of four suspects, who reportedly ran six fake cryptocurrency exchanges in the country. They were arrested last week from Dnipro city, after which their homes were raided, and several computers and smartphones were seized.

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Walmart Granted Title for Digital Ledger as Foundation for Therapeutic Report Method

U. S. retail giant Walmart has been awarded a patent for a system that would store medical records on a blockchain from a wearable device, according to a patent filing published by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Cryptocurrency-related Businesses Denied Banking Services by Irish Lenders

Cryptocurrency-related services in Ireland are experiencing difficulty operating their businesses as Irish lenders are refusing to work with them. Some companies had to open international bank accounts, while others halted trading altogether.

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Ethereum Co-Founder Tips These Cryptocurrencies to Be The Next Big Thing

A new report out by Asia Times discusses how Anthony Di Iorio, the co-founder of Ethereum see’s a big future in two blockchain projects from China, projects that the Canadian billionaire is feeling very bullish towards indeed.

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Bank for International Settlements: Cryptocurrencies Beyond the Hype

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) dedicated a full chapter to cryptocurrencies in its 2018 Annual Economic report prerelease. The report concluded that design flaws and cumbersome cost of establishing decentralized trust make cryptocurrencies fail as a viable money substitute.

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Experts: Many Small Cryptocurrency Exchanges To Go Out Of Business Soon

Experts and analyst in the crypto industry have predicted a widespread shutdown of small exchange platforms because of their inability to attract investors. A report released by 8BTC.com, a blockchain news platform operating in China, indicated that the first 14 major crypto exchanges take up about 73% of the total value of transactions made in […] The post Experts: Many Small Cryptocurrency Exchanges To Go Out Of Business Soon appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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Korean Government to Fund Six Blockchain Projects with $9 Million

The country has sights set on being one of the leaders in blockchain technology and has made a strong statement after the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revealed in a report that 10 billion Korean won (app.

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Korean Government to Lead 6 Blockchain Pilots With $9 Million Finance

The South Korean government will invest 10 billion Korean won (or $9 million) to support blockchain development in the country, with plans to carry out six pilots using blockchain technology. According to a report from CoinDesk Korea, the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT published a blockchain development strategy on Thursday. The agency said the government plans to

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Block secure

Technology giant Tencent is teaming up with the Chinese government to fight blockchain-related security issues. The firm’s vice president, Bin Ma, announced the formation of the China Blockchain Security Alliance during the China Blockchain Security Forum in Beijing on Thursday, according to a report from ChinaNews, a state-owned media outlet. The forum, hosted by the government-backed

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