The US Customs and Border Protection Agency has decided to test the advantages of the blockchain in order to substantiate the certificates granted by the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Vincent Annunziato, head of CBP’s Division of Business Transformation and Innovation, stated that the organization is live…
It seems as if the words of Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, are coming true and we are just entering the World of “Bitcoin, not blockchain.” However, it is quite evident that the global banking confederacy is not willing to give up or even diminish its sheer support for blockchain based products and Dapps. Axoni,…
A Norwegian mining firm received a bomb threat on 11th August 2018, which was explicitly related to the amount of noise being produced as a result of mining. If you have ever lived near a mining rig, you must be aware that it happens to be one heck of a hardware and if several machines…
John McAfee, a computer programmer and founder of McAfee, launched a BTC wallet, named BitFi, and dished out a challenge for $250,000, claiming that the wallet happens to be unhackable. It should be noted that it created a great hype, given that BitFi is owned by one of the greatest internet security companies in the…
The latest research has shown that almost 30 percent of the businesses based in the UK have confirmed that their infrastructure has been hit by a crypto mining malware in July 2018. With new ICOs launching every week and the awareness growing among the masses, such threats are enough to sabotage the businesses from entering…
If you are a crypto enthusiast, or you have spent some time surfing the niche, you probably are aware of Hashflare standing out among cloud-based mining services. However, it just went hard on BTC and disabled all BTC mining contracts. An official statement was issued by the company, where they explicitly mentioned that all of…
Australia’s third largest state by population, Queensland, has embarked on a mission to encourage the growth and utilization of cryptocurrencies in the country and in order to do that, they are backing up small crypto and blockchain startups in the country. Since a great deal of the internet community now possesses digital assets, Australia is…
Venezuela has taken quite a bold and appreciable initiative by announcing to help out the poverty-stricken class of the country. Ildemaro Villarroel, who happens to be Venezuelan Habitat and Housing minister, updated the news outlets and also went forth to mention that this latest cryptocurrency, Petro, will be backed by the oil production. Basically, the…
Blockchain technology is hitting new horizons and in order to keep up the game and initiate its usage in the aviation sector, the SAP.io Berlin Foundry and Lufthansa Innovation Hub have teamed up. A couple weeks back, they announced the cooperation through a blog post and stated, that the aim is to explore the challenges…
As reported by CipherTrace, a blockchain security firm, an equivalent of around $730 million in cryptocurrencies was stolen off exchanges in the first quarter of 2018. This is incredibly huge and has raised concerns among an array of investors and potential users of different ventures, particularly because these figures seem to be growing every year.…
