United States Multi-national retail conglomerate Wal-Mart is embracing new technologies which includes Blockchain to deal with food safety issues. There are more than 6, 000 Wal-Mart stores that serve roughly 260 million patrons. This is a tall order especially when it comes to monitoring food sources, but Blockchain technology can make things easier for the…

Bitcoin users have the option to compare various exchanges based on exchange rates and choose the cheapest option. The next step is to determine the cost of obtaining bitcoin from brokers or trading platforms and to compare the money spent with the total amount of bitcoins received. The usual thing to do is to compute transaction…

Golem Network is the very first decentralized global market for computing technology. It used to be the third-biggest Initial Coin Offering (ICO) platform. Proceeds are allocated to improve large-scale objectives of financial technology. Golem is one of the few Blockchain technology start-ups building decentralized internet platforms. The Golem Project came up with an ICO to subsidize…

Franz Gruter, Member of Parliament of Switzerland, filed a motion to limit or moderate regulatory encumbrances of Blockchain start-ups by controlling the legal meaning of “Client deposit”.  23 other MPs from different major parties supported and signed said Motion. Companies that handle finances of clients (Swiss Francs, Bitcoin or any other currency for that matter) are…

The London-based bitcoin wallet provider known by the name of Blockchain, has recently reached a new milestone: 10 million bitcoin wallet accounts. This particular milestone was reached less than two weeks after the company’s CEO and co-founder stated that the company will most likely encounter its biggest month of activity in November, given the recent economic…

The FinTech Startup Company Bitbond recently acquired its license from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority or BaFin. This financial regulatory agency is an independent institution administered by the Federal Ministry of Finance based in Frankfurt and Bonn. Bitbond is an international P2P (Peer to Peer) lending platform that operates in Berlin. It provides reasonably priced loans…

The central securities depository of the Russian Federation or The National Settlement Depository (NSD) was successful in developing and testing an electronic (e-proxy) voting system that operates on a distributed ledger built with the NXT blockchain. The NSD with headquarters in Moscow is a member of the Moscow Exchange. It is a non-banking credit organization,…

The central bank of Singapore or Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) made an official announcement regarding its collaboration with R3, a Financial and Blockchain Technology Company. R3, based in New York (USA), is at the helm of a conglomerate composed of 70 of the largest financial institutions worldwide conducting R & D on Blockchain use…

It was a tough weekend for the ambitious traders that were counting on the price reaching $800. Spikes above $750 were met with strong selling pressure and large sell orders eventually lead to the BTC/USD price dropping below $720 for a brief period of time before before Monday. Major Signals Resistance for upward spikes still…