Your birth – registered on a blockchain
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Hyperledger membership analysis
Investment in Hyperledger continues apace. New members join. In late August (2017), BTS, Oracle and Patientory joined an already large 'club' which has:
19 premier members (including Accenture, Airbus, American Express,...
Tesseract – a blockchain-based integrated mobility platform
EY announced the launch of Tesseract, an integrated mobility platform underpinned by blockchain technology. The Tesseract platform aims to facilitate:
fractional vehicle ownership
shared use
seamless multi-modal transport.
If it succeeds it...
Comparitech spots phishing links in Bitcoin mixing tutorial
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Nuco’s Aion aims to federate blockchains
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Multiple blockchains...
BoE explores DLT / blockchain settlement monopoly doubts
The Bank of England (BoE) has released a new working paper entitled "The economics of distributed ledger technology for securities settlements":
examines to what extent DLT could add value and change...
Bitcoin and estcoin cryptocurrency craziness
In a novel written only four years ago*, one of the protagonists had amassed 10,000 early-mined Bitcoins. These she mined, as one of the early participants, after redeploying her employer's computer...
CarTaxi and upending the way we act?
A misleading press release appeared this week, entitled "CarTaxi: Blockchain Technology Will Leave Dispatchers Without Work" and sourced from St Petersburg, Russia. About the only cogent link to blockchain was provided...
TrustMe delivers exchange platform with fractional property trading
TrustMe (Universal TrustMe Engine Limited) has announced blockchain-enabled property exchanging and land registering. For the first time, buyers and sellers will be able to trade UK property on a peer-to-peer platform...
IBM plunges into food supply chain blockchains
A group of leading companies across the world's food supply chain have announced a major blockchain collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM) intended to strengthen consumer confidence in the global food system....
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