International charity confederation Oxfam has teamed up with professional services company Aon and a blockchain insurance startup to provide farmers in Sri Lanka cover in the event of extreme weather conditions. The parties involved hope that the plan will improve the working conditions of the large percentage of the nation’s population working in agriculture. The…
Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Wow, what a crazy week it’s been for Bitcoin (BTC). Not only was the market absolutely absurd, with BTC finding itself riding on a proverbial rollercoaster, but so was the underlying industry. Related Reading: Analyst: Bitcoin is Still in a Clear Uptrend Despite Recent Crash; is a Move…
A Polish bank has bucked the trend of companies and institutions experimenting with blockchain technology using private, permissioned ledgers. Warsaw-based Alior will reportedly use the Ethereum public blockchain to build a system to let customers check the authenticity of documents they receive from the bank. By using a completely permissionless, public blockchain, the Alior authenticator…
Over recent years, eSports — and gaming, in general — have blown up. You may think crypto may have seen growth, but so too has this fledgling sector. Estimates state that eSports have a global audience of hundreds of millions, most of which are presumably teen-aged or millennial-aged men, and industry value in the billions.…
Block.one’s June 1st (B1June) live stream has just been unveiled, and EOS is dumping. In a classic case of “buy the rumor, sell the news”, the crypto asset has fallen by 6.5% since the event occurred. This shouldn’t exactly be surprising, as the cryptocurrency rallied by 40% in the past week in anticipation of a…
Over the past week, EOS has been on an absolute tear, rallying by 40% in seven days’ time as most other crypto assets have stagnated. But why? Well, for months now, Block.one, the Cayman Islands-based company behind the protocol’s development and subsequent public sale, has been touting that something big is coming on June 1st.…
At long last, some of the world’s largest companies are delving into on crypto and related technologies. The past weeks have seen news arise that some of the world’s largest institutions in TD Ameritrade and Fidelity continue to scale into Bitcoin. What’s also important is that giants of the technology world also continue to foray…
Over the past decade the gaming industry has been on the up-and-up, incurring massive popularity amongst a diverse array of users, while simultaneously churning out immense profits for developers, publishers, and platforms that allow users to interact with game’s most popular players – like the Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch. Much like the gaming industry, the…
In 2018, HTC, the Taiwan-based technology giant and smartphone manufacturer, shocked the crypto world when it unveiled plans to launch a blockchain-friendly device. This marked the first time that a large technology corporation had revealed it was allocating serious capital towards a cryptocurrency product. Unlike many other ventures in this embryonic industry and contrary to…
Following this morning’s $40 million hack of the globe’s largest crypto asset exchange there were calls to roll back the Bitcoin blockchain to nullify the fraudulent transaction. Binance boss Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao said in an earlier AMA that the company was deciding on whether to push for a possible rollback. The move comes as the…