As crypto and blockchain continue to make headlines, all manner of experts and pundits are scrambling for talk time, from "angel investors" and cryptography gurus to banking traditionalists. But now even the robots want their share of the limelight.
Meet Sophia: the slightly creepy, somewhat humanlike robot that will address the Blockchain Forum at the Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions World...
When Apple's latest iPhone offering was revealed with an eyebrow-raising price tag of $999, it prompted a slew of social media rants about "things you could buy with $999". But Sirin Labs could have the most tempting alternative yet: the Finney blockchain smartphone.
The brainchild of Israeli entrepreneur Moshe Hogeg, who made a splash with his $16,000 debut Solarin luxury...
On September 6 COSS, or Crypto One-Stop Solution, a Singapore-based startup aiming to redefine simplicity for cryptocurrency users with its multifunctional platform, closed its Token Swap (ICO) sale.
For 30 days the revenue-generating token COSS was swapped for ether (1 ETH per 600 COSS) on the company's website at coss.io. The total of 8M COSS was swapped bringing the company...
By Fernando Sanchez, title image from Pixabay here.
The crypto race is on between Bitcoin and its current main rival Ethereum. These blockchain riders trek across a global network, seeking to outrun each other, and become de facto standards in an increasingly challenging environment.
But despite some superficial similarities, their paths are quite divergent underneath. While Bitcoin is merely developed to...
Bananacoin is a new crypto currency that is tied to the price of 1 kg of bananas on the international market. Our mission is to grow organic and healthy variety of bananas known as "lady finger" in our plantations in Laos and to export them to China where demand is greater than supply. ICO dates will be announced later.
We...
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Russia's Leningrad region, historically famous for holding off the Axis invasion for two years during the Second World War, may soon gain modern fame for being one of the first cities to mine cryptocurrency on an industrial scale.
Alexander Dorzdenko, governor of Leningrad Oblast, made the bold announcement at the Third Annual Energy of Opportunities forum for small and...
The planned Ethereum network hard fork, codenamed Metropolis, is well and truly underway. Beginning on September 18 with the first phase, called Byzantium, is expected to mitigate the consequences and actions of malicious presences within the broader Ethereum network.
Ethereum creator and lead developer Vitalik Buterin, announced on Twitter only a day after Byzantium had gone live on testnet that Ethereum...
The two major objectives making the use of the blockchain, a type of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) implementation, very attractive for both individuals and companies are the safe and cheap transfer of funds anywhere in the world in minutes. However, these are not the only advantages and possibilities of the blockchain.
A public blockchain can be managed by a...
The blockchain is a distributed database or ledger that safely maintains a continuously-growing list of records stored on a network of computers. It is a multifunctional technology with the limitless number of possible applications across many industries. The possibilities of the blockchain technology are literally infinite. To have a better understanding of what it can do we will have...
A decentralized application (or dAPP) is a piece of software operated by a set of smart contracts governed by code.
One of the early and the most-widely known decentralized applications is BitTorrent that presented a new type of software with no central server managing its distribution. Today's dAPPs function similarly thanks to the peer-to-peer (P2P) network with no central...
