American technology giant Microsoft will reportedly make blockchain-based tools available to PowerApps and Microsoft Flow users, tech-focused news outlet GeekWire reported on June 10. Microsoft will purportedly announce its plans to add blockchain tools to its Power Platform during the Microsoft Business Applications Summit on Monday in Atlanta. Specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain tools will be included in the…
“Ban crypto to promote money laundering; Regulate crypto to prevent money laundering.” Nischal Shetty, the CEO of WazirX and one of the biggest voice for the pro-crypto movement in India said. This is a simple rule that history is a witness of. Not only with crypto, with anything. However, the Indian government doesn’t seem to understand this.…
United States-based retail giant Target is creating an open source blockchain project for supply chain tracking, according to an official blog post from the company’s VP of architecture on April 22. According to the post, Target ran a pilot test using blockchain technology to certify its paper products along the supply chain in 2018. The blockchain used in the test period was reportedly made…
A Southern District Court of Florida judge ordered Craig Wright to appear in Florida on June 17 or be held in contempt of court. Mr. Wright has to provide a list of all the Bitcoin (BTC) addresses he has owned before December 2013. Craig Wright To Appear In Florida Court Although most of the crypto users and…
According to a news release from June 6, the European Union has decided to increase the amount of data it allows for blockchain and artificial intelligence projects. The goal for this move is to see an improvement in the economy and to stimulate growth while increasing the viability of a society which is data based.…
A report released by Snob.ru on June 6 indicated that the head of Rosneft, a Russian oil company, has indicated he may be willing to accept payment for barrels of oil with cryptocurrency at some point in the future. Igor Sechin referred to the increased acceptance of digital assets as evidenced by Amazon, Apple and…
In case you are not fully familiar with 0x Mesh, the technology is being co-developed in a partnership between 0x and StarkDEX. The decentralized platform will be used in order to create an order book that will be easy to track on your browser. So far, the project is in beta and already available on Github,…
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has partnered with Japan’s biggest railway firm, the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), to promote cashless payments. The news was reported by Cointelegraph Japan on June 5. The partnership will enable commuters to charge and use their rechargeable smart fare card — JR East’s “Suica” — via the Rakuten Pay mobile app. As Cointelegraph Japan notes,…
Christine Lagarde the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said a few hours ago that the presence of technology giants using Big Data and AI could eventually disrupt the financial system. Virtual currencies and blockchain technology are helping new individuals have access to the financial market. Christine Lagarde Talked About Fintech Potential Financial technology has…
Mark Karpeles — the former CEO of the now-defunct bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox — has revealed he will serve as the chief technology officer of a new Japan-registered blockchaint echnology firm. The news was reported by Japanese daily newspaper The Mainchi on June 5. Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan earlier today, Karpeles reportedly declared his intention to…
Belarus’ general prosecutor has raised concerns about the role cryptocurrency could be playing in tax evasion, local daily news outlet TUT.by reported on June 4. Speaking as Belarus hosted the International Prosecutors Association’s regional conference, Aleksandr Konyuk said the time had come for all attendants’ authorities to study cryptocurrency use. Belarus had become one of the first countries in the area to…
Microsoft has made an important announcement today. The company is set to integrate the Truffle toolset on its Azure platform. Truffle is a blockchain startup and Azure is the cloud computing service provided by Microsoft, so they are a clear match. According to the announcement made by the company, the users of the platform that is…
United States-based financial research firm Weiss Ratings announced that it has downgraded its rating of cryptocurrency EOS because of the blockchain’s “serious problems” with centralization. Weiss announced the report in a tweet published on June 7. In the tweet, Weiss Ratings claims that the cryptocurrency in question has severe centralization issues and that “their event last week did anything to alleviate…
Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex announced that it will block its United States-based users from trading in 32 cryptocurrencies. The exchange revealed the news in a post on its blog on June 7. Per the announcement, after June 21, U.S. traders won’t be able to access a slew of coins listed on the exchange, including QTUM and STORJ. The exchange noted that U.S. users will…
The captains regent of the Republic of San Marino, Nicola Selva and Michele Muratori, have issued a governmental decree on blockchain tech for businesses, according to a recent document. The new decree outlines procedures for registering a blockchain-based organization with the “Istituto per l’Innovazione della Repubblica di San Marino,” or San Marino Innovation Institute. According to the decree, blockchain-based organizations…
