BMW Group Asia, Intel and Nielsen are now corporate partners of the Singapore government-supported blockchain accelerator Tribe. Tribe Accelerator announced the news Friday, saying that the three firms will share their knowledge and subject expertise in their respective fields with Tribe’s startups in order to help build an “inclusive” ecosystem…
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Park Won-soon, the mayor of Seoul, has revealed a five-year plan to invest $108 million to develop the South Korean capital as a smart city powered by blockchain. In a speech during his visit to Zurich, Park announced last week that his Blockchain Urban Plan for 2018–2022 will cover 14…
The man who set up one of the first activism hedge funds in Hong Kong for CM Asset Management called the Shareholder Value Fund, has decided to embrace blockchain technology by launching SuperNode Community (SNC), a decentralized blockchain ecosystem to democratize the traditional venture capital (VC) model for startups. SNC’s…
Prosecutors in China have charged four suspects said to be involved with operating an alleged $2 billion cryptocurrency pyramid scheme. According to a news release issued by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued Wednesday, a local prosecutor’s office in Hunan province has charged the four individuals as part of a wider crackdown…
People make agreements all the time. In general, these agreements tend to be either hopeful promises secured by a handshake and some goodwill, or they are the really intense kind of agreement that requires lawyers, contracts, and signatures. One method is friendly and based on good intentions, while the other…
Almost half of the 26 listed banks in China say they have implemented blocking technologies in 2017, according to the reports. The Chinese industry publication CEBNet reported that 12 out of 26 public banks in China, according to published annual reports, implemented blocking technology in their work last year. These…
Sydney-based IoT Group, an ASX-listed firm, has inked a deal with the Australian reseller of Bitfury’s bitcoin mining hardware to kickstart a mining operation if it can get a decommissioned coal plant up and running again. In an announcement and disclosure on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Monday, the…
The national Swiss mail company Swiss Post intends to integrate a new block-based solution developed by the startup Modum into its work. Thanks to the new technology, the delivery of parcels with medicines and other temperature-sensitive products will become more safe and qualitative. The company Modum is based in Zurich…
When we are dealing with such an unstable market as the cryptocurrency market, the most difficult task is to limit losses. Many investors, unfortunately, learned about it from their own experience during the recent fall of bitcoin. And the rollback does not happen: the crypto currency is continually trying to…