Posts in Category: Blockchain

It seems that with the advent of new technologies, human beings have faced one of the biggest challenges of their time. Mankind is faced with a conundrum....

According to news published by the Russian news agency TASS on February 15, 2019, Aleksandr Borodich, founder of the Blockchain platform universa.io, has recently said that the innovation cluster in Moscow needs a mechanism with which to control its intellectual property.

According to news published on February 13, Satoshi games platform was created on the Lightning network. It was also announced that from this date on, users and gamers could participate in these games and receive Satoshi by solving challenges.

According to the announced news on February 13, 2019, IBM company stated in the annual conference of technology and business “IBM Think 2019” held in San Francisco, California that Hyundai Commercial, a subsidiary company of Hyundai in South Korea, will cooperate with IBM, one of the biggest companies in the field technology, to modernize its business through Blockchain technology.

A statement published by Ripple in February 2019, announced its cooperation with the universities in the U.S., China, Singapore and Brazil with the aim to develop University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

JP Morgan Chase, one of the most famous American banks, started working in the field of cryptocurrency after issuing JPM Coin. Jamie Dimon CEO of JP Morgan Chase has named Bitcoin a “fraud” in September 2017; however, he changed his mind after a while, to the extent that he introduced cryptocurrencies a risk for a business of the banks under his management. In reaction to this turnabout, Alan Silbert, an old timer bank CEO, said in a tweet: “Backpedaling is the first step in the program towards walking the path.”

Over this week, more than 150 people were able to buy pizza using the Lightning Network with Bitcoin.

Bitcoin, which works on the infrastructure of Blockchain, was the first cryptocurrency to enter the market; but it wasn’t the first attempt at creating a digital monetary system.

The Hackerone website is one of the largest and most well-known websites among developers and hackers, and it provides reward-giving programs which works toward discovering vulnerabilities and fixing them. 

According to the news published by the local news outlet Sabah, on February 12, 2019, the Turkish police arrested 24 hackers who, in the past, stole 13 million Turkish lira (equal to $2.47 million) from a Turkish cryptocurrency company.