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How Fluent Wants to Streamline Financial Supply Chains With a Blockchain

As blockchain fever is taking hold of prominent financial industry firms around the globe, two men from Kentucky believe to have found the key...

Jeff Garzik: Bitcoin Is Moving to New Growth Stage With Cross-Chain Smart Contracts

Jeff Garzik is one of the most respected developers in the Bitcoin industry. He has been a Bitcoin core developer and has worked for...

The Fintech Threat to Banking: A Solution From MIT

In the next 10 years, 30 percent of banking jobs could be obsolete, according to a recent Citi GPS report.This statistic from Citigroup’s report makes an...

How Bitcoin and Blockchain Can Avert Systemic Bank Collapses

Editor's Note: This is an opinion piece by Andrew Quentson; the views and opinions expressed are those of the author.Since their inception, banks have...

Zooko: The Financial Industry Is Demanding Privacy for Blockchains

Although one may assume that the demand for privacy in Bitcoin and other blockchain-based systems is coming from crypto-anarchists and libertarians, the reality is...

Japan Debates Regulating Bitcoin as Currency; Banks Eager to Study Blockchain

Japan recently made headlines by announcing that its government was considering defining Bitcoin and other digital currencies as currency rather than commodity.This was confirmed...

ANX CEO Ken Lo: Hong Kong’s New Budget Initiatives a “Step in the Right Direction”

It’s a good time to be involved in digital assets in Hong Kong. In the territory’s 2016-17 budget, Financial Secretary John Tsang laid out...

UN Working Paper Explores How the Blockchain Can Empower Global Communities

More and more high profile financial and political institutions are taking notice of the blockchain technology of distributed ledgers, starting internal investigations and issuing...

IMF: Virtual Currencies and Their Underlying Technologies Can Provide Faster and Cheaper Financial Services

On January 20, 2016 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, during the panel on Transformation of Finance, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released...

Digital Asset Holdings Raises $52 Million, Will Bring Blockchain to Australian Stock Market

Permissioned ledgers continue to be the trend in the blockchain industry. According to Bloomberg, blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings, which is run by former...
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