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The number of banks experimenting with blockchain technology and looking at their own digital currencies is growing by leaps and bounds, so it’s no...

“In a telling move about the future of money, PayPal has added a Bitcoin entrepreneur to its board of directors,” CNN Moneyreports. Fintech entrepreneur...

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world’s largest professional services firm, has recruited 15 leading technology specialists to explore the application and commercialization of the Bitcoin blockchain...

The U.K.’s chief scientific adviser has urged the government to adopt the blockchain technology that powers Bitcoin to run various public services, BBC Newsreports....

The Washington D.C.-based trade association The Chamber of Digital Commerce has announced that it will be holding its first blockchain summit at Georgetown University...

The RAND Corporation, an influential global policy think tank with strong defense and homeland security ties, has released a report titled “National Security Implications...

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) announced that it is looking at the blockchain technology that powers Bitcoin as part of new...

In May, Bitcoin Magazinereported that blockchain-based Governance 2.0 initiative Bitnation is developing a collaborative platform for DIY Governance based on the blockchain.“Bitnation is a Governance...

Five more banks – ING, BNP Paribas, Wells Fargo, MacQuarie and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce – are joining R3, Reuters reports. R3, now supported by most of the world’s major banks (with notable exceptions in China), represents the first high-profile collaborative project to find out how blockchain technology can be used in finance.

The leading stock exchange Nasdaq is no newcomer to the brave new world of blockchain technology. In May, Bitcoin Magazinereported that Nasdaq would...