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West Virginian troops serving overseas will cast their midterm election ballots on the blockchain, making them the first to use the state’s new distributed ledger-based mobile voting app. The newfangled system will see the U.S.’s first use of smartphones for federal voting, and is reportedly aimed to streamline the ballot process for overseas troops, according […]

Blockchain-based payments processor Ripple, announced its partnership with pop star icon Madonna for endorsing a fundraiser in Malawi, Africa. This post was written in collaboration with Aliesha Duffin. Ripple is leaving no stone unturned for gaining relevance among the masses. The company regularly conducts educational, celebrity endorsements and philanthropic activity regularly to popularize its XRP token. As stated in […]

Outside cryptocurrencies, developers have created only a handful of useful applications using the blockchain. For example, industries in artificial intelligence, big data companies and logistics, are still trying to figure out how to use blockchain to bring about improvements in their respective fields. Countless major companies have announced research efforts into the blockchain, but the […]

ZhongAn Technology announced the upload of data for 760,000 diamonds onto the blockchain and hopes to increase transparency and traceability in the luxury goods supply chain. The company aims to provide consumers and suppliers the ability to trace the entire journey of the diamonds from production to ownership. ZhongAn joined forces with online diamond trading […]

Robert Kiyosaki, the author of one of the top personal finance books of all time, stated that cryptocurrencies, gold, and silver, will triumph over an impending economic crash — the likes of which the world has never experienced. The author of the 1997 bestseller ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’, Kiyosaki has garnered a reputation as an […]

Since Bitcoin’s inception, many crypto aficionados have worked to dissociate their favorite digital coin from the notion that it may be used for illegal activity, and new data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is proving that criminal activity in the space is massively shrinking. Has Illegal Activity Really Dropped? According to Bloomberg, Lilita […]

While fake cryptocurrency accounts on Twitter may pass off as failed tactics to amateur investors, a major security researcher believes the epidemic is an elaborately-planned, carefully-executed cyberattack consisting of thousands of spam accounts. Crypto-Twitter Epidemic: Not Child’s Play According to TechCrunch, U.S.-based Duo Security recently released a report that detailed the elaborate steps utilized by […]

Decentralized applications (dApps) are one of the most promising applications of blockchain technology, holding the potential to completely replace centralized third-party operated platforms. User identity management, however, remains critical to any dApps and is currently managed by “trusted” third parties—a problem the ERC725 identity standard aims to solve. The  ERC725 identity standard is the brainchild of […]

Status, also known as Status.im, released a lightweight Sharding client, called Nimbus, to scale the Ethereum protocol and create a better ecosystem for decentralized applications (dApps) in processing information. First Mobile Client for dApp Applications Since its launch in 2017, the development team of Status set its focus on improving mainstream adoption of Ethereum by […]

On June 26, the SEC received an application from Cboe Futures Exchange to launch the world’s first Bitcoin ETF. Initially scheduled for a decision next week, the SEC has now postponed the application’s deadline until late September. Bitcoin ETF Delayed, Crypto Market Responds The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed CBOE’s application deadline […]