Qatar Blockchain Experiments Can Help Rescue Country From Sudden Isolation      Blockchain could come to Qatar’s rescue after four Middle Eastern countries cut ties with the country over its alleged support of terrorism. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates announced they had severed diplomatic and transport ties on Monday while neighboring Pakistan […]

The World's Largest CSDs Are Forming a New Blockchain Consortium        Some of the world's biggest central securities depositories (CSDs) are uniting to build their own blockchain consortium. Informally called the CSD Working Group on DLT, and comprised of institutions tasked with holding vast amounts of the world's financial instruments, the fledgling consortium is emerging from […]

Why Your Sales Team Needs Inbound Marketing Strategy      Real time is a new mindset in marketing, and that is what inbound marketing is all about. Interruptive sales approaches include telemarketing calls, direct mail, email spam, print advertising, television and radio ads, interstitial and transitional online and pre-rolls ads. And you know what? Your customers […]

OneGram Sharia Compliant, Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency Announces ICO OneGram, the first ever Sharia-compliant gold-backed cryptocurrency announces the launch of its ICO.      Dubai holds the distinction of being the financial capital of the Islamic world. Now, a firm based out of the Emirate has decided to redefine the digital “gold standard” with OneGram, while factoring in […]

Startup Raises $35 Million in 30 Seconds With Crypto-Currency Offering          In the world of crypto-currencies—the most famous of which is bitcoin— the hottest trend is what's called an "initial coin offering," in which companies sell crypto-currency tokens to their supporters as a method of crowdfunding. How hot is it? On Wednesday, a […]

Amid Bitcoin Trading Resurgence, Chinese Miners Shut Down Without Warning      A strange phenomenon is unfolding in China as Bitcoin miners mysteriously close down or relocate their operations. Mines in the country’s Sichuan province were “reluctant” to discuss the reasons for withdrawal, major news resource People.cn reports. Bitcoin has recently continued its expanding price as […]

What if the bitcoin bubble bursts? Is the latest frenzy like tulip-mania, a gold rush or the dotcom boom? MARKETS frequently froth and bubble, but the boom in bitcoin, a digital currency, is extraordinary. Although its price is down from an all-time high of $2,420 on May 24th, it has more than doubled in just […]

Walmart Wants to Track Delivery Drones With Blockchain Tech    Retail giant Walmart is seeking to patent a system that uses blockchain technology to track packages delivered by unmanned drones. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published the application, innocuously titled "Unmanned Aerial Delivery to Secure Location", on 25th May, and while that title […]

Governments may be big backers of the blockchain An anti-establishment technology faces an ironic turn of fortune    Nondescript building housing rows of humming computer servers IN THE hills overlooking Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital sits nondescript building housing rows of humming computer servers. The data centre, operated by the BitFury Group, a technology company, was built […]