Gartner: Actually, nobody is doing blockchain
Fewer than 1 per cent of CIOs globally have invested in or deployed any kind of blockchain-based solution within their organisations, a survey from Gartner indicates.
Fewer than 1 per cent of CIOs globally have invested in or deployed any kind of blockchain-based solution within their organisations, a survey from Gartner indicates.
Odourless fish oil and dairy products are among the first products to be ordered from Australia using Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba’s blockchain based ‘Food Trust Framework’.
Alphabet's Google has announced it will ban advertisements for cryptocurrencies and related content starting in June.
The Australian Taxation Office says that scammers impersonating the government agency have successfully conned Australians into paying fake tax debts using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
ANZ, Westpac and NAB have confirmed they do not currently plan to emulate the Commonwealth Bank’s ban on the use of its credit cards to purchase Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies.
Commonwealth Bank customers will no longer be allowed to use their credit cards to purchase Bitcoin and similar digital currencies.
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck said on Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen (US$425 million) of the virtual money it lost to hackers two days ago in one of the biggest-ever thefts of digital money.
Australian musician Ben Lee has shared a new song about a meeting with Blondie guitarist Chris Stein on blockchain-backed social network Steemit.
Bitcoin slid as much as 18 percent on Tuesday to a four-week low, as worries about a regulatory crackdown on the market spread after reports suggested it was still possible that South Korea could ban trading in cryptocurrencies.
France will propose that the G20 group of major economies discuss regulation of the bitcoin virtual currency next year, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
Newly launched bitcoin futures on Monday suggested that traders expect the cryptocurrency's blistering price gains to slow in the coming months, even as it blasted above US$17,000 to a fresh record high in the spot market.
European Central Bank governing council member Ewald Nowotny says that legislators and central bankers are discussing whether they should intervene to regulate cryptocurrencies, as China already has done.
Payments company Square said it has started allowing select customers to buy and sell bitcoins on its Cash app, as it looks to tap into a craze that has sent the cryptocurrency up nearly sevenfold this year.
Bitcoin hit a record high just shy of US$8,000 on Wednesday after a coalition of developers and investors suspended a software upgrade planned for next Thursday that could have split the digital currency in two.
A lot is being said about blockchain lately. Not a day goes by without an article about either someone who sold everything to purchase Bitcoin, or the fact the only people really making money out of this technology are conference providers to pundits predicting a revolution in finance, based on this quite simple technology.