Brett King is an author, speaker and radio host with extensive experience in the financial industry. He’s worked with Deloitte, Center for Financial Services Innovation and Breaking Banks Radio. He’s also a Founder and Executive Chairman at Moven, a mobile banking app.
There are 2,000+ mobile network operations in charge of providing communication services at global scale. However, the traditional infrastructure is centralized, inflexible and inaccurate. Common services like 3G/4G, Wi-Fi, BOSS mobile communications solutions and companies that use cloud-based communications solutions are often unable to render accurate content billing and distribution.
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne is likely to sell his e-commerce firm in order to fund a new Blockchain land registry venture, according to the Financial Times. Byrne is one of the early advocates of Bitcoin and his company was one of the first to bring cryptocurrencies to the digital merchant space.
Sorin Moisa, Member of European Parliament, has emphatically stated that cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Moisa opened a discussion at a policy dialogue organised by ORCA Alliance and EU40 at the European Parliament on Saturday in Brussels. He maintained what is needed at the moment is a clear-cut policy framework and regulation:
In an interview on CNBC, Coinbase president Asiff Hirji provided some veiled clues as to what is coming for the cryptocurrency exchange in the future. He also gave insights about recent happenings.
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The first Blockchain system-Bitcoin-saw astronomical returns of over 1,300 percent in 2017. As we progressed through 2017, Blockchain technologies became hard to ignore and more of the corporate world took an interest in Blockchain technologies. In 2017, the NYSE filed for two Bitcoin ETFs with the SEC, the CBOE became the first institutional investor to launch a Bitcoin futures market and CME group followed suit a week later doing the same. But it is not only large exchanges interested in getting some skin in the Blockchain game, a multitude of industries have been interested in incorporating Blockchain technologies to make their businesses more economically efficient.
Aston has created a Blockchain and security solution for decentralized document authentication and distribution. The system keeps documents on a main Blockchain, but stores edits and updates on side chains to enhance security and speed of delivery.
Blockchain technology is in a state of rapid evolution at the moment, and we are starting to see a number of major players emerging like Ethereum, NEO, Ripple and IOTA. But a lot of discussion is on how to reduce volatility without hindering innovation and decentralization. One of the leading thinkers who co-founded NEO (at the time it was called Antshares) is attempting to do just that. Hitters Xu believed his next-generation Blockchain platform Nebulas will reduce, if not completely eliminate, the need for forks. And it will bring the capability of search to the Blockchain platforms – like a Google for Blockchain.
Blockchain Foundation of India, a non-profit organization, aimed at inculcating Blockchain Technology in India, was launched recently in New Delhi, India.
