Mount Sinai Launches Research Center to Explore Blockchain Use Cases in Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital’s New York-based medical school has established a blockchain research center to explore its medical use case applications. The Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research is set to be part of the hospital’s Institute for Next Generation Healthcare. The institute currently hosts 50 specialist researchers studying progressive healthcare solutions, including the application of robotics, artificial intelligence, […]
Crypto Hedge Funds’ Rapid Growth Proof of Booming Crypto Industry
A study by crypto analytics firm Autonomous Next has found that the number of crypto hedge funds has been rapidly growing since 2016, showing that crypto investment is a booming industry. All together, crypto hedge funds manage USD 7.5 – 10 billion of assets. This represents the start of what could be a massive wave […]
Geographical Minnows in the Hunt for New Crypto Business
Many small countries with flexible regulatory guidelines towards cryptocurrencies and friendly banking rules are pulling some companies away from some of the more established “havens” such as Switzerland. Many in the industry have recently expressed concerns that Switzerland may be losing its “crypto-haven” tag, primarily because of current banking regulations in the alpine country. Thomas […]
Sun Exchange Plans to Provide Africa’s Poor with Crypto-Funded Energy
Sun Exchange, the global micro-leasing marketplace, is announcing a new partnership with Powerhive which aims to use the crypto economy to offer decentralized solar power to poorer nations. With over one billion of the world’s population still living without electricity, the new project between the two companies aims to eradicate worldwide energy poverty by using […]
Gibraltar Pro Football Team Paid in Crypto as “The Rock” Pushes Fintech Forward
Gibraltar is living up to its growing reputation as a European driving force in cryptocurrency adoption as a premier league football team shows a willingness to be paid in digital currency. Gibraltar United’s owner Pablo Dana, who is an investor in the digital currency Quantacoin, hopes that the move will encourage foreign players who will easily be […]
Liquid Immersion Latest Cooling Technique to Reduce Mining Energy Consumption
TMGcore has developed 2-phase liquid immersion cooling to cool cryptocurrency mining equipment, finding that it reduces the cost of cooling cryptocurrency mining equipment by 90% versus air cooling. This drastically reduces overall cryptocurrency mining energy consumption and, therefore, makes mining more profitable. The mining equipment developed by TMGcore is submerged in a special liquid, and as it […]
Australian Startup Designs Blockchain Multitask Chip to Track Animal Welfare
A former Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) scientist is heading up a new startup which has designed a blockchain backed multi-tasking microchip for tracking animal welfare. The startup Ultimo Digital Technologies (UDT) is founded by John Baird, also the chairman of the cybersecurity advisory council advising the NSW government. With the help […]
Thai Movie Theater Chain to Take Digital Currency as Government Opens for Crypto Business
Thailand’s largest movie theater chain has given the green light to its clients for paying for their moviegoing with cryptocurrency according to Bitcoin.com. Major Cineplex has reported that it plans to integrate cryptocurrency into its current payments system in partnership with Swiss payment company Rapidzpay. There are currently 143 theaters in the Thai chain throughout […]
Trade War CNY Devaluation Could Be Real Cause of Bitcoin Rally
CEO of ADVFN, Clem Chambers, thinks that devaluation of the Chinese yuan (CNY) due to a growing trade war between the United States and China is the real reason for the July 2018 Bitcoin rally. The Bitcoin bear market has abruptly reversed into a rally during the latter half of July 2018, with Bitcoin’s price […]
SEC Commissioner Says Bitcoin ETF Rejection Hurts Investors, Stifles Innovation
There has been a large amount of enthusiasm in recent months across the crypto space that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would approve a Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF), which would effectively put Bitcoin on the stock market, and make it easy for institutional investors to buy Bitcoin on all the major […]
