Kenya Enlists Blockchain to Fight Allegations of Electoral Corruption
Kenya’s electoral agency plans to utilize a blockchain voting system in its reform efforts to promote transparency. The blockchain system in the works would be used to offer real-time voting results to avoid any perceptions of misconduct including tampering with the results. A statement from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairman Wafula Chebukati detailed […]
Blockchain Must Be Solution to Travel Red Tape and Endless Waits
Despite advancements in aviation technology, the mechanisms underpinning the travel industry in this sector haven’t changed much since the 1960s. Due to the constant moving parts that make up the passenger air travel industry, digitization and automation of operations have been excruciatingly slow. Flight coordination, customer and supply management are often executed across a myriad of […]
Wirex Next to Get FCA’s e-Money License
The UK’s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has just awarded its third e-money license to date. This time, the beneficiary was crypto company Wirex, who produces prepaid debit cards for converting crypto to fiat, hot on the heels of Coinbase who received its license in March. We are more than proud to announce […]
Crypto Needs More Custodianship Checks and Balances
Much good cheer came out of this year’s Consensus 2018 Blockchain Summit in New York, without the Lambos. However, there are many industry professionals who still feel that the space needs to develop a sounder structure. The well-used traditional banking model requires expensive multiple participant involvement for every transaction and underlies a system which is sagging […]
Luxury Crypto Auctions Getting Cleaner as Bitcoin Footprint Improves
A luxury goods entrepreneur is now taking her company, which specializes in selling luxury vehicles, into the crypto space with good honest Bitcoin. Bonham Auctions owned by Elizabeth White has to date sold over 30 Lamborghinis, a Ferrari which went under the hammer for a staggering USD 4 million and even sold a car to […]
World Football Continues to Strengthen Links with Crypto
FansUnite, a Canadian based startup, is to collaborate with English Premiership team and winners of the 2015/16 premiership in a series of events in this season’s round of matches. Leicester City, known as “the Foxes” and based at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, will run a series of contests, player meet-and-greets, surprise giveaways and […]
Bittrex Teams up with Licensed Broker-Dealer for Securities Trading
Crypto exchange Bittrex is teaming up with licensed broker-dealer Rialto Trading to launch a new digital securities trading platform, pending approval from the relevant US authorities. Rialto Trading is an Alternative Trading System (ATS) that already offers fixed income securities, and once approval is granted it will begin offering crypto securities with the help of […]
China Restrict Crypto Trading Websites
The Chinese government is on a campaign to clamp down on cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings (ICOs) in their country. In total, 124 offshore crypto exchange websites that offer services to Chinese citizens are being blocked across China. Considering there are only 206 crypto exchanges listed on CoinMarketCap, this might be all of the […]
BitMEX New Offices Among Most Expensive in the World
The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a top crypto derivatives exchange, is leasing some of the most expensive office space in the world. It is moving into the Cheung Kong Center in Hong Kong, which costs HKD 225 per square foot, or USD 29 per square foot per month. The space BitMEX has leased is on […]
Bitcoin News Radio Show, 23rd August 2018
Listen to the 23 August 2018 Bitcoin News Radio Show below. [su_audio url=”https://anchor.fm/s/58aba88/podcast/play/1203787/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F2018-7-24%2F4223368-44100-2-ec2b8e7c75f34.mp3″] On this edition of the Bitcoin News daily radio show, we start with a discussion on how the SEC rejected nine Bitcoin ETFs, but has stayed the decision on five until further review. We also discuss how BitMEX is buying one of […]
