Blockchain technology news

Today the gambling industry reaches $50 billion and this number continues growing to make it one of the most prospective industries in the future.

In a key twitter proclamation, the team at the highly anticipated Wall Street company of Bakkt acquainted the Cryptocurrency and investing group of its initial physically fixed Bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts.

US-based Walmart Inc., one of the world's biggest retail corporations, has purportedly been creating a Blockchain-based food security program in collaboration with IBM. Walmart will need all of its outlets which supply leafy green vegetables to note down their sales info on its proprietary Blockchain-activated solution by September next year (one year from now).

On Friday, September 21, this year, the Irish government rolled out a €5 million financial technology (fintech) project aimed at researching and developing solutions that are associated with blockchain tech for a 5-year period. The project is dubbed FinTech Fusion and will be handled by the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology.

Reverting to its promise from last month (August), Opera is eventually launching a desktop version of its specialized and distinct browser with a built-in digital currency wallet but only to a chosen class of beta testers.

Associated British Ports (ABP), a privately operated UK port operator, has signed a MoU with freight forwarder Marine Transport International to delve into a Blockchain tech application targeted at enhancing connectivity at the 21 ports it operates.

Human beings from every corner of the community, with absolutely nothing in common except for a shared hardship suffered. All have surprisingly found themselves closed out minus any official warning by their payment provider - account frozen, lifeline broken apart, funds seized. And for what reason precisely? For the formless crime of not conforming with the terms of service. In the real world, however, the only criminals are the financial providers that committed these acts against their customers.

Since its very beginning, the Internet has been the largest and most popular network in the world. It is used for the distribution of every kind of information, starting with news and ending at entertainment. Cryptocurrencies, powered by Blockchain technology, can be seen as a natural extension of the Internet, modernizing its working principles.

A 'Flippening' has arrived once more in the digital currency markets, but much to the vexation of Ethereum (ETH) investors - this isn't the one that has been long expected by Ethereum holders.