Blockchain technology news

South Korea takes another step toward becoming the leading country to adopt Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Samsung launches a new blockchain-based cloud computing platform called Nexledger.

The world cryptocurrency news outlet Coinidol.com interviewed the Managing Director, Charley Cooper, of R3, a financial innovation firm which assists financial institutions to embrace new technologies.

Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia, who is also an ex-president of the Russian Federation, instructed authorities to adopt Blockchain technology in the Russian economy.

Bitcoin’s existence largely depends on how many people are using the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. A bitcoin node can be an individual miner minting Bitcoins from his laptop or a chain of companies with complex mining rigs mining Bitcoin on a commercial scale. All these nodes keep the Bitcoin network running.

In a world where centrally controlled marketplaces dominate our economic system, and privacy and anonymity are not honored - the Safe Exchange Coin organization announces a development roadmap for an anonymous marketplace that is hosted on a blockchain.

iEx.ec presented a working demo of the world’s first distributed cloud computing network at the European Ethereum Conference EDCON this week. The French startup, founded by Gilles Fedak Ph.D and Haiwu He, Ph.D, certified experts in distributed computing, aims to be first to market with a new technology that uses blockchain smart contracts to redesign cloud computing.

Charlie Lee urges the Litecoin Mining community to support the Segregated Witness Activation proposal now and open the blockchain frontier to amazing new possibilities.

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has published a report on the distributed ledger technologies applied to securities market.

The first Blockchain-based augmented reality fantasy game in existence, Augmentors, has announced an ICO of its DataBits crypto tokens (DTB) starting January 30, 2017.