Blockchain technology news

Students of business schools predicted two-to-one that a Bitcoin-weighted portfolio is a better long-term investment than Ethereum.

One of the leading online travel agencies in Australia and New Zealand, Webjet, and technology giant Microsoft have announced the launch of a first-of-the-kind proof-of-concept (PoC) solution based on Blockchain technology and designed to transform the travel industry.

This November, Blockchain Education Network (BEN) will begin the hackathon Gauntlet. The exact date is still undefined. Individuals interested in Bitcoin (BTC) and Blockchain, or learning about BTC/Blockchain, can use this opportunity to learn more and have their business model, program, or service reviewed by a Bitcoin professional who can help bring your idea to fruition.

A subsidiary company of Russia's largest bank has recently launched a pilot version of a new unified Blockchain-based database of insurance histories that will help to combat fraud in the insurance industry.

Acronis, a private technology company, announced the release of Acronis Files Cloud, a proven file sync and share solution that enables service providers to offer public-cloud-like services from their own infrastructure.

FUD, also referred to as “fear, uncertainty, and disinformation”, is a marketing strategy used against a competitor's product to prevent that product from becoming widely popular amongst consumers. FUD campaigns intend to sway consumers toward “safe” and reliable products with a well-known history. FUD campaigners do this by exploiting a consumer's fears, uncertainties, and doubts regarding the competitor's product.

Corda, a blockchain-based platform and the largest project of the R3 Blockchain consortium, was recently announced to be going open-source on November 30 to the Hyperledger project.

Visa has announced a preview of its new project - Visa B2B Connect – a platform for real-time international business-to-business transactions.

Individual producers and consumers of solar and wind energy will now have an instrument to integrate a Blockchain-based network into a new generation of energy trades. This comes thanks to three hackers who won the Dutch international energy hackathon H4ckenergy 2016 with their Blockchain project named EcoCoin.