Blockchain technology news

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.

John McAfee, a cyber-security industry pioneer, has been announced as the keynote speaker for the “Blockchain: Money” conference in London, UK.

Have you heard of Dean Masley’s new program Big BEN? It’s an educational internet program that pays students Bitcoin to study Blockchain. CoinIdol.com World FinTech News Outlet interviewed Dean Masley, Executive Director of Blockchain Education Network (BEN).

Chronicled, a San Francisco-based technology company, has unveiled a prototype of machine-to-machine cooperation intermediated by a Blockchain.

Sberbank and the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) have launched a pilot project of Digital Ecosystem for document transactions based on Blockchain technology.

CoinIdol.com interviewed Michael Perklin, one of the most knowledgeable experts on Bitcoin technology. Perklin is Head of Security and Investigative Services at Ledger Labs Inc., a blockchain consulting firm in Toronto, Canada. He is a board member of The Bitcoin Foundation as well as a founding member and director of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada (BAC).