Blockchain technology news

Traders and investors have tried to remain optimistic about the long-term prospects of cryptocurrency, regardless of the precipitous plunge in values for more than 13 months. The FINRA-registered broker SharesPost underlines that the public has become more hopeful about blockchain and cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin.

Blockchain can be applied to many aspects of financial field, including cross-border payments, customer identities management, payments security, and different types of transactions. Italy has already started to implement some of new technologies that help to reduce expensive legal procedures.  

The meeting on the Pilot Project to accelerate the use of Blockchain for the protection of Made in Italy will be conducted from Parlamentino hall of the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) is scheduled for March 13, 2019. And it is precisely on this theme that the start of the Pilot Project promoted by MISE is focused to exploit the Blockchain technology for the creation of new forms of protection of Made in Italy.

Colorado state in the U.S. is studying the prospect of applying blockchain to water rights management (WRM). The conforming bill was released on Colorado’s General Assembly official website on March 6, 2019.

ACI and EY have officially proclaimed a blockchain technology-based Digital Vehicle Dossier project. EY has chosen to use a hybrid blockchain tech for this project so as to process a bulky number of transactions. They aim to create an ecosystem of interoperability.

San Marino, a country in Europe, located within the borders of Italy, issued the Delegated Decree n.37, dubbed "Rules on blockchain technology for businesses." The standard, inter alia, makes an interesting reconstruction of the marvel of cryptocurrencies, which are notably classified as utility (usage) tokens and investment (security) tokens.

A United States-based firm, Cambridge Associates, a pensions and endowments consultant with more than $388 billion in assets under advisement (AUM), has revealed that institutional investors should start delving into the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector.

In the world of smartphones, we thought we had seen it all, particularly after the arrival of folding smartphones, but the Mobile World Congress (MWC) taking place in Barcelona, Spain, gives us another innovation to discuss: the first smartphone in the world which earns crypto just by keeping it on.

It appears that there is less or no doubt “blockchain” technology is now the leading word of the year 2019, thus, the government of Italy has come out to deeply study the strategy to support all initiatives specifically related to this field.