Cryptocurrency & Blockchain breaking news

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.

SEB, one of the largest banks in Sweden, has announced its partnership with Ripple, a San Francisco based fintech company, in order to use Ripple’s blockchain technology solution as a basis for payment transactions.

Golem, the first decentralized global market for computing power, developed in Poland, has announced that its Golem Network Token (GNT) crowdsale will begin on November 11, 2016.

In recent days, several reports were published in Ukraine’s media, telling about national deputies declaring their wealth in cryptocurrency. Is it possible that deputies don’t believe in the national currency and want to promote Bitcoin as the state currency? CoinIdol.com analysed the situation.

BTCC, the company behind the largest and longest-running Chinese cryptocurrency exchange, has announced the launch of its new BTC to US Dollar exchange.

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.

Ephrem Urumashvili, representative of BitFury Group has just reported the company’s plans to install two Bitcoin ATMs in Georgia.

Czech police have arrested a hacker who may be involved in the attack on BitMarket.eu.

A new cryptocurrency backed by gold, named “Copernicus Gold”, is due to be launched in Singapore at the beginning of 2017.