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Visa has announced that it is entering a $125 trillion market using blockchain to carry out these particular payments in the fastest, most economical and most transparent way ever. The blockchain and cryptocurrency industry is among the most lucrative businesses in the world, and this is the reason why popular companies, institutions or people with a big impact on the world’s economy are not hesitating to take advantage of any opportunity available.

Almost every month or every year, a new theory about the real creator of Bitcoin appears. If we are to mention the names of people and companies that are on the list of those claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, we would write until the cows come home. As we speak now, another theory has also emerged, but this time it appears to be somehow convincing in the ears of the cryptocurrency participants, as well as making waves in the digital currency world. The theory is about the fiction author Neal Stephenson, signifying that he is actually the true Bitcoin creator.

Blockchain regulation in Russia is still in turmoil, as the technology was proposed to be banned by politicians. However, if implemented properly, it could have prevented a massive leak of personal data from 900K clients of three major Russian banks that happened recently.

A new overview of the blockchain sector in Ukraine was recently published by the Ukrainian Blockchain Association (BAU). It highlights the formation phases of the sector and community, goes ahead to examine the firms participating in the market and also underlines the areas where these companies offer relevant solutions. The BAU also examined and analyzed future expectations of all market contributors, as well as the degree of business well-being with cryptocurrencies, distributed ledger technology (DLT) or blockchain and the existing regulations governing the industry.

Presently, individuals, governments, companies and large businesses are trying to avoid and disassociate themselves from cryptocurrencies because of their bad reputation. They believe and fear that if Bitcoin is allowed, it could lead to the collapse of traditional fiat currencies. Most governments want to remain relevant and dominant over printing physical money. The life of Blockchain without cryptocurrencies, seems to be a complicated one.

Every individual, company or organization needs privacy in one way or another and that is why the cryptocurrency community has for quite a long time been calling for it. After hearing the major privacy concern in the blockchain and finance sector, JPMorgan Chase assembled its tools and created a privacy feature for Ether-based blockchains which is fully companionable with the smart contracts platform. The novel feature will be working in the same way like Monero’s anonymity, additionally, it will not be displaying the details of both the sender and the receiver, and go on to store the amount transacted in a more transparent manner.

Sooner or later, Microsoft Corporation, a Washington-based multinational technology firm, that develops, produces, licenses, supports and sells PC software, consumer electronics, personal PCs, and other correlated services, will make some changes so that people can use the Bitcoin symbol in Excel spreadsheets when recording information. The technology giant is aware that Bitcoin’s reputation is rapidly growing globally compared to other currencies. However, the company decided to first feature just one leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, and which is Bitcoin in this case.

The United Kingdom based professional service company Ernst & Young (EY) offers a blockchain based solution for tracking wine in order to help customers confirm a products’ quality, class, source and validity.

Many SMEs in Italy and other parts of the globe use Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and other major innovations in their daily operations. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are companies whose size falls within certain pre-established occupational and financial limits.