February 12, 2019

IBM Partners With Boehringer Ingelheim to Test Blockchain in Clinical Recordkeeping

February 12, 2019 boss

The Canadian unit of American tech giant IBM has partnered with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to deploy blockchain in clinical recordkeeping, according to a press release published on Feb. 12. The cooperation between the two companies aims to test whether the integration of blockchain technology with clinical recordkeeping provides the proper level of data integrity, transparency, and patient safety, in addition to reducing costs and automating processes. Dr. Uli Broedl, Vice President, Medical and Regulatory Affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) said, “The clinical trial ecosystem is highly complex as it involves…

Ethereum Daily Mining Rewards Аre at Lowest Level Ever Reported

February 12, 2019 boss

New Ethereum (ETH) being generated through mining is at its lowest rate ever, Etherscan data reveals on Feb. 11. According to Etherscan, on Feb. 10, 13,370 new ETH have been created, down from over 20 thousand in December 2018 and an all-time-high of over 39 thousand reported on July 30, 2015. The recent sharp decrease in the quantity of newly mined ETH was evidently caused by a sudden increase in Ethereum mining difficulty, which Etherscan data revealed on Feb. 10. As Cointelegraph reported in September last year, Ethereum’s core developers…

UK Customs Service Postpones Blockchain-Driven Border Project Until After Brexit

February 12, 2019 boss

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has delayed further work on a successful blockchain project in the wake of Brexit, according to a written parliamentary statement published Feb. 7. The question about the distributed ledger project for customs needs was raised in the Q&A section on the United Kingdom Parliament’s website. On Jan. 30, Member of Parliament (MP) Eddie Hughes asked whether the government plans to use blockchain for customs systems after the U.K. leaves Europe. He also requested an update on a previously announced trial of the technology. In…

Top 20 Cryptos Make Small Gains While Stocks and Oil Indexes See Green

February 12, 2019 boss

Feb. 12 — cryptocurrency markets are seeing measured growth among the top 20 coins by market capitalization, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Market visualization from Coin360 The biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), is slightly up 0.05 percent, trading at $3,658 at press time. Bitcoin has climbed 5.65 percent over the past 7 days amidst all but one top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap seeing solid growth over the week. Bitcoin 7-da7 price chart. Source: CoinMarketCap Ethereum (ETH), the top altcoin that regained its place as the second-largest crypto by market cap…

Top 20 Cryptos Make Small Gains While Stock Futures and Oil Indexes See Green

February 12, 2019 boss

New Guidance to Implement Blockchain in Agriculture Finance Sector

February 12, 2019 boss

The Chinese government has issued the “Guiding Opinions on Rural Service Revitalization of Financial Services,” according to an official announcement on Feb. 11. The new framework is part of a plan to improve the efficiency of financial services for the country’s rural revitalization program. The guidance will purportedly help promote the application of new technologies in the rural financial sector, such as blockchain, to “improve the identification, monitoring, early warning, and disposal levels of agricultural credit risks.” The Guiding Opinions were jointly issued by the People’s Bank of China, the…

XRP and Ripple Stand to Benefit if the World Bank and McKinsey Projections are True

February 12, 2019 boss

Ripple prices are stable but bullish SendFriend receives $1.7 million from Ripple and three other companies Transactional volumes are unexpectedly low four days after Feb 8 expansions Despite Cory Johnson exiting the company, XRP is stable as Ripple invests in SendFriend. XRP prices stand to break above significant resistance levels. What we would like to see is first prices printing above 34 cents as bulls of Jan 30, and Feb 8 are confirmed. Ripple Price Analysis Fundamentals Let’s crunch in some numbers. In 2016, the World Bank estimated that workers…

Mt. Gox Trustee May Have Crashed Bitcoin in 2018 by Dumping It on an Exchange, but There is Still Hope

February 12, 2019 boss

The now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox reportedly liquidated around $312 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) throughout February and June of 2018 through a Japanese exchange called BitPoint. GoxDox, an organization that was established to assist Mt. Gox creditors, released a photograph of a bank account statement on February 5 showing the alleged transactions sent from BitPoint to the Mt. Gox trustee led by Nobuaki Kobayashi. If the report of GoxDox is accurate, the trustee went out of his way to disregard the suggestion of Kraken CEO Jesse Powell, who explicitly…

Are TRX Prices Dumping Because “Changpeng Zhao and Justin Sun are Scheming”?

February 12, 2019 boss

Tron prices slide, drop 9.7 percent in last week Binance receives a 2-Star Ratings at Trust Pilot Transactional volumes low, averages at 12 million BitTorrent, Tron, and Binance are in recent days synonymous. It is because of this that a user thinks Binance and Tron are colluding to defraud users. They are entitled to their opinion, but TRX prices are dropping, down 9.7 percent in the last week. Tron Price Analysis Fundamentals Hours after a successful BitTorrent (BTT) airdrop and TRX prices are sinking. Well, this was not in the…

Software Giant Oracle Expands Its Enterprise Blockchain Platform

February 12, 2019 boss

Global computer tech giant Oracle is expanding features on its enterprise-grade Oracle Blockchain Platform, the firm announced in a press release on Feb. 12. The platform’s new capabilities reportedly intend to simplify the process of integrating existing business and IT systems, as well as to speed up development and deployment of new blockchain applications. The new features provide Oracle’s customers with a number of developer tools, identity management and data integration features, such as enabling the integration of blockchain transaction history with other data resources. Specifically, new features include an…