Digital currency is seeking attention of government of various countries. With blockchain [https://etherworld.co/topic/15/blockchain-beginner-s-guide-part-1] as the core technology underneath, virtual currency is growing fast across the globe. Central bank of few countries has already agreed to study the technology and its legal structure governing the value
Overview Casper is the idea of Proof of Stake (POS) in Ethereum. It is being designed by Vlad Zamfir, Vitalik B. and other community members. Vlad came in touch with Ethereum community in September 2014. Ethereum foundation team had wanted to have Proof of Stake (POS) even before the Ethereum
'Living Room of Satoshi [https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com]' is a payments company based out of Australia that enables payment of any bill using cryptocurrency (Bitcoin mostly). Their customers can pay phone bills, electricity bills, school fees, credit cards, tax payments and more. They can also pay to any
Octagon Strategy, a Hong Kong based commodities and digital assets trading house announced on March 30, 2017 that it has formally commenced trading Ethereum digital assets on its OTC trading desk. For the first time, Ethereum will be easily and simply available in Hong Kong for trading over the counter
Project Amply [http://amply.tech] is one of the best use cases of Ethereum ( blockchain technology [http://etherworld.co/topic/15/blockchain-beginner-s-guide-part-1]). Govt. of South Africa has been working through various policy, documents and laws to support early childhood program. In the year 2005, UNICEF came up with a program
In a recent press release, Deloitte [https://www2.deloitte.com/cn/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/pr-deloitte-hkma-dlt-proof-of-concept-for-trade-finance.html] announced developing a Distributed Ledger Technology (blockchain [http://etherworld.co/topic/15/blockchain-beginner-s-guide-part-1]) proof of concept (PoC) for Trade Finance in association with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the leading trade
Bitcoin has a unique mining block reward strategy. Each time a miner successfully solves Bitcoin’s proof of work algorithm, he is rewarded a set amount of bitcoins agreed upon by the network. The bitcoins included in the block reward are all new bitcoins. This is the only way that
Republic of Singapore, an island city-state off southern Malaysia, is a global financial center with a tropical climate and multicultural population. According to WEF (World Economic Forum), it is the most “technology ready” nation. Singapore has third largest financial centre and foreign exchange market and has also been identified as
Ethereum [http://etherworld.co/2017/08/13/a-complete-guide-to-understand-ethereum-for-beginners/] is becoming one of the popular ways of transition, a valuable cryptocurrency [http://etherworld.co/2017/07/20/a-beginners-guide-for-cryptocurrency/] at least in the cyberworld. By every passing day its popularity is not only seeking investors’ attention but its useability is taking it
Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott gave a big surprise to the participants and the organizers of the DC Blockchain Summit 2017 by announcing the formation of a multi-million dollar Blockchain Research Institute (BRI). The Chamber of Digital Commerce, along with Georgetown University's Center for Financial Markets and Policy,
Scalability in blockchain Most popular debate in bitcoin community is that blockchain do not scale properly. It doesn't scale because every full node has to verify every transaction. The scaling doesn't really work well because of fixed block time (time between two blocks creation). If there
First Federal sponsored “Code-A-Thon” for Blockchain in Healthcare was organized in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in DC Blockchain Summit 2017. The contestants (both in-house and online) were challenged to create blockchain and distributed
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