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The largest aerospace concern Boeing joined the governing board of the corporate blockchain network Hedera Hashgraph. According to CoinDesk, the company became the tenth member of the board, joining FIS Global, Tata Communications, Nomura Holdings, IBM and its other members. The project solution allows for micropayments, storing files in a distributed network, supports smart contracts and the ability to connect private networks to public ones. For this development […]

Technology giant IBM continues to actively explore the possibilities of blockchain technology. The company has filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for patenting a web browser based on distributed registry technology. According to the application, the browser will collect a predefined set of data during web browsing sessions, and then transfer them to peer network nodes for recording and storage on the blockchain. […]

Analytical firm Elliptic, employees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and IBM corporation used methods to determine the share of criminal transactions related to the Bitcoin network. So, the researchers studied 203,769 transactions, the total cost of which amounted to about $ 6 billion. It turned out that only 2% of these transfers are related to illegal activities. The share of "net transactions" is 21%, and […]

On September 20, Kiev will host the seventh international BlockchainUA conference dedicated to the development of decentralized technologies, which will bring together more than 60 speakers from around the world. The event will be divided into three main streams: Technical Stage, Product Stage and Investment Stage. Among the invited speakers: Shelf.Network founder Lasha Antadze; CEO of Radenia AG, Alexander Radchenko; Head of Kuna Exchange, Mikhail Chobanyan; chief architect of Blockchain […]

The Russian Sberbank decided to leave the ranks of the Masterchain blockchain project launched with the support of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In the commentary of CoinDesk, the head of the blockchain-lab of Sberbank, Oleg Abdrashitov, declared dissatisfaction with the speed, safety and overall efficiency of the platform. According to him, as an alternative, the organization is considering corporate blockchain-platform Hyperledger Fabric from IMB and Quorum from JPMorgan. "Masterchain" does not meet the requirements that make cases […]