Mark Cuban, billionaire tech investor and owner of the NBA team The Dallas Mavericks tweetedon Tuesday, Jan. 16 that starting next season, it will be possible to buy tickets to the team’s games with Bitcoin. The Dallas Mavericks won’t be the first basketball team to start accepting Bitcoin as payment for tickets. The Sacramento Kings officially started […]

Global shipping giant Maersk wants to wrap the world in a blockchain. With access to a shared, trusted record of transactions, Maersk executives say, the world’s shipping companies would save money and be able to better compete on enhanced services. And the company has developed a blockchain using IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric open-source software to do just that. Yet […]

The French minister of the economy, Bruno Le Maire, has announced the creation of a working group to develop cryptocurrency regulations. In a speech Monday, Le Maire said that the working group will be responsible for proposing guidelines and drafting a framework on cryptocurrency regulations with the objective being to prevent the technology’s misuse, French […]

Peter Loop is associate vice president and senior principal technology architect at Infosys, where he focuses on delivering enterprise cryptocurrency and blockchain ledger technologies, API management and cloud migration of enterprise systems. This article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review opinion series. During the course of 2017, we saw big technology players making moves in blockchain. In […]

China’s cryptocurrency mining pool ViaBTC has revealed a plan to adjust its cloud mining maintenance fee, a move that appears to be affected by a reportedly tightened regulation in the country. In an online statement published on Jan. 11, ViaBTC said it will temporarily increase the maintenance fee ratio for the AntMiner S9 cloud mining contract from […]

Swift has signed a memorandum of agreement with seven central securities depositories to look into how blockchain can be used for post-trade processes, such as proxy voting. Revealed today, the agreement is with U.S.-based Nasdaq Market Technology, Russia-based National Settlement Depository, Switzerland-based SIX Securities Services, South Africa-based Strate, as well as the Abu Dhabi Securities […]

TapJets, the Largest Private Jet Instant Booking Platform, has started to accept Ethereum from its customers. When booking a private jet with TapJets, users can now instantly complete their transaction using Ethereum cryptocurrency in addition to traditional credit card and bank wire payments. The adoption and integration of blockchain technology by companies like TapJets will […]

Those investors who had the foresight (or the fortune) to buy into bitcoin in its earliest days and then held onto the cryptocurrency when it took off over the past year are now extremely wealthy. (See more: Who Are the Top 5 Bitcoin Millionaires?) The largest digital currency in the world by market capitalization has performed excessively […]

Victory Square Technologies Inc. a venture builder and technology incubator announced the firm has become an early strategic adopter, investor, and partner in the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX). The GBX, based in Gibraltar, is a subsidiary of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX), a European Union (EU) regulated stock exchange since 2014. Victory Square’s investment of […]

Want to know how a cryptocurrency suddenly gets hot? Based on recent history, it’s actually quite simple: Have a talented or prominent blockchain designer as the company’s founder, and then sign up a couple of high-profile clients to use the blockchain. That’s it. That seems to be pretty much all you need for the price […]