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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 03:12:00 -0700

West Virginia this fall will let members of the military and their families deployed overseas to vote by smartphone or tablet using a blockchain-based app developed by a Salt Lake City start-up, Voatz.

The voters using the app would otherwise have to submit paper absentee ballots via mail or vote over a land line telephone.

The move means the state will become the first in the U.S. to use blockchain in a voting system in a general election.

After being elected in January 2017, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner tasked IT staff to investigate mobile voting options for 8,000 West Virginian military members overseas. Warner, a retired U.S. Army officer with four children who are also all current or former Army officers, cited his own inability to vote when deployed in Afghanistan as one reason for his efforts.

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China once again cracks down on cryptocurrencies, news outlets

August 23, 2018 admin BlockChain, Data Center, Emerging Technology, Fintech, Government IT, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:06:00 -0700

In an ongoing campaign to tamp down the growth of once-flourishing cryptocurrencies it sees as a threat, the Chinese government has ordered more than a half dozen online news outlets to shut down and banned physical venues from hosting crypto-related events.

On Tuesday, eight blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused media outlets were banned on WeChat, China’s most influential instant communication and mobile payment app, for allegedly violating new government regulations forbidding the publishing of information related to initial coin offerings (ICOs) or cryptocurrency trading speculation.

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IBM, Maersk launch blockchain-based shipping platform with 94 early adopters

August 17, 2018 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Internet of Things, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:51:00 -0700

After launching a proof of concept earlier this year, IBM and Maersk have unveiled TradeLens, the production version of an electronic ledger for tracking global shipments; the companies say they have 94 participants piloting the system, including more than 20 port and terminal operators.

The jointly developed electronic shipping ledger records details of cargo shipments as they leave their origin, arrive in ports, are shipped overseas and eventually received.

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Blockchain phase 2: Will it scale?

August 15, 2018 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, IDG Insider, Security, software development

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 03:11:00 -0700

More than one organization has been working on solving a major blockchain conundrum: how to improve sluggish transaction performance.

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What financial service providers should know about blockchain: Opportunities and threats

July 25, 2018 admin bitcoin, BlockChain, cryptocurrency, Current News, Security

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:30:51 +0000

It seems that every few years, an advanced and innovative new technology emerges and becomes the next big thing for organizations across different industries. Take the cloud and big data, for example – during their buzzword stage, these concepts were being attached to just about everything in the tech space. Currently, it appears that blockchain…

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Mingis on Tech: The blockchain evolution moves from services…to smartphones?

July 18, 2018 admin BlockChain, Security, smartphones

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:30:00 -0700

If 2017 was the year many tech firms suddenly looked around and realized they needed to be part of the blockchain craze, this is the year companies in a variety of industries have begun actively experimenting with the distributed ledger technology.

Helping to make that possible – especially for firms with no experience in building out blockchain systems themselves – are IT vendors like IBM, Microsoft, HPE and Amazon Web Services. They now offer blockchain-as-a-service.

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Mingis on Tech: The blockchain evolution, from services…to smartphones

July 18, 2018 admin BlockChain, Security, smartphones

Oracle joins other major tech vendors by rolling out its blockchain-as-a-service offering, and two smartphone makers plan to include the technology in new devices this year. Get the latest on the blockchain craze.

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Here come the first blockchain smartphones: What you need to know

July 13, 2018 admin BlockChain, Emerging Technology, Fintech, Security, smartphones

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:12:00 -0700

After months of speculation, Taiwanese electronics company Huawei Technologies Ltd. (HTC) has confirmed it will be releasing a blockchain-enabled smartphone this year that will allow users to securely store cryptocurrency offline and act as a compute node in a blockchain network.

“We want to double and triple the number of nodes of Ethereum and Bitcoin,” HTC said in its marketing material for the device. The new smartphone is expected to be able to work with multiple blockchain protocols allowing for interoperability between them.

In addition, the HTC Exodus blockchain-enabled smartphone will allow owners to play CryptoKitties, a decentralized app (Dapp) game. Dapps are applications that run across multiple nodes on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

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