Bitpoint, a Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange, suspended all trading this week following the announcement of a hack, to the tune of 3.5 billion yen, or $32.5 million. Bloomberg report states that 2.5 billion yen belonged to customers. The tokens stolen include BTC, BCH, and XRP. Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) recently
Dutch Concept is Paving the Way for Sustainable Telecom – Fully Offset your Mobile Phone Purchase
A few years ago, an Amsterdam based social enterprise came up with the idea to ‘compensate’ the raw material footprint of a phone. Today it was announced that the whole Dutch government and market leader Samsung are adopting the offsetting method developed by Closing the Loop. This method allows the
TOAxMELT announce new inter-festival collaboration – TOA Berlin 2019
Tech Open Air, Europe’s largest interdisciplinary tech festival and Melt, one of Germany’s largest music festivals, are thrilled to announce their new collaboration: Melt will be an official partner of TOAxNight – TOA’s music program – and curate all content in Studio 1 of the Funkhaus, the former home of
Crypto Exchanges Conquering the Market for Initial Coin Offerings
While digital assets reached their lowest market capitalization in 21 months in February 2019, their value had more than doubled (USD 262 billion) by the end of May 2019. At the end of June 2019, it had reached USD 323 billion. The market for digital assets such as Bitcoin is
Solve.Care Partners with CPChain to Bring Distributed Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructure to Healthcare on Blockchain
The blockchain-based healthcare platform and the builder of IoT infrastructure join forces to combine data from wearable and non-wearable medical devices with administrative, medical, and other system data in order to improve healthcare outcomes. Solve.Care, a global healthcare blockchain platform, has announced a partnership with Cyber Physical Chain (CPChain), a
The Crypto-Winter is over! What was said at this year’s UNCHAIN Convention in Berlin
On June 14-15, Berlin’s creative cluster Säälchen became a Bitcoin village, where three hundred blockchain entrepreneurs and enthusiasts from Germany and abroad gathered to discuss the current state of affairs in crypto and future outlooks. This year, UNCHAIN Convention, the second edition of one of the world’s leading blockchain events,