Monthly Archives: September 2019

United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has launched a blockchain system for recording and sharing healthcare data.The official news agency of the UAE reported the development on Sept. 18, noting that the system aims to improve data integrity.A healthcare data sharing solutionPer the report, the platform will “save and share the…

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his planned meetings with policymakers in United States capital Washington D.C., to further discuss “future internet regulations,” most recently with Senator Josh Hawley.Zuckerberg meets Missouri senator Josh HawleyOn the afternoon of Sept. 19, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley took to Twitter to give an overview of a meeting today with…

Online payments processor Stripe has raised another $250 million in a new funding round, which pushes its pre-money valuation to a whopping $35 billion.Total funding in the billionsOn Sept. 19, Stripe announced the additional funding was sourced from investors including venture capital firms General Catalyst, Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.Coming from a $9.2 billion valuation in 2016, San…

Non-profit blockchain organization Iota Foundation has released a platform enabling a decentralized and autonomous industrial marketplace.World’s first autonomous and decentralized virtual marketplace Dubbed the Industry Marketplace, Iota’s new product is a joint initiative that aims to accelerate industrial automation and commercial machine interaction, the organization announced in a blog post on Sept. 19.Serving as a vendor…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a blog in which it outlines both potential benefits and risks associated with the adoption of new digital payment methods, including stablecoins.In its recently published blog entitled “The Rise of Digital Money,” the IMF set forth pros and cons of the wide adoption of stablecoins — digital currencies…

On the lighter side of things in the cryptosphere, some Bitcoin (BTC) owners have been donating altcoins to the TOR Project — a nonprofit organization primarily responsible for running “The Onion Router.”For some Bitcoiners, the trend is a way of killing two birds with one stone — supporting the TOR Project and getting rid of “shitcoins.”…

As part of ongoing maneuvers to legitimize the industry, Iran’s cabinet is looking into a proposal to register cryptocurrency miners on a year-to-year basis.The proposalAccording to documents reported by Coindesk on Sept. 19, a draft proposal to register crypto mining operations is currently on its way to official approval in Tehran. The proposed licenses would…