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Metaplanet to buy 21K Bitcoin, Korean exchange users up 450%: Asia Express
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China: Shenzhen Special Economic Zone to Use Blockchain for Electronic Tax Invoices
Shenzhen, a major city in the Guangdong Province and the first economic special zone in China, will use blockchain technology for electronic tax invoices. This development was reported by the China Economic Net, а domestic news website focusing on economics, on Dec. 12.The Shenzhen Municipal Taxation Bureau and Chinese tech giant Tencent have “successfully connected…

Overstock’s tZERO Tokenizes Upcoming ‘Atari: Fistful of Quarters’ Movie
tZERO, the cryptocurrency wing of American retail giant Overstock, will tokenize forthcoming motion picture “Atari: Fistful of Quarters,” according to a press release published on July 9.Per the release, tZERO has partnered with the upcoming movie’s producers to develop a token dubbed “Bushnell,” which will be sold by the film production and financing company Vision…

Circle Introduces Market Surveillance to Fight Insider Trading, ‘Pump and Dump’ Schemes
Blockchain finance company Circle will use digital financial services company Nice Actimize’s market monitoring tools to fight manipulation, a press release confirmed on Feb. 27.Nice Actimize, which forms a branch of Israeli enterprise software giant Nice Ltd., offers professional client tools in the areas of financial crime, risk and compliance.Circle will use Actimize’s Cloud Markets…

BTC Miners: No More Basement Rigs, Greater Profits to Come
Back in the early days, when Bitcoin (BTC) was but a niche experiment for cypherpunks and basement-dwelling hobbyists, the process of its creation required little more than a budget CPU. Since that time, however, an entire industry has sprung forth and a quasi-gold rush rivaling that of the 1850s has taken the world by storm.As…

Seoul City Gov’t Appoints Members to Blockchain Governance Team
The Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea, has issued letters of appointment to its Blockchain Governance Team set to integrate blockchain technology with the city’s administration services. The news was announced by blockchain networks firm ICON on Feb. 8.The Seoul Blockchain Governance Team was formed by the Metropolitan Government, with the aim of investigating the benefits…

UK-based tech startup could become Nvidia of quantum
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