132 Customers File Class Action Lawsuit Against Coincheck

This week local Japanese news outlets report that the exchange Coincheck, who suffered from a $530Mn USD loss of the cryptocurrency NEM, is facing a class action lawsuit. Reports detail that 132 Coincheck customers have banded together asking for a refund of 228 million yen ($2Mn). Also read: Digital Currency Group Welcomes Bitcoin-Friendly Bank to the … Read more

Bill Gates States Cryptocurrency “Has Caused Deaths in a Fairly Direct Way”

On Tuesday, Microsoft co-founder and avid philanthropist Bill Gates participated in an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) session on Reddit, where users of the site present questions on any topic for the billionaire to answer. Among questions of coding semantics and peanut butter sandwiches, one Redditor asked for Gates’ opinion on cryptocurrency. Redditor /u/Askur1337 asked Gates for his take on … Read more

eBay Seller Scams Customers by Emptying Purchased Paper Wallets

Paper wallets have always been considered to be a great solution for offline cryptocurrency storage. They are convenient and can be prepared in a few minutes. For some reason, people are still actively selling – and buying – pre-generated paper wallets on platforms such as eBay. It is evident this is a disaster waiting to happen. Never … Read more

Viewly Provides Details on its Upcoming Platform Extension

First-of-its kind extension will allow people to tip YouTube creators and recommend them into Viewly. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article Viewly, a decentralized video platform that utilizes the blockchain, is providing new details on its upcoming Viewly demo and extension. Viewly disrupts the traditional ad-based model that exists for social video viewing. Its decentralized … Read more

LitePay Postpones Litecoin Debit Card Plans Due to Issues with Card Issuer

Litecoin users were quite excited regarding the imminent launch of LitePay. This new service brings LTC to more consumers and retailers, and the associated payment card would have made it easier to spend cryptocurrencies as well. Unfortunately, this new service has been put on hold indefinitely. A lot of people are disillusioned by this turn of … Read more

London Blockchain Startup FarmaTrust Partners with Mongolian Government to Stop Fake Medicine

FarmaTrust, a UK blockchain startup and global tracking system has officially signed a partnership with the Mongolian government to pilot a one-year project aimed at preventing the creation and distribution of counterfeit medications. The project will include both governmental and non-governmental parties in Mongolia, including the Specialized Inspection Agency of Tuv Province of Mongolia and … Read more

One Face, One ID: A Blockchain Solution to Secure Identity Management

Throughout history, identity authentication and verification has always remain a chief source of concern to many, and a full-blown nightmare to most. From physical impostors to virtual masqueraders by way of identity peddlers, pretending to be someone has been one of the most devastating crimes against humanity. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article The internet … Read more

New Blockchain-Based Platform to Collectively Build AI Apps

Accenture reports that artificial intelligence (AI) could become the fuel of economic growth at global scale. By 2035, companies may change the way work is performed with AI implementations. As a collection of technologies that can understand, act, and learn, AI-based apps can perform on their own when given the right data. Trained properly, they … Read more