The Chinese province of Yunnan, famed for its dark variety of tea, has announced the launch of a blockchain-based platform for traceability of tea from its Pu’er tea farms.  The platform will be used for managing quality control, as well as sale and loan financing operations on 42,000 hectares of […]

The Australian public research university RMIT has partnered with IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and Stone & Chalk to offer a graduate certificate in cybersecurity and graduate certificate in blockchain-enabled business. The programs are expected to start in October this year and will last for nine months.  The public research university […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explained in a series of tweets how the current financial crisis is very different from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis that gave birth to cryptocurrency bitcoin.  Buterin said that 2020 is not a repeat of the financial crisis of 2008, but it is a “virus crisis,” […]

Chinese police have discovered an illegal Bitcoin mining operation that was being run in two burial mounds in the surrounding fields of Daqing city, Heilongjiang province.  The officers found an entrance in the vicinity of the mounds, and after some digging, the police discovered Bitcoin mining hardware that was running […]

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and CEO of Binance, believes that it is still not too late to buy crypto as the situation would look different five years down the lane. ‘Everyone I have met that got into crypto, thinks they got in too late, no exceptions, myself included, until 5 […]

The CEO of the social media giant, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, in a shareholder meeting explained how Libra crypto project would bring more ad revenue to their company.  When asked about how Libra would help Facebook make more revenue in the shareholder meeting, Zuckerberg responded by going into Libra’s potential impact […]

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has donated 10 BTC to volunteer organization “The Mutual Help” (Vzaimipomosch) whose members buy food and deliver it to people who can’t afford it, according to Egor Zhukov, a political activist who organized this crowdfunding campaign. Pavel Durov reached out by himself and offered to help […]

Famous film and music video director Joseph Kahn shared on twitter that trading cryptocurrency is his new favorite hobby. The music video director revealed that he had spent the last month trading crypto assets.  A screenshot shows Kahn’s portfolio to be valued at $7,949, with the hobbyist trader claiming to […]

John McAfee, a tech guru and CEO of MGT Capital Investments, called his own previous prediction of Bitcoin price hitting $1 million by the end of this year a total “nonsense”. He also added that that people who believed his “absurd” forecast should “wake up.”  In his tweet, McAfee explained […]

Ulbricht is currently facing a double life sentence, and without clemency, he will never be released.  Ross Ulbricht was arrested in 2015 on charges of money laundering, conspiracy, drug and hacking-related charges. He was sentenced to double life sentences without parole, plus another 40 years. His family opened a Twitter […]