Blockchain will disrupt and improve the Supply Chain business sector
Blockchain is considered a game changer for Supply Chain transparency. As a consequence, several Consumer Goods companies are investigating its potential to track and trace raw materials along the entire supply chain: from seeding to processing and storing up to…
B3 interviewed by Malta Blockchain Summit
B3 will be attending Malta Blockchain Summit 2018, an important Blockchain event about the ecosystem and its improvements. Stefano Rossi, B3 Blockchain Research Consultant, got interviewed by Dennis Avorin from Malta Blockchain Summit about the ongoing activities B3 is carrying…
Attending BlockShow Berlin 2018
Blockshow Europe is major European conference organized by The Cointelegraph event about Blockchain in which the most recent industry trends and insights will be unveiled. It is a great opportunity to bring together the international Blockchain community and Blockchain Business…
The Lightning Network goes live
The Lightning Network (LN) is live on mainnet: there are already more than 793 nodes and 1683 channels operating on a global level. The most update graphical visualization of LN can be found at this link https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ LN is a “second layer” payment…
What if you bought 1 Bitcoin during our past Courses?
Did you know that some of our attendees earned more than what they paid for our Course? When we started our Blockchain Academy in Milan last year Bitcoin was almost starting its 2017 rally. It was December 12th 2016 and…
Bitcoin Cash to fork Bitcoin on August 1st
On August 1 2017 12:20 UTC, Bitcoin Cash developers will split off from the original Bitcoin blockchain thus creating a new coin called Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash is essentially a fork of the ledger, that means Bitcoin owners will own the…
Bitcoin on the verge of activating BIP91
There have been some very important BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals) over the last year and a half. The most notorious one is Segregated Witness or SegWit as it is called today. Segregated Witness is a way to scale the protocol…
Swiss Private Bank to allow Digital Currencies asset management
Switzerland is globally recognized for banking practices. The country has been one of the most welcoming to digital currency business and enthusiasts. For example in Zug, the Swiss “Crypto Valley”, there are many digital currency businesses operating within in the…
What is Blockchain technology
The word Blockchain as it is intended today has come a long way: it should be noticed that the term itself cannot be found in the original Bitcoin white paper written by the unknown Satoshi Nakamoto who defined at first…
Litecoin Just Hit a New All-Time High
The digital currency Litecoin has reached a new all-time high, rising to $51.31 — surpassing 2014’s record $50.7. As we wrote recently, after a successful SegWit activation, Litecoin left the $3 to 5 value range to enter the two digits consistently….
Asus to produce high-end GPUs for mining
AsusTek Computer Inc., Taiwanese multinational computer hardware and electronics company headquartered in Taiwan, officially announced that will start producing high-end graphic cards engineered for coin mining. According to the company press release the Mining RX 470 and Mining P106 will…
SMEs to use Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain for Trade Finance
Seven major European banks including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Société Générale and UniCredit constituted the Digital Trade Chain Consortium to streamline the trade process between small and medium-sized enterprises. The new blockchain-based trade finance platform will be hosted on…
Blockchain Start-up wins “Porsche Innovation Contest”
Starting from August 2017 Xain AG will start to collaborate with the German sports car maker Porsche to create a prototype of a blockchain-based application. The partnership started after the Porsche Innovation Contest where more than 100 start-ups and companies…
Intro to Initial Coin Offerings – ICOs
The name reminds that of IPOs or Initial Public Offerings (IPO) where stocks of a private company are offered to the public. ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings are quite the same but instead of stocks, blockchain or non-blockchain based coins…
Litecoin gains traction
After a successful SegWit (Segregated Witness) implementation in May Litecoin saw a huge growth recently. For a long time span Litecoin has been hovering on the $3 range while after SegWit tentative implementation was announced by Charlie Lee, Litecoin main…
Increasing demand for skilled Blockchain professionals
Demand for expertise in Blockchain enabled technologies is rising from every industry while there is a lack of blockchain experts worldwide. Many companies are creating and starting their own Blockchain teams but skilled professional within this field are in huge…
From $600 up to $2800: how the Bitcoin price went up
In June 2016, the Bitcoin price was about to start a long march to its all-time-high price. After less than two years of price stagnation everything changed. More and more people are looking at Bitcoin, discovering Blockchain technology related use…
The Blockchain Academy Certificate notarized on the Blockchain
The latest Blockchain Academy held at Politecnico di Milano on December 12-13 2016 was a great success. At the end of our two days’ course on Blockchain we awarded all our participants with the following certificate which has been then…
Blockchain needs a native digital asset
Ferdinando Ametrano talks about the interdipendence between blockchain and a native digital asset