Blockchain-based Mobile Payment App by Gates Team

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are introducing an open-source software to facilitate the creation of payment platforms for developing economies. Designed to ensure interoperability between various financial services and established payment platforms. This is not the first foray into the Blockchain technology for the foundation, as they have been researching it at least since […]

Backtesting and Simulating Crypto Currencies

If there is one thing that is missing from the cryptocurrency trading, it’s proper risk evaluation. CapchainX – crypto equity platform – has plans to rectify that. Its recent partnership with the University of Manchester is aimed at quantifying the actual risks associated with both cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets. UM’s School of Mathematics’ Senior Lecturer Dr. […]

What Cryptocurrency Means for Marketing

Cryptocurrency might change the way our economies work and become a new foundation for future financial systems. This is far from being a fact at this point, but the disruptive potential is definitely there. E-cash might not end up being the paradigm shift many think it to be, but that is no reason to underestimate […]

Chinese Cryptocurrency Exchanges Prosper Despite the Ban

After the fairly resent ban of the cryptocurrency transactions by the People’s Bank of China, three largest and most influential exchanges in the country – BTCC, Huobi, and OKCoin – have moved overseas, to Hong Kong. Since the September crackdown on cryptocurrency trading, these platforms seem to be doing just fine, servicing the Asian markets […]