Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: People, Culture and Tech
Under the new rules, a fintech company that obtains a license to operate in one EU nation will be able to provide services in the trading bloc’s 26 other member states automatically.
Ethereum-focused enterprise blockchain development firm ConsenSys announced that it will acquire JPMorgan’s Quorum distributed ledger solution. It is part of a strategic investment in the firm by JPMorgan.
The open-source, permissionless, Web 3.0 platform was designed to give developers the ability to build highly configurable, fully decentralized blockchains that are instantly compatible with Ethereum and capable of running at a capacity of 2,000 transactions per second—complete with “sub-second” block times.
Civil was the first company to make a full-throated attempt at offering high-quality journalism powered by blockchain. But now, after a series of unfortunate missteps, the embattled firm is yesterday’s news—and its network will go into “hibernation” after barely 18 months in action.
