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Walmart's recent patent efforts have showcased how the retail giant is investigating blockchain, and a new filing points to a focus on autonomous delivery drones.

A company says it has created the first decentralized machine learning platform on the blockchain - giving organizations of all sizes the ability to discover new patterns in their data, predict when sales are going to be made, and increase clickthrough rates from customers.

The Japanese city of Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, has recently tested a voting system based on blockchain technology, local newspaper The Japan Times wrote Sunday, September 2.

A former Estonian prime minister has signed on as an advisor to a blockchain startup that wants to encourage people to exercise more.

Internet search giant Google has added ethereum to its big data analytics platform BigQuery.

The core tenets of cryptocurrencies - decentralized ledgers and trustless cryptographic payment clearance - are antithetical to government control over value transfer.

Cryptocurrency purists often dismiss private blockchains as overly expensive undertakings for projects that are better served with a traditional database.

Tech giants Alibaba and IBM are vying for the top spot on a new list that ranks global entities by the number of blockchain-related patents filed to date, published August 31 by iPR Daily.

With signs of bull exhaustion showing on the technical charts, bitcoin faces a return to the psychological support of $7,000.

For those concerned to protect this most critical form of identity, blockchain has piqued considerable interest as a powerful alternative to the closed architectures and proprietary exploits of the existing genomics data market - promising in their stead a secure and open protocol for life's code.

Almost $800 million worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash has been withdrawn from wallets associated with defunct cryptocurrency "Black market" Silk Road marketplace and linked to Silk Road owner Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, signaling a potential large-scale Bitcoin market dump.

Major financial and technological enterprises from China and the U.S. are leading the global drive to develop blockchain applications, according to a new report that ranks entities by patents filed.

The high rate was a telling sign that traders were uncertain about price direction, utilizing bitcoin to exit the market through a transfer of crypto to fiat.

According to BitMEX Research, a group of analysts at major Bitcoin exchange BitMEX, Bitmain has been intentionally lowering the profit margin of its core business prior to its initial public offering.

A Japanese city government has become one of the first in the country to have tested a blockchain-based system that lets residents cast votes to select city development programs.

Three years ago, Microsoft Azure was the first to bring blockchain to the cloud.

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Ever since 2014 and the onset of hyperinflation, they've seen marked increases in ownership and trading, with impressive rises being witnessed in the past few months, as Venezuelan inflation topped an eye-watering 46,000 percent and as the IMF predicted an inflation rate of 1,000,000 percent by the end of 2018.However, as the following will show, the meteoric rise of crypto in Venezuela doesn't simply result from the desire to avoid the worst effects of hyperinflation.

Taking advantage of blockchain solutions, WorkCoin is a decentralized freelancer marketplace that aims to be fully transparent and frictionless.

IoT-driven blockchain platform IOTA announced the upcoming release of real-world integration with vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen.

The Bitcoin Cash network experienced over 2.1 million transactions on September 1 as a result of the recently launched BCH stress test, according to data from BitInfoCharts.

Japan's financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency, will fortify the process of registration screening for cryptocurrency exchanges, local media outlet The Japan Times reports September 2.The FSA has ungraded the registration process, revising the Payment Services Act - enforced since April 2017 - in order to "To see whether they are properly conducting risk management," sources told The Japan Times.

Bittrex, one of the top cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide, has recently invested in Malta-based blockchain company Palladium, local news outlet Times of Malta reports September 2.

Peter Brandt, a highly experienced trader in the FX and cryptocurrency market, said in his 43 years of trading, he has not seen any asset that experienced a major trend reversal after an 80 percent correction within two weeks of stability.

The textbook case of crisis-driven crypto adoption is Venezuela, with the first report on Venezuelans turning to Bitcoin arriving in October 2014.

Bitcoin is trading at around $7,244 at press time, up around 2.4 percent on the day, according to CoinMarketCap.

The cryptocurrency market may have experienced a flat run over the course of 2018 thus far with Bitcoin prices failing to break through the $10,000 barrier since early March, but new research published by ING demonstrates that adoption rates are rising rapidly.

Born in Venezuela, he now lives in Israel where he is researching and marketing stablecoin projects.

Proponents of the Ethereum 'World Supercomputer' may balk at the recently liberated Tron's impressive post-mainnet momentum-with the young blockchain having rocketed to handling a third of Ethereum's daily transaction count in August.

While the term is flexible, generally speaking, masternodes are defined as computers on a network - staked with tokens - that perform additional work besides just helping run the software that governs a given cryptocurrency.