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Roger Boodoo, MD, is a radiologist and clinical informatics fellow actively seeking opportunities where blockchain technology might be applied to challenges in healthcare. Advertisements The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review. Let’s start with the problematic scenario. Advertisements A medical researcher stands behind the podium at a prestigious healthcare conference […]

January 17, 2018 10:12 PM Advertisements Sberbank CEO Herman Gref has urged the Russian government not to prohibit its people from having access to cryptocurrencies. On January 17, Herman Gref, the CEO of the state-owned Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia, voiced his hope that cryptocurrencies will not be banned in the country. Advertisements Gref […]

News business and finance January 17, 2018 9:05 PM Advertisements MUFG, a Japanese banking giant, plans to launch a cryptocurrency in fiscal year 2018, as well as an exchange on which it will make the digital asset available. The Japanese megabank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) intends to launch a cryptocurrency exchange in fiscal […]

General Idea CrowdCoinage wants to create a platform that will empower startups. They want to make the whole process of raising funds and finding investors much more easier for new projects, but also help investors have a greater impact and influence on where their money goes. Eventually, CrowdCoinage wants to become an ultimate crowdfunding platform, […]

Russia-based, encrypted instant messaging app, Telegram, is set to join the “disruptive” blockchain race for the decentralization of services by announcing plans to launch an ICO for its popular app. Called GRAM and running on its own blockchain, Telegram has released the whitepaper for its native cryptocurrency, slating the ICO for the first quarter of […]

The top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization are all down today in excess of 10 percent, market data reveals. Advertisements According to CoinMarketCap.com, those cryptocurrencies have fallen by at least 13% – and in excess of 25% in the case of XRP – since the start of the day. At one point, within the 24-hour […]

The last few days have seen some extreme movements in the cryptocurrency market. And while almost all cryptocurrencies are trading in red right now, it has been a roller coaster ride for Ethereum, which touched record highs of over $1,400 and is now trading at a little over $1,100. Advertisements Ethereum has grown rapidly in […]

A recent journal article from the Journal of Monetary Economics has concluded that “a single actor likely drove the USD/BTC exchange rate from USD 150 to USD 1,000 in 2 months.” Image from Tom Stepanov. Chinese Government Now Aiming to Ban Centralized Cryptocurrency Trading A senior official in the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is […]

Credit: iStock.com/hwanchul Advertisements Cryptocurrencies look like a wasteland this Tuesday morning, and Ethereum is no exception. ETH was down 13.18% against the U.S. dollar at the time of writing. This put the Ethereum to USD rate at $1,143.57, which is a sharp retracement, though a minor one compared to Ripple or Bitcoin. XRP lost more […]

Peter Loop is associate vice president and senior principal technology architect at Infosys, where he focuses on delivering enterprise cryptocurrency and blockchain ledger technologies, API management and cloud migration of enterprise systems. Advertisements This article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review opinion series. During the course of 2017, we saw big technology players making […]