BitCourt of Argentina to validate diplomas on the Blockchain
If the Bitcoin blockchain validates financial transactions, why not use it to validate other things from the real world? That’s what startup founders Franco Amati, Federico Bond, and Gonzalo Blousson from BitCourt seem to have thought when they founded BitCourt; the first startup to digitize certificates in the blockchain as transparently as possible. Academic fraud is a serious concern in Argentina where even the current president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is thought to have forged her academic diploma. Some extreme cases have nothing to envy the famed forger Frank Abagnale—of....
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The Leonardo da Vinci Engineering School (ESILV), a renowned academic institution in Paris, France will start certifying and issuing diplomas using Bitcoin’s blockchain, as early as April 2016. The École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci, a top engineering school in France will soon be issuing diplomas certified by the blockchain. In doing so, the institution will be the first French school to certify diplomas on the blockchain. While the announcement isn’t official yet, French publication Blockchain France revealed that the school is partnering with French bitcoin startup Paymium....
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Argentina has seen such strong growth in bitcoin transactions, owing mostly to the high inflation and capital controls imposed by the government that led people to pursue alternative methods of moving funds around. With that, Buenos Aires has been chosen to host the first-ever Latin America bitcoin conference. The forum was co-sponsored by Bitcoin Argentina and Bitcoin Latin America and was held in the Buenos Aires government's brand new auditorium last July 31. The event also included live streaming from other conferences held simultaneously at the Virtual Currencies in the Financial and....
Louison Dumont, a 17 year-old entrepreneur, has partnered with venture capital investor and Draper Fischer Jurveson founder Tim Draper to launch Bitproof, a platform which enables individuals and organizations to digitally establish contracts and legal documents using the blockchain. Currently, the startup is focused on creating digital seals and issuing cryptographic keys to create unique university diplomas, due to the rising number of fraudulent university certificates and documents. Today, it is ridiculously easy to counterfeit university diplomas because there is no public and readily....
Since January of 2016, the French Ministry of Education has announced plans for the creation of a new digital platform which lets degree owners validate their document. As our society is transitioning to a Digital Age, it becomes more important than ever to digitize as much information as possible. Blockchain technology can be used for many different things, even though most people automatically associate this concept with the financial world. But by the look of things, individual French educational institutions are looking at the blockchain as a way to authenticate the universitarian....