IWF Partnering with Bitcoin Startup a ‘Major Step’ in Crimefighting
Blockchain intelligence startup Elliptic has partnered with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to help tackle child pornography bought with Bitcoin. IWF Taps Blockchain Intelligence. Elliptic, which counts major Bitcoin operators including Bitpay among its clients, already reports to law enforcement on various forms of “illicit activity” involving....
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88 bales of cotton made history this week, becoming the world’s first cross-border interbank trade executed on a blockchain. Cotton Trade a ‘Truly Innovative Step’. The shipment, delivered from US-based Brighann Cotton, arrived in Qingdao, China — handled by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Wells Fargo. Upon arrival, staff checking in the bales....
Arctic15, the Startup and Entrepreneurship conference of the year is just a week away. The two-day conference aims to promote entrepreneurship by providing a platform for all the stakeholders in the global startup ecosystem to meet in one place. Bitcoin and its underlying technology has been around for a bit more than 7 years. However, the digital currency did not become popular until late 2012. Once people started getting to know about Bitcoin, within months’ businesses built around this technology started cropping up. These prolific businesses were not part of big tech conglomerates or....
London blockchain startup Everledger is the joint winner of BBVA's European Open Talent competition. The startup, which uses blockchain technology to tackle diamond fraud and theft, will be awarded a €30,000 prize ($33,939) as well as an invitation to develop a project with the multinational bank. Rounding off the competition series, with previous finals taking place in New York and Mexico DF, Everledger competed against fellow bitcoin and blockchain companies Safello and Vaultoro. Everledger's win alongside Origin – a marketplace that connects issues and investors in the corporate bond....
Bitcoin payments firm YellowPay, by some accounts the first industry startup in the Middle East, has shut down for undisclosed reasons according to members of its founding team. Forming in 2014, YellowPay had sought to promote bitcoin as an e-commerce solution in the Middle East, enlisting a former managing director for PayPal as a senior advisor. Despite this traction, other sources suggested the startup faced issues with its business model, including a decision to continue to emphasize the benefits of digital currency for online payments, a business strategy that has fallen out of favor....