Australia’s Postal Service Reveals 3 Blockchain Use-Cases

Australia’s Postal Service Reveals 3 Blockchain Use-Cases

According to ZDNet, the postal service in Australia is looking into developing blockchain platforms to ease into the global acceleration of digital identity services. Australia’s Postal Service Sees 3 Major Use-Cases. Announcing the news at the Technology in Government conference, Rick Wingfield, an Australia Post Accelerator partner, described three....


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