Blockchain
Bitrefill Let You Top-Up Your Prepaid Mobile Phone With Bitcoins
Available in 135 countries (including Singapore, Switzerland and Vietnam) and supporting over 500 operators, Bitrefill is a service that allows you to refill your prepaid mobile phone with bitcoins. Founded in October 2014, Bitrefill lets you top-up your mobile phone
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How Secure is our Digital Identity? A Blockchain View from Roberto Capodieci
The use of digital signatures is becoming more and more popular. We digitally sign company share transfers, public records, contracts, emails (PGP), and many other legally valid electronic documents. For those of you that use cryptocurrencies (paying with bitcoins an online purchase),
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MatchMove Pay To Tap Into Southeast Asia’s Remittance Market, Hyperledger Wins Innotribe Startup Challenge
Exciting things are happening in Singapore. In case you missed it last week, MatchMove Pay, one of the hottest fintech startups in Southeast Asia, was granted a remittance license from Singapore’s central bank to tap into Southeast Asia’s juicy remittance
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CoinPip: Bringing Bitcoin to Southeast Asia
500 Startups-backed CoinPip seeks to disrupt the global remittances market by using bitcoin to facilitate domestic and international money transfers. Similarly to Bitspark and Toast, CoinPip enables low-cost global money transfers by leveraging Bitcoin’s blockchain. Users don’t need to have
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Digix Provides Users With Digital Tokens That Represent Legal Ownership of Assets
Combining the oldest form of money and one of the most cutting-edge technologies, commodity-backed digital currencies have been praised for allowing users to safely store assets such as gold on the blockchain. Unlike bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies which solely rely
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Blockchain and Bitcoin Use Cases: ChangeTip & Bitproof
The Bitcoin protocol has caught the eye of many. Financial institutions are exploring how they could possibly use distributed ledger technology for institutional banking; startups are finding new ways to use the blockchain for anything from identification, to document certification.
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Ripple Singapore, the World’s First Ripple Gold & Silver Gateway
Operated by Ripple Gateway Pte Ltd, Ripple Singapore is a Ripple gateway that uses the Ripple network to acquire, store and convert precious metals into any currency. Launched in January 2014, the service is Singapore’s first major Ripple gateway and
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PwC Report: Cryptocurrency Can ‘Open the Door for Revolutionary Possibilities’
Cryptocurrency will still face many challenges but is here to say, according to ‘Big Four’ advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In a recent whitepaper, the firm claims that the technology “has the potential to open the door for revolutionary possibilities.” Entitled
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DeBuNe: A Decentralized Business Network Powered by the Blockchain
DeBuNe, or DEcentralized BUsiness NEtwork, is a decentralized peer-to-peer ecosystem of small and skilled businesses – referred as Business Units – that provides small companies and freelancers the relevant tools to collaborate, market, offer and monetize their expertise or products
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Bitcoin Use Case; Send Money Abroad in 24h Shops Without A Bank Account
A Bitcoin Use Case, send money abroad with no bank account and without getting ripped off. Just go to a 24hours shop around the corner and use a easy and cheap money transfer service. A innovative fintech startup based in Hong
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