Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit will launch Korea’s first cryptocurrency index. The concept is to provide a standard index which can measure market conditions by suggesting and creating a coin quote standard. Dubbed the UBCI (Upbit Crypto Index), the index will be measured from four market indices based on long-term transactional data...
China filed the most blockchain patents with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2017, according to Thomson Reuter’s statistics. Out of all blockchain patents filed around the world, China accounted for 49%, while the United States came second with 33%. Among the top 100 patent-filing organizations, the PBOC dominated the list, with three...
While bitcoin is the best known and most valuable crypto currency, its blockchain faces numerous challenges - mostly privacy and scalability related. To overcome these challenges and expand the crypto currencies as a whole, tech pioneers have created many new alternative currencies aka altcoins, each with its own blockchain....
