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Thai Central Bank Meets With Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin & OmiseGo

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    News Contact Us Advertise Press Releases Home    Technology    Altcoin News Technology Altcoin News Ethereum News Thai Central Bank Meets With Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin & OmiseGo By   Joseph Young -  August 19, 2017 0 4061      Earlier this week, Omise, the venture capital-backed startup behind the Ethereum-based technology OmiseGo, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and the Central Bank of Thailand came together to discuss the future of the Thai economy and its finance sector. Launched in 2013, Omise have strived to produce an efficient and secure infrastructure for payment processing using blockchain technology and over the past four years have expanded across Asia, securing investment from the continent’s leading investment firms. The company is supported by well-respected industry experts including Joseph Poon, co-author of  bitcoin’s lightning network paper and Ethereum co-founders, Gavin Wood and Vitalik Buterin. The company aims to provide the

Toronto Receives its First Ethereum ATMs, Targeting Mainstream Adoption

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Toggle navigation BTC $ 4,131.28  1.72 % BCH $ 802.54  8.36 % ETH $ 294.51  1.12 % Advertise         6 HOURS AGO   By   Joseph Young Toronto Receives its First Ethereum ATMs, Targeting Mainstream Adoption 7236 Total views   253 Total shares LocalCoinATM, the Ontario-based bitcoin and Ethereum ATM manufacturer, has installed its first batch of Ethereum ATMs in Canada. These were installed over the past week in three different locations: Toronto, Brampton and Etobicoke. All of the ATMs were launched in branches of Hasty Market, a popular convenience store chain in Canada. LocalCoinATM released an official  statement : “We’re excited to announce that we’ve added support for Ethereum on all our Bitcoin ATMs in Toronto and the GTA. We are the first Ethereum ATM providers in Toronto. Ethereum has revolutionized the crypto industry with its smart contract features.” Through the two-way ATMs of LocalCoinATM, Ethereum users and investors can easily purchase and sel

Microsoft Goes Ethereum: $561 Bln US Company Releases Ethereum-Based Protocol ‘Coco

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2017-08-12 04:20 PM Joseph Young Microsoft Goes Ethereum: $561 Bln US Company Releases Ethereum-Based Protocol ‘Coco’ Microsoft , the $561 bln US-based technology company, has released the Confidential Consortium (Coco) Framework, an Ethereum-based protocol which commercial companies and large-scale organizations will be able to utilize to process information on the  Ethereum Blockchain  with increased privacy. In an official announcement, Mark Russinovich, the CTO at  Microsoft Azure , the company’s cloud computing arm,  said: “Coco presents an alternative approach to ledger construction, giving enterprises the scalability, distributed governance and enhanced confidentiality they need without sacrificing the inherent security and immutability they expect.” One of the most unique aspects of the Coco Framework is that it leverages local hardware-based environments such as Intel’s trusted execution environments (TEEs), to facilitate the settlement of information in an  off-chai