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How Southeast Asia became a blockchain hub

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05-Jul-18 A mix of social and economic factors have combined to make Southeast Asia a rapidly developing blockchain technology hub, including the region’s under-subscription to its banking network, with only 27% of the 655 million population holding a bank account. [image: iStock / Asia Times]

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Seoul Hospital to accept cryptocurrency

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05-Jun-18 KMP Health Care Seoul, a hospital that provides outpatient treatment, premium health check-ups, stem cell treatment and cosmetic surgery for Korean and foreign patients, will now provide medical services to customers who pay in cryptocurrency. [image: Business Korea]

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Southeast Asia’s remittance sector finds a friend in crypto

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04-Jun-18 Southeast Asia could be leading the way in integrating crypto-currencies into mainstream society with companies like Cambodia-based DApact utilizing digital-tokens to provide a record of transactions, or the Filipino company Coins, facilitating transfers in the remittance industry. [image: Reuters / Romeo Ranoco]

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Teenager cracks ‘unhackable’ crypto trading device

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22-Mar-18 Crypto-currency hardware wallets are encrypted, private, and supposedly completely secure, which is why they sit at the heart of the booming Bitcoin market. Yet 15 year old Saleem Rashid from the UK has hacked the market-leading Ledger Nano-S. [image: YouTube]

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