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A hearing on energy and natural resources was held by the US Senate Committee on August 21 in Washington. Its main topics were blockchain and related technologies, as well as the possibilities of their use in the field of energy security. The Committee also considered the issue of a possible increase in electricity prices due to increased demand for it in the mining industry.
The US government will help fund a blockchain platform being developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, which will store scientific research data.
Privacy-enhanced coin zcash is set to receive a major upgrade with the release of networking software compatible with its upcoming Sapling hard fork.
Just weeks after acquiring peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network, the Tron Foundation [TRX] selected BitTorrent Inc. one of the community representatives, the so-called Super Representative (SR).
A viable version of the decentralized Internet encyclopedia Everipedia is now available for use.
The Central Election Commission of Ukraine is testing blockchain technology for possible use in the electronic voting system for elections. According to its director Alexander Stelmakh, the experiment is being carried out jointly with the NEM foundation Ukraine blockchain team.
Singaporean startup Rate received $15 million during the token sale of the Rate3 blockchain project.
According to JoongAng Daily, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) appeal was part of a study that was released by the agency on Thursday. This study examines the possibility of Korean regulatory agencies and companies collaborating to develop the proposed system, and also examines the applications of blockchain technology by exchange operators around the world.
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