Search Result: blocks

Oct
28

Roadmap details ongoing plans to extend and enhance the NPP

CEO of NPP Australia, Adrian Lovney, says making the Roadmap publicly available ensures the New Payments Platform momentum will continue.

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Sep
19

Australian FinTech company profile #54 – Assembly Payments

Assembly’s multi channel capability provides a unified way to accept payments online and instore, helping businesses pay and get paid quickly and seamlessly

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Aug
08

Blockchain, Bitcoin & Libra

I’ve been told my “definition” of Blockchain differs from the “commonly used” one.This is probably true, so I decided to examine why.

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Jul
31

Open banking can be a competitive advantage: Here’s how

If done right, open banking can be a powerful tool that enables traditional banks to open up their products and services in new value chains

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Jun
06

Introducing Australia’s first credit score tracking app

In an Australian-first, a credit score app has been developed to give consumers more access than ever before to their personal credit score.

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May
02

Moneytech to provide free coding for payments workshop

Moneytech are providing a free coding for payments workshop at Stone & Chalk in Melbourne on Thursday, 9 May 2019. Register now!

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Apr
02

What are the potential uses for emerging blockchain technologies?

When you say the word “blockchain” most people jump instantly to cryptocurrencies, but this is just one of the many uses for the new technology. Blockchain isn’t just a form of online currency, but in fact is a security and information storage system with a number of potential applications that are encouraged by incubator companies such as Block8. What is blockchain? A blockchain is a list of linked records (like blocks in a chain) that are linked through cryptography. A block cannot be modified, however new blocks can be added to the chain with new information. The chain thus contains a record of all modifications that have been made to […]

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Apr
01

Next bitcoin halving is attractive for investors, says top asset manager

Now is the right time for investors to create their core strategic positions in bitcoin, says a top asset management firm. New York-based Grayscale Investments, backed by Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, published an evaluative report detailing the historical correlation between bitcoin halving events and its price. The firm used those metrics to predict how the bitcoin price would react to the next halving event, which is going to take place on May 24 next year. In retrospective, miners contribute computational power to confirm blocks on the Bitcoin network and add them to its public blockchain. The system automatically rewards them with newly issued bitcoin tokens. This reward, according to […]

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