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The Naval Air Warfare Center, a California-based research group of the U.S. Navy, has given blockchain software startup Simba Chain nearly $10 million to put a secure messaging platform in play. “The platform will be up this year, with on going updates over the next 4 years,” Simba Chain CEO
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LVC Corporation, the crypto subsidiary of messaging giant Line, will launch trading of its proprietary cryptocurrency Link in Japan in April.According to a press release on Jan. 30, LVC is also developing a system meant for Link’s debut in Japan on its local cryptocurrency exchange BitMax. Line already began Link
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Recent private monitors online have discovered that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization has been using the messaging app BCM that is developed with blockchain technology to communicate with its members while remaining undetected by the authorities.The nature of blockchain technology can also allow the terrorist
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The Zcash Foundation, the firm behind privacy-centric cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC), has donated $40,000 to a Canadian private messaging developer. The Open Privacy Research Society, a non-profit group working on Cwtch, a decentralized metadata-resistant messenger, has received 1,044 ZEC from Zcash, the organization announced on Dec. 3.As described by Open
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“Server-side support is only half the battle, and the most critical aspect of this whole endeavour will be getting people who use Cwtch to a position where they can easily use zcash (and possibly other cryptocurrencies with similar properties) to pay for anonymous services, or even accept it themselves,” Open
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MediaLab, a Santa Monica-based holding company, has finalized an agreement with Kik Interactive to acquire the Kik messaging platform.MediaLab sees the long-term potential of Kik and Kin tokenOn Oct. 18, in a blog post to the millions of members of the Kik community, MediaLab announced that it has acquired
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Kik, one of the largest messaging applications to operate on a global scale, has decided to shut down in the face of a ferocious legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that has exhausted the company’s chances for survival. Recently, the company issued a layoff notification to
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Disclaimer: This report previously stated that Kik was only considering shutting down its app and has been updated following new information from Kik.The Canadian social media and messaging app company Kik is considering shutting down its popular Kik messaging app.70 reported layoffs at Kin subsidiary In a Sept. 23 article,
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Japanese messaging giant Line launched its new crypto trading platform Bitmax on Sept. 17, CryptoX Japan reports.FSA approval receivedFollowing regulatory approval to operate a crypto exchange in early September, Line’s blockchain arm LVC Corporation officially introduced its newly launched crypto platform today.In accordance with previous announcement, Bitmax will initially
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LINE, provider of Japan’s most popular messaging app, has just been approved for a cryptocurrency business license in the country. The news, reported by CoinDesk Japan on Friday, means it will be able to offer its crypto exchange services
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