According to a report from the Boston Globe, Cape Cod Healthcare on Friday received $400,000 worth of the cryptocurrency from a regular donor who wished to remain anonymous.
Blockchain-backed traceability systems could be used to authenticate drugs – paired with secure labels.
Bitcoin mining machines around the world use about as much power as Bangladesh, Bloomberg reports .
The idea that bitcoin (BTC, -2.8%) mining could subsidize and catalyze a greener electricity grid is already playing out.
Technology – particularly emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technology – can get vaccines into the right hands in a quicker, safer and more effective way.
On Monday, Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan urged the country’s central bank to begin exploring crypto assets.
“Everyone should have all eyes on Africa right now,” said Ray Youssef, CEO of peer-to-peer lending platform Paxful during CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” show on Friday.
The main issue inhibiting regulation seems to be a combination of resistance and indecision both from regulators, which has majorly been a result of little or no understanding of cryptocurrencies.
Crypto usage and trading has made its way over to Africa, gaining prevalence all over the continent, according to Chris Maurice, CEO of Yellow Card — a crypto exchange based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Now, one of the oldest and most staid sectors in the financial world – healthcare – may see fundamental changes as a result of the technology.
