Coinme today announced its entry into the greater Sacramento area by adding more than 100 Bitcoin purchase points at Coinstar® kiosks in Safeway, Save Mart and Food Maxx supermarkets. The Coinstar kiosks make up the largest network for purchasing Bitcoin for Sacramento area consumers. 

Zigmabit Inc. has achieved a critical milestone in reshaping how the mining of cryptocurrency is done. The mining rig manufacturer has now crossed $100 million worth of orders from customers around the world interested in the company uses its tried and tested 7nm ASIC ZigmaBit BoosterX chips in its hardware, coupled with efficient cooling system, tough compact construction and a low operating noise characteristic which make it suitable for installation at home, office or in dedicated datacenters.

Ternio, the creator of BlockCard, announced today that it is cutting the minimum balance requirements for all BlockCard holders by 90% - effective immediately. BlockCard is a debit card that enables the card holder to spend the value of their cryptocurrency with the same ease as traditional credit cards at over 50 million merchants worldwide.

Mediaocean, the foundational software provider for the advertising world, today announced Amino Payments as the first partner that will utilize blockchain technology to provide the first fully transparent media supply chain, enabling spend optimization across the programmatic media.

KuMEX, the Bitcoin futures platform developed by KuCoin, today announced the launch of a Lite version, which not only focuses on core trading experience by simplifying the overall interface, but also provides analytic tools such as a long-short ratio and revenue calculator to help newcomers to the crypto futures market better predict market trends and improve their investment strategies.

Highview is pleased to announce that Michael McKeough, SAP veteran and Founder of Echelon Solutions Group, is joining our leadership team. McKeough brings vast experience in scaling SAP Cloud Services businesses and delivering customer success. His deep SAP expertise, passion, and customer-centric approach positions him to increase growth with SAP customers and beyond.

Zigmabit, one of the best cryptocurrency manufacturers with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, has recently been the most talked-about matters of the crypto market. It has recently released three liquid mining rigs with enhanced features like high hash rate and substantial profits, named zigbit 2.0,3.0,5.0. Hash rates refer to the speed at which a mining machine operates. A machine with a higher hash rate gives more opportunities to a miner to receive the crypto rewards by finding the next block much faster.

At the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Farmer Connect and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new consumer mobile application called "Thank My Farmer," which will allow coffee drinkers to trace their coffee to understand its quality and origin, and even support the farmer who grew the beans. Developed with leading companies across the global supply chain including Beyers Koffie, The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC), ITOCHU Corporation, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE), The J.M. Smucker Company, Rabobank, RGC Coffee, Volcafe, Sucafina and Yara International, Farmer Connect is a traceability platform powered by IBM Blockchain designed to help increase traceability, efficiency and fairness in the coffee supply chain.

On January 2, 2020, a financing platform for SMEs in China's Guangdong province was formally launched. The platform is supported by OneConnect (NYSE: OCFT), a leading Chinese fintech company that has just been listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The launch of the platform with blockchain as its key underlying technology marks the deep integration of digital government and fintech, signaling that difficulties in obtaining financing, including the associated high cost and slow pace of completing the process, faced by small and medium-sized businesses can be solved by following the "Guangdong model".

AuthenTrend and other notable homegrown startups led by Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) are now showcasing their innovative solutions at CES 2020. According to Verizon's data breach report, 81% of company data breaches are due to weak or stolen passwords. To reduce security risks and IT costs, while maintaining security and convenience, password-less authentication is gaining mainstream adoption. Fingerprint security solution startup AuthenTrend is founded on this belief.