Bangladesh News

The evolution of blockchain continues at pace. It’s time to examine progress, challenges and future potential in humanitarian and development sectors.

HSBC Bangladesh has completed the country’s first blockchain-powered cross-border trade settled using a letter of credit.

Standard Chartered Bank has launched the first remittance service in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is now on the blockchain map.

A Bangeldeshi government agency is collaborating with IBM to harness blockchain for modernizing the country’s digital pension system.

Finney, the blockchain smartphone developed by Switzerland-based Sirin Labs, will soon become available in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh will use money from its $208 million IT project fund to send graduates for blockchain training in Japan and India.

Blockchain technology can aid in defragmenting many countries’ procurement structures, a new report concludes.

Indications show North Korea behind hacking Bitcoin accounts in organized government effort. Estimations value the amount hacked at over $80,000 in Bitcoin.

Last week, the Central Bank of Bangladesh issued a statement that anyone caught using Bitcoin would be subject to a prison sentence of up to twelve years, essentially forcing the Bitcoin community underground as the Bank is enforcing the nation’s money laundering laws.