What the world's central banks are saying about cryptocurrencies by listed authors via @infomgmt

Eight years since the birth of bitcoin, finance execs around the world are increasingly recognising the potential upsides and downsides of digital currencies.

I like this overview of how banks are handling the currencies which might help you to understand how to understand it yourself.

How Blockchains can revolutionise the supply chain

These applications create an immutable single version of truth, allow near real-time sense and respond features, and require no central owner.

Great opinion and great example of a use for Blockchain.

With attacks soaring, India races to regulate cryptocurrencies via @infomgmt

A giant cyberattack that crippled the largest container port in June provided a costly wake up call for a country determined to digitise its mostly-informal $2T economy.

Good that someone is trying to regulate and get control of these currencies - I guess it could then become a blueprint for other parts of the world too.

Russia's banks prepare to hit the `gas' on digital currency use by Ilya Khrennikov and Jake Rudnitsky via @infomgmt

The firms are hoping that by adopting the technology they will make payments safer and faster, while thrusting Russia to the forefront of a trend that’s transforming the financial industry.

Interesting development and something to watch.