The Secure Spreadsheet validates the Spanish and UK patents
This month the Spanish and UK patents have been validated, further extending the coverage of the European Unitary Patent.
Updates on the Implementation of the FATF Standards
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published a Targeted Update on Implementation of FATF Standards on Virtual Assets and Virtual Assets Service Providers. The most highlighted issue is the low degree of compliance among the public and private sector regarding…
The Secure Spreadsheet inaugurates the European Unitary Patent
Today June 7, 2023 we are blessed to celebrate that The Secure Spreadsheet has been granted one of the first European Unitary Patents, EP3218800B1, as published on today’s European Patent Bulletin.
Biometric IDs in more countries
A new set of countries are upgrading their identity documents: "Port of Spain commitment on digital integration": 11 Caribbean countries have agreed to update their digital identities and make them interoperable (i.e., this agreement will lead them to upgrade their…
On Banning Proof-of-Work
Although China successfully banned crypto-currency mining in order to cut their high-energy consumption, Bitcoin’s electricity consumption is still more than eight times higher than Google’s and Facebook’s combined, with an additional growth of 41% Year-on-Year. For that reason, more States…
Latest Countries Adding Biometric Authentication
The latest countries to update their identity documents to support biometric authentication: Sierra Leona: their identity cards are now being issued supporting biometric authentication, following ECOWAS regulations.Mali: new biometric identity cards.Guyana: new biometric identity cards for the issuance of work…
European Union legalising zero-knowledge proofs of digital identities
On February 9, the Industry, Research and Energy committee approved amendments to the European Digital Identity framework 2014/910 including zero-knowledge proofs of digital identities: to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time zero-knowledge proofs are been included…
Countries without Biometric Identity Documents
A third of the countries in the world lack any kind of identity documents with biometric identification (i.e., biometric passports OR biometric identity cards): as of 2023 this proportion may seen to be very high, but they only comprise 6.7%…
New Countries Expand Biometric Authentication
The following countries have adopted biometric authentication on their identification documents: Portugal: their identity cards are finally contactless, in line with the rest of European countriesIraq: biometric passports are being issued to the populationHonduras: new biometric passports after many years…
A Blast from the Past and a Peek into the Future
It’s been 14 years since Satoshi Nakamoto first announced the Bitcoin paper to the Cypherpunk mailing list (October 31 2008). Today, 14 years later, we are happy to announce that the Fintech journal has published the paper of our consensus…