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6 Blockchain Business Use Cases You Should Know About

The potential of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) — an umbrella term of which blockchain is the most popular kind — is enormous. Businesses can use blockchain to secure data, handle supply management, fight copyfraud, automate processes, and so on. Blockchain may have a major impact on businesses thanks to its unique capabilities to enable transactions and operations without a single…

Don’t Let Burning Both Ends of the Entrepreneurial Candle Burn You Out

With a predicted doom-and-gloom success rate for startups, it’s logical that entrepreneurs treat what they do as serious business. The downside is that it can easily detract from taking themselves seriously: their health, personal life, and emotional well-being. Ironically, entrepreneurs often do an excellent job in asking for the help they need to get their businesses off the ground in…

Millennials and Generation Z Will Dominate the Blockchain Market

Millennials born between 1981 and 1996 largely swear by technology and want everything to happen digitally. They are an impatient lot who desire to have everything at their fingertips — right from news to booking vacations. They seek intuitive user interfaces, multi-functional and savvy-looking apps. On the other hand, Generation Z (people born between 1997 and 2015) is ahead of the Millennial…

Just starting out in Crypto and confused about all the crypto wallet jargon?

Let us explain all the terms you need to understand. Getting into the cryptocurrency world means that you need to understand the industry background and some of the basic technical terms and concepts. So, before you get whisked away by this interesting and thrilling space, pin down the “need-to-knows” and jargon. This is recommended, especially if you start investing and taking your hard-earned…

Two Solutions Blockchain Can Offer Your Business Today

If you’re here you may already be familiar with many of the benefits blockchain can bring to the world. From disrupting banks, ensuring secure authentication, providing immutable traceability and preventing fraud in a trust-less manner, there are numerous ways the blockchain can impact today’s systems employed by companies across the globe. In the beginning, cryptocurrency set itself apart to…

Adopting Blockchain Shouldn’t Be Painful for Your Users

According to Deloitte, over 50% of worldwide organizations see blockchain adoption as their strategic priority, with 86% of executives expecting it to go mainstream, and 77% recognize that not adopting blockchain could cause them  to lose their competitive edge.  However, blockchain integration into an existing infrastructure is not the same as building your product or service using blockchain…

The Company Challenging Businesses to Get Out of the Digital Stone Age

Blockchain technology is getting accepted by companies from various industries — financial, healthcare, legal, education, and even governments — that have recognized its future and want to actively participate in order to share its benefits.  In that sense, organizations of all kinds have started addressing the burning technological challenges of their time and adopting blockchain to modernize…

Introduction to Neo4j Database

Neo4j is a graph database developed by Neo4j, Inc. What is a graph database, you ask?A graph database is a database that stores data and its relationships in the structure of nodes and the edges connecting these nodes. Node:A node represents the objects in the graph. As shown in Fig.1, nodes are nothing but data records displayed in a pictorial representation. Fig. 1 represents simple empty…

Adopting Blockchain Shouldn’t Be Painful for Your Users

According to Deloitte, over 50% of worldwide organizations see blockchain adoption as their strategic priority, with 86% of executives expecting it to go mainstream, and 77% recognize that not adopting blockchain could cause them  to lose their competitive edge. However, blockchain integration into an existing infrastructure is not the same as building your product or service using blockchain…

Tokenized securities on blockchain are here. And they’ve been around for a while.

Remember tokenized securities or securitization with tokens on blockchain?

With the entire year in crypto defined by a maelstrom of projects embarking on decentralized finance (DeFi) aspects to their products, it can be easy to forget that previous advancements in blockchain-based technologies have continued to make great headway in terms of adoption and application.

Security tokens and…

Blockchain mass adoption isn’t a bandwagon, it’s the sailing ship

And here’s why companies are choosing blockchain technology and its various applications.

After the long “blockchain winter”, 2019 finally saw the rise of companies interested in adopting blockchain. According to recruitment portal Hired, global demand for blockchain engineers grew 517% in 2019, four times more than for any other types of engineers. 

Another interesting fact is that 83% of…

5 Simple Steps to Fill Out a Money Order

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Money orders are a reliable, secure, and efficient way to pay for rent or goods and services. They provide an audit trail of payments made for tax or governance purposes. Also, unlike cash, if lost you can register a claim to get reimbursed for your hard-earned cash. 

A money order is a negotiable instrument with a cash value prepaid for an amount by a customer or sender. Both…

How Tesla Achieved 40x ROI with a $0 Advertising Budget

No ad budget?

Tesla has a $0 advertising budget. Are they crazy? Other companies in the auto industry have billion dollar marketing budgets and consistently pay to advertise their products on billboards, magazines, and television. How can Tesla compete in the auto industry without paying for advertising? And more importantly, how did Tesla drive growth and generate more than 40x ROI with a $0…

3 Key Lessons From Airbnb’s Referral Program That Boosted Daily Bookings by 300%

Airbnb, a company that began as a 3-person start up in 2008, is now a household name. In the last decade, Airbnb has achieved incredible growth, increasing their presence to 191 countries. In August 2017, they reached 4 million listings, a number greater than the number of rooms available in the top 5 major hotel brands combined. In 2017, Business Insiderranked Airbnb as the second most valuable…

Cheapest Ways to Send Money Internationally

Whether you’re sending money overseas regularly, or just paying a few expenses while traveling, it’s important to find the cheapest way to send money internationally. Exchange and transfer fees can add up quickly. Here are some ways to transfer international remittances and other overseas payments at the lowest possible cost. 

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The SiguePay Mobile Money Transfer App

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9 Compelling Referral Marketing Statistics You Need To Know

According to the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA), there are more than 2.4 billion brand-related conversations everyday in the United States. Sharing is an innate human trait, and people are always interested in talking about their favorite products/services.

Leveraging word-of-mouth is one of the best marketing decisionsyou can make. Referred customers are more loyal, less likely…

How Long Does a Wire Transfer Take?

When you need to send money to a friend, family member, or business contact, a wire transfer is one of the fastest and most reliable ways to do so. Here’s what goes into sending a wire transfer, as well as how long a wire transfer will take. 

What is a wire transfer? 

The term “wire transfer” refers to any type of electronic transfer of money. A bank wire is the most common, traditional…