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Crypto ushering era of research into distributed systems, security, cryptography

As technology advances, risks associated with it also increase. In this age when personal data is collected by social media and various other platforms at every step, none of it really remains private. In a recent talk, Diogo Monica, co-founder and the President of crypto security company Anchorage, talked about the use of crypto in...
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Firms using blockchain smart contracts will increase data quality by 50%

Research firm Gartner recently released a report that predicted that blockchain smart contracts would increase a company’s overall data quality by about 50% by 2023. Smart contracts simply put, are pieces of programming code that are invariably used on a blockchain. The Gartner report also predicted that the overall data asset availability would decrease by...
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Ripple partner SBI Holdings to collaborate with Japan’s SMBC

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Japan‘s second-largest financial institution, has recently partnered with SBI Holdings to build a Blockchain-based financial service platform, according to a report. SMBC entered the partnership under the SBI umbrella intending to expand the distributed ledger services into corporate trade finance and individual bank remittances. Additionally, as a part of the...
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Swiss Company Set To Launch First Compliant IPO On Ethereum’s Blockchain

Blockchain technology continues to make waves around the world. And today, the world has witnessed what many believe to be the first major step towards a new way for startups to access capital. According to a press release by Andriotto Financial Services, dated January 29th, 2020, the country of Switzerland has recently approved OverFuture SA’s...
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Paris Saint-Germain football club launches fan token

French football club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) launched its new crypto-token today. Back in 2018, PSG had agreed to partner with Socios.com in a bid to leverage blockchain technology to enhance fan engagement.  The fan tokens are available on Socios.com as part of an initial token offering and will provide fans with the opportunity to participate...
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India: NISG releases draft for blockchain regulation, while SC deliberates banking ban

The Supreme Court resumed hearing in the ‘Crypto V. RBI’ case on 28 January and is yet to pronounce a judgment. With IAMAI’s counsel, Ashim Sood and cryptocurrencies exchange counsel Nakul Dewan, the judges’ bench was presented with various arguments against RBI’s “decision to control consumer behavior”. Sood argued that the central body failed to...
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Why cryptocurrency adoption is soaring in Latin America

Latin America is reportedly seeing increasing adoption of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, with Statistica reporting the region holds the largest number of cryptocurrency users in the world. Through this adoption, Latin America is creating innovative methods to shape public policy, fight fraud, reduce theft, and squash corruption. Since most of Latin America has been through...
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Binance lags behind Huobi and OKEx in terms of estimated trading fee revenue

Leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance’s estimated trading fee revenue in December 2019 was $18.7 million. The estimated trading fee revenue was calculated using CryptoRank.io reported volumes for December multiplied by average trading fees listed on the websites of the exchanges. The study which was conducted by CryptoDiffer revealed that the CZ-led platform was trailing behind the...
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Deutsche Bank Sees How The Internet Compares To Blockchain Technology

An interesting graphic compiled by Deutsche Bank compares the early-stage evolution of the Internet and blockchain technology. It shows that the two have relatively similar difficult beginnings, but ultimately the former receives more mass adoption than the latter. Internet Vs. Blockchain Adoption Rates Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine living a normal life without constant access...
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The Ethereum Mist Wallet

Ethereum stands with the second highest market cap in the cryptocurrency space. So it’s obvious to attract the attention from the investors. With this growing attention that need to find a secure place to store Ether. So, today we’ll talk about Ethereum wallets. The official Ethereum Wallet is usually known as the “Ethereum Mist Wallet”....
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UK’s Lancashire cricket club activates blockchain-secure ticketing

England’s Lancashire Cricket club recently announced that it has teamed up with TIXnGO, a blockchain mobile ticketing platform, to enable mobile ticketing via blockchain for all domestic and international fixtures at Emirates Old Trafford. With this, the club thus became the first-ever cricket club to use blockchain technology to sell tickets. The main advantage of...
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Loafwallet Review – Now Rebranded to LiteWallet

There are exclusive crypto wallets in the market today. From hardware; to desktop, mobile, and paper, all have their unique positives and negatives. Some provide the latest in cutting-age security, while the other is prone to cyber threats. Well, there are some hardware wallets like TREZOR and KeepKey that comes under good counts. However, when...
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Blockchain adoption rising only in trading, despite countless other use-cases

According to CBInsights’ latest report on blockchain startup investments in 2019, despite a drop in total funding dollars, investment activity in the fourth quarter of 2019 points toward pockets of opportunities for blockchain technology adoption in enterprise applications. The report also stated that total equity funding to the space, a measure of investor enthusiasm, fell...
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Ex-CFTC Chair: Cryptocurrencies Could Have Mitigated The 2008 Global Financial Crisis

As of yesterday, January 20th, 2020, the Blockchain Economic Forum kicked off in Davos, Switzerland, with a keynote speech delivered by J. Christopher Giancarlo.  Giancarlo spoke about the past, present, and future evolution of the blockchain, and made one particularly exciting remark about virtual currencies.  The ex-chairman of the United States’ Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
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CHAIN2020 Becomes the Largest Blockchain Educational Event Ever

This week the major event in the blockchain industry CHAIN2020 brought together more than 15 000 guests and world-renowned speakers in Hong Kong with a shared mission to accelerate blockchain adoption in the world and, particularly, in the Asian region. These are record figures for an event of this level, as usually, the audience of...
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UK’s Tax Authority To Leverage Blockchain To Track Bitcoin Transactions

UK’s Revenue and Customs agency is ready to invest up to $130,000 towards the development and implementation of a new “cryptoanalysis” tool.  According to a recent report, the United Kingdom’s tax authority, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is looking for, “vendors to showcase their capabilities by demonstrating their expertise in the field of crypto-asset tracing.”...
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Tokenization of Sports: A Short Sell or a Future Trend?

It doesn’t come as a surprise that “don’t spend like a baller” is associated with lavish spending and basketball. With so much money coming in so quickly at such a young age, athletes are overwhelmed and end up spending it on cars, shoes, parties, and even a shark tank. But, it looks like one man...
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Tokenization of assets provides assurance, auditability: AVA Labs’ Gün Sirer

The tokenization of assets gained a lot of momentum in 2019. By converting a real-world asset into its digital equivalent, tokenization provides higher liquidity, flexibility, and transparency, making it an emerging trend for investments in 2020. Just a couple of months ago, Jason Kelley, IBM’s General Manager of Blockchain Services, had mentioned during a talk...
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Developers increasingly exploring what blockchain could do for gaming systems

Blockchain in the gaming industry is an experiment that’s been ongoing for some time now. It started with the introduction of ‘Huntercoin’, the first real blockchain and decentralized strategy MMO game, introduced way back in 2014, which was basically an experiment to gauge the decentralized ledger technology’s ability to support the gaming industry. With Huntercoin’s...
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‘World Wide Web of Blockchain’ could be transformative: Silver Lake exec

If we look at the blockchain infographic today, we see overall positive figures for the tech that has been the foundation of the world’s most popular and oldest cryptocurrency. What was fascinating at the beginning was how it branched out from being just the underlying tech of cryptocurrencies to developing numerous use-cases. Be it bringing...
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Blockchain tech in healthcare? Here’s how DLT can change so many things

The introduction of the blockchain network in the healthcare industry is something that’s been talked about a lot. Though there isn’t a proper model in place to this day. Discussing the topic, Samson Williams, Principal Consultant for Axes and Eggs, in a recent podcast talked about the difficulties faced while making the hospital staff understand...
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Binance Chain transactions in 2019 were 95% ‘on-chain orders:’ Analyst

Cryptocurrency analyst, Christian Ott, recently published an article on his blog regarding statistics of transactions and assets on Binance Chain, the blockchain developed by cryptocurrency exchange giant, Binance. In his analysis, Ott found that the number of transactions on the chain grew from 3.2 million in Q2 of 2019 to 20.7 million in the following...
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Chinese tech giant Baidu’s Super Chain launches Open Network

One of China‘s biggest tech giants, Baidu, made headlines a few years ago after it launched the supposedly energy-efficient Baidu Superchain blockchain protocol. It is in the news again after Super Chain officially launched an open network on 6 January 2020. The network has been launched with the intention to empower SMEs and developers. A...
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Blockchain To Reach 1 Billion Users By End of Decade – Brian Armstrong

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong spilled out his thoughts about the Blockchain and Crypto industry in a blog post. As per his estimation, 1 billion users will join blockchain by the end of decade as more and more use cases are being invented. As we write, blockchain is already implemented in Financial sector with many firms...
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Binance.US joins Bittrex, Gemini on Chamber of Digital Commerce’s Executive Committee

In an effort to shape blockchain-focused policies, Binance.US, the United States-centric arm of the Malta-based Binance, has announced that it has joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce as part of its Executive Committee to bring in education, advocacy, and industry-wide regulatory development. According to Binance.US’s official blog post on the same, the crypto-exchange and the...
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Binance has ‘strategic acquisition discussions’ lined up for 2020: CZ

The Internet bubble prompted the establishment of new innovations that the masses did not realize they needed at that point. Some survived while others shut down for being too innovative and radical for that time. 11 years since the inception of Bitcoin, the industry has seen the space evolve, with newer cryptos coming into existence...
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Argo Blockchain Aims to Become The Largest Publicly-listed Crypto Miner

Cryptocurrency miner Argo Blockchain has announced that it is installing new 3,616 Bitmain machines to increase its mining capacity by 75%. The team took to Twitter to announce that the company has already taken delivery of 3616 Bitmain Antminer T17s machines. However, more 6384 T17s machines are on its way till January end. The new...
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Ticker Tool Uses the BCH Blockchain to Provide Reliable Rate Data

Instantly verifiable, unhackable and forever retrievable are some of the key features of information stored on a blockchain. These are also the characteristics that traders of various assets, commodities and currencies would appreciate when it comes to the price data they are using. The team behind the Blitz Ticker project have decided that’s exactly what...
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Read.cash Platform Rewards Content Creators With Bitcoin Cash Incentives

Since the platform’s launch, the Bitcoin Cash-centric blogging site read.cash has gathered a lot of traction. The website’s user base publishes interesting content and new material on a daily basis with the most popular authors gathering tips in bitcoin cash for their work. Also Read: These Are the Bitcoin Stories You Loved in 2019 Read.cash...
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Bitcoin’s 2nd Proof-of-Keys event: All eyes on exchanges’ readiness

Not your keys, not your coins Let the meaning sink in… It’s the most popular adage in the crypto-community. This mantra is echoed time and again or each time an exchange gets compromised! Just like Satoshi Nakamoto, Trace Mayer ignited the Proof-of-Keys [PoK] revolution on January 03, 2018. To the people outside looking in, the...
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