2019-10-16 17:30 |
The Atlantic island is rolling out the first phase of a national digital identification system built on blockchain tech. origin »
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China’s emerging social credit system (SCS): rarely has a topic been more hotly discussed, and more poorly understood. When most people think about the SCS, they imagine it primarily as a scoring mechanism, a way for the central government to rank China’s citizens and companies based on their behavior.
2019-10-15 16:55 | |
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An article found on the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) website has surprised many in the crypto space, with its bold claim that “If the entire system collapses, the gold stock provides a collateral to start over.
2019-10-13 12:18 | |
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D-Wave today announced its next generation “Advantage” quantum computer system. It’ll pack a whopping 5,000 qubits and myriad improvements to processing speed and power. And the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will be among the first to have access.
2019-9-25 01:14 | |
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While Facebook (FB) is planning to acquire Swiss payment system license for Libra, France is not at all interested in letting its cryptocurrency project — expected to launch in 2020 — get off the ground.
2019-9-12 18:44 | |
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today revealed that faulty software and human error were to blame for a recent accident involving Tesla’s “Autopilot”. According to the report, the Tesla’s driver was operating his Model S P85 with the vehicle’s driver-assistance feature turned on.
2019-9-5 02:12 | |
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The government of Sierra Leone plans to adopt a blockchain-enabled national identity system by the end of 2019
2019-9-3 19:58 | |
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Appeared after the financial crisis of 2008, bitcoin was conceived by Satoshi Nakamoto and his company as a means to change the global financial system to reduce dependence on national banks. Ten years have passed and we seem to be on the verge of an economic storm again.
2019-8-1 14:02 | |
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For several months now, India’s crypto market has been experiencing great difficulties with regulation. Obviously, in support of its centralized instant payment system (Unified Payments Interface, UPI), developed by the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), the authorities are preparing a bill to completely prohibit cryptocurrency.
2019-7-29 20:01 | |
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A Chinese Government agency has provided accreditation to the decentralized cloud-computing network aelf (ELF), marking the first time a project with a cryptocurrency has received official certification by the national government.
2019-7-23 19:36 | |
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In a recent briefing held by the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, the U. S. government revealed its stance on cryptocurrencies and the efforts it will carry upon to regulate Bitcoin because of its use in criminal activity and the threat it poses to the financial system.
2019-7-16 03:56 | |
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Following President Trump’s derisive tweet about Bitcoin, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin held a briefing on regulating Bitcoin and Facebook’s Libra because of their use in criminal activity and the threat they pose to the financial system.
2019-7-16 23:13 | |
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Last year, India’s top court ruled that the central government’s national identification system – Aadhaar – doesn’t violate the privacy of citizens. Now, there are three major developments on this front that might put privacy activists on high alert.
2019-7-5 16:08 | |
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The collaborative exchange of healthcare and blockchain has the potential to remodel the entire healthcare system by enabling faster and accurate access to medical data. An agency within the U. S.
2019-6-25 02:30 | |
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The national postal service of South Korea, known as Korea Post, is currently starting a partnership in order to apply the blockchain tech to its current billing system, as reported by local media outlets.
2019-6-6 04:13 | |
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South Korea’s national postal service Korea Post teamed up with cryptocurrency exchange Coinplug to apply blockchain technology in its billing system
2019-6-6 22:35 | |
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The University of Surrey, along with the UK National Archives and the UK Open Data Institute, has completed a successful trial deployment of its ARCHANGEL project, which it will present at the CVPR 2019 conference.
2019-5-30 22:03 | |
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The Central Bank of the Bahamas will sign an official agreement tomorrow to develop its digital fiat currency system called “Project Sand Dollar”
2019-5-30 19:42 | |
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A British university and the Open Data Institute have built a blockchain system to secure records of national video archives against tampering.
2019-5-29 17:00 | |
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Indian tech multinational, Wipro, has developed a blockchain-based solution for banks in Thailand to settle dues. This comes as Indian government and banking authorities look to enact a blanket ban on all non-state-issued cryptocurrencies back home.
2019-5-8 21:00 | |
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Hyperinflation has become synonymous with Zimbabwe, and the African nation’s monetary system has been on a roller coaster for the past decade. Its national currency, the Zimbabwean dollar, lost so much value in 2015 that it was practically useless.
2019-4-5 00:17 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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The U.S. National Pork Board and Ripe.io will jointly develop a blockchain-based system to improve the pork industry supply chain
2019-3-19 23:42 | |
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Can South Africa really hold a general election on the 8th of May in a way that it really represents the views of its people? One might have thought this was an academic question. The Electoral Commission of South Africa is well respected and the legal system is robust.
2019-3-18 14:37 | |
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IBM, one of the largest technology companies in the world, has recently scored a big win in France. Court clerks from all over the country will soon start to use the Hyperledger blockchain technology created by the company in order to change the legal recording system of their companies. This will happen after IBM has […]
2019-3-15 05:53 | |
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Ripples Xrapid Coins. ph Here To Disrupt The System Says Roger Ver Shaking up existing systems would undoubtedly be the outcome of mass cryptocurrency adoption, said the Bitcoin cash supporter Roger Ver, and crypto celebrity Lark Davis.
2019-3-1 23:42 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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Today is a record moment in US history. The total national debt has surpassed $22 trillion for the first time ever. The runaway mountain of debt is a terrifying reminder of how fragile the fiat monetary system is.
2019-2-13 20:43 | |
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It’s been a tug of war between cryptocurrencies and the legacy financial system in Iran. Iranians took to crypto early on, and this didn’t go well with the government. It banned the industry as a whole despite pleas from the crypto community.
2019-1-30 19:13 | |
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For the second time in a little over a month, Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has hiked up the value of the national cryptocurrency, the petro, this time to 36,000 sovereign bolivars. The move has again been met with criticism.
2019-1-16 05:53 | |
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In a bid to fix the privacy loopholes inherent in the proposed Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system scheduled to get integrated by 2020, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking to adopt distributed ledger technology (DLT), according to a paper published on January 7, 2019.
2019-1-14 02:00 | |
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Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
2019-1-11 21:17 | |
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The Chinese government is forcing blockchain companies to censor content, store users’ identity data and share it with authorities in a bid to support “orderly development. ” As part of a new registration system, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) will require users of blockchain platforms to submit their real names, national IDs, and even telephone numbers, Reuters reports.
2019-1-10 18:02 | |
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Decentralized exchange Bisq has upgraded its software with an entirely new User Interface (UI) design and the launch of the Bisq Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on testnet.
2019-1-9 21:05 | |
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October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.
2019-1-3 07:14 | |
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A Thai center for tech development and research has developed a blockchain-based mobile e-voting system, which some hope will eventually be used in national elections
2019-1-3 04:55 | |
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As tax season is rapidly approaching, some states, like Ohio, have decided to set a new standard for the rest of the country to follow. Back in November, Ohio became the first state in the U.
2019-1-3 20:53 | |
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CRUZEO is a decentralized ridesharing application protocol built on the NEO blockchain and Ontology network. We aim to revolutionize the ridesharing industry by putting value, data, and control back into the hands of the users who earn it.
2018-12-28 15:52 | |
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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and IBM have teamed up on a new blockchain system that integrates oil and gas production across the full value chain.
2018-12-12 20:35 | |
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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is embracing the possibilities of blockchain. The company recently announced a successful partnership with IBM. The two have piloted an IBM blockchain based automated system that integrates the oil and gas production activities across the entire value chain.
2018-12-10 18:29 | |
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With the recent announcement of the near abandonment of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the major oil producers are already reeling. What has hardly helped matters is the crashing oil prices.
2018-12-10 06:19 | |
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The financial authorities of South Africa are now looking for comments on a proposed policy that could enact changes that would offer more regulatory certainty in the country. This happened soon after the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the National Treasury decided to overhaul the current system that is being used in the country, […]
2018-12-7 17:41 | |
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As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.
2018-12-6 18:13 | |
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South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.
2018-12-4 21:41 | |
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Big time cryptocurrency traders in Japan could be getting a letter from the tax man next year. The Japanese government is developing a system to catch those who are not paying the appropriate taxes on the profits made from cryptocurrency trading, according to local news.
2018-12-4 12:43 | |
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Global leaders walked away from the latest G20 Summit with a rough game plan for crypto regulation. This year’s G20 Summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 30 to December 1.
2018-12-4 23:44 | |
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One thing common to many countries in Southeast Asia is a corrupt voting system and often flawed democracies as a result. South Korea, being one of the leaders in the technology, is looking towards a blockchain based online voting platform that will alleviate such concerns.
2018-11-28 14:00 | |
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Putting democratic voting on the blockchain is becoming one of the technology’s most divisive applications, but that isn’t stopping South Korea from pushing ahead with a blockchain-based voting system trial.
2018-11-28 13:57 | |
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On November 16, 2018, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a public statement clarifying its intent to regulate activities involving the issuance and trading of digital assets.
2018-11-21 01:44 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
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