2019-3-27 09:34 |
Despite a drastic increase, crypto accounted only for 1.7 percent of money laundering cases in Japan
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Tron Foundation has announced a partnership with Tether (USDT) to create a new stablecoin. The introduction of USDT to the Tron network will make transaction free and swift. Also, it will increase the use cases for Tether.
2019-3-24 02:10 | |
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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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Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) say cases of suspected money laundering reportedly linked to cryptocurrency increased by 900 percent in 2018 when compared to the previous year. However, this still comprises only 1.
2019-3-1 22:00 | |
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In December last year, reports suggested Japan had seen over 6,000 money laundering cases that involved cryptocurrency in the first nine months of the year. Well, the trend continued. In the last three months of 2018, financial regulators received another 1,000-plus cryptocurrency related cases, taking the yearly total to 7,096 cases, the Japan Times reports.
2019-2-28 13:00 | |
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Over 7,000 cases of suspected money laundering tied to crypto were reported to Japanese police in 2018
2019-2-28 11:49 | |
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One in three people are expected to develop cancer during their lifetime. With the help of AI-based algorithms, pathologists will be able to deliver better and faster diagnoses. New cancer cases will increase by almost 70% over the next two decades, from 14 million in 2012 to 22 million.
2019-2-7 14:39 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Patreon has been making the case for censorship-resistant money increasingly apparent. The platform allows members to contribute to artists or creators that they support.
2019-1-19 22:15 | |
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The ongoing debate about whether or not Bitcoin can scale sufficiently on its path to mass adoption has led many people to question if it will ever reach that point at all.
2019-1-5 06:05 | |
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Japan’s efforts to regulate the cryptocurrency industry might have come a little later than needed, as the country has seen nearly 6,000 cases of money laundering involving cryptocurrency so far in 2018.
2018-12-6 12:30 | |
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In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view.
2018-12-6 04:03 | |
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Blockchain Technology Makes Big Strides As Seven EU Nations Join Together For Economic Transformation Blockchain technology has clear and necessary qualities that the entire world and its industries stand to benefit from.
2018-12-5 21:48 | |
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Wall Street is interested in blockchain. Recently, Ripple claimed to have received an over 400 percent quarter-on-quarter increase in direct institutional buying at their company. The most prominent name in American financial markets, JP Morgan is finding new use cases for blockchain technology.
2018-10-31 18:14 | |
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In three months from now, Bitcoin, the oldest cryptocurrency in the world will enter the Ethereum blockchain. WBTC, a fully Bitcoin backed ERC20 token will be released in January 2019 that will bridge the liquidity of Bitcoin with the highly decentralized Ethereum network.
2018-10-26 20:14 | |
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You don’t need to be an agriculture expert to see the writing on the wall. Current farming methods just aren’t working anymore for most farmers of the world. There are 2 billion smallholder farms managing fewer than five acres (PDF).
2018-10-9 20:10 | |
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Binance has announced a $2. 5 million investment in Australian travel startup TravelbyBit in a move to introduce a blockchain-based, point-of-sale (POS) payment system across major airports around the world.
2018-10-4 17:50 | |
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Leading companies in the gaming and blockchain space have come together to form the Blockchain Game Alliance, a coalition that will advocate for blockchain development within the gaming industry.
2018-9-28 01:05 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-25 19:47 | |
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A recent study revealed that hackers are now increasingly targeting users of digital exchange platforms and the crypto exchanges themselves. But while the noted increase in crypto-related cyberattacks is global in trend, one of the hardest hit markets is probably Japan.
2018-9-25 15:14 | |
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Several Chinese researchers from Fudan University, Tsinghua University and the University of California Riverside have produced the first systematic study of the malicious mining of cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking, unveiling increasing complexity over time.
2018-9-25 23:59 | |
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Cryptocurrency-related lawsuits have officially reached its peak, tripling in 2018 According to a 2018 Securities Litigation Report released on September 11 by Lex Machina. The number of cases mentioning Bitcoin or blockchain has increased significantly from the previous years, which coincide with the rise and fall of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
2018-9-17 22:00 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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After five months of initial charging and payment tests, a group of researchers is ready to increase the scope of IOTA adoption in the Netherlands following “uplifting” study results, according to Invade.
2018-9-13 04:00 | |
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Even in a bear market, the Bitcoin network’s hash rate continues to trend upward, reaching 61. 8 EH/s. Hash rate is best described as the number of hash functions that are executed across a period of time.
2018-8-31 03:00 | |
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Global investment platform eToro has partnered with British Premier League clubs in a sponsorship deal that could see future transfers of players in the English Premier League (EPL) settled in cryptocurrency.
2018-8-23 22:55 | |
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As the old maxim asserts: those who made the most money in the gold rush were those who sold shovels. With our own digital gold rush in a downturn, however, the shovels aren’t selling so well, as mining companies themselves are struggling to move hardware because miners are struggling to turn a profit.
2018-8-22 22:53 | |
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This month, we celebrate Ethereum’s third birthday and reflect upon the many milestones that have occured in the industry since the dawn of the original smart contract blockchain.
2018-8-15 21:53 | |
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Researchers at Duo Labs have discovered that Twitter is home to at least 15,000 scam bots and have published their findings in a new report. Between May and July of 2018, staff members observed, collected and analyzed nearly 90 million public Twitter accounts that had released over 500 million tweets.
2018-8-9 20:51 | |
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It’s customary for cryptocurrencies to enjoy a substantial increase in their price after managing to secure a listing on Binance – the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Today, Binance announced the listing of Holo (HOT) while Upbit listed the Basic Attention Token (BAT).
2018-7-24 22:00 | |
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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba.
2018-7-16 19:45 | |
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On July 3, 2018, Binance suspended all trading and withdrawal services due to "irregular" Syscoin (SYS) trades carried out "from a number of API users. " The exchange has since resumed all activities, according to a blog post.
2018-7-5 20:11 | |
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The EU’s Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies released a report entitled “Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead.
2018-7-3 23:28 | |
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When it rains, it pours. This old saying has been quite appropriate in many cases, especially when looking at cryptocurrency prices. Although no major downtrend is happening right now, it is evident things are not going according to plan.
2018-6-29 22:20 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly revealed that it is working on 130 cryptocurrency-related investigations, citing an increase in illegal activity facilitated by crypto payments. These cases “encompass crimes such as human trafficking, illicit drug sales, kidnapping and ransomware attacks.
2018-6-28 10:10 | |
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An upcoming blockchain platform says it is determined to bring greater levels of transparency and accountability to the world of politics – creating a system where lawmakers and their policies are given scores by the electorate.
2018-6-15 15:35 | |
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