2020-10-26 21:34 |
As DeFi does away with middlemen in finance, "DeOps" could reduce the need for intermediaries in large-scale supply systems.
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2020-10-26 21:34 |
As DeFi does away with middlemen in finance, "DeOps" could reduce the need for intermediaries in large-scale supply systems.
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
The Financial Stability Board has warned that global stablecoins could pose systemic risks to the monetary systems of nation-states.
2020-10-15 06:46 | |
In a no-action letter dated Sept. 25 from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency has released guidance on the settlement of digital asset securities at alternative systems, which “could end up being significant news for exchanges, including DEXs.
2020-9-29 18:54 | |
Alternet Systems, Inc. today confirmed the company’s funding partner, RevoltTOKEN will present a comprehensive update next Wednesday, September 2, 2020 on the $100 million transaction...
2020-8-29 11:04 | |
Blockchain could be key for ensuring user privacy in COVID-19 contact-tracing apps.
2020-8-7 17:40 | |
Federal Reserve economists disclose that project Libra’s ability to disrupt economies may have significantly been “overestimated” and overstated by policymakers. The report released on Monday shut down the extremist's statements that the earlier version of one Libra stablecoin could replace the global economic systems as we know them today. The report arose from a prototype […]
2020-6-23 21:36 | |
A representative of LG’s information technology subsidiary LG CNS told Cointelegraph that blockchain-based identity systems could replace all login functions.
2020-6-3 20:30 | |
This week, Central banks got recommendations to heavily regulate, if not ban, stablecoins. The recommendations were outlined by the Financial Stability Board (FSB). This organization makes recommendations about financial systems to central banks and finance ministers of G20 member countries.
2020-4-19 21:51 | |
Since the covid-19 outbreak wreaked havoc across the world’s economies, the global multinational investment bank Deutsche Bank has been encouraging the use of digital currencies. The firm’s Twitter account and macro strategist Marion Laboure have been tweeting regularly about how coronavirus infection risks could “accelerate digital payment systems across the world.
2020-4-8 09:30 | |
The 2008 financial crisis that came about from a mortgage default-driven housing market collapse still lives strong in the memory for most — especially Bitcoiners. It was this crisis that inspired Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin as a hedge against similar catastrophes from centralized banking systems in the future.
2020-4-7 01:10 | |
With paywall systems for a whole bevy of assets, crypto payments could revolutionize the media industry – if demand actually matched supply.
2020-4-1 22:50 | |
South Africa’s Presidency believes blockchain could improve mining systems and reduce unemployment in the country
2020-3-13 06:38 | |
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused financial systems to go into chaos. Global Monetary systems are under tremendous pressure. The cash and credit system is taking the heat. It seems like it may weather the storm.
2020-3-7 14:18 | |
Lightning-based fiat-bitcoin systems could popularize crypto payments, as long as fraud and bitcoin's non-reversibility don't get in the way.
2020-2-26 08:00 | |
On Feb 5th during a sit down with Stanford University dean, Federal Reserve governor, Lael Brainard was optimistic at the possibility of launching their own digital currency. They are in the process of analyzing a wide array of concerns they could potentially face including policy and legal concerns.
2020-2-6 17:48 | |
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 gamThe post Developers increasingly exploring what blockchain could do for gaming systems appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-13 01:30 | |
Coinspeaker Illinois Finally Recognizes Blockchain ContractsThe law will help companies looking to utilize blockchain-based records systems. However, the law’s wording is vague in some places, so that it could face legal challenges.Illinois Finally Recognizes Blockchain Contracts
2020-1-10 10:47 | |
A digital currency could be used by the European Central Bank (ECB) in order to improve payments around the world. According to a document released by the ECB, adoption of this digital asset could be accelerated due to the lower cash usage in several countries.
2019-12-5 22:12 | |
Global stablecoins could exacerbate existing risks to the “autonomy and resilience of European payments systems,” says the ECB’s Benoit Coeure
2019-11-26 15:50 | |
Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
Pemex is required to pay the Bitcoin ransom within two weeks or face paying double after. About 5% of the computers have been affected by the DoppelPaymer software. The oil giant’s billing systems are the most impacted and could lead to delays in paying salaries.
2019-11-14 14:07 | |
The economic and financial news this year has been grim to say the least. As central banks battle to keep their monetary systems afloat, global debt is skyrocketing to an unsustainable level. A massive paradigm shift is needed and Ethereum could be part of it.
2019-11-12 13:00 | |
A recent large-scale malvertising attack identified by the TrendMicro security intelligence team has seen thousands of individuals around the world targeted by a sophisticated cryptojacking network.
2019-10-25 11:00 | |
Cyborgs are no longer science fiction. The field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) – which use electrodes, often implanted into the brain, to translate neuronal information into commands capable of controlling external systems such as a computer or robotic arm – have actually been around for some time.
2019-10-18 10:59 | |
Stablecoins could present a significant risk to global financial stability but hold promise for payment systems, says G7 report
2019-10-18 04:51 | |
Bitcoin is a revolutionary new technology that has taken the world by storm, and could not only disrupt modern financial systems, but it could also go on to replace all fiat currencies and become the sole digital currency used across the globe.
2019-10-9 23:00 | |
If you believe conspiracy theories, then you already know that elites hate bitcoin. Bitcoin disrupts the trillion-dollar global banking system. It frees individuals from state-run currency systems.
2019-10-8 01:37 | |
Libra has been a wake-up call for banks to consider major issues in global payment systems, an ECB board member says
2019-9-26 21:18 | |
Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.
2019-9-24 04:03 | |
Medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world, including echocardiograms and X-rays, are stored on insecure servers that did not have basic security precautions in place, a new investigation by ProPublica has found.
2019-9-18 10:04 | |
David Marcus, known as the head of Calibra, the company in charge of Facebook’s Libra stablecoin, has recently decided to respond to the prominent concerns that Libra could affect the sovereignty of national fiat currencies.
2019-9-16 20:44 | |
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new strain of the nefarious Glupteba malware that uses the Bitcoin blockchain to ensure it remains dangerous. TrendMicro’s latest blog details the previously undocumented variant which is capable of invading systems to mine Monero cryptocurrency and steal sensitive browser data like passwords and cookies.
2019-9-4 17:09 | |
The US government is looking to protect voter registration databases and systems from ransomware threats ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — a division of the Homeland Security department instituted by president Donald Trump in November last year — fears the databases could be at the receiving end of a ransomware attack.
2019-8-27 09:31 | |
Proponents of nanotechnology say it will revolutionize farming and global food systems, with applications being explored that could cut waste, make food safer and help create ‘super crops’ that escape the controversial label of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
2019-8-24 12:00 | |
Centralized companies leaking data has become somewhat commonplace in recent years, and that is only slated to only get worse. With more and more of our lives online, we need systems in place to protect our digital information.
2019-8-19 00:22 | |
Public schools across the US continue to spend millions implementing AI-powered surveillance solutions alleged to prevent or mitigate violence. The only problem: most of them don’t work. US schools now rival China’s when it comes to ubiquitous surveillance, yet our students remain at the highest risk for violence among developed nations.
2019-7-24 01:18 | |
Bitcoin has been at the center of everyone’s attention since the inception of the cryptosphere. Though it is to be expected due to the novel nature of distributed ledger systems and blockchain technology, one has to be able to see what next is coming so as to catch the next crypto wave.
2019-7-21 11:38 | |
PointPay is creating a fundamentally new product that combines three services in a single closed-loop ecosystem: PointPay Crypto Bank, PointPay Crypto Exchange platform and PointPay Multi-currency Wallet.
2019-7-18 11:03 | |
The continuous increase in the use of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has largely been adversarial to the currently used traditional methods of payment and financial solutions in general.
2019-7-17 16:40 | |
With Bitcoin getting mainstream recognition, there has been a lot of institutional onboarding into digital assets. Giants like Facebook, J. P. Morgan, Amazon, Alibaba, Microsoft, and others from all industrial sectors have started to look towards these assets as something that could potentially help solve problems in existing systems, ranging from payments, transfer of value etc.
2019-7-10 17:30 | |
Bitcoin (BTC) prints new 2019 highs Eventually, blockchain based platforms will replace legacy bank-based systems Overly, there is a changing view of what Bitcoin is. The entry of Facebook could open doors for Wall Street corporations.
2019-6-23 17:00 | |
Bitcoin (BTC) prints new 2019 highs Eventually, blockchain based platforms will replace legacy bank-based systems Overly, there is a changing view of what Bitcoin is. The entry of Facebook could open doors for Wall Street corporations.
2019-6-22 17:00 | |
The rise of cryptocurrency has forced many both within and outside the crypto industry to reconsider the current financial systems that have existed in the past and whether they can continue to exist within the future.
2019-6-21 22:07 | |
Eagle-eyed researchers from streaming titan Netflix have uncovered several troubling security vulnerabilities within the TCP implementations on Linux and FreeBSD kernels. The most severe specimen, called SACK Panic, could permit an attacker to remotely induce a kernel panic within recent Linux operating systems.
2019-6-18 22:36 | |
Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
By CCN: Deutsche Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann has added a dampener to discussions on central bank digital currencies (CBDC), claiming they would destabilize financial systems and worsen bank runs.
2019-6-9 13:15 | |
By CCN: According to self-declared Bitcoin creator Craig Wright, everyone who runs a Lightning node, uses privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero, or uses mixing services like CashShuffle will be guilty of money laundering and eventually suffer the brutal legal consequences.
2019-6-5 19:15 | |
The head of Germany's central bank has said central bank digital currencies could destabilize financial systems and worsen bank runs.
2019-6-3 16:04 | |
The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
An unnamed man from Killara in New South Wales, Australia, is being charged by the Australian authorities for making use of government computer systems to mine cryptocurrencies for self-gain. The man, formerly an Australian government employee, worked as an IT contractor and has been accused of converting government computers into cryptocurrency mining devices.
2019-5-21 19:30 | |