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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Blockchain could be key for ensuring user privacy in COVID-19 contact-tracing apps.
2020-8-7 17:40 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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South Africa’s Presidency believes blockchain could improve mining systems and reduce unemployment in the country
2020-3-13 06:38 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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It’s no secret that cryptocurrencies are not looked upon favorably by most major central banks across the world. Some crypto enthusiasts believe that central banks fear that the nascent technology could pose threats to existing monetary systems, while others believe that central banks will begin adopting the technology in the future.
2019-5-19 22:30 | |
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Many of our readers may have heard people saying that the blockchain industry has a lot of potential and that moving forward, peer-to-peer payment systems and smart contract solutions based on this technology could help rid the world of large banking conglomerates and other centralized institutions. However, as things stand, we only have a handful […]
2019-5-17 18:54 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
2019-5-14 04:03 | |
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High-end audio is catching up to the times. Where once audiophiles might scoff at wireless speakers, now industry stalwarts like Bowers and Wilkins, KEF, and others are exploring the convenience of streaming music and all-in-one systems.
2019-5-9 23:50 | |
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By CCN. com: In modern times, China has worked to consolidate state power over individuals. Local authorities are trialing systems to control peoples’ social standing, access to jobs, and even where they can go.
2019-5-7 15:53 | |
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Ledger, a crypto wallet startup, tweeted Friday, April 25, 2019, that they have detected a malware that could possibly replace the Ledger Live desktop application with a malicious one. “Only” a Phishing Attack After detecting the malware that had affected their systems, Ledger was quick to warn its users through their tweet.
2019-4-29 21:00 | |
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The latest edition of “Targeting scams,” an annual report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that the country saw a 190 percent increase in cryptocurrency scams, with a total of $6.
2019-4-30 20:07 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened.
2019-4-8 18:08 | |
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The President of the United Nation’s specialized agency for aviation has said that blockchain technology could offer tremendous benefits across global aviation systems
2019-4-4 13:06 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities.
2019-3-28 18:00 | |
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Exactpro, which tests software for stock exchanges, says it could be years before blockchains can safely connect to existing post-trade systems.
2019-3-25 15:00 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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Last night, Facebook revealed that it found a flaw in January in its systems that stored user passwords in plain text, which meant that anyone who had access to them could read those passwords without having to decrypt them.
2019-3-22 09:05 | |
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In January, IBM published a research study dubbed ‘Diversity in Faces‘ to explore whether AI-based systems developed biases against people based on their appearance. The company used a dataset consisting of nearly a million pictures of people’s faces from photo-hosting site Flickr.
2019-3-13 15:28 | |
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A bill proposed by the Texas legislature will require that all receivers of cryptocurrency in regular transactions verify the identity of the cryptocurrency sender before accepting any payment.
2019-3-12 01:04 | |
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