2020-9-19 20:06 |
The bill sought to renew Germans' trust in their government's ability to keep megaproject spending under control. origin »
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A tech startup building on the Ardor blockchain has received a tranche of a $26M Covid-19 grant awarded by government ministries. A-Trust GmbH, the Austrian Trust Center which manages the digital identity of Austrian citizens, is the recipient of a ˆ60,000 grant for developing QualiSig.
2020-6-18 10:53 | |
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Buying Bitcoin is so far the best way to bet against the government in its handling of money. As Satoshi intended, it is where money and state separate. While it was born in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis when all trust in government was lost, world governments have been masking their financial and […]
2020-6-12 18:47 | |
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Bitcoin and gold are “too speculative” and it’s better for investors to trust the government to pay them back, claims Peter Mallouk.
2020-5-22 12:12 | |
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NITI Aayog — the Indian government’s Policy Commission has submitted a national blockchain strategy describing the emerging technology as “the new trust paradigm. ” The government think tank is the latest state authority in the country to call for greater utilization of decentralized ledger technology (DLT) within India.
2020-2-4 22:00 | |
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The South Korean government is mulling imposing taxes on capital gains arising out of cryptocurrency transactions – including Bitcoin (BTC) – reports The Korea Times, December 9, 2019. South Korean Authorities Taming the Crypto Conundrum In their short history, cryptocurrencies haven’t exactly been able to earn the trust of a large number of financial watchdogsRead MoreRead More.
2019-12-9 18:00 | |
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Zimbabwe rolls out new currency but limits weekly withdrawals. Hyperinflation makes it difficult for Zimbabweans to trust their government. Bitcoin appears to be the perfect solution as it eliminates the need to trust an authority like the government.
2019-11-14 18:40 | |
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When the Australian Federal Environment Minister, Sussan Ley, went snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef in August, she told waiting reporters on the shore that she’d seen “amazing wildlife, fish, turtles, clams…a reef teeming with life.
2019-10-3 15:43 | |
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In an age of ever-growing mistrust in the majority of our interactions with banks, the media, government and the advertising and marketing industries have become prevalent, blockchain provides trust.
2019-9-1 18:33 | |
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Google and Mozilla stepped up their efforts to block Kazakhstan’s government from intercepting web traffic within the country. In a joint announcement made today, the two companies said they are deploying a technical solution to prevent the use of ‘Qaznet Trust Network’ root CA certificate in Chrome and Firefox.
2019-8-21 15:40 | |
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Facebook’s cryptocurrency initiative being subjected to criticism from lawmakers, despite being backed by industry giants, depicts the prevailing lack of trust between the social media giant and the government, owing to its “disregard for user privacy” as US Senator Maxine Waters put it.
2019-6-22 17:30 | |
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a government employee alleged to have misused government IT infrastructure for personal cryptomining operations, per a press release.
2019-5-22 18:47 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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By CCN: Craig Wright’s attorneys successfully met the deadline by which he was required to submit a list of bitcoin addresses associated with the Tulip Trust, presumably proving whether or not he is Satoshi Nakamoto.
2019-5-9 01:05 | |
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New York’s Police Department (NYPD) is alerting the public about phone scammers posing as Social Security Administration officials and requesting payment in Bitcoin, prepaid gift cards, and bank wire transfers.
2019-5-2 13:05 | |
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Since the whittling away of the power and stability of the gold standard in, depending on where you're from (1925 in the UK to 1971 if you're in the USA) and its replacement with a system of tethered trust in the government responsible for the issuance of the currency (Bank of England – UK and […]
2019-4-27 05:57 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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A rising pressure exists the world over for governments to simplify user experience on their websites. Both business/employee and general public portals have been known to be over-complicated, bureaucratic messes that could take up hours of time or days of back and forth interactions with multiple departments in order to gain access to what you […]
2019-4-5 01:38 | |
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Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.
2019-3-28 19:04 | |
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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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Yet another journey to launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has begun. According to a published notice, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun reviewing a proposed rule change for a bitcoin ETF filed by NYSE Arca and Bitwise.
2019-2-18 18:46 | |
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Last month, Iran lifted its ban on Bitcoin to make way for its ‘crypto rial’. Now Iranian authorities have launched PayMon cryptocurrency supposedly backed by national gold reserves. Except, it’s not really cryptocurrency after all since there’s nothing peer-to-peer about it and you still need to trust an intermediary (i.
2019-2-15 01:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency is useless to anyone other than nefarious groups or individuals trying to move money without being noticed by the government. This is apparently the cutting-edge opinion of Harvard University cryptographer and technology researcher Bruce Schneier.
2019-2-9 21:30 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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Cboe have withdrawn their proposed rule change to list shares of the SolidX Bitcoin Shares issued by the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust. The notice was published today to the SEC’s website, stating that BZX withdrew the proposed rule change yesterday, January 22, 2019.
2019-1-24 22:43 | |
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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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Latest Ripple News Aside from government regulators, companies are monitoring the space. Crypto as a Bank of International Settlement representative said is an “evil spawn of a crisis”. By design, coins are meant to supplement and even replace traditional government-issued currencies.
2018-12-22 18:00 | |
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BlockFihttps://bitcoinmagazine. com/articles/blockfi-gives-hodlers-another-option-borrow-against-crypto-assets/, the New York-based startup that provides crypto collateralized loans, has raised additional funds to expand its services.
2018-12-14 01:12 | |
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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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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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This story about a rejected government offer was written by Tomas Forgac, friend of Bitcoin. com, early Bitcoin investor and entrepreneur, now focusing on Bitcoin Cash adoption and growth. *** An unnamed pro-crypto government recently gave Bitcoin.
2018-11-27 17:00 | |
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Edward Snowden, The famous Whistle-blower, known for revealing the existence of PRISM, a clandestine program of mass espionage perpetrated by the U. S. government on its own people, was interviewed a few days ago by Ben Wizner for McSweeney’s magazine, The End of Trust (McSweeney’s Issue 54).
2018-11-25 22:53 | |
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How far can you trust the institutions and organizations that hold your sensitive medical information? Earlier this month, the Canadian government fined the manager of a pharmacy for using the provincial Drug Information System to snoop on the confidential medical history of friends, family, and coworkers.
2018-10-17 10:54 | |
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Here are a few of the most significant signs that the bulls are getting ready to break out and stampede on the markets. Five years ago, the industry didn’t have as many investors as we see today and most mainstream media wouldn’t have given any crypto related news the light of day.
2018-10-11 21:30 | |
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Currency is a universal representation of trust created by humans. So much so that we don’t even ask why two pieces of paper with green, gold, and black ink is accepted as a medium of exchange for goods and services.
2018-10-6 21:30 | |
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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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This past week saw a flurry of reports and analyses released by various agencies and companies, speculating on the roles — past and present — of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.
2018-9-29 20:00 | |
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On September 24, 2018, MIT Connection Science and IBM issued a 41-page joint report on the results of three roundtable discussions on the role of Blockchain in government.
2018-9-27 22:12 | |
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Blockchain reduces paper processes, speeds up transaction times, increases efficiencies and builds trust among participants to a transaction, according to Sept. 23 IBM report on how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can improve how the federal government does business.
2018-9-26 23:15 | |
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WhatsApp has appointed a ‘grievance officer’ to address complaints concerning the spread of fake news and misinformation on its platform in India, reports the Press Trust of India on NDTV. This comes in response to the government’s demands from earlier in the year, following a nationwide string of lynchings believed to be incited by false information shared on WhatsApp.
2018-9-24 10:36 | |
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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.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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This past week has seen progress in two aspects of Bitcoin: privacy and payments. Attitudes toward blockchain technology are also showing progress as two surveys reveal.
2018-9-1 02:06 | |
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The World Bank and Australia's largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, have issued a public bond exclusively through the blockchain. The $100 million AUD ($73.
2018-8-25 23:16 | |
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Paragon, a blockchain company that develops seed-to-sale tracking solutions for the marijuana industry, is joining hands with Civic Technologies Inc. , a digital identity firm, to bring secure and trusted identity services to Paragon’s digital community.
2018-8-16 19:48 | |
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In a message on GEAR Token’s website, iconic political talk show host Larry King says that global climate change is threatening humanity’s existence and is “a potentially catastrophic issue from the combustion of fossil fuels .
2018-8-13 18:08 | |
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First, let’s remember Satoshi’s words: “We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust” Snapping back to reality and lest we forget, cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin are alternatives to the government backed fiat currencies.
2018-8-11 17:31 | |
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ConsenSys, the Ethereum production studio based in the U. S. , launched ConsenSys Ventures last year selecting Kavita Gupta to run two funds of $50 million and $100 million.
2018-8-6 17:40 | |
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The crypto industry has received another boost with the entry of financial services giant Northern Trust in a quiet but significant move. The firm, which manages over $10.
2018-8-3 23:41 | |
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The problem of trust in crypto economics, the risks of private investors in cryptocurrency market are just some of the issues discussed during the two-week summer blockchain courses at the Finance University working under the Government of the Russian Federation.
2018-7-31 18:31 | |
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Tether has announced the expansion of its USDT token to an eighth blockchain.
The FMA reports two-thirds of the investment fraud reports filed in 2020 were related to cryptocurrency and digital currency trading products.
This is the second bitcoin ETF approved to trade in Canada.
Geely will own 80% of the venture while Concordium will own the rest.
Gates has previously criticized cryptocurrencies and said he'd short bitcoin "if there was an easy way to do it."
A new tie-up with payments firm Klarna brings the exchange access to more than 5,000 banks across Europe.
Local firm Bitcoin Suisse has partnered with the canton of Zug, converting cryptocurrency tax payments into Swiss francs.