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Fear of Libra’s Stablecoin Replacing Domestic Currencies Is Greatly “Overstated:” Fed Reserve

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 […] дальше »

2020-6-23 21:36


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Deutsche Bank Envisions Post Covid-19 Economy Accelerating Digital Payments

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. дальше »

2020-4-8 09:30


Developers increasingly exploring what blockchain could do for gaming systems

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. дальше »

2020-1-13 01:30


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Why US public schools’ creepy use of surveillance AI should frighten you

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. дальше »

2019-7-24 01:18


Libra and others that follow it will establish exchange relations with major currencies, says former PBoC Governor

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. дальше »

2019-7-10 17:30


Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

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. дальше »

2019-6-14 04:03


Illegal crypto-mining: Australian man could face 10 years in jail for illegally mining cryptocurrencies using government devices

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. дальше »

2019-5-21 19:30


European Central Bank: Crypto Currently Has No Significant Implications for Monetary Policy

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. дальше »

2019-5-19 22:30


Ripple Insights on Why Blockchain Needs to be More Than Just a Technology with ‘Potential’…

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 […] дальше »

2019-5-17 18:54


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Crypto Wallet Manufacturer Ledger Detects Malware Targeting its Desktop Application

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. дальше »

2019-4-29 21:00


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Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem

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. дальше »

2019-3-23 17:29