2020-5-31 20:01 |
Blockchains are flexible new forms of public infrastructure, says Michael Casey. Plus: with China rushing in, Africa is a prime battleground for the future of money. origin »
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Following the public declaration by Goldman Sachs that it does not support its customers to buy Bitcoin, Blockstream CEO Adam Back says this is a “good time to stack sats.” Goldman Sachs had earlier today said during a client-facing call, that cryptocurrencies are not a viable investment option for its clients considering the current industrial […]
2020-5-28 22:59 | |
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More people care more about their data and privacy than companies would like the public to believe.
2020-5-13 00:23 | |
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“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative. ” So says Joseph Goebbels,.
2020-5-3 00:44 | |
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Bank of China officially replies to the public about the digital Yuan and says it will not cause inflation
2020-4-20 01:00 | |
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Coinspeaker JNJ Stock Up 1%, Jim Cramer Says Johnson & Johnson Is Ahead of COVID-19 Vaccine GameAccording to Jim Cramer, Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine candidate will help the public overcome fears of going out and spending money on entertainment.
2020-4-16 12:17 | |
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Community transmission has fallen below one according to Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser. Meaning this is no longer spreading at the general public level, but it may.
2020-4-16 22:31 | |
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As the British Prime Minister assured a rattled public that his government would “do whatever it takes” to fight the coronavirus, the opposite is proving to be true. Well-known Bitcoin advocate and podcast host Peter McCormack says he’s been sick at home for 10 days–and still denied testing.
2020-3-18 13:20 | |
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Tor Ekeland made a career of defending hackers. Now he's defending a hacker's trove: a company with three billion images in its database.
2020-3-6 07:03 | |
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The U. K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is warning the public that crypto exchange platform, Kraken, is not authorized to operate in the country. FCA Issues Kraken Crypto Exchange Warning In a statement issued on its website on Tuesday (March 3, 2020), U.
2020-3-4 20:00 | |
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Former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theisman says Bitcoin is out of the public’s main financial focus
2020-1-31 02:26 | |
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The Bank of Japan must be ready to respond to technical developments and public sentiment about central bank digital currencies, its deputy governor says
2020-1-31 14:58 | |
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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says Petro — the state-issued crypto, will be a major focus of the country’s government in 2020. Despite previous attempts to promote utility for the national cryptocurrency, public tokens like Bitcoin (BTC) and Dash are seeing the most adoption within the economically troubled country.
2020-1-16 22:00 | |
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U.N. sanctions experts have warned the public against attending a cryptocurrency conference in North Korea
2020-1-16 12:26 | |
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Coinspeaker There Is No Such Thing as SEC-Approved IEO, Says SECThe U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Education and Advocacy office is warning the public that investing in IEOs may be highly risky and not much different from investing in ICOs.
2020-1-15 10:53 | |
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Plasma Group casts aside scalability research to focus on public goods funding
2020-1-11 14:53 | |
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Lowering the costs of private transactions in this way makes the public ethereum blockchain more competitive with private chains, EY says.
2019-12-19 15:11 | |
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Supply chain fintech startup Tradeshift, which boasts two million firms on its platform, says it's slashed the cost of cross-border transactions between buyers and suppliers using the public ethereum blockchain.
2019-12-18 17:00 | |
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Venezuelans including public sector workers, retirees and the military are set to receive a petro token handout this Christmas, so long as they register for the state's crypto payments platform.
2019-12-16 17:10 | |
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It may not be the time yet to have an electronic Swiss Franc for the population. The Swiss government considers that there are more risks than benefits in this digital currency that could eventually destabilize the financial system.
2019-12-14 19:25 | |
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is soliciting comments on “Designing a prudential treatment for crypto assets,” to improve the regulatory oversight by March 2020. The paper says, “These types of crypto-assets are not legal tender, and are not backed by any government or public authority.
2019-12-13 23:36 | |
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Grayscale says that its diversified crypto fund will launch for public trading soon — a supposed first in the U.S. — following regulatory approval
2019-11-22 21:47 | |
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The long anticipated launch of the ethereum 2.0 public testnet is not expected for at least another two weeks according to Danny Ryan, the ethereum 2.0 coordinator. In an eth2... The post “We Need Another Two Weeks” For Ethereum 2.0 Testnet Says Dev appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-11-9 22:31 | |
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A new European Union (EU) draft document says that the European Central Bank (ECB) should hasten progress towards issuing its own digital currency for use by the public ahead of Facebook’s Libra project.
2019-11-6 04:23 | |
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Crypto exchange LXDX to halt trading; planning new efforts - CryptoNinjas LXDX, a crypto derivatives exchange, announced it will be halting trading effective October 31st. The LXDX team says that it is not going anywhere, and is currently working on improvements to its technology in stealth mode, which will be made public in 2020.
2019-10-15 16:23 | |
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"Enterprises will not go on to the public mainnet without privacy and security," EY's Paul Brody told CoinDesk.
2019-10-16 13:01 | |
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“Enterprises will not go on to the public mainnet without privacy and security," EY's Paul Brody told Coindesk.
2019-10-15 13:01 | |
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Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) released Budget 2020 today, a monumental policy framework for the Malaysia economy over the fiscal year. However, the budget is more notable for the fact that the accompanying Economic Outlook 2020 section spoke about digital assets and the general public’s awareness of cryptocurrencies.
2019-10-11 14:36 | |
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Brad Garlinghouse has not only been successful in expanding Ripple’s potential as a payments giant, but has also made efforts towards making the technology accessible and understandable to the general public.
2019-10-11 23:30 | |
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Facebook’s digital currency Libra will not become a reality until at least 2023, the CEO of one of its would-be competitors says. Garlinghouse: I’d Bet Libra Fails To Launch In 3 Years In an interview with Fortune’s Balancing the Ledger on October 7, Ripple chief Brad Garlinghouse became the latest voice to go public with doubts about Libra.
2019-10-8 15:00 | |
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Recommended pre-reading: https://ethresear. ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413 Alice slowly walks down the old, dusty stairs of the building into the basement. She thinks wistfully of the old days, when quadratic-voting in the World Collective Market was a much simpler process of linking her public key to a twitter account and opening up metamask to start firing off votes.
2019-10-2 04:03 | |
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Earlier this week, star Nets player, Spencer Dinwiddie, announced that he had planned to turn his contract worth $34. 4 million into an investment, going public with an SD8 token offered by his company, DREAM Fan Shares.
2019-9-29 03:40 | |
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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 | |
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Benoit Coeure of the European Central Bank says that stablecoins like Libra pose serious risks to public policy priorities
2019-9-17 20:19 | |
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An appeals court situated in California, US, today said it’s not illegal to scrape data from public websites without any prior approval. Web scraping refers to the process of collecting large troves of data with the use of web crawlers – scripts designed to lift information from web pages.
2019-9-10 18:02 | |
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Telegram Open Network’s blockchain public testing to start on Sept. 1, says one of the investors
2019-8-31 11:20 | |
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The supposedly independent group of companies tasked with overseeing the delivery of Facebook‘s “cryptocurrency” Libra has announced a public bug bounty. In a blog post yesterday, the Libra association disclosed that its offering up to $10,000 to security researchers that find flaws and help tune up the Libra blockchain.
2019-8-28 10:29 | |
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Fidelity Charitable, an independent public charity foundation founded in 1991, is now receiving Ripple’s XRP as part of its donations. Also, the charity organization has received over $100 million in cryptocurrencies since it began accepting the asset class in 2015, according to its 2019 financial giving report.
2019-8-20 11:07 | |
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tZERO’s CEO says it will be opening up security trading to the public in four days, which is when its lock period ends
2019-8-9 02:15 | |
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Justin Sun, the founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON, has issued a public apology after postponing a highly publicized charity lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett. And it seems Sun is finally becoming aware of his “over-marketed hype.
2019-7-25 13:22 | |
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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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It’s official. Google has ended its quest to re-enter China with a modified search engine. The company‘s VP of public policy, Karan Bhatia, told the US Senate earlier this week that it has abandoned Project Dragonfly.
2019-7-18 12:16 | |
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Wow, just wow. Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has openly commented on Bitcoin and crypto assets. On Twitter no less. This is presumably the businessman-turned-most powerful man on Earth’s first public comment on the cryptocurrency space since he began his presidency.
2019-7-12 03:43 | |
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John McAfee doesn't want you to associate him with his eponymous antivirus software company. In a recent tweet, he asked the public to stop blaming him for McAfee antivirus software problems. He reminded followers that he hasn't been part of the company he built for the past 20 years.
2019-7-11 02:20 | |
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The blockchain and cryptocurrency services firm could soon to go public in the U.S. via a reverse IPO, a report says.
2019-7-10 12:46 | |
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Coinspeaker Bluff or Not? Telegram’s GRAM is Being Offered for Sale at Triple ICO PriceTelegram’s unreleased Gram tokens are set for sale to the public at a price three times of its private placement.
2019-7-4 12:20 | |
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Leaders across the crypto-ecosystem have been known to openly voice their opinion, often clearing the fog left by the mainstream media. With media attention getting stronger, crypto-technologists such as Andreas Antonopoulos have made more attention to shed light on the true aspects of the market.
2019-7-2 13:00 | |
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Bitcoin passing $10,000 is just the beginning of the bull run and the real parabolic phase will begin after $20,000, new research claims this week. Bitcoin Currently in ‘Stealth Phase’ According to the market analyst known on social media as CL, bitcoin returning to the significant $10,000 barrier is exciting for longstanding market participants, but not for the public.
2019-6-28 13:00 | |
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Crypto markets have come alive once again, now that Bitcoin price has once again recaptured the interest of the public who are now realizing they missed out on their chance to buy the bottom, and are FOMOing into the digital asset now that it’s breached above $10,000.
2019-6-28 04:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook has too much power to engage with a cryptocurrency, a United States senator has warned, days after the social media giant launched Libra. Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator from Ohio, told Bloomberg TV that the public has increasing concerns around the social network.
2019-6-22 16:38 | |
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Fitch’s downgrade of U.S. debt this week is a warning to American policymakers and r underscores why Bitcoin and other open monetary systems matter.
Central bank digital currencies will revolutionize how companies settle international trade and reduce the need for greenbacks in the world economy, says Michael Casey.
The SEC's lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase are likely to play out across the U.S.'s legal and political system over several years, says Michael Casey.
The U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status, usually seen as a source of American might, is now hindering the Federal Reserve’s monetary sovereignty.
Say what you will about the Fox News host, but he deserves credit for highlighting Bank of America’s transaction snooping, writes Marc Hochstein.
Bitcoin's recent surge shows the power of celebrity and how, like it or not, influencers create value in the modern economy.
It used to be that Wall Street dictated the big stories around finance. It’s unclear whether that’s still the case.