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Bitcoin is a lifeboat for escaping a broken system, but one needs to understand that system in order to see that. origin »
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In order to understand Bitcoin’s potential role in the future, we must understand the monetary system of the present.
2022-9-3 05:00 | |
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This is an intermediate to an expert level article on NFTs. If you only want to understand the first things about it, scroll to the end, or alternatively find a beginner level feature. Everybody wants big-league gains but ain’t willing to do what it takes to deserve it.
2021-1-1 18:24 | |
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Credits. com, the blockchain-based payment system, launched its two innovative mobile wallets for iOS and Android users at once – the CS Crypto Wallet and the Credits Neobank. The company’s expertise enables it to better understand the users’ requests for providing a multi-functional service that meets security and efficiency issues.
2020-7-31 15:45 | |
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Open protocols can help reform the financial system, says our columnist. But they need to come with safeguards consumers understand.
2020-6-23 16:04 | |
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Human trafficking affects every country in the world. In fact, estimates say that 20-40 million people are enslaved across the globe, earning criminals profits of approximately $150 billion a year.
2019-10-14 14:37 | |
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When we say something is ‘Apple,’ we all understand what that means, right? It might be hard to precisely define, but — and to paraphrase former United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart — we know it when we see it.
2019-10-8 16:27 | |
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IOTA has recently announced $5 million in grants that would research Coordicide, described as a system that focuses on permissionless and scalable distributed ledger technology (DLT). The main goal behind said endeavor is to better understand how to implement it and additional contributions that can help fortify its presence within the IOTA ecosystem. The team […]
2019-8-12 18:01 | |
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Animals around the world are seeing their environments change. Climate change is causing heating and changes to weather patterns, the oceans are becoming more acidic, and previously undisturbed habitats are being altered and degraded by human activities.
2019-8-3 18:00 | |
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Cloud system admins are bringing home impressive salaries -- and with the training in these nine courses, featuring over 32 hours of content, you can begin to understand, use and even master this critical platform.
2019-6-27 14:00 | |
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Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals.
2019-6-22 12:39 | |
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Professionals firmly believe that cryptocurrency will form the basis of an alternative financial system that will be relevant to billions of people. Yet, today there are still many that don’t know about or understand cryptocurrency.
2019-6-18 11:46 | |
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Coinspeaker These 7 Tools Will Help You Calculate Your Crypto TaxesIt takes a genuine accounting guru to understand how the new system functions, but you can cut the long story short by using one of many apps or platforms developed to calculate crypto taxes.
2019-6-8 09:30 | |
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By CCN: The Associated Press got dragged on Twitter after issuing its ridiculous style rules for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. In short, the AP guidelines underscored that the self-proclaimed editorial style gurus don’t understand crypto at all.
2019-5-31 18:13 | |
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At the time when Satoshi Nakamoto first projected bitcoin in 2008, the very first statement on the system was made by James A. Donald, and it states: “the way I understand your proposal, it does not seem to scale to the required size.
2019-5-19 22:02 | |
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Federal tax season just passed in the United States, but if you’re one to leave responsibility to the wayside and had to apply for an extension, that might just pay off.
2019-5-1 23:39 | |
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Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server).
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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What Is Auto Trading Hub (ATH)? To begin with, the ATH proposition is misleading because they are imploring investors with a free automated trading system, which they claim will enable them to make money.
2019-4-9 09:27 | |
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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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As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-3-20 18:42 | |
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has apparently been specifically targeting bitcoin and crypto investors as part of its broader tax strategy to keep tabs on their cryptocurrency investments, including how they purchase these assets.
2019-3-9 23:53 | |
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If you consider yourself a Mac power user, then you understand much of your device's functionality comes from the apps you choose to install on it. But, the app market is a vast place, and finding the tools that are worth your time can be a challenge amidst all the clutter.
2019-2-26 16:00 | |
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Does The US Education System Fail To Cover Personal Finance Challenges? Millennials Want More Stock Market Understand CCN’s recent post explored the education system in the US. Captivatingly, they find that more emphasis has been placed on STEM courses, with very little exposure to what students can expect in the real world (https://www.
2019-2-24 00:19 | |
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The vast majority of US millennials wish that they had learned more about the stock market and other financial matters in high school, and they say that the education system failed to prepare them for real-world challenges related to personal finance.
2019-2-23 19:33 | |
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When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary.
2019-2-5 23:06 | |
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Our current economic system can be compared to a merry-go-round that has us consuming, trapped in debt and spending as quickly as we earn. What is fiat currency? Why do we use it and who controls it? And how does it compare to gold and bitcoin? It is worth going back to basics, to better understand […] The post Back to Basics: What Is Money? appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-1-29 23:00 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending money, all the way to contributing to what’s underneath the hood.
2019-1-16 01:14 | |
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Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
2019-1-11 21:17 | |
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The United States Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) has launched interactive tools targeted at making it easier for supply chain professionals to understand and effectively use distributed ledger technology (DLT) according to a press release on December 3, 2018.
2018-12-7 21:00 | |
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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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It’s almost certain, based on current research trends, that an artificial brain will replicate the organic pain experience in its entirety one day. So here’s a thought experiment: if a tree falls in the forest, and it lands on a robot with an artificial nervous system connected to an artificial brain running an optimized pain recognition algorithm, is the tree guilty of assault or vandalism? A team of scientists from Cornell University recently published research indicating they’d successfully replicated proprioception in a soft robot.
2018-12-1 23:19 | |
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When the towers in New York fell, I became obsessed with economics. I wanted to follow the money to understand what happened on that dreadful day. During that time of inquiry, I found myself very interested in Austrian economic theory.
2018-11-21 19:26 | |
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South Korea’s leading technology university, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is working with Theta Labs, the first blockchain-based video delivery system, to introduce students to an entirely new set of coursework regarding the applications of blockchain technology.
2018-11-15 01:26 | |
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International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts.
2018-11-13 00:43 | |
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In market boosting news, the Bank of Canada (BoC) is building a proof-of-concept system with help from the private sector and academia. The objective, is to help them (BoC) better understand new financial technologies of which blockchain and DLT is top priority.
2018-10-31 15:57 | |
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Season 2 of Distributed Dialogues has begun, and a general theme will be the connection of major, real-world problems to possible solutions using blockchain technology.
2018-10-25 20:41 | |
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The Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) has released a new report suggesting that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recommend to the European Commission that it regulate the cryptocurrency space with existing legislation rather than instilling new rules and laws.
2018-10-23 00:41 | |
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Alfred Nobel died with regrets. After making a fortune off of explosives, he indicated in his will that his fortune should be used to make a prize awarded each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
2018-10-23 23:22 | |
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By now, it’s highly likely that most of us understand how Blockchain technology has dramatically changed and how the world operates considerably. The Blockchain system is an openly distributed digital ledger technology behind the cryptocurrency industry.
2018-10-13 04:24 | |
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Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
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The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.
2018-10-10 23:38 | |
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You don’t need to be an agriculture expert to see the writing on the wall. Current farming methods just aren’t working anymore for most farmers of the world. There are 2 billion smallholder farms managing fewer than five acres (PDF).
2018-10-9 20:10 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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Monero has officially released its Malware Response Workgroup website yesterday. In an effort to help protect Monero’s community, the website aims to provide resources to educate about the types of malware that may take advantage of users.
2018-9-29 23:18 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-25 19:47 | |
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Bitcoin is in the news, and we’ve all seen the stories about early investors who’ve made millions and driven away in new lambos. So it’s only natural that people who haven’t invested already are wondering if they should.
2018-9-21 19:18 | |
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ConsenSys Social Impact — a program designed to build blockchain-based solutions for global humanitarian issues — is partnering with MakerDAO and optiMize to launch a new Blockchain for Social Impact Incubator at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
2018-9-20 01:55 | |
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Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.
2018-9-15 21:50 | |
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