[Op-Ed] The curse of permabulls: Why you need to stop listening to Bitcoin maximalists

Those new to the crypto industry often find themselves torn between two extreme views. With a war going on between those shilling Bitcoin’s supremacy and those rooting for its demise, which party should you listen to? How Bitcoin divided the world Envisioned as the ultimate solution to the problem of global currencies, Bitcoin is regarded […] The post [Op-Ed] The curse of permabulls: Why you need to stop listening to Bitcoin maximalists appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Norbert Goffa on Global Blockchain Adoption, Going Against the Mainstream and Solving the Scalability Problem [Interview]

What does the future of the blockchain hold? Will it ever be fully adopted by our society as the next generation way of storing data, or will the limitations of the technology get the better of it? We’ve discussed these issues — and a few more — with Norbert Goffa, co-founder and Executive Manager of […] The post Norbert Goffa on Global Blockchain Adoption, Going Against the Mainstream and Solving the Scalability Problem [Interview] appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Low Interest Rates Are Crushing Young People and Fueling Global Riots

There are currently riots going on in Chile, Hong Kong and Lebanon. While in every place they are caused by complex local issues, there is a global problem that is an underlying trend: low interest rates which make it impossible for young people to save for their future and at the same time push housing […] The post Low Interest Rates Are Crushing Young People and Fueling Global Riots appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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A psychotherapist explains why some adults react badly to young climate strikers

Young climate strikers I spoke to recently are confused and distressed about the things adults are doing. It’s not just inaction during the worsening climate crisis that bothers them, but the increasingly bizarre criticism many older people throw at striking schoolchildren, in the media and elsewhere.

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Tezos is bullish and slightly undervalued, claims researcher

Nate Maddrey, a Researcher for crypto-asset data analytics firm Coin Metrics, recently gave a talk at the TQuorum Global Summit, and analysed Tezos’ activity using on-chain data. According to Maddrey, it is difficult to measure usage on blockchain, but the main way Coin Metrics approaches this problem is by looking at the number of addresses […] The post Tezos is bullish and slightly undervalued, claims researcher appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Craig Wright and Nouriel Roubini agree that centralization isn’t a problem that needs solving

Crypto critic Nouriel Roubini faced off with some of the industry’s biggest proponents during the CC Forum conference in London but surprisingly found common ground with one of the most controversial figures in the space—Craig Wright.

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Circle Bids Farewell To Poloniex: Poloniex Bids Farewell To The U.S.

It’s always hard to say goodbye to an ex- in which you’ve invested so much… but Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire seems to have no problem with dumping the baggage. Circle has announced that it is “doubling down” on efforts to “build a more open, global and accessible financial system” – and that as part of […] The post Circle Bids Farewell To Poloniex: Poloniex Bids Farewell To The U.S. appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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‘Ripple solves the problem of making global commerce more efficient’

With Ripple taking the lead in the field of innovation, the company’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse has been featuring in a series of interviews lately to clarify Ripple’s position in the market and its intentions with XRP.

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Bitcoin to Shine Once Liquidity Crisis Gets Triggered

The global dollar shortage is a looming crisis that doesn’t get much media attention. Instead, we keep hearing about the trade war and the seesawing stock market but almost nobody talks about the biggest problem that overshadows them all.

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OKEx pushing for global cryptocurrency exchange standards through self-regulated organization

OKEx launched an initiative to develop a global compliance standard for cryptocurrency exchanges. This will be done through a self-regulated organization whose members will work together to define and adopt these standards.

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Study: Weaponized misinformation from political parties is now a global problem

Social media, a tool created to guard freedom of speech and democracy, has increasingly been used in more sinister ways. From its role in amplifying political disinformation in elections, to inciting online violence, and lowering the levels of trust in media — Facebook isn’t just a space to share “what’s on your mind,” and you’d be naive to believe so.

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Liquidity Difficulties in China: Second Bank Bail-Out Now Reality

Although it has its peculiarities, the Chinese banking sector now faces similar challenges to the west’s financial system. Dozens of small banks have been experiencing liquidity difficulties in the past few months.

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Rising Use of Crypto ATMs for Crime-Related Finance Sparks Global Regulatory Concerns

The EU has specific laws and regulations regarding financial activity especially as they pertain to money laundering. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that there’s a slight problem in the extent of the law regarding Bitcoin ATMs.

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Bridging the Gap Between Bitcoin and Global Regulators

We need to solve the communication problem between crypto projects and regulators to build a healthy ecosystem, writes Shin'ichirio Matsuo.

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Elon Musk’s Satellite Army Could Solve Multiplayer Gaming’s Biggest Problem

By CCN: Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites a few days ago as part of an ambitious project providing global access to a supercharged internet that will potentially solve online gaming’s largest issue.

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Hyperledger Sawtooth: Performance Problem and the way to solve it

The Hyperledger global initiative within the Open Source movement, bringing together hundreds of technology giants [for example, Huawei, Intel, and Samsung], startups [Blockstream, Lykke, Consensys] and solutions [Netki, Factom, bloq], has become a real push for the entire blockchain industry in forming not only a strong community but also a completely different perception of technology […] The post Hyperledger Sawtooth: Performance Problem and the way to solve it appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Is Manipulation a Problem With All Financial Markets or Is It Deeper With Crypto?

The cryptocurrency industry is one that’s as promising as it has been plagued. Over the years, there have been a thousand and one different innovations that serve one purpose or another either to improve the general effectiveness and efficiency of the market in general or as a push towards the global adoption of not just […] The post Is Manipulation a Problem With All Financial Markets or Is It Deeper With Crypto? appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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Op Ed: 3 Reasons Why Crypto Has an Exchange Problem

While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.

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IBM’s Call For Code hackathon takes aim at California’s wildfire problem

IBM and 42 Silicon Valley are hosting a hackathon in early May to come up with solutions to California’s wildfire problem. The company hopes to get developers, engineers, designers, and emergency-responders together to brainstorm solutions as part of its annual Call For Code challenge.

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Healthereum: Blockchain Healthcare Platform?

What Is Healthereum? Healthereum is a blockchain-based company that aims to empower patients and providers with a global blockchain healthcare rewards platform. What are the rewards? Members of the Healthereum stand to gain various rewards including HEALTH, the utility token, and the glue of the Healthereum ecosystem. The Problem and the Healthereum Solution The team […]

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Rise of Mining Efficiency

The problem of improving the energy efficiency of mining has already matured in 2015, becoming by 2019 an acute problem of the industry, which cast doubt on any prospects for further development. The share of mining cryptocurrency in global power consumption by 2019 represents a percentage of global power consumption.

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With Latest Partnership, Ledger Vault Offers a Fix to Crypto’s Custody Problem

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).

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Okta Unveil $50 Million Fund for Blockchain Powered Identity Solutions

Okta, a leading provider of secure identity management solutions for enterprises, has announced the launch of Okta Ventures, a $50 million investment fund whose primary objective is to invest in and nurture new technologies that could solve the problem of security, privacy and identity theft across the global technology landscape, according to a press releaseRead MoreRead More.

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Bitcoin at $5,000: What Has Changed Since 2017

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olusegun Ogundeji. Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 price range again (after its first reach to that level in 2017) following a sudden breakout on April 2, 2019.

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Биржа CoinBene заявила, что средства пользователей в безопасности, но сомнения остаются

Криптовалютная биржа CoinBene, которая оказалась в центре внимания сообщества из-за незапланированных технических работ, заявила, что средства пользователей находятся в безопасности. #Announcement ‼ Somebody doubt CoinBene was attacked by hacker recently because our maintenance.

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The Future of Cryptocurrency ATMs: An In-depth Look at the Next 5 Years of Global Adoption

The cryptocurrency adoption fever hit an all-time high pitch at the end of 2017 when the industry witnessed a pump in the prices of their favorite cryptocurrencies. However, since then the overall demand has reduced significantly despite an increase in the number of digital asset wallet holders.

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Norwegian Fund Hosts $7 Billion Mega-Sale of Energy Companies

The Norwegian Sovereign Fund has announced a $7 billion sale of shares for 134 exploratory fossil fuel and energy companies. Norway owns the largest sovereign fund in the world, the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), which is valued at over $1 trillion.

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Fortnite Mastermind Tim Sweeney Defends EOS Blockchain Bloat

Gaming mogul Tim Sweeney, best known these days for founding the company behind Fortnite, made the unusual decision to defend the size of the EOS blockchain in a tweet today. What’s wrong with 4TB for a global transaction ledger? That fits on a $200 hard drive.

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Age of Scale: How Can Blockchain Systems Become Powerful Enough for a Global Audience?

Blockchain technology is facing a serious scalability issue, and sorting it out might not be as easy as some think. What are some of the proposed approaches to solving the problem?

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New BitGo Partnership Lets Clients Trade Crypto Directly From Cold Storage

American crypto wallet and custodial firm BitGo has teamed up with Genesis Global Trading, a digital asset trading firm, to improve the crypto trading experience for its institutional investors.

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Why it’s a no-brainer to have women in your startup’s exec team

While women have made strides toward better representation in leadership roles over the last decade, the progress has been slow and labored. According to a recent Global Gender Gap Report via LinkedIn and the World Economic Forum, women continue to hold under half of the leadership positions across fields – in many industries, we make up less than 20 percent of upper management.

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Ten Years Later, a Reflection on Bitcoin’s Genesis and Satoshi’s Timing

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.

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Pierre Rochard: “Lightning Adoption Will Basically Mirror Bitcoin Adoption”

Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.

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P2P Global Network ICO

Peer 2 Peer Global Network is birthed with the aim to solve the burning financial problem that unemployment causes with these unavoidable and unfortunate life incidents. We realize that unavoidable circumstances can lead to unfortunate circumstances and problems.

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Producers Market (PMKT Token): Blockchain Food Tracking Project?

What Is Producers Market? Producers Market is a global platform that seeks to solve the problem of producer exploitation through the decentralization, digitization, and tokenization of the agricultural value chain via the FarmToken.

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IBM and Seagate Partner to Tackle Counterfeit Hard Drives Using Blockchain Technology

Seagate Technology Plc and IBM have today announced that they are working together to reduce global hard drive counterfeiting using blockchain technology. Figures from the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) estimates that global trade in counterfeit and pirated goods amounts to $1.

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AI is the prescription for overworked doctors

The problem with healthcare is simple: there’s not enough of it. In a perfect world we’d all have our own personal physicians like the Queen. But in reality, the average doctor sees thousands of patients a year.

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San Francisco passed a $300 million bill to address its homelessness problem

For those who ascribe to progressive values, the results of yesterday’s US midterm elections will undoubtedly be heartening. One positive development, besides the Democrats wresting control of the House of Representatives from the GOP, is the passage of Proposition C in San Francisco.

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Unchained Capital Revamps Loans With Multi-Party, Multi-Sig Storage

Blockchain financial service company Unchained Capital will now offer multi-signature and multi-institution cold storage solutions for borrowers who leverage its crypto-collateralized loans service.

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The Blockchain Race Towards a Sustainable World

Recently, the United Nations released its findings from a landmark climate change study that concluded that disaster is much closer than many people expected. The much-publicized story brought global climate change back into the headlines, and it returned focus to possible solutions for the crisis.

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IPSX Launches Global IP Address Marketplace to Solve a Billion Dollar Problem

The sharing economy is not limited to physical assets.

The post IPSX Launches Global IP Address Marketplace to Solve a Billion Dollar Problem appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Op Ed: In Defense of Bitcoin: A Response to Nouriel Roubini

Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.

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How the Electric Vehicle Industry Could Drive Cryptocurrency Forward

Bitcoin’s technology combined with the power of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are intersecting with self-driving vehicles. And they are confronting a common problem: Talent shortage.

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Chainalysis Will Help Binance Fight Money Laundering

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has partnered with Chainalysis to fight the problem of money laundering. A press release published today stated that Chainalysis has finished a “global roll-out” of its software on the exchange, which will help Binance comply with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.

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St. Louis Fed VP: A Private Crypto Could Solve the 'Triffin Dilemma'

An economist with the St. Louis Federal Reserve said that cryptocurrencies could solve a problem faced by global currency reserves like the dollar.

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RippleNet’s Multi-hop Feature Debuts With Thailand’s SCB

The global financial network relies on the Belgium-based SWIFT network to manage payments. While the system is the most reliable solution for banking entities around the world, cross-border payments are still a problem with several banks.

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Ripple Launches New Tech for Cross-Border Transactions

Global liquidity has long been a problem for cross-border payments in all regions across the world, especially in South Eastern nations. This has resulted in high transaction fees, inefficient transaction processes, and longer transaction confirmation time.

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Siam Commercial Bank Pioneers RippleNet’s “Multi-hop” Feature

The inefficient management of global liquidity has long been a hurdle for cross-border payments in all regions across the world. However, this problem is particularly prominent in the Association of South Eastern Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, which has been largely underserved by correspondent banking.

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Overstock.com CEO Acquires Stake in Blockchain Land Registry Startup

Overstock. com CEO Patrick Byrne has acquired a stake in blockchain startup, Medici Land Governance (MLG). Byrne purchased a 43 percent stake in the blockchain land registry in a private transaction.

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