A new digital currency called CloudCoin sets out to address some of the main issues with the current batch of cryptocurrencies by removing the blockchain technology. CloudCoin announced the launch of its cloud-based digital currency July 15. With no blockchain, public ledger, accounts or encryption, CloudCoin claims it is the most private digital currency ever…
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Matic Network may be closer to a scalability solution for the Ethereum blockchain after a test run showed it could handle 7,200 TPS. Blockchain scalability solution Matic claims the network can supercharge the Ethereum ecosystem, after a two-month testnet run revealed it was able to process 7,2000 transactions per second (TPS). In a July 14…
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Hao believes that DeFi can bring financial services to “the people who are currently excluded or underserved by traditional finance.” Decentralized finance (DeFi) will be part of the lives of many people in the future, according to Jay Hao, the CEO of crypto exchange OKEx. When answering Cointelegraph’s recent inquiry concerning the listing of Compound…
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Data for 142 million hotel guests is being sold via the dark web. The MGM Resort suffered a massive data breach in 2019 that left 142 million hotel guests exposed. A hacker is now selling the stolen database for roughly $2,900. According to the information revealed by ZDNet, a dark web marketplace claims that data…
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President Moon Jae-in wants to allocate billions of dollars to strengthen industry 4.0 technology. The South Korean government plans to invest over $48.2 billion in Blockchain and other Industry 4.0 technologies by 2025. The nation’s goal is to promote the digitization of all industries in the coming post-pandemic era. According to ZDNet Korea, President Moon…
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Self-healing blockchains are the only way to create a truly decentralized world within the decade. The world is eagerly waiting for a next-generation, high-performance, permissionless blockchain, and this blockchain should be able to industrially scale all decentralized applications. So far, the crypto community has witnessed: Peer-to-peer blockchain networks that use all the peers to validate…
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Global payments giant PayPal could indeed be developing a crypto-based solution, this document shows. PayPal has confirmed that it is developing capabilities in the cryptocurrency space, according to a letter to the European Commission. Originally submitted on March 20, the document was intended as a response to the European Commission’s public consultation on building a European…
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Just two months after May’s Bitcoin halving event, both hash rate and difficulty have shrugged off post halving dips to hit new all-time highs. Following last week’s record-high Bitcoin hash rate, the latest difficulty adjustment saw a change of +9.89%, bringing the level to a new all-time high of over 17.3 trillion on July 13.…
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In early 2018, dozens of experts called the STO the next big thing in fintech. However, in 2020, there still was no big break for STOs. What are the reasons? The ICO boom of 2017 failed thousands of investors worldwide, but it has also demonstrated how technology can improve the way companies raise capital. The…
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore is ready to deploy its multi-currency blockchain payments project for commercial use. Singapore authorities announced today that their blockchain payments project, Project Ubin, is complete and ready for commercial launch. The Monetary Authority of Singapore, or MAS, first undertook Project Ubin in 2017 with plans to first develop a digitized…
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