Let’s take a look at some of the possible use cases for crypto and blockchain in the forthcoming years and decades. Surely though, there is much more to come. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the massive development of crypto. Formerly a geeky trend, crypto was once a questionable and not easily understandable invention…
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Tencent Holdings aims to bolster blockchain technology development across China as part of a $70 billion investment in fintech. Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings will allocate nearly $70 billion (500B yuan) over the next five years in fintech development, including blockchain, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). Reuters reported on May 26 that the company,…
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Bitcoin has become the biggest win for business: A personal story from an artist and a businessman. Once my company, Jerome Baker Designs, had become one of the premier producers of custom pipes and bongs in the 1990s, I no longer enjoyed doing it. However, when the Drug Enforcement Administration busted through the doors of…
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Can blockchain cure the country’s job creation woes? Daejeon University is the latest in a series of South Korean universities redesigning portions of its finance and technology departments. The university made an official announcement on May 25 that it would open a new fintech department called “Future Convergence.” According to the announcement published by Daejeon…
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The main steps that would help to accelerate the adoption of blockchain capabilities at the enterprise level. In my approximately two-decade career at Microsoft, I had the privilege and the opportunity to first work on the company’s emerging enterprise strategy, to architect and ship key enterprise technologies, and to build a strategic enterprise business and…
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Bitcoin is not yet a go-to investment option in the public eye, but those days could be coming. What needs to happen for Bitcoin (BTC) to cement its role in the public eye as a valid investment option? “Time,” Aleks Svetski, CEO and co-founder of Bitcoin investment platform Amber, told Cointelegraph in an email. “This is…
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DeFi entrepreneur Alex Mashinsky has slammed crypto’s culture and community for short-term profiteering. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Alex Mashinsky, the founder of the decentralized finance app Celsius Network, took aim at the crypto community for becoming fixated on short-term profiteering and failing to drive mass adoption. Mashinsky urged the community to capitalize on the…
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A Daegu-based university has made a deal with the Korea Artificial Intelligence Association to build a blockchain campus. South Korea’s Suseong University reached a deal on May 22 with the Korea Artificial Intelligence Association, or KORAIA, to create a blockchain and AI campus in Daegu. According to the announcement published by local media outlet Money…
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Cardano is working on a crypto-native microchip that would enable crypto transitions without the internet access, potentially delivering fiat-like experience to the hundreds of millions around the world. In a recent Cointelegraph interview, Charles Hoskinson elaborated on the crypto-native chip that IOHK is working at its blockchain lab at the University of Wyoming that may…
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Blockchain-based solution may help to contain the growing cases of COVID-19 across the UAE. UAE-based startup incubator, in5, is helping to design blockchain-based methods to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the country and thus flatten the curve. According to a report published on May 20, Liber Health, supported by in5, is one of the platforms…
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