Argentina has joined the list of jurisdictions investigating the recently launched AI-meets-crypto project Worldcoin and its privacy practices that stirred endless controversies. The Argentinian Agency for Access to Public Information (AAIP) published a notice on Aug. 8, which will conduct an investigation into the processing of personal data carried out by the Worldcoin Foundation in…
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Blockchain encyclopedia IQ.wiki has launched a GPT-4 search engine for crypto users based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and it plans to integrate more artificial intelligence (AI) features. Released in 2023, Generative Pre-trained Transformer version 4 (GPT-4) is a neural network based on OpenAI’s large multimodal language model that generates text from textual and visual input and…
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A UK crypto industry group has raised concerns about the potential negative consequences of a proposed ban on incentives by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Crypto lobby group CryptoUK has submitted a response to the FCA’s recent regulatory regime for crypto advertisements and promotions, which includes a ban on crypto incentives such as free non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and airdrops. … Read…
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Blue-chip cryptocurrency markets remain stuck within recent ranges and trading with a modestly negative bias on Thursday, despite US inflation data fuelling the crypto-positive narrative that the US Federal Reserve’s hiking cycle is over. Bitcoin (BTC) was last changing hands close to $29,400, while Ether (ETH) was last trading just under $1,850…. Read More: Biggest…
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Crypto infrastructure company Fireblocks has identified a set of vulnerabilities known as “BitForge” that pose a threat to popular crypto wallets that use multi-party computation (MPC) technology. These vulnerabilities were classified as “zero-day,” meaning they were unknown to the developers of the affected software before Fireblocks disclosed them, the company said in a Wednesday press release. … Read More: Fireblocks Uncovers…
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More Chinese citizens and firms are using the digital yuan, China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), to pay their taxes, state organs, and government-owned banks have claimed. Per Xinhuanet, the claims were made by Hunan Province’s Tax Bureau, as well as the Changsha Central branch of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC)…. Read More: Rise…
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The price of Aptos (APT), the native token of the layer-1 Aptos blockchain that was built by ex-Facebook employees behind the social media platform’s failed Libra/Deim blockchain project, surged on Wednesday on the news that Aptos has partnered with Microsoft to work on new artificial intelligence (AI) blockchain products. APT/USD was last trading with gains…
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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has become the first fully licensed crypto exchange in El Salvador. In a Tuesday announcement, the company said it has been granted a Bitcoin Services Provider license (BSP) by the Central Reserve Bank (Banco Central de Reserva) and the first non-provisional Digital Assets Services Provider license (DASP) by the National Commission…
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Blue chip cryptocurrencies are still trading with a positive bias on Wednesday, despite Bitcoin (BTC)’s failure to hold to the north of the $30,000 following two attempted pushes higher. Bitcoin (BTC) was last trading with gains of around 1% in the last 24 hours, while Ether (ETH) was up close to 0.7% over the same…
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