A new study from Cointelegraph Consulting and Insolar highlights potential massive savings to be had through enterprise blockchain adoption. The implementation of blockchain technology in supply chains could save businesses in Western Europe $450 billion in logistics-related costs. According to a new study from Cointelegraph Consulting and Swiss enterprise blockchain firm Insolar, blockchain technology can…
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South Korean startup claims to have developed a new technology that could reduce blockchain transaction times to fractions of a second. The South Korean-based firm Bloom Technology announced that they have created a new technology that is able to speed up transactions on the blockchain. On Dec. 3, United Press International reported that Bloom Technology’s…
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Disclaimer: The text below is a press release. ________________ December 2, 2019, New York City – Business journalists are constantly targeted by hackers and “hacktivists” trying to get fake financial stories covered by a quality news source. Motivated by profit, politics or malice, these scammers get more creative by the day. Over the past few…
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‘The best’ bitcoins are the ones from the Silk Road, the first modern darknet market, because they’ve got through the U.S. Marshalls and have been ‘blessed’ by the U.S. government – ‘those are very clean,’ Matt Walsh, Partner at Castle Island Ventures, a U.S.-based venture capital firm, joked while discussing so-called “virgin bitcoins” during a…
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One of the most contentious topics in crypto right now is next year’s Bitcoin (BTC) halving. From around May, miners will receive only BTC 6.25 (USD 46,000) as a reward for every block they confirm, and the crypto community is currently at odds over whether the resulting reduction in supply has already been priced in…
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New research suggests that the Bitcoin price could be still absorbing the effects of the alleged PlusToken exit scam. In the last week of November, the saga of an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme that has been lingering for more than half a year took a new turn. A hobbyist blockchain researcher reported on Twitter that he’d…
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Four most pressing challenges facing distributed ledger technology (DLT) industry today are identified in the November 2019 paper on blockchain in trade, titled: “A Reality Check.” The paper was written by Deepesh Patel, Editorial Director at Trade Finance Global (TFG), a trade finance platform, and Emmanuelle Ganne, Senior Analyst at the World Trade Organization Read…
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A Danish court has ruled that the country’s major bank Nordea can bar its employees from owning Bitcoin and other digital currencies. A Danish court has ruled that Scandinavian financial services giant Nordea can bar its employees from owning Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital currencies. As BNN Bloomberg reported on Dec. 3, the court justified…
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Data from Amazon’s Alexa analytics website shows high volume on crypto exchanges does not necessarily mean a high traffic and engagement ranking. As a young industry, the cryptocurrency space has been like a revolving door, seeing numerous companies, projects and assets come and go with the wind. Crypto exchanges, in particular, have seen their fair…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Regulation news Nordea Bank is free to prevent its employees from investing in Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in their own time, Bloomberg reported, citing a verdict by a Danish court.…
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