A board of 22 finance and fintech experts joins former CFTC leaders and Accenture to steer the future of the Digital Dollar Project. The Digital Dollar Project, which advocates a blockchain-backed digital dollar in the United States, has announced the inaugural roster of its Advisory Board. The new advisors joining the founders of the project…
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Ethereum 2.0 (ETH 2.0) (aka Serenity) has left its auditors satisfied, though critical issues have been pointed out. Working with the Ethereum 2.0 team, security consultant Least Authority reviewed Ethereum’s network update to Proof of Stake (PoS) from Proof of Work (PoW), specifically its upcoming initial phase – Phase 0: Beacon Chain. Eth2 phase 0…
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Much like Bitcoin, most fiat currencies experience periods of economic stagnation and immense decline when looked at from a broader perspective. Gone are the days of dusty ledgers and checkbooks. Over the last decade or so, the word “money” has taken on a completely new meaning for a lot of people all over the world.…
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Source: Adobe/Skórzewiak The price of cardano (ADA) remained largely unchanged along with the broader crypto market on Thursday morning (UTC time), despite the unveiling of a new scaling solution that is to be implemented on the Cardano blockchain. Earlier today (10:30 UTC), ADA traded up by a mere 0.34% over the past 24 hours to…
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Developers of TON blockchain are willing to deploy it, in spite of the court’s rulings. Developers of the TON blockchain are still considering deployment, despite injunctive ruling by the U.S. court. Fedor Skuratov, a spokesperson for TON Labs, the organization behind the TON blockchain, told Cointelegraph that the recent unfavorable decisions by the U.S. court…
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The increasing number of internet users could be a major driving force for crypto and blockchain adoption worldwide. As we enter the start of a new decade, the number of internet users has reached a truly astonishing level: Almost 4.5 billion people were active users as of January, encompassing 59% of the global population. With…
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Despite what some may have thought, it appears that the latest sell-off in bitcoin has not scared away retail investors quite yet, new data from one Japanese crypto exchange suggests. According to a blog post by Yuya Hasegawa, market analyst at the Japanese crypto exchange bitbank, the number of new account registrations on their platform…
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South Korean crypto exchanges are cooperating with the police investigation into the Telegram “Nth room” sexual exploitation case, with brokerages now being searched, and exchange data seized and hundreds of thousands of crypto-fiat gateway records checked. Per a number of South Korean media outlets, including Yonhap and KBS, as well as Newsis and Nocut News,…
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Speaking to Cointelegraph, Binance’s VP of futures explains how the firm managed to become one of the top crypto futures trading platforms. Aaron Gong, vice president of futures at major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, explained to Cointelegraph how the firm managed to become one of the top crypto futures trading platforms. As Cointelegraph reported earlier this…
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Chinese authorities state that industry 4.0 technologies such as blockchain technology have helped almost 72% of the nation’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) return to work in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Per Chinese state news networks the People’s Daily and the Beijing Youth Daily (via East Money), spokespeople from the country’s health Read…
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