CoinText founder Vin Armani moved to Saipan in April, fearing being labeled an “undesirable” in the continental US and “disappeared”. Vin Armani, the crypto YouTuber and former star of Showtime’s “Gigolo’s”, packed up his life and family and moved to a tiny Pacific island in April to ride out the pandemic and escape the ‘totalitarian…
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Blockchain firms Algorand and Attestiv are teaming up to fight insurance fraud using DLT. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) firm Algorand has partnered with blockchain-based tamper-proof media verification platform Attestiv to target fraud within the insurance industry. The firms will combine their tech to develop a single platform for verifying digital media for a multitude of…
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Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a legendary cryptographer cited in the Bitcoin Whitepaper, discussed building the first blockchain. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, renowned cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater discusses building the internet’s first blockchain in the 1990s and being cited in the Bitcoin Whitepaper. In 1989, Quisquater began working on transitioning media from analog to digital systems for…
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Cardano development company will be joining the Hyperledger Project and W3C focusing on the enterprise use cases as part of its bid for the next five years. IOHK, the company charged with the development of Cardano (ADA) will be joining the Hyperledger Project and W3C. Cardano founder and CEO and co-founder of IOHK, Charles Hoskison,…
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Private blockchains that have been specifically designed for enterprise use could be highly desirable targets for hackers’ attacks. When blockchain technology was first brought to the public’s attention, it was lauded on many fronts as “unhackable.” While there are many benefits to blockchain worth noting already, we probably still haven’t seen what its ultimate potential…
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Universal basic income models based on blockchain systems are being developed, but are they practical? Universal basic income, commonly referred to as UBI, dates back to the 16th century when Sir Thomas More depicted a society in which every person receives a guaranteed income in his famous book Utopia. While Utopia is a fictional work,…
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The British-American entrepreneur admitted his privacy-oriented project Ghost borrowed from open-source anonymity coin PIVX, but apparently wants to sue it nonetheless. Eccentric cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee admitted his anonymity-oriented project Ghost “copy-pasted” parts of its whitepaper from the documentation for open-source privacy coin PIVX in a series of tweets today. He nonetheless appears to intend…
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Digital payment platform Uphold announced a partnership with web monetization provider Coil utilizing the Interledger Protocol. Digital payment platform Uphold has announced a partnership that allows Coil creators to be able to select the platform as their wallet provider to receive payments in over 50 currencies. Coil is a service that provides alternative methods for…
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Binance’s new Chinese website gets an approval from the China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and owner of crypto pricing website CoinMarketCap, is getting closer to one of the most crypto-sceptical jurisdictions in the world, China. After leaving the country amid a nation-wide crypto ban in 2017, Binance…
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Vitalik Buterin says both blockchain and antitrust laws have the same goal: preventing the creation of monopolies by imposing decentralization. In a recently published paper, Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin along with Harvard faculty Thibault Schrepel argued that blockchain is positioned to help antitrust laws in areas where regulations are difficult to apply and enforce. The…
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