In a major privacy breach, the usernames and passwords of more than a quarter of a million Trident Crypto Fund customers have been stolen and published. In a major privacy breach, the usernames and passwords of more than a quarter of a million Trident Crypto Fund customers have been stolen and published online. Technical director…
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Vitalik Buterin says that currency digitization is inevitable and believes decentralized privacy currency would be more appealing to people than state-controlled digital currencies. With governments increasingly looking at launching their own digital currencies, you might worry that crypto just can’t compete with national financial infrastructures. Not so, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Buterin spoke with…
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WEF Head of Blockchain Sheila Warren explains the potential of blockchain technology and how it can change the world — but notes we are not there yet due to three things. Speaking at the Hyperledger Global Forum 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona, the World Economic Forum’s head of blockchain and data policy, Sheila Warren, discussed blockchain’s…
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Brazil opens up to the possibility of implementing Blockchain technology to issue university diplomas and prevent fraud. In an attempt to fight against the falsification of university diplomas in Brazil, the Ministry of Education (MEC) has proposed, creating a Blockchain-based platform to issue digital certifications among non-state universities. According to Cointelegraph Brazil, MEC minister Abraham…
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Africa has enormous potential for developing a sustainable fintech industry. Here is the analysis of the three flagship economics in Africa: Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana. For many, Africa represents the final frontier of untapped economic growth. Across its diverse countries, growth rates continue to outpace those achieved in long-developed economies. Collectively, growth on the continent…
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Ceres becomes the latest Japanese company to invest in a crypto fund run by the venture capital group. Ceres, a marketing firm based in Japan, has just become the latest investor in the San Francisco-based blockchain and cryptocurrency hedge fund Pantera Capital. On Feb. 28, Ceres announced on its website that they were supplying Pantera…
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China’s Hunan province, a major blockchain hub in the country, is now establishing its first provincial blockchain zone in the city of Loudi. The central Chinese province of Hunan has approved the establishment of the Wanbao blockchain zone in the city of Loudi. It is the first provincial blockchain zone in Hunan province, according to…
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Chile’s CryptoMarket is now operating under European regulation after being granted a license by Estonia’s financial watchdog. Chile’s crypto trading platform CryptoMarket has obtained a license issued by the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), allowing it to provide services for the purchase and sale of crypto assets. Founded in 2016, CryptoMarket joins a select group…
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Trustless zero-knowledge proof systems, known as zk-SNARKs, have the potential to become the leading technological solution for privacy protection. At a time when technology can be used as both a mechanism for privacy intrusions and a tool for protecting privacy, the prescient sentiment of cypherpunks in the 1990s of cryptography as the last defense against…
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Cointelegraph Consulting examines the blockchain world’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. COVID-19 — more commonly known as the coronavirus — has unleashed massive shock waves among the worldwide health, science, government and business communities as societies are trying to contain the virus. At the moment, the scale and velocity at which the coronavirus is spreading…
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