Donald Trump met Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in April, 2019. \”Lots of subjects discussed regarding their platform, and the world of social media in general. Look forward to keeping an open dialogue!\” Trump tweeted back then. Source: Twitter/@realDonaldTrump Blockchain has been hailed as the silver bullet for social media, which has long suffered from censorship,…
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Keith Bear. Keith Bear is a Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, part of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Previously, he served as IBM Fintech Head. _____ Over the last 2 years we have witnessed multiple trends in the world of digital assets, with the rise and fall of ICO’s, the…
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Todd McDonald. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Hyperledger Todd McDonald is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of R3, an enterprise blockchain technology company. ___ 2019 Last year could certainly be described as one where blockchain technology came into its own. Regulators and policymakers came up the learning curve substantially, understanding the differences Read more…
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Michael Rogerson, PhD Candidate, University of Bath, and Glenn Parry, Professor of Digital Transformation, University of Surrey. _____ Food supply chains were vulnerable long before the coronavirus pandemic. Recent scandals have ranged from modern slavery in Vietnamese fisheries to the persistent problem of child labour in the cocoa industry. Perhaps the most well known Read…
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Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and has been a lead crypto-tech analyst for Weiss Cryptocurrency…
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George McDonaugh is the CEO and Co-Founder of KR1 plc, the London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company. ___ Could it ever be a good thing to have your salary cut in half? Ask a Bitcoin (BTC) miner and your answer might well be a resounding ‘yes’. The spotlight is on Bitcoin once again as…
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Johnson Xu is the Chief Analyst at TokenInsight, a token data and rating agency. _____ Bitcoin (BTC)’s third halving is now less than two weeks away, per most estimates. As such, the industry is curious to discover what will happen to the Bitcoin network in the wake of this long-awaited event. Breaking down the data…
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The COVID-19 pandemic now has its grip firmly on the world. According to official numbers, almost 2.6 million individuals have been infected globally, and almost 180,000 have died. In addition to the impact on public health and the healthcare system, the global economy is starting to ground to a halt as a result of state-enforced…
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Johnson Xu is the Chief Analyst at TokenInsight, a token data and rating agency. _____ We are moving ever closer to Bitcoin (BTC)’s third halving, while the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt the global economy, creating a ripple effect across the global financial market. The forthcoming halving, coupled with weak bitcoin prices, is forcing the…
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Below is a keynote address on central bank digital currency by Tao Zhang, Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund. London School of Economics, February 28, 2020. ___ Tao Zhang. It’s a real pleasure for me to be here for this conference on China’s Trade and Financial Globalization. I want to thank the Institute…
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