With Salt Lending, you leverage your blockchain assets to secure cash loans, and the application requires no credit check, making it appealing to people who are either limited in funds and credit history, or who may be unbanked. The company has announced a “200% increase in lendable areas.” In the US, they will provide blockchain-backed loans […]
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Source: Mark Jones, Blockchain Technology News Hackers have stolen an estimated $59m (£45m) from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif, according to an official released by parent company Tech Bureau Corporation. The hack is believed to occured on September 14, but evidence was only found on September 17 following an investigation into disruptions to the exchange’s deposit […]
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Source: Mark Jones, Blockchain Technology News If you ever dreamed of owning a racehorse, a new partnership from Swiss-based investment platform TEND might well be up your street. Specialising in facilitating the tokenised co-ownership of precious assets, TEND has joined up with Highclere Thoroughbred Racing Ltd (HTR) to offer the world’s first blockchain-based racehorse syndicate. […]
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While the actual, measurable impact of human activities on climate change is debatable, most people will agree that CO2 emissions do affect the atmosphere. For those who are concerned about such things, there are two general ways to reduce our impact on the environment: through the free market, or through government enforcement. While it is […]
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Jeff Bezos has been busy building stores, and rockets, and distribution centers, and a knockoff of Pinterest. He’s a bit late to the game, but that has never stopped Amazon from figuring out ways to monetize on improvements to existing technology. They took ecommerce to a whole new level, and now dominate the realm of online […]
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Source: James Bourne, Blockchain Technology News The rationale is an intriguing one. Consumers need trust in their advertising. Blockchain technologies focus on the aspect of trust. How can we marry the two? One company looking to focus on this is Permission.io. The company rebranded from Algebraix.io earlier this month to ‘reaffirm its commitment to create […]
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Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles took emergency action Sept. 18 to stop the fraudulent offerings of investments in three separate schemes involving cryptocurrencies. Commissioner Iles entered separate emergency cease and desist orders against Coins Miner Investment Ltd., a cryptocurrency investment promoter operating in Russia; DGBK Ltd., an offshore digital “bank” that says it has developed hack-proof […]
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The price of Ripple (XRP) surged from a low of 27 cents on Monday to nearly 33 cents on Wednesday, September 19, bringing it back into the range it was in before it tumbled on September 5. Volume is nearly double its 30-day high, peaking at almost $700 million USD in 24 hour volume. Part […]
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Below is a summary of the OAG report, produced by NY Attorney General Barbara Underwood. Introduction The New York State Office of the Attorney General (the “OAG”) launched the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative to protect and inform New York residents who trade in virtual or “crypto” currency. As a medium of exchange, an investment product, […]
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In our global world, payments are made routinely across continents, but they can be slow, incur large commissions for conversion and handling, and be vulnerable to hacking. Our personal information from simple passwords to biometric data is often stored in centralized, third-party repositories and may have even been replicated to be stored somewhere else. This […]
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