sponsored Data services pave the way for AI-enabled trading decision making. Call it counterintuitive, but blockchain could be considered less transparent now than the stock market. How so? Blockchains are apparently open, and anyone can see which token went where, after all. Well, yes and no. Blockchain is a forest, and a forest is the […]
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Russian crypto exchange YoBit tweeted that it will pump the price of 10 random coins. Cryptocurrency exchange YoBit is going to perform a pump scheme on random coins, according to an Oct. 10 tweet. A pump and dump scheme is a form of fraud that attempts to artificially boost the price of an asset through […]
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A recent study by Autonomous Research has revealed that ICOs raised $20 billion since the beginning of 2017. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have raised $20 billion since the start of 2017, which is $18 billion more than the previous year, according to a recent study by financial research firm Autonomous Research. The study dubbed “Crypto […]
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Blockchain isn’t a solution to the UK’s post-Brexit Irish border dilemma. Blockchain has one new supporter: the UK finance minister Philip Hammond. Quizzed at the Conservative Party conference on how the UK government might solve Brexit’s UK-Irish border issue, he suggested that blockchain technology may be a solution. “There is technology becoming available […] I […]
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In May, Adobe bought open source commerce platform Magento, creating a Commerce Cloud. On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled how it is integrating Magento into its Experience Cloud. In Adobe’s sky, there are clouds that contain other clouds. So, the Experience Cloud contains the Marketing Cloud, the Analytics Cloud, the Advertising Cloud — and, with the acquisition, […]
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sponsored Cryptocurrencies have challenges in becoming a major force in the world’s economy, but looking at history, almost every advancement has had similar issues. From bartering to blockchain, the world of money – and the way we transfer it – has never stood still. Indeed, even the assets we prize have changed. Although it might […]
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Microsoft and Grab, the on-demand transportation, mobile payments, and online-to-offline services platform in Southeast Asia, announced Monday (October 9) a strategic partnership in which Grab will tap Microsoft’s machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. In a press release, the companies said that in the first step of the partnership Grab will adopt Microsoft’s Azure as […]
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The British telecoms regulator has received a £700,000 grant to explore blockchain applications for better telephone number management. The United Kingdom (U.K.) Office of Communications (Ofcom) has received a £700,000 ($916,00) grant from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to explore blockchain technology, according to an announcement published Oct. 8. The grant […]
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There is much to be shocked by in the unfolding Danske Bank money laundering scandal, such as the simple amount laundered through the Estonian branch of the Denmark-based bank — $234 billion at current count, roughly the size of the entire Danish economy — or the fallout from the event, including the bank’s CEO Thomas Borgen […]
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reported an increase in enforcement actions in the last fiscal year, partly due to a rise in cryptocurrency cases and spoofing schemes. According to The Wall Street Journal, the federal derivatives-market regulator also handed out around $900 million in penalties, higher than the amount in five of the eight […]
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