Recent studies have shown the Lightning Network is struggling, but are these teething problems or longer-term issues? For a currency to be considered useful as money, it has to serve three fundamental purposes. It should function as a medium of exchange, as a store of value and as a unit of account. The fact that […]
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Blockchain security firm CertiK has released a demo and language reference manual for its smart contract security-focused DeepSEA programming language. Blockchain security firm CertiK has released a demo and language reference manual for its smart contract-focused DeepSEA programming language. Both CertiK and its affiliated R&D academic projects have received funding from the likes of Binance […]
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Tech giant IBM is developing a new blockchain product that will automate the reconciliation of casual employment contracts. Tech giant IBM is developing a new blockchain product that will automate the reconciliation of casual labor contracts. Technology news site CIO reported on Feb. 3 that IBM considers the blockchain particularly well-suited to tackling the pain […]
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There were signs in 2019 that large institutions are moving closer to embracing cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. Slowly but surely, institutional players are moving into the crypto/blockchain neighborhood. According to a 2019 Fidelity Investments survey, about 22% of institutional investors already have some exposure to digital assets, with most investments having been made within the […]
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Decentralized social media is not so distant future as it might sound, meanwhile, there are serious obstacles that need to be solved before it becomes our present. Back in December 2019, Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Twitter and payments operator Square, announced a new team dubbed Bluesky, to work on decentralized social media […]
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An overview of the stances of the U.S., countries of Western Europe and the Pacific Rim toward crypto regulation. In 2019, we witnessed crypto regulations leave the domain of stuffy legal pontification and enter the realm of geopolitics (as a stuffy legal pontificator, I have mixed feelings about this). We saw President Trump tweet about […]
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U.S. SEC Commissioner and ‘Cryptomom’ Hester Peirce talks crypto, securities exemptions and ICOs with Cointelegraph. As one of five commissioners of the United States Securities Exchange Commission, Hester Peirce is at the forefront of securities regulation in the country today. Of interest to Cointelegraph’s readers, her positivity toward the future of cryptocurrencies has earned her […]
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Euro-backed stablecoins could make a digital currency truly borderless and more global than ever before. We live in the days of next-generation digital money emergence. Ultimately, the world lacks a clean balance sheet and an asset that has significant appreciation potential to create more loans against it. Euro-backed stablecoins can help boost the crypto-lending sector […]
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CULedger, a blockchain consortium and credit union service organization, has successfully completed a pilot project together with three American credit unions. CULedger, a blockchain consortium and credit union service organization, has successfully completed a pilot project together with three American credit unions. Fintech Futures reported on Dec. 16 that the pilot focused on implementing CULedger’s […]
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The world is inevitably becoming more and more digital, and Facebook’s digital currency dubbed Libra is a step toward this future. Since Facebook’s digital currency project, Libra, was announced in June, there has been a growing chorus of central bankers and policy makers pushing back against its ambitions. Germany’s Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz and France’s […]
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