Russia pilots national blockchain e-voting Russia is set to pilot a national blockchain-based e-voting system in September. The new system was developed in partnership between Rostelecom, Russia’s largest integrated provider, and Waves Enterprise. Another recent blockchain e-voting experiment in Russia ended in fiasco after the system suffered a number of setbacks and attacks. The Russian government used […]
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The global economic transformation now faces the main question: What to choose — centralization or decentralization? A global pandemic, massive and worldwide protests, job automation, environmental issues and geopolitical tensions are just a few of the challenges facing humanity today. Amid the chaos, keystone global institutions and bureaucrats have openly discussed the present day as […]
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Turkish are losing faith in its local fiat currency, with confidence in the lira falling 20% this year. Rampant inflation is affecting Turkish residents’ confidence in the lira fiat currency. According to a Reuters report on August 14, locals are dumping lira and converting it to dollars and buying gold. Even with market interventions and […]
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For the East and West, the paths to blockchain and cryptocurrency adoption are not the same and both have their own challenges. Ethereum recently turned five years old, and coincidentally, it also appears to have reached an inflection point for user adoption. In the second quarter of 2020, daily active Ethereum users nearly doubled to […]
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“Everything you heard, every theory that just doesn’t seem possible, every small inkling that something was just off about the world… is true.” Thank you for calling the Clinic of Advanced Biological Computing, this is Dr. Elliott Fisher. So began the strangest conversation Ive had as a journalist, with a time-traveling group of Monero-mining musicians […]
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IBM and Maersk’s global blockchain shipping platform continues to onboard major new global partners. TradeLens — the blockchain shipping platform created by IBM and Danish logistics giant Maersk — has signed on a major Turkish-owned international terminals operator. TradeLens is a global supply chain management platform designed for containerized freight and logistics, which was first launched […]
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“You don’t have to be Dr Evil to scam someone via cryptocurrency. You can be a Mini Me.” The high-profile Twitter hack which saw malicious actors take over 130 verified accounts including Bill Gates and Elon Musk managed to be both technically brilliant and incomprehensibly stupid at the same time. It was a multi-person attack, […]
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Despite the interest currently surrounding the digital yuan, some are not yet sure of the project’s overall scope and mainstream viability. With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to wreak economic havoc all over the world, China’s commitment to releasing its much-hyped digital yuan project — referred to as the Digital Currency Electronic Payment, or DCEP — […]
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The US President said during a press conference that he would consider allowing Edward Snowden to return from his 7-year ‘exile’ in Russia. Edward Snowden may be able to return to the United States if Donald Trump chooses to grant the whistleblower a presidential pardon. According to an Aug. 15 report from Reuters, Trump said […]
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A different kind of scam. A former Florida tax collector was found to have used public funds to set up a blockchain company. In a report from the Orlando Sentinel, former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg billed the Tax Collector’s Office $65,860 to buy computer servers for a company he was setting up called […]
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