Amid the coronavirus epidemic, China has turned to blockchain tech to manage medical data, track supply of virus prevention materials and consult the public. Amid the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, China has turned to blockchain technology to manage medical data, track supply of virus prevention materials and consult the public. For the first two weeks of […]
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The Central Bank of Russia is moving forward with a proposal to integrate appropriate tokenization regulations in Russia’s troubled digital financial assets bill project. A successful tokenization trial could lead to big changes in Russia’s proposed cryptocurrency legislation. The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced on Feb. 17 the completion of a blockchain tokenization pilot […]
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Bitcoin price has crossed the $10K mark seven times this year, which begs the question: is BTC finally ready to flip this key psychological level to support? Bitcoin (BTC) bulls were celebrating the digital asset’s recent surge above $10,000 for the first time this decade, but the smiles were short-lived as Bitcoin failed to hold […]
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The coronavirus and the crypto market rally: Is there a link between the two? Surging crypto rallies and the coronavirus scare — the two phenomena seem to be closely related, according to many. But this particular correlation is not necessarily translating to causation, at least according to some experts. Mati Greenspan, the founder of Quantum […]
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In the Senate, Loeffler will reportedly help oversee the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a potential conflict of interest given that her husband’s company is regulated by the CFTC. Today is Saint Valentine’s Day, and in honor of this most romantic of holidays, Cointelegraph presents five of the crypto community’s most notable unions and breakups […]
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Popular crypto celebrity Tone Vays speaks to filbfilb, the market analyst who accurately called Bitcoin’s bottom in 2018 and 2019. Today popular market analyst and Cointelegraph contributor filbfilb joined veteran trader Tone Vays on his YouTube trading channel. During the discussion, each trader discussed their long and short-term vision of Bitcoin’s price (BTC) action, along […]
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Russia is taking the lead in issuing a multinational stablecoin backed by commodities with the Eurasian Economic Union, or EAEU, and BRICS countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most influential person in the blockchain industry, according to Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which added five trading pairs: Binance Coin (BNB), […]
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Financial services giant SBI Holdings’s subsidiary is partnering with German tech company Northern Data AG and Texas-based data centers operator Whinstone US Inc. A subsidiary of Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings is partnering with German tech company Northern Data AG and Texas-based data centers operator Whinstone US Inc. The partnership was revealed in a […]
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The first major bitcoin miner to go public on the US stock market rebounded slightly after a drop in the fourth quarter. After steadily depreciating well into the last quarter of 2019, Canaan certainly rebounded slightly today. The company was the first example of a large Bitcoin miner to go public on Nasdaq. However, after […]
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Blockstack announced Proof of Transfer, a new consensus algorithm for blockchains that uses Bitcoins to secure a network directly, instead of electricity. Blockstack unveiled a novel consensus mechanism for piggyback blockchains called Proof of Transfer (PoX) on Feb. 6. Instead of relying on its own proof of work, miners under PoX commit Bitcoin (BTC), which […]
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