As protests against police brutality continue in the U.S., privacy advocates warn of the risks posed by centralized social media platforms. The protests in the United States against police brutality and systemic racism sparked by the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25 are showing no signs of […]
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The utopian idea of universal basic income — which has been with humanity for at least half a millenia — can become real with digital currency. Due to the crisis caused by COVID-19, millions of people have lost all or part of their income. To support them, governments have been giving out money to victims. […]
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The Bitcoin mining ASIC manufacturing industry is expected to further consolidate, as is the wider mining farm operating sector. The Bitcoin (BTC) mining ASIC manufacturing industry is expected to further consolidate due to tightened competition, geopolitical pressures and slower returns on investment after Bitcoin’s recent halving. In a new report from crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, […]
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The number of Bitcoin whales with the ability to affect the BTC price is approaching 2017 levels, when the token was ascending to $20K. The number of investors holding an immense amount of Bitcoin is starting to approach levels the crypto community hasn’t seen since the cryptocurrency’s rally to $20,000. According to Glassnode’s ‘The Week […]
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Government surveillance may be more rampant in the crypto space than most users realize, says a source familiar with ongoing tactics. On June 5, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase came under fire for its alleged efforts to sell crypto surveillance services to both the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service. In the days since, […]
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Traders say Bitcoin is due for highly volatile price action in the near-term as the price approaches a pivotal point. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has seen low volatility throughout the past six weeks, hovering in the $9,300 to $9,900 range for most of the time. This has led traders to warn that it is […]
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Blockchain can play its part in the education sector — record-keeping in 2–3 years and then adoption by the labor market? In the post-pandemic world, individuals will need to seize ownership and control of their educational credentials — documents like degrees and transcripts — from schools, universities and governments. That notion received key support last […]
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To become truly decentralized, blockchain projects should remove dependency on the centralized cloud providers used as their data storage. Across Europe, a privacy row has been brewing over various efforts to use coronavirus contact tracing technology. Contact tracing is the cornerstone of the efforts to track the spread of COVID-19 in an attempt to prevent […]
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Once Ethereum becomes a proof-of-stake blockchain, what will happen to the ETH miners, and what will they do? As Ethereum is finally set to launch its Ethereum 2.0 upgrade later this year, putting an end to a long streak of delays, the network will start moving toward a proof-of-stake model. Consequently, the network will abandon […]
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Blockchain for distributing votes and independent digital dollars take center stage in the this week’s regulation news. Editor’s note: These are times strange enough that every conversation seems to include some verbal acknowledgment like “strange times, huh?” A quasi-anarchist police-free leftist separatist bubble has formed and is growing on Seattle’s Capitol Hill — a sentence […]
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