Crypto pundits believe that central bank digital currencies based on public-private partnerships could see the light of day much sooner, as many solutions under development use the approach. On May 26, Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, a representative from the International Monetary Fund, stated that moving forward, the best way to harness the potential of central bank digital […]
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Blockchain projects are developing video conferencing applications as remote working gains more popularity during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing many businesses to adopt work-from-home policies, the demand for video conferencing programs appears to have increased. Indeed, by late April, video conference app Zoom was seeing 300 million daily meeting participants, a […]
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that the blockchain’s initial layer-two scaling deployment is nearly complete. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that the blockchain’s layer-two scaling initial deployment has “basically” succeeded. In a June 1 tweet, Buterin claimed that most of the initial work on Ethereum’s second-level scalability solutions is nearly complete. To back his claim, […]
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Binance Korea will be using an anti-money laundering solution developed by Coinfirm, as the country requires a high level of regulatory compliance for crypto. Binance Korea will be monitoring activity on its platform for signs of money laundering thanks to a solution developed by Coinfirm. The partnership, announced on June 1, will help Binance’s Korea […]
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The co-founder of pioneering crypto wallet BRD attributes his company’s Venezuelan success to local demand for crypto driven by failing monetary policy. Despite once ranking as the fourth-most popular app in Venezuela, pioneering crypto wallet provider BreadWallet, or BRD, attributes its success in the country to local demand for crypto assets. Speaking with Cointelegraph on […]
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John McAfee dismissed his earlier prediction of future Bitcoin price, telling people to “wake up.” John McAfee, an eccentric cryptocurrency advocate and British-American entrepreneur, in a tweet called his own previous prediction of Bitcoin price hitting $1 million a total “nonsense” adding that people who believed his “absurd” forecast should “wake up”. McAfee used the […]
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The crypto industry has the best historical moment to change the discourse about crypto and its reputation into a successful innovative tech sector. Blockchains reached a feverish level of hype following the ICO mania of 2017. Peddled as the panacea to the world’s ills, many of such promises ill-intentioned, initial coin offerings raised enormous sums […]
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Using regulation to one’s advantage is the main factor of an innovative fintech business. The best way to achieve it is closely monitoring the shifting regulatory landscape. Regulations are not going anywhere. On the contrary, financial service providers face more regulatory challenges and higher costs than ever before. During the early days of cryptocurrencies, a […]
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A U.S. think tank working towards a digitized dollar has released a white paper detailing inaugural aims and use cases for a central bank digital currency. On May 28, the Digital Dollar Project released its white paper, a 30-page document detailing the potential applications of a CBDC. The white paper continues the nascent think tank’s […]
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Ethereum transactions are even easier to de-anonymize than Bitcoin due to its specifics, but a lot of it comes down to careful usage of mixing tools. A paper published on May 29 by Ferenc Béres and a team of primarily Hungary-based researchers analyzed the Ethereum blockchain to find out how easily its transactions can be […]
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