The IRS has named the winners of its bounty program to track transactions on privacy tokens and layer-2 protocols. On Wednesday, the IRS awarded two $625,000 contracts looking for tracing tools for privacy token Monero and Layer 2 protocols. The winners were blockchain analytics firms Chainalysis and Integra FEC. The IRS initially publicized its quest […]
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Singapore continues to apply blockchain in its public administration. In a pandemic era of unprecedented health data collection and surveillance, Singapore is turning to blockchain technology for the infrastructure that can make it work. Government-owned investment firm SGInnovate and Singaporean startup Accredify have jointly developed a new blockchain-powered digital health passport, according to a report […]
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DJ David Guetta goes virtual. Sensorium Galaxy, a not-yet-released virtual reality platform, has signed famous French DJ David Guetta. The platform hosts its own ERC-20 token, known as SENSO. “In a similar fashion to in-game currencies like Fortnite’s V-Bucks, SENSO is used for all value transactions within the Sensorium Galaxy,” Sensorium Corporation’s Deputy CEO of IR, blockchain […]
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Banking will not become decentralized, but with blockchain, it will become accountable for both banks and clients. Recently, European central bank executives — Thomas Moser from Swiss National Bank and Martin Diehl from Deutsche Bundesbank — stated that central bank digital currencies don’t need a blockchain. They expressed their opinions by saying that blockchains — […]
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He isn’t surprised attacks happen. Crypto exchange security is once again in the news after hackers breached KuCoin. But this shouldn’t surprise people as exchanges are vulnerable by design, according to ByBit CEO Ben Zhou. Zhou told Cointelegraph that exchanges act as a single point of failure. As a centralized web application, exchanges are susceptible […]
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Diversification is key to ensuring you will be able to take advantage of every opportunity without incurring too much risk. If you’re paying attention to developments in the cryptocurrency space, you’ve likely heard of decentralized finance and of the yield farming trend that helped it get over $9 billion worth of crypto assets locked in […]
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Cryptocurrency miners are back in business, but which graphics card should you choose to not be left with an empty wallet? Now that we are at the tail end of 2020, the big hardware manufacturers are starting to announce their latest, fastest offerings set to be released ahead of the holiday season. Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency […]
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A dizzying lack of transparency as the crypto exchange is hacked and $150m in customer funds goes missing Back in April of 2020, Cointelegraph took a close look at the KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange. Investigating the apparent lock of the primary domain name, which was a result of a legal case under the jurisdiction of the […]
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Historically, digital art has been almost impossible to monetize. Blockchain technology can solve that problem. On Sept. 23, auction-house giant Christie’s announced plans to sell its first nonfungible token, or NFT, at an auction. This was just one week after the record-setting $100,000 sale at auction of a digital art piece that also used a […]
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Will centralized exchanges continue to provide the regulated environments required for digital assets to evolve into the mainstream, or will the future belong to DEXs? Decentralized exchanges are undoubtedly an exciting development in crypto. DEXs facilitate the trading of cryptocurrencies directly between users, without the need for a trusted intermediary. This, in turn, allows users […]
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