The power of blockchain has undeniably left its mark on almost all parts of the world. Recently, Africa has emerged as a top, or at least, promising blockchain/cryptocurrency destination. Because the market is so new, there are numerous solutions and inventions to be made using blockchain. The most remarkable thing about blockchain, however, is the…
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The asset management branch of Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse Asset Management, and Banco Best, a Portuguese financial institution, have partnered on an interesting blockchain project. The two financial institutions have processed blockchain-powered live cross-border transactions of an investment fund. The platform that was used for the transaction was FundsDLT. The latter is a decentralized platform based…
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Amidst all of the negative press of late related to crypto Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the Australian Government’s Treasury department has recently released an issues paper that draws attention to the many advantages and opportunities that ICOs can bring to businesses and to the Australian economy as a whole. The 27-page paper does not ignore…
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Ampleforth (previously known as Fragments), a decentralized store of value protocol, announced today that historian, author, and financial expert Niall Ferguson will be joining its advisory board. Niall Ferguson is the author of fifteen books and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, as well as the Center of European Studies at Harvard, where…
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“Gong hei fat choy” or “Gong xi fa tsai”, if you prefer Mandarin to Cantonese, are the preferred ways to wish “Happy New Year” for most of the Chinese population on the planet. While these words actually wish for prosperity in the year to come, this period of the year is usually accompanied by a…
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Desperate people are known to do desperate things, but is that maxim also true for countries? Venezuela, a failing socialist state, has two competing presidents at the moment and an inflation rate of 1.7 million percent. Yes, that is correct. It is not a typo. Due to inflation and a host of other reasons, the…
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Ripple is going far and beyond when it comes to embracing new partners and new knowledge-sharing techniques. One of the best examples of that is the Ripple Blockchain Research Program that commits $50 million for university blockchain research. The major aim of the program is to increase research related to the technology of blockchain and…
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The CEO OF Binance, Mr. Changpeng Zhao, recently held a Q&A sessions and shared some potential projects Binance might soon be working on. His said that his has the desire to form a partnership with Ripple and utilize xRapid. The more interesting news is that Zhao expressed a desire to add XRP pairs on the…
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On the 6th of February, 2019, Opera announced that Opera users will not be able to buy cryptocurrencies directly from the website browser. The browser is the new Web 3, Opera for Android one that enables Android users to purchase cryptos. The new solution is made available to people in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The…
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Crimes related to cryptocurrency mining never stop. Cryptocurrency mining has allowed plenty of criminals to "showcase" their "power" all over the world. The latest arrest, however, comes from Germany. In the city of Klingenthal, Saxony, a group of suspects was arrested by the police, as reported by Cointelegraph auf Deutsch. The suspects have reportedly operated a cryptocurrency…
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