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Takeaways from Davos: Blockchain is changing the way we fight for sustainability

Evercity’s Alexey Shadrin shares his insights from last month’s World Economic Forum in Davos.

North Korea stole more crypto in 2022 than any other year: UN report

A report submitted to the United Nations found North Korean cyber attacks have become vastly more sophisticated and raked in more crypto than ever before.

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Decentralized solutions for climate change are key as COP disappoints

Climate change initiatives led by politicians and sponsored by some of the biggest polluters demand a change in initiatives — Decentralized tech could play a key role.

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Does the IMF have a vendetta against cryptocurrencies?

Is the multilateral lending institution throttling useful DLT experiments in the developing world, or is it saving crypto from itself?

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Ark Invest CEO Warns Rate Hikes Could Fuel a ‘Deflationary Bust’ in Open Letter to the Fed

Following the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report that the U.S. Federal Reserve should stop raising rates, Ark Invest CEO Catherine Wood has published an open letter to the U.S. central bank asking the institution to stop raising interest rates. Wood says that the “unprecedented 13-fold increase in interest rates” has not […]

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UN Report Urges Fed to Suspend Interest Rate Hikes, Presses for ‘Public Spending’ Increases

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned that the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes and the slew of other central banks raising rates, could pose harm to the global economy. UNCTAD calculated that for every Fed basis point rise, the economic output of wealthy countries declines by 0.5%, and for […]

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Blockchain could help anonymously document war crimes

Blockchain combined with decentralized storage could ensure data preservation and anonymity when reporting war crimes.

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Report: Terror Groups Using South African Financial System to Move Funds

Sympathizers of the terror group, the Islamic State (IS) are allegedly using South Africa’s financial system to channel funds to the group’s affiliates and networks in Africa. The United States government has so far sanctioned four South Africa-based individuals it accused of facilitating the transfer of funds to African terror groups. Millions of Dollars Laundered […]

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UN Report: Venezuela Ranks Third Among Countries With Most Crypto Adoption

Venezuela, one of the first countries in Latam to be considered “crypto-friendly” by some standards, has ranked third in adoption rates, according to a report issued by the United Nations. The report, issued last month, states that the cryptocurrency ecosystem has grown by 2,300% between September 2019 and June 2021, and that the Covid-19 pandemic […]

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UNFCCC weighs blockchain use cases to fight climate change with Cointelegraph

During the DigitalArt4Climate press conference, Cointelegraph editor-in-chief Kristina Cornèr took over the stage to understand the various blockchain initiatives that actively fight climate change.

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