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A year ago, it would have been difficult to believe that major governments throughout the world would delve into the world of cryptocurrency. However, with last summer’s price explosion, nations worldwide have begun to approach cryptocurrency from a number of angles. While cryptocurrency was first conceived as a tool to arm citizens against financial institutions … Read more
Islamic banking is a trillion dollar industry worldwide particularly popular in the Middle East and North African regions. Based on lower interest rates and increased investment-based culture, it is becoming popular for religious and political reasons among the communities in these countries. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article But, the problem with the current banks … Read more
Science fiction writer Ken Liu has written an important short story, Bizantine Empathy, weaving as central to the narrative cryptocurrency and distributed ledger technology. Finally, crypto breaks out of its ghettoization in popular fiction, where it has been the plaything of terrorists and drug dealers, and instead has been used as an elegant background to … Read more
At the beginning of 2018, I wrote an article outlining a New Year’s resolution that I thought could help boost cryptocurrency adoption and awareness in 2018, as long as enough people were doing it. Two weeks ago was my twentieth installment of the challenge. Between then and now, there has been a ton of time … Read more
Mainstream media misleadingly points to hack of small S. Korean exchange Coinrail as cause of current crypto market dip Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
ARK, a platform that enables interoperability between separate blockchains, is a highly anticipated project that recently decided to renovate itself from the ground up. In fact, the team behind the project has been in the process of building an entirely new client for the ARK platform since the Fall of 2017. Disclosure: This is a … Read more
Most cryptocurrency holders and investors aren’t happy with the way the markets are evolving as of right now. That is only normal, as the Bitcoin price determines the fate of the rest of the pack. In the case of the Bitcoin price, it seems the dip is nearly over, albeit the sideways trading momentum doesn’t … Read more
The news of another hacked South Korean crypto exchange, widely blamed for the drops across the markets, is the main story in today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief. Other subjects covered include a hospital where you can pay with tokens and a “blockchain” based cultural center established by a gangster. Also Read: Women’s Interest in Crypto … Read more
Many analysts and mainstream media outlets including Bloomberg and WSJ have attributed the recent decline in the bitcoin price from $7,500 to $6,700 to the hacking attack suffered by Coinrail, a minor cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea. However, the reasoning behind the attribution of the latest correction to Coinrail is incorrect, given that Coinrail is … Read more
The U.S. Fed needs to seriously look into issuing a digital currency, despite risks for credit availability, says former FDIC Chair Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico