China’s adoption of digital payments has been astonishing. Alipay, owned and operated by Ant Financial, has more than 600 million average monthly users, an amount of people that is almost twice as large as the population of the United States. Now, the People’s Bank of China, the central bank that runs China’s monetary policy, is […]

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A healthcare-focused blockchain firm has settled charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its 2017 ICO.The SEC said on Monday that New England-based SimplyVital Health, Inc. raised around $6.3 million in ether (ETH) via a pre-sale of its HLTH tokens to fund a touted “healthcare-related blockchain ecosystem” called Health Nexus.The pre-sale was […]

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Samsung has integrated bitcoin (BTC) functionality on its blockchain-enabled smartphones.The move comes months after the flagship Galaxy S10 range was launched in March with a “Blockchain Keystore” offering cryptocurrency storage and transactions for ether (ETH) and related ERC-20 tokens, but which notably excluded the number one cryptocurrency by market cap.The South Korean tech giant has […]

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LONDON (Reuters) – Barclays (BARC.L) is no longer providing banking services to major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, ending a relationship that started in March last year as the exchange expanded in Europe.The rare deal between the San Francisco-based exchange and the British bank made it easier for Coinbase users […]

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2019 is the year when the blockchain ecosystem and the crypto industry as a whole had to get sober. After a wild 2017 and a bear 2018, the blockchain space is back on an upwards trajectory with new developments. There are no more Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) to distract the crypto ecosystem and the building […]

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Cryptocurrency trading is simply the buying, selling, and exchange of crypto assets in the hopes of profiting from the price volatility and arbitrage opportunities in the market. The fact that cryptocurrencies deliver exponential gains (during bull runs), which dwarfs the performance of other assets such as stocks is one of the reasons cryptocurrency trading is […]

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The Bitfury Group may soon be known as a data miner, as well as a crypto mining firm.In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, the firm’s co-founder and CEO Valery Vavilov said Bitfury has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) division in order to break down the world’s vast amount of data and derive value from […]

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Hacking has become a central strategy for Kim Jong-un’s regime to generate revenue and soften the blow of economic sanctions. A new report from the United Nations, seen by the Associated Press, outlines the considerable breadth of the operation, which it says is being used to fund the development of weapons of mass destruction.The news: […]

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Blockchain investment is on the rise, and the technology will surely make the digital world a safer place. Cryptocurrency, however, which is invariably linked to the blockchain discussion, aims to drag us down.To illustrate, consider the following facts, figures, predictions, and statistics in the 2019 Cybersecurity Almanac, co-published by Cisco and Cybersecurity Ventures:Cybersecurity Ventures predicts […]

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IBM filed a new patent application for a blockchain-based web browser on August 6 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.According to the patent, the web browser collects information that is pre-specified from web browsing sessions and then this information is then transferred to a network of peer-to-peer nodes for collection and storage. Information […]

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