China’s Central Bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBC), is planning to introduce its own digital currency. That’s according to an article published in Globaltimes last week, which says that the PBC applied for 74 patents involved with digital currencies to the National...
Catalonia, an embattled, semi-autonomous province in the northeast region of Spain, revealed plans earlier this week for a blockchain-based, “self-sovereign” identity system, called IdentiCAT. It rightly caught the attention of the cryptosphere as a technology that aims to independently validate Catalan citizens’ identification...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin discussed developments across the wider Ethereum ecosystem in a Q&A today at the Ethereal conference. Talking with Ejaaz Ahamadeen, lead token architect at Digital Assets, a part of the Brooklyn incubator ConsenSys (which also funds Decrypt), Buterin discussed...
Thirty years ago, as a U.S. Department of Defense experiment called the internet was to be soon commercialized, companies started to focus on how to protect internal systems and applications from attackers on the internet. The group responsible for deploying internet connectivity...
Demand for blockchain developers and related roles is rising. We may still be in the early stages as far as blockchain adoption is concerned, but students of today and tomorrow will need to learn more about this rapidly emerging technology....
There are at least 20 bills related to blockchain in various stages of being considered by the United States Congress, but only one is of imminent, potentially urgent concern to cryptocurrency users, according to Jason Brett, founder and CEO of...
If your first reaction to seeing a bichon-frise mincing sweetly up the sidewalk is, “mmm, that would pair well with the Sauvignon blanc,” you ought to consider being a Bitcoin Maximalist. Last week, a vegetable partisan on Twitter challenged a...
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption has failed to live up to expectations over recent years and fears around scams, fraud, and theft have not helped. The bitcoin price, after its epic 2017 bull run, slumped last year–though has rebounded in 2019, climbing back above $10,000...
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) wants to let bitcoin futures traders hold a greater number of open positions at one time. CME announced its intention to increase in the so-called spot month position limit for its bitcoin futures contracts in a letter to...
Out of 1,650 Iranian bitcoiners surveyed in Persian Telegram groups, 25 percent earned $500 to $3,000 a month from working with cryptocurrency, according to a survey conducted by the analytics firm Gate Trade. This data offers an exclusive peek inside...
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