As Ethereum successfully performs Istanbul hard fork, several crypto exchanges announced support for the network update.
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The most basic definition of blockchain is a shared, digitized ledger that cannot be changed once a transaction has been recorded and verified. All parties to the transaction, as well as a significant number of 3rd parties maintain a copy of the ledger (i.e. the blockchain), which means it would be practically impossible to amend every copy of the ledger globally to fake a transaction.
Bitcoin’s success has triggered the establishment of nearly 1000 new cryptocurrencies, leading to the delusion that the only application of blockchain technology is for the creation of cryptocurrency.
However, the blockchain technology is capable of a lot more than just cryptocurrency creation and may support such things as transactions that require personal identification, peer review, elections and other types of democratic decision-making and audit trails.
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Microsoft’s blockchain-enabled cloud service Microsoft Azure announced new tokenization and blockchain data management services.
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Ethereum was supposed to bring us the “world computer,” but even 3,000 transactions per second is woefully inadequate.
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Italian Society of Authors and Publishers teamed up with Algorand to develop a new ecosystem for copyright management based on blockchain technology.
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Voice, a social media platform developed by EOS creator Block.One, announced that it will launch in beta on Feb. 14, 2020.
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Ghana is maintaining a cautious approach to cryptocurrencies despite its central bank’s plans to launch a CBDC pilot in 2020.
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Former Italian minister of economy and finance spoke to Cointelegraph about his vision of the future economy and crypto’s part in it.
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by Joeri Cant
According to a report by Forkast Insights, the research arm of Asia-based Forkast, blockchain is a rapidly maturing technology in China, “far beyond the experim...
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by Joeri Cant
The Ukrainian government approves the final version of a money laundering law that will handle virtual assets and virtual asset service providers per FATF guide...
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by Joeri Cant
Brazil’s tax authority has implemented a new tax code that fines taxpayers who fail to declare their Bitcoin and crypto transactions.
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by Henry Linver
Blockchain takes to the skies as aerospace companies begin to make use of blockchain and 3D printing to streamline their supply chains.
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Space-as-a-service-focused blockchain startup SpaceChain has sent its hardware wallet technology to the International Space Station.
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General manager at the BIS Agustin Carstens seems to have changed his negative stance towards CBDCs, now saying that such currencies could open up new possibili...
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Komodo developers claim that it has created an implementation of its AtomicDEX that runs a full P2P node in the user’s web browser.
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by Helen Partz
Brave’s daily active users have tripled in 2019 to reach 3.3 million, while the number of verified publishers recorded a 12x increase.
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