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The United Nations (UN) is an international association that was created to support and strengthen worldwide peace and security and to provide the development of intergovernmental cooperation. The main goals of UN activities were developed during the Second World War by the countries that were members of the Allied Powers of the war. The United Nations on Bitcoin news is about the attitude of UN to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies, the possibility of United Nations’ Bitcoin adoption, the use of cryptocurrency and blockchain by United Nations and so on. There are examples of the United Nations using Bitcoin and blockchain, such as the travel of UN volunteers to Africa to spread cryptocurrency among African citizens or aid sent through the Ethereum blockchain to Syria.

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The UN Development Programme, which is tasked with eliminating poverty in over 170 countries, wants to educate its 22,000 staff on distributed ledger technology...

United Nations agency to upskill thousands of staff in blockchain tech

2023-12-01T05:02:59+00:00

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UN scientists evaluated the activities of 76 Bitcoin mining nations during the 2020–2021 period and found that the global BTC mining network consumed 173.42 TW/...

Bitcoin price and energy use for mining highly correlated: UN report

2023-10-30T10:41:27+00:00

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The list of participants includes tech industry leaders, government representatives from Spain to Saudi Arabia, and scholars from the U.S., Russia and Japan.

UN launches international effort to tackle AI governance challenges

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2023-10-27T10:08:00+01:00

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Dutch government launched a new project for supervising AI to help create a framewo...

UNESCO and Netherlands design AI supervision project for the EU

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2023-10-06T11:27:49+01:00

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The crypto Travel Rule, which came into effect on Sept. 1, aims to stop money laundering and terrorist financing activities carried out on-chain.

UK’s Travel Rule comes into effect, could halt certain crypto transfers

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2023-09-01T01:37:00+01:00

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The International Labour Organization study says that AI will more likely augment jobs than destroy them, though certain roles could be at more risk than others...

AI unlikely to destroy jobs, but cost to certain workers may be ‘brutal’ — UN study

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2023-08-22T04:32:26+01:00

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The AI for Good global summit hosted by the U.N. tech agency invited a panel of robots and their creators to a press conference to answer questions from reporte...

The UN holds a robot press conference about the state of AI

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2023-07-10T15:15:44+01:00

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Artificial intelligence has provided the world with tools that might make life easier. But there has also been a slew of disturbing developments.

Girlfriends, murdered kids, assassin androids — Is AI cursed?

2023-06-28T17:01:23+01:00

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