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Ripple Briefly Achieves $100 Billion Market Cap, Can it be Justified?
Ripple, the cryptocurrency that was designed to handle large volumes of transactions for banks and financial institutions,…
Blockchain Asset Registries: Approaching Enlightenment?
Improving access to productive finance in Latin America and the Caribbean is the bottom line of our…
Avoiding Digital Feudalism Built on Blockchains
Let’s all acknowledge that things are looking pretty positive in the world of blockchain. Bitcoin’s price continues…
Kidnapped Cryptocurrency Exchange Executive Found After 3 Days
As recently reported by CCN, 40-year-old IT specialist Pavel Lerner was recently kidnapped in Kiev, Ukraine on…
Blockchain in Healthcare: 2017’s Successes
Entering 2018, two things are clear – 1) healthcare is ripe for disruption and 2) there is…
31% of South Korean Professionals are Cryptocurrency Investors
In a survey published on Wednesday by Seoul-based online employment platform Saramin, 31.3% of 931 office-goers polled…
Tokens Are Slowly Eating the Firm
One of the most fascinating outcomes of the 2017 gold rush into open-source protocol development is the…
India’s Tax Sleuths are Looking Into Bitcoin Profiteers’ Overall Wealth
India’s income tax (IT) department is taking a closer look at the overall wealth of individuals making…
No One Should Control the Blockchain Supply Chain
2017 was a foundational year for blockchain. We saw the emergence of new networks, platforms, strategies and…
Russia’s Finance Minister Confirms Upcoming Bitcoin Regulations
The Russian Ministry of Finance has prepared a sweeping regulatory law that will cover many facets of…
Mining Futures? 2017 Saw Crypto Patents Pile Up
The past 12 months have seen a range of patent applications focused on cryptocurrency or blockchain applications,…
Belarus Acknowledges Bitcoin as a Legal Currency, Legalizes ICOs
The government of Belarus, with the approval of its President Alexander Lukashenko, has officially acknowledged bitcoin as…