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Research: Over 90 Percent of Americans don’t Trust Facebook’s Libra

July 25, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

While Mark Zuckerberg and his associates are busy brainstorming on how to put Project Libra in the good books of financial regulators across the globe before 2020, it appears the team may have much more work to do. The latest research report by CivicScience has revealed that a vast majority...

Nigeria: Speaker of the House of Reps Believes in Cryptocurrency and Blockchain

July 24, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

Nigeria's Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that the proliferation of bitcoin (BTC), altcoins and distributed ledger technology (DLT) into the global financial ecosystem has made it quite critical for the most populous nation in Africa to formulate amenable regulations for its cryptospace in...

Ernst & Young Survey: Majority of Asia-Pacific Companies don’t Understand Blockchain

July 18, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Business

According to a survey conducted by Ernst & Young, nearly 70 percent of companies located in the Asia- Pacific region remain slow to adopt blockchain technology as its benefits are still misunderstood. The poll covered 576 respondents in the region as part of a blockchain-focused webcast that the firm conducted...

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Coffee Farmers in Brazil to Start Using Coffeecoin Cryptocurrency

July 12, 2019 by Anthonia Isichei at Altcoins

Brazilian coffee farmers will soon have access to a cryptocurrency called “coffeecoin”, according to a report on Bloomberg on July 10, 2019. This new cryptocurrency is to be launched by one of the country’s largest arabica-coffee cooperatives, and it reflects the growing interest in crypto tokens. Coffee-backed Cryptocurrency One of Brazil’s biggest arabica-coffee...

Fidelity Investments Set to Reward Employees in Cryptocurrency

Fidelity International Readies Cryptocurrency Rollout

July 8, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

Fidelity International, the investment service provider's European and Asian branch, is exploring its customers' perception of cryptocurrencies through the launch of a trading simulator dedicated to cryptocurrencies, as reported by FN London on July 8, 2019. Digital Currency Simulator This move comes amid Fidelity USA taking all the right steps to...

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ECB Executive Says Libra Crypto Is a Wakeup Call to Regulators

July 8, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Regulation

An Executive Board Member of the European Central Bank (ECB), the financial institution responsible for administering monetary policies within the Eurozone, has opined that financial watchdogs across the globe must now fast track the process of regulating bitcoin (BTC) and other blockchain-based digital assets, as more and more institutions like...

Flexa Merchants Adopt Litecoin (LTC) as it Outperforms Broader Crypto Market

July 6, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

On July 5, 019, Flexa announced that Litecoin (LTC) payments are now live for merchant acceptance on their app. The blog post details why Flexa chose to adopt LTC and their partnership with the Litecoin Foundation. At the same time, Litecoin is outperforming the rest of the crypto market, with...

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DocuSign Wants to Bring Blockchain to the Mainstream

July 2, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

DocuSign, an American company headquartered in San Francisco that helps organizations connect and automate agreements, has invested in the smart contract provider Clause to make contracts on their DocuSign Agreement Cloud “self-executing” and “self-aware”. Early Adopter Founded in 2003, DocuSign has gone on to establish a user base of more...

Amid Strengthening Fundamentals, Bitcoin’s Best Is yet to Come

June 30, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Bitcoin

Bitcoin's (BTC) hash power just crossed 65 EH/s to break its previous high for network hash power. Unspent transaction outputs (UTXO) have also been steadily rising, along with mining revenue on BTC higher than ever, and the bull cycle is only just starting. In this article, BTCManager explores the growing...

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LG Electronics and LG Group to Adopt Kakao Blockchain

June 28, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain, News

LG Electronics Inc., a leading South Korean multinational electronics firm and LG International Corp., an affiliate of the LG Group have agreed to adopted Klaytn, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform of Korea’s messaging giant, Kakao. The move will make it possible for LG to integrate blockchain technology into their...

Bitcoin ATMs Surpass 5,000 Worldwide as BTC Reaches New Highs

June 27, 2019 by Anthonia Isichei at Bitcoin

Bitcoin ATMs around the world continue to grow and show no signs of slowing down just yet. According to CoinATMRadar, a platform that monitors the growth of cryptocurrency ATMs worldwide, the number of Bitcoin ATMs globally has surpassed the 5,000 milestone. Astronomical Crypto ATM Growth Amid Rising Prices Recent statistics reveal...

Canada’s Graph Blockchain Ink Deal with South Korea

June 26, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Business, News

Graph Blockchain Inc., a blockchain technology firm based in Richmond, Canada, has inked a strategic partnership deal with the Ministry of Transportation in Seoul, South Korea, to enable the former to develop a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that would enable Seoul to store traffic data, as part of its Smart...

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TrustToken Inc. Launches Hong Kong Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin TrueHKD

June 25, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at News, Stablecoins

TrustToken Inc., the company behind the TrueUSD (TUSD) stablecoin has launched a new digital token pegged one-to-one with the Hong Kong dollar, reports Crowdfund Insider, June 24, 2019. TrustToken Enters the Asian Waters In a bid to tap into the lucrative Asian digital currencies space, TrustToken has launched the world’s...

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Bull Run 2.0: This Time It’s Different

June 25, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Bitcoin, News

Current price action is eerily similar to that of 2017, leading most people to believe that a similar boom and bust cycle is underway. In a news digest, Micky has highlighted key factors that set the coming market cycle apart from the last one, June 25, 2019. Dynamic of Fundamentals The...

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Maltese Government to Store Rent Contracts Info with DLT

June 24, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain

In a bid to ensure security and curb the activities of rogue actors, the Prime Minister of Mala, Joseph Muscat has announced that all rental contracts for property drafted in the country must be stored on a blockchain, according to a report by local news source MaltaToday on June 23,...

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