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The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has endorsed blockchain as an ‘opportunity in frontier technology’, renewing hopes that the country is warming to cryptocurrencies.In a keynote address at the India Ideas Summit, hosted by the US-India Business Council on Wednesday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched the country as
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is suing YouTube’s parent company Google, claiming that the video content platform is directly
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Garry Kasparov, the Russian chessmaster who faced off against IBM’s “Deep Blue” supercomputer, says Bitcoin, crypto and blockchain technologies, are the solution to the demand for privacy in financial markets.In a July 23 interview with Forbes contributor Roger Huang, Kasparov said he saw many upsides to cryptocurrencies. According to him,
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Since the start of the week Ether (ETH) has gained more than 17% and the gains appear to be connected to increasing stablecoin use and the rise of DeFi applications. As reported by Cryptox, Ethereum network usage surpassed Bitcoin’s, doubling the volume settled over the entirety of 2019.Another possibly bullish factor
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Crypto usage and trading has made its way over to Africa, gaining prevalence all over the continent, according to Chris Maurice, CEO of Yellow Card — a crypto exchange based in Lagos, Nigeria."In terms of the crypto scene and everything, things are growing very rapidly, really across the continent, but
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Recent regulatory approval for banking crypto custody comes after a Coinbase alum took a prominent seat as the Acting Comptroller of the Currency for the the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC — a U.S. banking regulator. “There’s one major change that occured over the last 60 days,”
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The Ethereum 2.0 team has formalized the launch date of the first full testnet designed to simulate mainnet conditions.Called Medalla, the new multi-client testnet is set to be the last one before mainnet launch occurs. Medalla means “medal” in Spanish, a reference to the “Olympic” Ethereum 1.0 testnet that immediately
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Amid the massive growth of stablecoins in 2020, the cryptocurrency community is setting up an international stablecoin organization in Switzerland.Called the World Stablecoin Association, or WSA, the Geneva-headquartered organization is to be launched by cryptocurrency exchange VirgoX and blockchain capital markets firm Global Digital Assets, or GDA Capital. The WSA
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For years, tribalism has plagued the blockchain industry. Developers align to specific consensus protocols and defend technologies that use them, regardless of their limitations. These deeply rooted divisions are slowing the innovation needed to scale blockchain for future adoption. The enterprise market is only beginning to understand the promise of blockchain,
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Over the years, it has become a known fact for anyone dealing with cryptocurrencies that scams are running rampant. However, as more novice players enter the market, more scammers up their tactics to take advantage of unsuspecting Bitcoin enthusiasts with fake Bitcoin giveaways and other elaborate schemes. Recently, a new bout
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