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PNC — the United States’ eighth-largest bank, with almost $400 billion in assets — has become the country’s first to start using the RippleNet blockchain network for cross-border payments.Fintech Futures reported on Aug. 29 that PNC Treasury Management is now offering RippleNet-based cross-border payments solutions to its commercial clients,
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Algorand (ALGO) is a new cryptocurrency that is trying to address the three biggest issues plaguing the crypto space – decentralization, security, and scalability. Currently, a crypto project can’t improve two features without compromising the third one. Eg. Bitcoin is fully decentralized and secure but has notable scaling problems. On
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The recent introduction of BiboxEurope’s credit card Insta-Buy feature has received a great response from the cryptocurrency community. The feature, that went live on August 20,2019 attracted huge user demand, which caused all the bitcoins and ethers allocated to the Insta-Buy feature to run out in no time. However, the
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The year long battle between the two supposed brains behind the world largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin(BTC)trade, might have reached its end already. The presiding judge Judge Bruce E. Reinhart, on Tuesday, gave his final ruling on the case, compelling the self-proclaimed Bitcoin founder Craig Wright to give up half of his
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Wednesday, Aug. 28 — Top cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and XRP are in the red following a sudden price crash at 5:45 p.m. UTC. The market as a whole is also red across the board.Market visualization. Source: Coin360The Bitcoin price is trading at $9,691 at press time, marking
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TSMC, the world’s largest independent semiconductor foundry and chip supplier for Bitmain, is facing multiple lawsuits from its competitor GlobalFoundries (GF).Alleged patent infringement GF, the second biggest semiconductor foundry by sales after TSMC, filed several lawsuits in the United States and Germany, accusing Taiwanese TSMC of infringing on 16 GF
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Professor Jonathan Reichental is the incarnation of a tech man. One of the most competent opinion leaders in the innovation field of our times, he has managed to be successful as an advisor to business and governments, a professor in leading universities, a writer, the chief information officer of
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Dubai-based fintech company Wethaq has entered into a strategic partnership with enterprise software firm R3, in order to create a platform for issuing and trading sukuk securities based on R3’s Corda offering. A platform for Islamic securitiesAccording to a press release on Aug. 28, Wethaq’s platform is built on R3’s
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French police have shut down a massive botnet that has been used for Monero (XMR) cryptojacking.Cryptojacking backed by “massive firepower”BBC News reported the development on Aug. 27. According to the police, the botnet was distributed by sending virus-laden emails with offers for erotic pictures or fast cash, and further
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New research by major cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase shows that 56% of the top 50 universities in the world offer one or more classes on cryptocurrency or blockchain tech.Metrics indicate growing interestCoinbase shared its research in an official blog post on Aug. 28 in which it used rankings from
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