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Blockchain technology can be a catalyst for change. Here at Forkast.News, we see it first-hand as we cover the industry. As we celebrate International Women’s Day today, we would like to put a special spotlight on some of the notable women who are making an outsized impact on this still largely male-dominated
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Synthetic identity fraud is a new form of identity theft where fraudsters use fabricated, synthetic IDs to steal credit from the victim. This synthetic identity happens to be a completely new identity created by combining components of real and conceptualized information like the social security number (SSN) of a real
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Blockchain tech may soon become an integral part of the world’s largest basketball league. According to a report from Sportico yesterday, a group of some of the wealthiest and most powerful National Basketball Association team owners are forming a committee to investigate blockchain use cases for the NBA. Called the Blockchain
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A sense of relief has begun to emerge as COVID-19 vaccinations continue to be administered across the world. While hopeful, a new challenge remains: distinguishing between individuals vaccinated and those unvaccinated. Various statistics claim that very little of the world’s population has been fully vaccinated as of the start of March 2021. While this number is
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U.S.-based crypto advocacy group, the Blockchain Association, is lobbying key figures in the Biden administration to advocate for more favorable regulations.The Association’s executive director, Kristin Smith, told Fox Business the group has already met with or is in the process of scheduling meetings with high-ranking Whitehouse officials including Treasury Secretary
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On Wednesday, British cryptocurrency mining company Argo Blockchain revealed that Argo CEO Peter Wall is now the first executive of a publicly-traded company to take their entire salary in Bitcoin.In a February operational update, the company — which trades on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker ARB — said
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The report revealed that there are over 3,000 global billionaires, a figure which has surged by almost 50% over the last five years.Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, has been crowned as the king of blockchain billionaires according to the latest Hurun list. The report from China’s Hurun Research Institute revealed
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The CEO of the United States’ largest cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has topped the list of global industry billionaires by China’s Hurun Research Institute.Issued on March 2, the latest Hurun report provides a brief overview of the world’s richest, stating that the number of global billionaires has surged nearly 50% to
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Under the proposal, crypto exchanges will be mandated to store personal information of every customer that move funds to their personal wallets. Now the Chamber of Digital Commerce calls this a shocking invasion of privacy, but the implications could have bigger impact than that. Let’s learn more. Joining me today
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While blockchain is known for bringing trust and transparency to multi-party workflows, it can also ensure the immutability of business-critical data. Realizing this potential, technology giant Oracle has announced a crypto-secure data management offering that will be provided as a free feature for Oracle converged database users. Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies
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