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This is the second article in a special Forkast.News series on blockchain, Covid-19 and the future of healthcare. To learn more about this series, please see its prologue. —————————————————————————— A new year, three new vaccines and the prospects for air travel should be looking up. The future should be brighter soon —
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This year 2020 has seen quite a variety of exciting developments in the blockchain space. To name just a few: the emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) as major economic forces and sources of crypto network user tractions, the maturation of layer 2 Ethereum solutions and the
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A minor rebound in the US dollar market prompted Bitcoin to reverse its upward momentum on Monday. The benchmark
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At first, Balaji Srinivasan held his tongue about the coronavirus. Years before he became an angel investor and intellectual firebrand of the cryptocurrency community, Srinivasan had co-founded a genetic testing company that was eventually sold for $375 million. He had also written papers on microbial and clinical genomics and taught bioinformatics
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The first forum, this one, is about technology and art, and the second forum, next Friday — I really want you all to be there as well — is about how blockchain is going to impact consumers. But besides the forums, there’s a media art installation by a French artist
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Dow Falls Again, on Track for Worst Month Since March Covid Meltdown CCN - Capital & Celeb News - The Dow Jones Industrial Average is on track to record its worst monthly performance since the March liquidity crisis. Dow Falls Again, on Track for Worst Month Since March Covid Meltdown
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U.S. regulators and law-enforcement officials brought charges on Thursday against BitMEX, a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange that has grown in recent years to be one of the industry’s biggest players.According to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, prosecutors accused BitMEX of facilitating unregistered trading and other violations, including “conducting significant aspects
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Members of Congress are urging the federal government to use blockchain solutions to boost COVID relief efforts. In a Wednesday letter addressed to the U.S. President Donald Trump and federal officials, lawmakers said blockchain technology can help identify and authenticate individuals set to receive government benefits, streamline supply chains and create
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Last year, before a pandemic changed the world, surveys showed millennials and adult-age Generation Z respondents steadily developing a curiosity in cryptocurrencies if not buying into the bigger idea that the technology will transform money. A Michelmores survey in the U.K., for example, found that 20% of affluent millennials – the
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Over the past several years I have dedicated myself to making blockchain work for the healthcare sector. The widespread inequalities and inefficiencies in our global health systems are beginning to show now, more than ever. The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the urgent need for new solutions to age-old problems,
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