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UK-based fintech company Fasset aims to bridge the $15 trillion gap in sustainable infrastructure development with blockchain-backed investments. Source
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The Chairman of Kazakhstan's anti-corruption service has called on the government to develop a national digital currency to fight corruption in the country.Alik Shpekbayev, chairman of Anti-corruption Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, reportedly said that national digital currencies like China’s digital yuan should contribute to a more transparent financial
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Sergei Guriev, professor of Economics at Paris’ Sciences Po and a critic of Vladimir Putin, told Cryptox how Bitcoin can be used as a tool to combat authoritarian regimes despite having “no fundamental social value”.Unlike fiat currencies, the purchasing power of Bitcoin is not backed by any institution. That is
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Sergei Guriev, professor of Economics at Paris’ Science Po and Vladimir Putin’s critic, told Cryptox how Bitcoin can be used as a tool to combat authoritarian regimes despite having “no fundamental social value.”Unlike fiat currencies, the purchasing power of Bitcoin is not backed by any institution. That is why, according
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is working with the Colombian government to see if blockchain-based transparency can help prevent a hotspot for corruption, which happens in the process of bidding for high-value contracts to provide public goods and services. WEF partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Office of
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[sociallocker id="55298"] In the midst of ongoing protests across the United States, some turned violent by police brutality, one publication has uncovered information on a Pentagon war game created in 2018 that has an uncanny resemblance to current events. According to a June 6 article on The Intercept, documents reveal the
Read More[sociallocker id="55298"] Alexis Ohanian, a millionaire tech entreprenuer and co-founder of online social platform Reddit, recently publicized plans for his personal fight against racism. These include his desire to see a member of the black community replace him at his current board position."I've resigned as a member of the reddit
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Telegram has thrown in the towel in its court battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will no longer be fighting the ban on its blockchain token project. In a filing on Friday (see bottom), the messaging app provider said it was withdrawing its appeal over a previous
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov wrote in his public channel Tuesday that the Telegram Open Network (TON) project would be discontinued due to the company's ongoing legal fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). "Today is a sad day for us here at Telegram. We are announcing the discontinuation
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CryptoX isn't just hosting its Consensus: Distributed virtual conference this week – it's also raising money for COVID-19 relief, and doing so in an innovative way.The donation project makes use of quadratic funding, the fundraising model developed by Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Harvard researcher Zoë Hitzig. The method uses
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