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PayPal co-founder and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel believes he may hold a clue on how to find Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s (BTC) pseudonymous creator who disappeared two years after mining the cryptocurrency’s genesis block in January 2009. His theory stems from an early meeting of E-Gold founders in February 2000, where
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The regulators are closing in. It’s one thing to unbundle market functions to their parts ― custody, aggregators and Prime Brokerage ― to satisfy institutional compliance departments. It’s another to keep regulators happy.From the Financial Action Task Force pushing forward with its guidance for Travel Rule compliance to the still-evolving
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Environmental critiques of Bitcoin are, at the very least, still open for debate. It is strange, then, that Mozilla is taking them so much at face value as to say that PoW should be “opposed,” full stop. It is especially strange since the current DID draft standard does not even
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Identity verification is coming to Solana-based decentralized finance (DeFi), courtesy of Civic Technologies.Solrise Finance, a decentralized fund management and investing platform that uses the Solana blockchain, has partnered with Civic to create a decentralized exchange (DEX) with permissioned access based on digital identity verification, the companies announced Thursday.Solrise DEX Pro,
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The Ethereum Foundation (EF) and Ethereum Name Service (ENS) are backing a proposed system for secure sign-in using Ethereum from decentralized identity software firm Spruce.Spruce’s system was selected after EF and ENS submitted a Request for Proposals in July encouraging developers and software firms to propose a sign-in package using
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A new report on the potential for blockchain identity management solutions to become integrated across sectors has forecast strong growth for its global market, at a compound annual rate of close to 71%.The report grounds its predictions on a study broken down into segments: by sector – e.g., government, healthcare,
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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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PhoenixDAO aims to have five flagship products in the near term, with each product at different stages of incubation.PhoenixDAO is a community-based decentralized platform that was established with the mantra of rebirthing digital identity in our world. The startup was created to cater to the needs of businesses and institutions
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