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A new paper released on Thursday from a team of crypto researchers hopes to add to a body of work that will eventually identify “the Black-Scholes of decentralized finance (DeFi)” — an equation that will allow investors and users to properly value DeFi projects and potential profit/loss metrics in popular
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As media outlets waited to announce a winner until the Saturday following the election day, calls for how blockchains would have made this process easier emerged, most prominently perhaps by Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, as well as Vitalik Buterin, who added that, though there are technical challenges, the call
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Has it only been a dozen years since Oct. 31, 2008, that Satoshi Nakamoto published a modest nine-page paper describing a new online payments system called “Bitcoin?” Depending on where one stands, that pseudonymous white paper — its author(s) remain unidentified — fostered either a fintech revolution or, as some
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Was it an allusion to the Reformation or something to do with the ancient pagan tradition of Samhain?One of the most powerful aspects of bitcoin is its mythology. In this episode, NLW explores the 12th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper and the choices that went into its release date. Whether it was something
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The National Bank of Cambodia revealed the technical details of its upcoming blockchain-based payments system dubbed ‘Project Bakong’ this week. The central bank, which has been building Project Bakong since 2017, views its quasi-digital currency project as a high-tech revamp of the Khmer Riel, Cambodia’s official currency but hardly its de
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[sociallocker id="55298"] China Zheshang Bank, a national commercial bank, used blockchain technology to issue an asset-backed commercial paper, or ABCP. It was issued as a part of the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors’s (NAFMII) pilot project for ABCPs.An asset-backed commercial paper is a short-term investment issued by financial
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Ethereum is losing its privacy, warns a new paper, as “careless” users make linking their addresses to real-world identities easy. With the disquieting title, “Blockchain is Watching You,” the paper – a joint-publication from researchers at the Institute for Computer Science and Control in Hungary, Eötvös Loránd University, Széchenyi
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Brave browser continues its phenomenal growth rate, hitting 13.8 million users at the end of April. Of those users, 1.7 million have opted into the crypto rewards system, according to co-founder Brendan Eich.Brave Browser is a Stepping Stone Into Crypto For ManyIn the world of crypto, Brave browser occupies a
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Following an overhaul of Libra’s original white paper that was met with strong skepticism from United States policymakers, a member of the House Financial Services Committee — Democrat Rep. Sylvia Garcia from Texas — has come out and stated that the updated version of Facebook’s white paper does not contain
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Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) are grappling with the future of payments – so much so that their newest quarterly report, released Sunday, is entirely dedicated to what that potential revolution holds.In its 138-page look at what lies beyond the financial horizon, the Swiss-based institution reckoned with
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