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According to local news outlet gynews.kr, the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office's Joint Financial Securities Crime Investigation Team says it will be contacting the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to nullify the passports of Terra Luna co-founder Do Kwon and five other project developers. Prosecutors also plan to contact Interpol
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the launch of the city's blockchain-powered “Excelsior Pass” vaccination passport on March 26.The passport is issued through a free and voluntary platform that verifies Covid-19 vaccinations or negative test results via a QR code for smartphone scanning or printing. The Excelsior Pass is intended
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Existing decentralized digital identity standards are vulnerable to compromise and do not have privacy at their core: This is the central argument posed by a new paper presented by Harry Halpin, a visiting professor at research university KU Leuven, at the Mozilla-hosted Security Standardization Research Conference (SSR20).Proposals for vaccine or
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A California-based visa and passport processing company announced it would be accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment as the U.S. State Department's operations are beginning to return to normal.According to a Nov. 6 announcement from passport and visa expeditor Peninsula Visa based in San Jose, the company stated it
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Payments for passport renewals and name changes are being processed by Coinbase Commerce. Source
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Swiss luxury watchmaker Breitling, known for its aviation chronometers, has enlisted help from Ethereum in fighting the fakers. In
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Microsoft’s Bitcoin-based decentralized identity tool, ION, went live with a beta version on mainnet Wednesday as one of many efforts by members of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) to fast-track tools anyone can use for COVID-19 crisis response programs. Microsoft and ConsenSys’s uPort project are both leading DIF members. Separately, Microsoft
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Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson has claimed that private, consumer-controlled immunity passports may be the killer-app that propels blockchain technology into the mainstream.In an interview with PYMNTS, he said that the company’s investment arm has turned to two startups creating blockchain-based apps allowing consumers to download and control their health records.Making
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