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Blockchain-based voting systems have potential despite security concerns

The 2020 United States presidential election was met with an increase in mail-in ballots due to COVID-19 concerns. Yet while many Americans stayed away from polling stations this year, postal delays, rejected ballots, and other challenges emerged.Unsurprisingly, better ways for casting votes during major elections quickly became a hot topic of

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Bitcoin Options Investors Are Starting to Hedge Against Potential Price Pullback

Bitcoin’s options market data shows investors are beginning to position for a temporary retreat from the cryptocurrency’s steep bull run.The one-month implied volatility, which is influenced by the demand for call and put options, jumped from roughly 55% to a four-month high of 70.5% in the past two days, suggesting

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Can blockchain make a difference? Africa sees vast monetary potential

As technological innovations continue to spread across Africa, the continent could provide some unique use cases for blockchain technology. African has been continually driving innovation in a number of spaces, with mobile payments a prime example of the potential for technology to drastically improve the lives of everyday Africans.While many

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JPMorgan turns bullish on Bitcoin citing ‘potential long-term upside’

JPMorgan, the $316 billion investment banking giant, said the potential long-term upside for Bitcoin (BTC) is “considerable.” This new optimistic stance towards the dominant cryptocurrency comes after PayPal allowed its users to buy and sell crypto assets.JP Morgan, from "Bitcoin is a fraud and will blow up" in 2017 to

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Bitcoin’s Rivalry With Gold Plus Millennial Interest Gives It ‘Considerable’ Upside Potential: JPMorgan

Bitcoin has proven itself to be a risk asset, not a safe haven, with “considerable” potential upside, according to a Friday note from JPMorgan’s Global Quantitative and Derivatives Strategy team obtained by CryptoX.Writing to clients in “Flows & Liquidity,” one of JPMorgan’s flagship publications, the authors said that characterizing bitcoin

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USDC Is Coming to Solana Blockchain in Potential Boost for Non-Ethereum DeFi

The Coinbase- and Circle-backed CENTRE Consortium announced support for its USDC stablecoin on the Solana blockchain Wednesday, marking the dollar-backed asset’s fourth blockchain integration, after Ethereum, Algorand and Stellar, announced barely a week ago. Compared to Ethereum’s approximate rate of 15 transactions per second (TPS), Solana offers over 50,000 TPS, which

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