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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Benjamin Noys, a professor at the University of Chichester, in the UK, invented the term "accelerationism" for a philosophy that says technological progress should
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A former MakerDAO contributor and Carnegie Mellon alumnus has committed 10,000 MKR — valued at just under $4.3 million at press time — to his alma mater to develop a research program for decentralized applications.Who is giving what for what?Nikolai Mushegian announced the donation in a Jan. 1 post
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Initial exchange offerings (IEOs), which launched in 2019 have lost investors up to 98% of their money, damning new statistics show. In its latest report on the phenomenon published on Dec. 23, the analytics arm of exchange BitMEX, BitMEX Research, identified twelve major IEOs that launched this year. Of those,
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Ripple, a company behind XRP cryptocurrency, became a $10 billion blockchain giant after raising $200 million in a funding round earlier this month. But according to one prominent trader, the San Francisco firm has no value.Tone Vays, a former Wall Street trader and vice president of JP Morgan Chase, criticized
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The creators of Maze Ransomware have added a new wrinkle to the typical hacker's MO. Instead of quietly infecting and requesting ransom from victims, the so-called Maze team is publicly exposing victims by displaying real files exfiltrated from their hacked servers.This tactic could be a disaster for crypto companies that
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Crypto companies have filed 7,100 Suspicious Activity Reports since May, America’s anti-money-laundering chief said at a banking conference Tuesday. Source
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Many crypto enthusiasts are placing ultra bearish forecasts on Twitter. The stock to flow model suggests that the move down is out of the norm. There’s a strong possibility that bitcoin trades above $10,000 before 2019 expires. In the last few days, bitcoin has been the subject of bearish calls. Many are calling
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Oman Oil and Orpic Group and HSBC Bank Oman SAOG have conducted the first trade finance transaction on the blockchain in the country using R3’s Corda platform.As news publication the Oman Observer reported on Nov. 23, Oman Oil and Orpic Group — one of the largest oil and gas businesses
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At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $ 7,911.80, the lowest level since the end of October, and the decline is down, the price is likewise down despite positive news.In the interview recently, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman admitted owning Bitcoin. Besides, financial giant Fidelity recently acquired a license
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Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty adjusted downwards more than at any time since its 2018 price low on Nov. 8, data shows. As noted by entrepreneur and cryptocurrency commentator Alistair Milne on Monday, difficulty fell by around 7% after the network’s latest readjustment. Difficulty reveals Bitcoin network maneuveringMining difficulty refers to the
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