The kin cryptocurrency is exploring a move from its own fork of Stellar to the Solana blockchain. To recap, the mobile app company Kik ran a $98 million initial coin offering (ICO) for kin in 2017, which was made on the Ethereum blockchain. Then the company said that it would …
Read More »Virtual Financial Assets And The Regulation of Blockchain Micro-Loans
Share and get +16 +16 Ranging from investment within the capital markets to the provision of credit by institutions, the concept of financing, at its core, aims to provide the finances with what he doesn’t have in general or temporal terms. It is a concept which is a long-standing technique …
Read More »10 Years On, Laszlo Hanyecz Has No Regrets About His $45M Bitcoin Pizzas
If you owned a share of an experimental technology, how much of it would you give up to help that technology grow? Startup founders do this calculus whenever they raise capital. Ten years ago today, a developer named Laszlo Hanyecz did it with bitcoin. Hanyecz is known as the first …
Read More »Blockchain Government Use cases – [Algorand, Power Ledger, and RSK]
Share and get +16 +16 Governments from around the world are warming up the potential of blockchain government uses cases. As such, it’s no longer surprising to see more and more projects collaborating with governments. In this guide, we will be looking into four different projects – Algorand, ICON, Power …
Read More »Binance, Eosfinex Join EOSDT Stablecoin Governance Board
Binance is trying its hand at decentralized stablecoin governance. The exchange joined the distributed oversight team that approves contracts and code changes on Equilibrium, a DeFi outfit behind the EOSDT stablecoin. EOSDT contracts hold nearly $10 million in collateral according to the Equilibrium website. Announced Friday, Binance now has oversight …
Read More »What Is Quorum Blockchain? A Platform for The Enterprise
Share and get +16 +16 Samer Falah, Head of Quorum Blockchain Engineering, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. * Imran Bashir, Quorum Engineer, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. *IntroductionQuorum® is an enterprise blockchain platform. It is a fork of the public ethereum client ‘geth’ with several protocol level enhancements to support business needs. …
Read More »Louisiana State Senate to Consider Crypto Business Licensing Bill
The Louisiana State Senate is about to consider a bill to regulate and license virtual currency businesses. Sponsored by state Rep. Mark Wright (R-77), HB701 sailed through the state House of Representatives with unanimous approval, and is being referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. …
Read More »Blockchain Oracles- The Key To Scalability And Interoperability
Share and get +16 +16 blockchain oracles are third-party services that provide smart contract with external information. They serve as bridges between blockchains and the outside world.Scalability and interoperability are often considered the two holy grails of the crypto space. Interoperability is defined as the ability of different softwares to …
Read More »The Shadow of Satoshi’s Ghost: Why Bitcoin Mythology Matters
How the myth-making around Satoshi reinforces what makes bitcoin unique in the landscape of global monies. On Wednesday, a batch of coins mined just a month after bitcoin’s birth were moved. It was the first time since August 2017 that any bitcoin from early 2009 had been transferred, and the …
Read More »Blockchain Evidence and Courts – A cross-jurisdictional analysis
Share and get +16 +16 This article will analyze the developments about Blockchain evidence and courts in the USA, China, Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom and Italy.A number of major jurisdictions across the globe have recently addressed the issue of the admissibility of evidence recorded on blockchain in courts. These developments …
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