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Being a forum for blockchain ideas
The life insurance sector is currently being affected by technological disruption, as new digital technologies force insurance firms to either adapt and change the way they interact with their custome...
The IRS has been broadcasting for several months that cryptocurrency tax guidance was coming soon and even as late as the end of last week IRS officials at an American Bar Association meeting were say...
On-demand taxi services are one of the biggest and smoothest running technology business models. The next biggest is the online food ordering and food delivery industry. These industries are rapidly g...
The world has been embroiled in a serious discussion about whether or not digitized fiat currency should exist in various countries. The argument was pushed when China first announced it would be mak...
This week, three major regulated financial firms (PayPal, MasterCard, Visa) all reportedly are getting cold feet about their participation in the Libra Association project. Can anyone really be supri...
At the beginning of the week, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement action generated attention mostly by levying a large fine ($24 million) in the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) sector. ...
For us who have been observing crypto for a while, its stagnation as a marginal asset can get frustrating, and quite frankly, incomprehensible. The world is already moving towards a mobile, paperless ...
Last year Gartner, the high-standard research institute, painted a rather realistic scenario for blockchain. In one of its research papers, Gartner stated that its latest technology hype cycle puts bl...
In one of its reports, GLEIF, the Swiss-based organisation which coordinates the management of the global Legal Identity Identifier (LEI-) system, suggested to use blockchain technology for identifyin...
Things in the digital world are always upgrading. Innovators are always thinking about the next step and how to improve the user experience. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest have beco...
It has been around ten years since the first time that Bitcoin came into existence. With this amount of time passing, we should do a quick review of some of the more boring facts about Bitcoin, which ...
As with many other fields, paying attention to the right people can take you quite far when trying to be a successful crypto investor. There are many influencers out there that are potentially worth f...