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Bitfinex Plans To Exchange New Lamps For Old - 0 views

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Bitfinex's parent company, iFinex, has come up with a brilliant scheme to plug the gaping hole in its balance sheet. Why not sell some new tokens? Rather a lot of tokens, in fact - a cool 1 billion of them.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Bitfinex's parent company, iFinex, has come up with a brilliant scheme to plug the gaping hole in its balance sheet. Why not sell some new tokens? Rather a lot of tokens, in fact - a cool 1 billion of them.</div>

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From lock-in to loyalty: Self-Sovereign Identity & Data Portability - 0 views

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Blockchain Identity Privacy

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Combining a self-sovereign digital identity system with a system of consent receipts not only ensures that a company handles its customers' personal data correctly, but also that a company can now recognise its customers no matter what products they buy.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Combining a self-sovereign digital identity system with a system of consent receipts not only ensures that a company handles its customers' personal data correctly, but also that a company can now recognise its customers no matter what products they buy.</div>

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Bitcoin's Lightning Comes to Apple Smartwatches With New App - 0 views

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Transactors can use the smartwatch app to generate a QR code - a square-shaped barcode - that someone else can then scan with their smartphone to send over a payment.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Transactors can use the smartwatch app to generate a QR code - a square-shaped barcode - that someone else can then scan with their smartphone to send over a payment.</div>

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Fidelity to Roll Out Crypto Trading 'Within a Few Weeks' - 0 views

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A Bloomberg report on Monday, citing "a person familiar with the matter," said that Fidelity will roll out the service for trading bitcoin "within a few weeks" and will focus on institutional, not retail, customers.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A Bloomberg report on Monday, citing "a person familiar with the matter," said that Fidelity will roll out the service for trading bitcoin "within a few weeks" and will focus on institutional, not retail, customers.</div>

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SIX Stock Exchange May Issue Its Own Token, Says Exec - 0 views

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Swiss stock exchange SIX's digital exchange will go live with a native token and an "initial digital offering" (IDO) service in 2020. That would follow a trial expected to be completed late this summer. https://www.coindesk.com/six-stock-exchange-may-issue-its-own-token-says-exec

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Swiss stock exchange SIX's digital exchange will go live with a native token and an "initial digital offering" (IDO) service in 2020. That would follow a trial expected to be completed late this summer. <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/six-stock-exchange-may-issue-its-own-token-says-exec" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.coindesk.com/six-stock-exchange-may-issue-its-own-token-says-exec</a></div>

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Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum Released - 0 views

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The new Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum will help developers create and deploy ethereum-based apps on Azure Blockchain Service or the ethereum blockchain

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The new Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum will help developers create and deploy ethereum-based apps on Azure Blockchain Service or the ethereum blockchain</div>

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The economics of mobile money - 0 views

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This column explains how mobile money potentially helps ameliorate several areas of market failure in developing economies, including saving, insurance, and the empowerment of women. It illustrates these effects using examples from a burgeoning empirical literature and concludes that the system-wide effects of mobile money may be even greater than current studies suggest.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This column explains how mobile money potentially helps ameliorate several areas of market failure in developing economies, including saving, insurance, and the empowerment of women. It illustrates these effects using examples from a burgeoning empirical literature and concludes that the system-wide effects of mobile money may be even greater than current studies suggest.</div>

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Pieter Wuille Unveils Two Proposals for Upcoming Bitcoin Privacy Soft Fork - 0 views

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Blockchain developer Pieter Wuille unveiled two Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that offers new plans for bitcoin's next big upgrade or "soft fork." The two proposals describe Taproot, a code change increasing bitcoin's privacy, and paving the way for privacy and scalability improvements to bitcoin.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Blockchain developer Pieter Wuille unveiled two Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that offers new plans for bitcoin's next big upgrade or "soft fork." The two proposals describe Taproot, a code change increasing bitcoin's privacy, and paving the way for privacy and scalability improvements to bitcoin.</div>

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Thai Central Bank Builds Blockchain Solution for Digital Currency Project - 0 views

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The Bank of Thailand prototype solution will enable the central bank to settle interbank transactions using a wholesale central bank digital currency among its eight commercial bank partners on the R3 on Corda blockchain platform.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Bank of Thailand prototype solution will enable the central bank to settle interbank transactions using a wholesale central bank digital currency among its eight commercial bank partners on the R3 on Corda blockchain platform.</div>

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Facebook Building Cryptocurrency-Based Payments System - 0 views

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At the heart of the initiative, under way for more than a year and code-named Project Libra, is a digital coin that its users could send to each other and use to make purchases both on Facebook and across the internet, according to people familiar with the matter.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">At the heart of the initiative, under way for more than a year and code-named Project Libra, is a digital coin that its users could send to each other and use to make purchases both on Facebook and across the internet, according to people familiar with the matter.</div>

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Bitcoin Hater Charlie Munger Accidentally Makes a Case for Crypto - 0 views

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Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway, expressed concern over the rate at which money is printed by democratic governments. Ironically, Munger, a skeptic of bitcoin, may have accidentally pointed out the merits of the dominant cryptocurrency.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway, expressed concern over the rate at which money is printed by democratic governments. Ironically, Munger, a skeptic of bitcoin, may have accidentally pointed out the merits of the dominant cryptocurrency.</div>

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On Stablecoins and Beauty Pageants - 0 views

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As is currently being done, crowd-sourcing of pricing data feeds is fundamentally broken for stablecoins because the incentives are misaligned. Stablecoins that rely on this fundamental mechanism should be considered broken.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">As is currently being done, crowd-sourcing of pricing data feeds is fundamentally broken for stablecoins because the incentives are misaligned. Stablecoins that rely on this fundamental mechanism should be considered broken.</div>

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