2020-10-13 22:45 |
Several universities are in talks to create a multi-disciplinary blockchain major together, but the work will be slow until there are more funding opportunities available, professors said. origin »
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The average cost of sending a transaction over the Ethereum blockchain has fallen by 82% from a September 2 peak of $11. 61, down to $2. 09 as of October 4. The decline may be the result of a slow down in the hype around decentralized finance (defi) protocols.
2020-10-6 08:00 | |
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Whales, a class of investors/traders that hold a large amount of Bitcoin tokens, have lately stopped depositing capital into crypto exchanges. Data fetched by blockchain analysis firm CryptoQuant shows inflows into the world’s major trading platforms started plummeting at a considerable pace beginning September 16.
2020-9-24 10:58 | |
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Blockchain regulation continues to increase and it isn't likely to slow down any time soon.
2020-9-10 23:23 | |
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Compliance with FATF’s travel rule presents major technical difficulties, but the blockchain industry is best-equipped to overcome them.
2020-8-9 16:00 | |
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It’s been a slow past few weeks for the Bitcoin market. The cryptocurrency has effectively been range-bound for two months, registering no concrete trend. Despite this, blockchain analytics firms have observed an increase in usage of BTC.
2020-7-3 15:00 | |
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A report from the IDC shows that spending on blockchain solutions has declined in 2020 across the board. This is a crippling side effect of a global economic slump due to COVID-19. According to a June 23 report, blockchain spending globally will decline in 2020.
2020-6-26 22:21 | |
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Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen discussed U.S. regulators’ ignorance towards regulating the blockchain and crypto space and how it is helping China.
2020-6-26 12:55 | |
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Brazil's central bank spent 1.3 million Brazilian reals (USD $250K) over two years building its new database for financial regulators on Quorum, replacing a slow and expensive paper-based system with a fully digitized version.
2020-4-11 21:00 | |
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Gasnor, a natural gas distributor for two million Argentine residents, has won approval to pilot a smart contract-based platform aimed to speed up the country's chronically slow gas certification processes.
2020-3-18 16:00 | |
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When it comes to retail, sellers complain about slow operations, severe laws, and poor infrastructure. Blockchain use will solve the issues before 2024, report says.
2019-12-2 18:04 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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China doesn’t seem to want the Bitcoin and blockchain gravy train to slow down any time soon. On Sunday afternoon (PST), reports arose on Twitter that Chinese state media had begun to talk up the leading cryptocurrency via an article.
2019-11-11 06:17 | |
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After claiming that crypto coins cannot be money, and are too slow, economist Nouriel Roubini is now bashing the blockchain technology itself.
2019-11-4 15:31 | |
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Bitcoin, along with many other cryptocurrencies, especially Chinese ones, has exploded over the weekend on China’s intention to explore the potential of blockchain. However, Ripple’s XRP is trading relatively at the same level as last Monday.
2019-10-28 13:30 | |
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Cindicator hacks crypto prediction markets: +228. 8% annualized profit - CryptoNinjas Decentralized prediction markets are one of the best-known concepts of blockchain technology, allowing anyone to bet on anything.
2019-10-15 15:40 | |
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Overprotective regulations could weaken the United States’ position in digital asset markets, according to one of the country’s leading securities officials. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, affectionately nicknamed ‘Crypto Mom,’ acknowledges that the regulator’s slow response to new technology could harm the nascent American blockchain sector.
2019-9-26 18:24 | |
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Banking services are not always accessible to everyone, not to mention that they sometimes come with high fees and slow processing time. But how can we change that? Well, Panerora.com has taken blockchain technology to create a revolutionary remittance system, that will provide its users with low-cost and fast transfers no matter where they are […] The post Panerora’s ICO Blockchain Payment Solution Is Ready to Change Africa appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-9-11 14:25 | |
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With crypto-adoption going mainstream, the race to harness the lion’s share of the market is finally evident. Prominent Tron proponent and VibraVid’s COO, Misha Lederman, recently featured in an interview to share his thoughts on the associated DApps battle, and his game plan to leverage the ongoing situation.
2019-9-11 21:30 | |
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If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.
2019-9-5 13:23 | |
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BitTorrent, the first Binance Launchpad IEO, was issued to power the BitTorrent Speed network with a variety of use cases for the token listed in the whitepaper and subsequent analyses. But as pointed out by eminent crypto VC, Barry Dilbert, most utility tokens act as friction tokens that slow down efficiency and offer no real utility.
2019-8-29 09:00 | |
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A third party joins R3 Corda’s Marco Polo blockchain to add data and confirm the payment obligations between Voith and KSB SE – LBBW and Commerzbank facilitated the trade. Global trade finance is hampered by the cumbersome cross-border transactional banking arrangements.
2019-8-15 19:30 | |
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Blockchain platform Solana has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Multicoin Capital. Cointelegraph reports that the round also saw participation from Distributed Global, Blocktower Capital, Foundation Capital, Blockchange VC, Slow Ventures, NEO Global Capital, Reciprocal Capital, Passport Capital, Rockaway Ventures, Kevin Rose, and Lyndon Rive. According to Solana it is the […]
2019-7-31 23:43 | |
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Solana ready to launch first “web-scale” blockchain as it closes $20 million funding » CryptoNinjas Solana, a web-scale blockchain, announced today it has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from Distributed Global, Blocktower Capital, Foundation Capital, Blockchange VC, Slow Ventures, NEO Global Capital, Passport Capital, and Rockaway Ventures.
2019-7-30 20:02 | |
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The San Francisco-based blockchain startup Ripple called on the US Congress to create a friendly cryptocurrency regulation that would not restrain its development. This week US Senate will hold hearings dedicated to this issue.
2019-7-30 18:38 | |
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Alex Jones was in full agreement with the Bitcoin crowd for about five seconds this week, when he proclaimed the slow death of fiat currencies. However, in the next breath, he warned that the replacement for the inflated fiat corpse would be something even more terrifying: a “blockchain or Bitcoin-style system” run by the globalists.
2019-7-24 22:50 | |
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According to a survey conducted by Ernst & Young, nearly 70 percent of companies located in the Asia- Pacific region remain slow to adopt blockchain technology as its benefits are still misunderstood.
2019-7-18 10:39 | |
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According to a survey conducted by Ernst & Young, nearly 70 percent of companies located in the Asia- Pacific region remain slow to adopt blockchain technology as its benefits are still misunderstood.
2019-7-18 10:39 | |
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In an unfortunate turn of events, PayFast, the first-ever online payment gateway accepting Bitcoin (BTC) in South Africa, called time on BTC payments citing fundamental technical issues in the blockchain and a hitch in user-friendliness.
2019-7-14 19:46 | |
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The Cardano project has added new updates to its platform during 2019, with the completion of its Byron development stage driving positive price activity and community enthusiasm. However, the blockchain remains characterized by a slow release schedule and primarily speculative value creation.
2019-7-11 15:01 | |
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Blockchain applications in the mobile phone industry have been a somewhat slow but steady process in the last few years with the official Samsung keyboard featuring a bitcoin emoji, HTC releasing the Exodus phone last year as well as the first blockchain-based smartphone being released last year as well. Now Opera, an internet browser company, […]
2019-6-27 21:12 | |
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Last week's partnership announcement with Chainlink was just the most recent blockchain-related move Google has pulled off in a string of similar business deals, suggesting the search engine giant and its data warehousing solution, BigQuery, are prepping for something big.
2019-6-20 23:50 | |
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By CCN Markets: A lot has already been said about Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency and its ambition to disrupt the finance world. But what about the blockchain technology that powers it? Blockchain experts have poured over the technical documents and played with the Libra protocol testnet.
2019-6-19 15:33 | |
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Consultancy firm McKinsey has argued that blockchain is gaining slower traction with retail banks due to regulatory hurdles and a conservative consumer environment
2019-6-8 13:27 | |
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By sports bets and odds offering, 1X2 Coin Sportsbook is, without doubt, one of the biggest crypto sportsbook in the world, covering more than 15 sports, 10000 leagues, 200000 and more teams and individual competitors.
2019-6-5 15:27 | |
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The majority of blockchain DApps, including EOS, are clunky, slow, and struggling to attract users. Now, according to a shocking report by AnChain, they’re also rife with bot traffic. Blockchain DApps Struggling to Attract Users The vast majority of blockchain DApps are struggling to consolidate a user base.
2019-6-5 15:00 | |
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Jens Weidmann, the president of Deutsche Bundesbank, the central bank of Germany, said a blockchain trial project used for the transfer and settlement of securities and cash proved slower and more costly than the current traditional methods, Bloomberg reported on May 29.
2019-5-31 21:49 | |
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By CCN: Adamant Capital’s Tuur Demeester, an outspoken crypto analyst and proponent of Bitcoin, said on Twitter that using the flagship cryptocurrency’s blockchain will eventually be as expensive – and rare – as chartering an oil tanker.
2019-5-31 22:30 | |
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By CCN: The president of Bundesbank – Germany’s central bank – is not impressed by blockchain, despite the technology experiencing increased adoption in other sectors. German Central Bank: Blockchain Slow & Expensive According to statements made in Frankfurt on May 29, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann claimed that a trial project to integrate blockchain failed miserably.
2019-5-30 22:07 | |
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Weidman – President Of German Central Bank: “Blockchain Settlement Was Slow, Costly In Trial” According to the president of Germany's Central Bank – Jan Weidman – the recent performance of a trial project which made use of blockchain technology in order to provide an alternative transfer and settlement solution for securities and cash demonstrated that […]
2019-5-29 21:25 | |
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TrustED, an Australian-based blockchain start-up offering to disrupt academic credential verification using a secure distributed ledger, recently announced the launch of its token offering as the first ICO on Binance’s proprietary blockchain – Binance Chain.
2019-5-29 12:06 | |
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The effects of quantum computing on cryptocurrencies is bound to have a huge effect on network security. With the exponential increase in computing capabilities, the efficacy of brute force attacks massively increases.
2019-5-29 21:00 | |
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As heavyweights in the third generation distributed ledger technology solutions, the strategic partnership will form a solid foundation for future cooperation in R&D and more. While blockchain technology is fast transforming the trade finance and payments ecosystem, it still faces own challenges including low scalability, high costs, and slow confirmation speeds.
2019-5-25 14:41 | |
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24th May, 2019, Tel-Aviv, Israel While blockchain technology has provided a means of processing transactions in a decentralized fashion, it has faced a number of issues, including low scalability, high costs and slow confirmation speeds.
2019-5-25 19:01 | |
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Bitcoin derivatives are shattering all-time highs for volume and number of open contracts across various platforms. CME, BitMex, and Deribit all smashed their previous month on month volume highs in May 2019 – and the month isn’t even over yet.
2019-5-22 13:52 | |
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Ken Nessel: Blockchain tech is “basically good enough” to add other production blockchains. Widespread adoption will likely be done through adoption in adjacent use cases, rather than a blanket impact.
2019-5-15 00:40 | |
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A Pfizer executive has challenged existing theories about slow rates of blockchain adoption
2019-5-15 19:55 | |
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One of the most common criticisms leveled against Bitcoin is that it is slow, at least compared to newer imitations. But its level of decentralization means just 6 transaction confirmations provide complete protection against double spending.
2019-5-12 13:00 | |
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Consortium blockchains have shown their failures throughout recent history. From R3 Corda’s crippled partnerships with its banking partnerships to the agonizingly slow Hyperledger development times, consortium chains have shown that they presently lack the economic models, partnerships, and projects to remain viable in the present blockchain landscape.
2019-5-5 12:00 | |
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By CCN. com: The widespread adoption of blockchain is taking longer than expected. The slow recovery pace of the cryptocurrency industry is forcing blockchain investors to look for alternative sources of revenue to keep their business afloat.
2019-5-2 15:42 | |
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