A Coronavirus Test Center in Germany’s Largest Airport Is Using IOTA

A coronavirus test center at a Frankfurt airport uses IOTA technology to immutably store and protect travelers’ information proven to be virus-free, a tweet that first broke the news and later confirmed to be true by a developer of the IOTA Foundation reveals on Jan 7. дальше »

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Why Are NFTs Trending? Exploring the Growth of NFT Collectibles

NFTs boast a variety of uses, but their application to gaming, in particular, is gaining traction. Each year, players spend billions of dollars on virtual assets (like Fortnite skins) to… The post Why Are NFTs Trending? Exploring the Growth of NFT Collectibles appeared first on CoinCentral. дальше »

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KeepKey Wallet Review 2021: Is This Safe and Legit Wallet?

KeepKey is a secure Bitcoin hardware wallet that uses advanced technology to provide users with one of the most secure environments for storing their cryptos. Launched in 2015, KeepKey is a good multi-supporting crypto hardware wallet to hit the market. дальше »

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UAE: Leading Telecom Group Uses Blockchain in Human Resources

UAE firm Etisalat is tapping distributed ledger technology (DLT) to streamline HR operations. Firm Taps Blockchain to Ensure Legitimate Data According to a report by GDN Online, UAE-based telecom firm Etisalat recently announced a new initiative geared toward empowering employees with blockchain-enabled digital HR credentials. дальше »

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Крупный даркнет-рынок перестал принимать платежи в биткоине

Даркнет-маркетплейс White House Market прекратил поддержку первой криптовалюты и стал принимать платежи только в Monero (XMR). Largest Darknet Market, White House Market, drops bitcoin support, now only uses monerohttps://t. дальше »

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DeFi Is the Only Beginning of Much Larger Change: Interview with Ilia Maksimenka of PlasmaPay

Maksimenka’s PlasmaPay uses blockchain to let users store, buy, exchange, send, and receive currency (both crypto and fiat). They are also working on cross-chain solutions, spurring further development, and keeping fees low. дальше »

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IOHK’s new KEVM devnet opens up Cardano for Ethereum developers

IOHK announced that Solidity, a programming language for writing smart contracts on Ethereum, is now compatible with the Cardano blockchain through an interoperable platform that uses Ethereum’s native code. дальше »

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Major UK Asset Managers Embrace Blokchchain-based Fund Cost Tool

Blockchain technology-powered investment fund reporting tool is now in production. Blockchain Fund Cost Tool Finds Several Takers According to a report by Ledger Insights, a new investment fund reporting tool that uses distributed ledger technology (DLT) has gone into production. дальше »

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Brandmark Uses Blockchain Technology to Track Farm Products From Farm to Store

Brandmark, an Israeli-Japanese startup, utilizes blockchain technology to assist food manufacturers in showcasing their products’ source. It provides customers with transparency by telling them about the ingredients, where they came from, and their process. дальше »

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Russia’s second largest bank VTB pilots bank guarantees on blockchain

Major Russian bank VTB uses a central bank-backed blockchain to issue bank guarantees to local cellular network giant MTS.

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FBI Darknet Strategy Audit Report Released

The FBI came under the microscope in an unclassified version of the Office of the Inspector General report released on Dec. 17. Strategies, not strategy After a short introduction into the dark web and its uses, good and bad, the authors attempt to examine the FBI’s strategy. дальше »

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Velas Set to Launch BitOrbit As Part of Velas 3.0

Velas, a high-throughput blockchain that uses artificial intuition to automatically optimize its operating parameters, has just announced the launch of Velas 3. 0 — a new ecosystem comprised of a suite of new products, centered around Velas’ long-awaited BitOrbit social media platform. дальше »

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Ruffer Investment Reduces Gold Exposure & Adds Bitcoin as an ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Currency Devaluation

UK-based traditional asset manager Ruffer Investment is the latest company to allocate 2. 5% of its portfolio to Bitcoin. Much like Paul Tudor Jones, MicroStrategy, Square, MassMutual, and other institutions, Ruffer uses Bitcoin as insurance against the devaluation of the world’s fiat currencies. дальше »

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CoinShares and BNC support new high-performance DeFi derivatives exchange

The exchange is hosted on a layer two platform and uses Dai for margin.

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Thailand’s Largest Bank Snubs Ripple – Selects Stellar-based Blockchain for Cross Border Remittances

In an apparent snub to Ripple, Thailand’s oldest bank, Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) is set to open a new cross border remittances corridor in partnership with Lightnet, a fintech company that uses the Stellar blockchain. дальше »

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Fantom uses Band Protocol’s (BAND) price oracles to launch Liquid Staking

Fantom — a scalable, fast, and secure platform for DeFi, supply chains, and even crypto payments — just launched a new DeFi protocol called Liquid Staking. The service combined its own technology with Band Protocol’s (BAND) decentralized price oracles to bring liquidity to stake assets on its layer-1 protocol, and being the first project in crypto history to ever do so. дальше »

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JPMorgan Uses JPMCoin to Execute Blockchain-Based Repo Transaction

Blockchain technology just got a major endorsement from one of the major finance players. JPMorgan Executes Blockchain-Powered Repo Transaction Using JPMcoin Wall Street titan JPMorgan on Thursday announced that it had executed a blockchain-enabled repo transaction using its JPMCoin. дальше »

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BREAKING: Over 21 Billion XRP on Exchanges Prepare for SPARK Airdrop

SPARK is the native cryptocurrency of the Flare Network. The new blockchain uses the Flare Consensus Mechanism to integrate ‘Ethereum like’ abilities on the Ripple Network. What Are the Flare Network’s Goals? The Flare Network has been growing over the last two years. дальше »

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IOTA and ClimateCHECK Partner for Climate Change

IOTA and ClimateCHECK are expanding their collaboration and have released DigitalMRVTM. It is a solution that streamlines Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) and uses the permissionless architecture of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) network for data streaming and safeguarding of confidential industrial data. дальше »

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Romania Uses Blockchain Solution to Monitor National Elections

Romania Electoral body, the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) deployed blockchain technology in its recently concluded election which took place on December 6, 2020. The solution was integrated into the country’s electoral systems and applications used in the parliamentary election as a complementary solution to boost transparency of results. дальше »

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Italian musician uses IOTA’s Tangle to certify music authenticity

Blockchain technology’s development is progressing at a rapid pace, and new use cases are constantly being discovered for it. Many of the use cases that used to be only theoretical, are now available and used in practice for all kinds of purposes. дальше »

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Nation-state hacker group uses mining techniques to stay hidden

BISMUTH, a nation-state threat actor, is taking advantage of crypto mining techniques to disguise its attacks, according to the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence team. The team unveiled this news through a report on November 30, noting that the hacker group is now releasing crypto-mining malware alongside its regular cyberespionage toolkits. дальше »

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The Blockchain Detective - Taking on elite cybercriminals & owning them

Richard Sanders is a co-founder and lead investigator at CipherBlade, an elite blockchain investigation agency that works closely with top crypto exchanges, blockchain protocols, and the FBI. The agency uses a potent mix of on-chain and off-chain analytics and investigative techniques to track the most sophisticated cyber criminals on the planet. дальше »

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Japan: Life Insurance Giant Uses Blockchain Technology for Stockholder Voting

Blockchain technology is now being used for stockholder voting. Japanese Firms Tap Blockchain for Stockholder Voting According to a report by Ledger Insights, one of the top three Japanese life insurers, Meiji Yasuda Life, is mulling using distributed ledger technology (DLT) for shareholder meetings from July 2021. дальше »

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Ciphertrace Files 2 Patents for Systems to Identify Criminal Monero Transactions

Cryptocurrency intelligence firm Ciphertrace has filed two patent applications for tools and systems to trace monero transactions. The company aims to enable the detection of criminal uses of privacy coins like monero. дальше »

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Blockchain Bites: XRP’s Rally, Chainalysis’ $1B Valuation, Bitcoin’s Volatility in Perspective

The U.S. government uses USDC to bypass Venezuelan blockades. Chainalaysis eyes a $100 million raise. BTC is less volatile than 22% of S&P500 stocks, VanEck finds. дальше »

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Ethereum Classic Users to Access Ethereum with WETC

Ethereum Classic Labs (ECL) announced the launch of Wrapped ETC (WETC), a token that connects Ethereum Classic (ETC) users to Ethereum. The company stated that WETC uses a bridging mechanism that effectively makes ETC interoperable on Ethereum. дальше »

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How UPenn Uses Blockchain To Incentivize Sustainable Energy Use

Like many colleges across the country, The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) currently has few students on campus due to the impact of COVID-19. Assistant Professor of Architecture, Dorit Aviv is taking advantage of all those empty dorm rooms to establish an innovative sustainability project based on Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology. дальше »

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Duality Technologies Launches Platform for Analyzing Big Data While Keeping It Private

The platform is a step forward in practical uses for Homomorphic Encryption, letting multiple actors conduct analysis while keeping the data encrypted. дальше »

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An IOTA-Powered Smart Water Meter For Irrigation Is Being Tested in Germany

Landesbetrieb Landwirtschaft Hessen (LLH) is developing and testing a new water meter testing system in the Federal State of Hessen, Germany. Project IOTAqua uses the Tangle to measure the exact amount of water dispensed during an irrigation cycle. дальше »

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xBTC Using Chainlink Oracles Live on Mainnet to Rebase Digital Assets, Reimagining How Blockchain Tokens Function

 xBTC has integrated Chainlink with xBTC live on mainnet to launch a new product type that uses Chainlink oracles to dictate a token’s economics. This... дальше »

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Bug causes chaos on the Ethereum blockchain

A significant portion of the Ethereum blockchain suffered outages on Wednesday morning after a bug in the code of Go Ethereum, a key Ethereum client that 81% of the network uses, caused Ethereum to unexpectedly hard fork. дальше »

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Engineer Uses Bitcoin to Defraud Microsoft of $10M, Evade Taxes

Bitcoin is regularly blasted by regulators and the IRS for its use in illicit crime such as money laundering or tax evasion. Unfortunately, a story involving a former Microsoft engineer who used the cryptocurrency to mix over $10 million he had defrauded the company out of, doesn’t help that case. дальше »

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Only 4% of Norway uses cash as country evaluates CBDC, Norges Bank exec says

Cash usage has declined in Norway since COVID-19, but physical currency also carries strengths that CBDCs may lack.

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Aerospace giant Thales uses blockchain to comply with NATO standards

Blockchain tech is handy for complying with NATO standards in aerospace and defense.

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Pewdiepie Joins the Blockchain AR Game Wallem, Players Can Buy Youtube Star’s NFT Skin

The world-famous gamer and Youtuber, Pewdiepie is getting involved with another blockchain project called Wallem, a 3D augmented reality video game that uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for skins and items. дальше »

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BProtocol Uses $7 Million Flash Loan to Push Through Governance Vote On The Maker Platform

BProtocol Foundation, a platform concentrated on developing Bancor Network, raised a governance proposal vote on the Maker platform using a quick $7 million flash loan to pass its proposal. Maker warned users of the possibility of governance proposals being “rigged” through the use of flash loans following the successful vote completed by BProtocol last week. дальше »

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Central bank digital currencies have the power to upend global finance

Central bank digital currencies will fundamentally change our conceptions of money and its uses.

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Siemens-backed blockchain energy platform showcases in Germany

The German state-funded energy project uses DLT to enable transparent market transactions.

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Ripple Confirms Bank of America Utilizes Its Technology During Swell Conference…But There’s A Catch

A demo video shown by Ripple during its Swell 2020 conference seemingly confirms that the second-largest banking institution in the United States uses one of its products. In particular, a screenshot of the video was posted by one of the devoted members of the XRP community. дальше »

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Ripple Confirms Again Bank of America Uses Its Tech at Swell: DigitalGen Financial Services CEO

The XRP community is discussing a demo by Ripple during Swell 2020, in which Bank of America is found to be using Ripple's tech, but it's not what many hope for дальше »

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Securitize Is Taking Ethereum-Based Securities Into the DeFi Realm

Securitize is teaming with a protocol called Tinlake from Centrifuge, which uses a clever system of NFTs to put real-world assets into DeFi. дальше »

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Litecoin Price Analysis - On-chain activity spikes with the release of a new decentralized game

Transactions per day rose 4x in September, after the release of LiteBringer, a PC-based fantasy game that uses Litecoin for microtransactions. дальше »

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Swiss Crypto Hedge Fund opened to the public from TheKryptoBank

If you’ve ever taken a trip to a country that uses a different currency than your own, you must have visited a Currency Exchange shop and exchanged some of your country’s currency with your destination country’s currency. дальше »

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Travel Rule Protocol (TRP) Working Group Backed by ING and Fidelity Unveils Crypto AML Tools

Coinspeaker Travel Rule Protocol (TRP) Working Group Backed by ING and Fidelity Unveils Crypto AML ToolsThe Travel Rule Protocol working group’s solution uses two simple RESTful APIs designed for querying address ownership and sending required originator and beneficiary information about digital asset transfers. дальше »

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Facebook Uses Monopoly Power to Dominate Competitors, Antitrust Committee Reports

Coinspeaker Facebook Uses Monopoly Power to Dominate Competitors, Antitrust Committee ReportsThe report stated that Facebook sustains its monopoly position by identifying and acquiring its competitors. дальше »

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Autopilot Trading Bot

What is Autopilot? Autopilot is a trading bot that uses “quant trading” to find...

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This Self-Sovereign ‘DocuSign’ Uses Bitcoin for Digital Proofs

Woleet provides a digital ID software suite which allows its clients to authenticate documents and signatures using Bitcoin’s blockchain. дальше »

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Top 5 tokens for Staking in 2020

If you know how Bitcoin works, you probably are well aware of the fact that every blockchain uses some kind of consensus mechanism for transaction validation. Some of the most commonly used consensus mechanisms are Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS). дальше »

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USPTO Grants Ripple Labs Patent for Smart Contracts System that Uses Oracles

Coinspeaker USPTO Grants Ripple Labs Patent for Smart Contracts System that Uses OraclesThe patent presents interesting use cases for data transactions between the Ripple ecosystem with the outside world. дальше »

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