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The Bank of England (BoE) has made the mainstream media reporting landscape once again about adopting cryptocurrency. Or what they prefer to call Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) – with the only significant difference being that CBDC’s are issued by the State and have legal tender status declared by the…

Now and then, new technologies keep emerging that threaten to disrupt the existing status quo continually. One of the best illustrations of this disruption is the Blockchain technology. Other agents of disruption are autonomous systems and artificial intelligence. Blockchain is an immutable internet-based ledger system that serves to keep records…

Although Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper suggests that privacy was a design goal of the Bitcoin protocol, blockchain analysis can often break users’ privacy. This is a problem. Bitcoin users might not necessarily want the world to know where they spend their money, what they Source : https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-payswap-can-confuse-blockchain-analysts-benefiting-bitcoin-privacy-for-all-2020-01-23 Date : January…

The Blockchain Advocacy Group The US Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC) is filing an amicus brief advocating for a predictable legal environment for the blockchain industry in an attempt to counter the SEC’s motion for a summary judgment against Telegram Group Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary TON Issuer Inc. The…

On January 17, the UK tax agency Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) published a job opportunity for a private contractor to design a cryptocurrency blockchain analysis tool. According to the listing, the contract is for one year and HMRC will pay the contractor $100,000 for software that can “identify…

A Centre of Excellence in Blockchain Technology has been inaugurated by Indian Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Bengaluru. It will facilitate various government departments in their blockchain work, leading to large scale deployment of blockchain applications. Source : https://news.bitcoin.com/indian-minister-blockchain-center-of-excellence/ Date : January 21, 2020 at 11:31AM Tag(s) : #BLOCKCHAIN…

Visa, the world’s largest digital payment platform Visa is to launch its blockchain-based Visa Token Service (VTS) would be instituted and it’s estimated that Visa will process a combined ecommerce volume of $1 trillion with the service.  The Visa simplified online checkout experience will replace Visa Checkout in the US…

On January 16, The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) opened its doors at the James L. Knight Center in Miami for its seventh year. The conference was filled with hundreds of crypto enthusiasts, exhibits, and well known speakers from the blockchain industry. Source : https://news.bitcoin.com/btc-miami-blockchain-conference-kicks-off-its-seventh-year/ Date : January 17, 2020…

People should not attend a North Korean Blockchain and Cryptocurrency event to be held in February 2020, according to United Nations sanctions experts, In a confidential report due to be submitted to the U.N. Security Council later this month, they flagged it as a likely sanctions violation. The exclusive news,…

The United Africa Blockchain Association (UABA) through its events and training programs, has the vision to educate one million people across the African continent about the impact of blockchain technology over the coming years. “Our training & mentorship programs enable students to learn about how blockchains work as an enterprise…

Security Token Offering (STO) Platform Leader Securitize, has executed the world’s first STO investment from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). “We are very excited to facilitate investing IRA funds directly into digital securities offerings,” said Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder and CEO at Securitize. “Issuers of digital securities will now have direct…

On the tail of reports from China that they are already doing trials with a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the European Central Bank (ECB) has kicked into gear and amped up and open to exploring a European Cryptocurrency.  Though the ECB, which manages the largest economy in the world…

Several regulators in the U.S. and Europe have made cryptocurrency among their top priorities this year. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s compliance office and the European Securities and Markets Authority, in collaboration with other regulators, have outlined their plans to focus on crypto oversight. Further, China’s central bank has made…

If you are planning to start a new career this year, or just improve your value in the jobs market, the best thing that you can do is acquire some blockchain skills. Companies around the world are looking for people with capabilities in this field and it appears that demand…

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has pledged to invest roughly $8 million into the Busan blockchain zone. The region was recently declared “regulation-free” by the national government and modeled after the Switzerland town of Zug. Bithumb’s subsidiary GCX Alliance will discuss the preliminary plans with the Financial Services Commission (FSC)…

Are you developing a blockchain game that could be the next Cryptokitties or even take blockchain games mainstream, if only you had some help from a major company in the field? You’re in luck, because French video games giant Ubisoft is now looking for new blockchain startups it can support….

The Indian state of Kerala is actively exploring using blockchain technology to improve a wide range of existing systems, including financial. Thousands of people are already being trained in the state to become blockchain experts, some of whom have already graduated, according to the state’s electronics and information technology secretary….

Source : https://www.the-blockchain.com/2020/01/09/thomas-carter-the-2-keys-that-will-unlock-mass-adoption-of-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-in-2020/ Date : January 9, 2020 at 06:09PM Tag(s) : #BLOCKCHAIN ENG Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print

As a fervent bitcoin enthusiast, I frequently come across the following objection: In contrast to physical, analog things, bitcoin and similar crypto assets are completely virtual and digital. As such, they are neither tangible nor graspable and would thus lack any real basis o Source : https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bitcoin-and-the-primacy-of-the-digital-world-2020-01-08 Date : January…

Venkata S. Meenavalli, an Indian ex-CEO of a once Nasdaq-listed American fintech firm Longfin, has settled with the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for conducting a $27 million accounting fraud scheme to inflate the revenue of the now-defunct cryptocurrency company in order to get it listed on the Nasdaq….