From 8 to 9 November, the World Blockchain Conference was successfully held in Wuzhen, the venue of the World Internet Summit. The summit is themed “Limitless Applications” with sessions including the opening ceremony. More than a hundred scholars, innovators, experts, gurus and opi...
A Chinese investor has suggested that the much talked-about China's digital currency could be released sooner than expected, just as the CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency by volume, Binance, heightens the optimism that has surrounded the Asian giant's recent endorsement of the block...
Xinhua Daily, a Communist party-controlled media, has just published a front-page article entitled "Bitcoin: The First Successful Application of Blockchain Technology". The editorial gives an objective introduction about bitcoin – an open-source peer-to-peer digital currency, and desc...
According to local reports, Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement agencies are developing proposals to confiscate cryptocurrencies. These proposals could evolve into Russian laws as soon as 2021. “Russia plans to develop a legal mechanism for ...
In July 2019, John M. Griffin and Amin Shams, academics from the University of Texas and the University of Ohio, respectively, published the cleverly titled report “Is Bitcoin Really Un-Tethered?” Their “findings” echoed through mainstream and cryptocurrency media alike. The...
Cryptography is a tool that can work in two different ways. It can be used to hide information using encryption or, with the correct information, it can be used to track data. The latter is what people are talking about when they name transparency as the primary value of cryptocurrency or blockch...
Most of what you’ll read about bitcoin mining will be about mining operations in China and North America, but there is a small, growing sector of active mining operations in parts of the world that you don’t often hear about, in countries like Norway, Russia, Venezuela and Paraguay. As...
Earlier, it was rumored that Bitmain’s Micree Zhan embezzled the company’s property for his own sake among Chinese media. On November 1st, Jihan Wu denied the rumor on WeChat as Wu thought the media were hyping it up. Last month, a Chinese media said that Jihan Wu might find e...
International economic sanctions have propelled many countries toward cryptocurrencies — from Venezuela to Iran. Now, U.S. sanctions imposed on one Russian company have paved the way for a cryptocurrency mining operation to take over a decidedly industrial facility. Rusal Turns to Cryp...
Between the characteristic Latin American lifestyle, the friendly people and the buzzing nightlife, Argentina is a joy to visit. For locals, however, it’s not an easy place to live in. For the eighth time in its 209-year history and the second time in the past 13 years, the country finds itse...
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