A long-standing nonprofit organization is embracing the cryptocurrency community to fight forest fires in the Amazon. The Rainforest Foundation, founded in 1987, announced a campaign to combat Brazilian forest fires with the help of...
One of the US lawmakers has urged Facebook Inc. to halt the development of its new cryptocurrency and that company executives testify before Congress first, due to concerns about the implications of the use...
What do the art and cryptocurrency worlds have in common? Among other things, the love of the conceptual, evoking of the emotions and the tendency to confuse admirers. Over the past century, we have...
Iran is exploring various options, including holding negotiations with other countries to introduce cryptocurrency in global trade, as the Islamic state moves to sidestep U.S. economic sanctions. Mohammad-Reza Modoudi, the acting head of Iran’s...
Mineable and tradable from anywhere, cryptocurrency is borderless. Its adoption nevertheless hinges in part upon the stance taken by nation states. Politicians have the power to integrate, legitimize and push crypto to the next...
Despite all efforts, so far businesses haven’t been able to come up with significant applications for private, centralized blockchains as opposed to public distributed ledgers, a new study shows. According to the authors, in...
The US ATM network Athena Bitcoin continues its aggressive expansion in Latin America, with now 17 ATMs in five cities in Colombia. The company is sure that ATMs are a good investment, but in...
The General Council of Spanish Law and the Blockchain Intelligence Law Institute have signed a collaboration agreement to design and organize different training activities in order to promote knowledge about blockchain technology. The Blockchain...
Startups from across Israel went to Jaffa this week for a competition sponsored by Citi and Visa with a twist: the event was conducted in black. In total, 21 teams took the stage ‘Pitch...
Herman Gref, the former Russian minister of economics and trade and the current CEO of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, recently articulated his expectation that cryptocurrency will have a profoundly transformative effect upon society in...
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