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Digital Currency Revolution

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Digital currency or digital money is an Internet-based medium of exchange distinct from physical (such as banknotes and coins) that exhibits properties similar to physical currencies, but allows for instantaneous transactions and borderless transfer-of-ownership. Like traditional money these currencies may be used to buy physical goods and services but could also be restricted to certain communities such as for example for use inside an on-line game or social network. In this series, we cover stories and provide insightful analysis of the digital currencies such as bitcoin with no central point of control over the money supply.

Digital Currency Revolution

Bitcoin Mining Firm Butterfly Labs Agrees To Settle US FTC Charges

Feb 19, 2016 07:43 am UTC| Digital Currency

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday announced that Butterfly Labs, a bitcoin mining hardware company, and two of its operators part-owner and vice president of product development, Sonny Vleisides, and...

Digital Currency Revolution

New Bill Seeks To Change Fate Of Digital Currency Businesses In Wyoming

Feb 19, 2016 06:28 am UTC| Digital Currency Law

A new bill, put forward by a group of Republican and Democrat representatives and senators, seeks to amend definitions relating to the Wyoming Money Transmitter Act in order to include digital currency as a permissive...

Digital Currency Revolution

Mizuho Announces Blockchain Trial For Syndicated Loans

Feb 19, 2016 05:20 am UTC| Digital Currency

Mizuho Financial Group, one of the leading financial institutions in the world, has been involved in the blockchain space for quite some time now. The financial services giant joined the R3 blockchain consortium last...

Digital Currency Revolution

IBM To Keynote DC Blockchain Summit On March 3

Feb 19, 2016 05:14 am UTC| Digital Currency

The Chamber of Digital Commerce has announced Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research, as a keynote speaker at their DC Blockchain Summit at Georgetown University on March 3, 2016. The summit...

Digital Currency Revolution

BTC/USD faces strong resistance around $425, break above targets $450/$465

Feb 19, 2016 03:28 am UTC| Technicals Digital Currency

Major resistance - $425 BTC/USD has made a high of $424.90 and slightly declined from that level. It is currently trading around $421. Short term trend is slightly bullish as long as support $390 holds. On the...

Digital Currency Revolution

Burger King Arnhem Starts Accepting Bitcoin

Feb 18, 2016 11:50 am UTC| Digital Currency

Arnhem Bitcoinstad has announced that there are now 100 venues that accept Bitcoin in Arnhem, with Burger King in the city being the latest entrant in the project. The 100th participant of Arnhem Bitcoinstad is worth a...

Digital Currency Revolution

BitQuick Creates Its Own ZapChain Community

Feb 18, 2016 10:40 am UTC| Digital Currency

In order to bring together and expand the peer-to-peer trading userbase, BitQuick, a leading P2P trading platform, has announced its own ZapChain community. ZapChain describes itself as a collection of communities where...

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Economy

Space arms race may be underway

As conflict rages on Earth, an arms race may be underway in outer space. On May 30, a US diplomat warned that Russia had launched a weapon into orbit, something Russias deputy foreign minister, Sergey Ryabkov, branded as...

Mauritius’ next growth phase: a new plan is needed as the tax haven era fades

Mauritians will head to the polls by November 2024 and politicians are considering the economic direction of the island country. For the last two decades, the countrys economic growth has depended heavily on its...

Canadians are feeling increasingly powerless amid economic struggles and rising inequality

If you feel like youre being pushed around in life, youre not alone. Our recent research has found that Canadians are increasingly feeling a sense of powerlessness in their lives. This sentiment has been steadily...

Myth: How the US manipulates global markets for economic supremacy

US president, Joe Biden, raised tariffs on Chinese-made goods sharply in May, claiming that the Chinese government has cheated by pouring money into Chinese companies … hurting competitors who play by the rules. The...

The world no longer needs fossil fuels – and the UK could lead the way in making them taboo

North Sea oil and gas has become a battleground issue in the UK general election. The Labour partys manifesto promises an end to issuing new licenses for finding oil and gas. The Conservative party meanwhile proposes a...

Politics

Microsoft-G42 Deal Forces Huawei Exit, White House Hails Move

The White House praised Microsofts $1.5 billion investment in G42, emphasizing the positive impact of ending relations with Huawei on AI security. White House Sees Positive Shift in UAE Tech Alliances According to...

Three ways politicians always promise to raise money without increasing taxes – and why they rarely deliver

After weeks of controversy over Labour and Conservative costings in which each side accused the other of dishonesty the manifestos show that both parties had wildly exaggerated their rivals plans. But there has been...

Election 2024: migrants aren’t to blame for Britain’s housing crisis

Migration has become the most toxic issue in British politics, driving intensely emotional debates that are often based on prejudice and misunderstanding. Similarly emotional is housing a finite resource in high demand at...

How Vladimir Putin projects his image as a modern-day Peter the Great

Russian energy giant Gazprom is reported to have been hit particularly hard by sanctions imposed as a result of the war with Ukraine. An internal report obtained and published by the Financial Times has forecast that the...

Another election, another round of Nigel Farage hype, with no lessons learned

Nigel Farage, a man who has never been elected to the House of Commons despite years of trying, has again been allowed to set the agenda in the UK. Ten years after Ukip won the European parliament elections, throwing...

Science

Nations realise they need to take risks or lose the race to the Moon

The Nasa-led Artemis-3 mission will place the first human boots on the surface of the Moon since Apollo 17s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt left the lunar surface in December 1972. The goal of the Artemis programme is...

Eye exercises to improve sight – is there any science behind them? An ophthalmologist explains why you shouldn’t buy the hype

You may have seen advertisements claiming to eliminate the need for eyeglasses through vision therapy or vision training basically, eye exercises. These exercises include putting pressure on or palming the eye; eye...

The universe’s biggest explosions made some of the elements we are composed of. But there’s another mystery source out there

After its birth in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest elements in the periodic table. More-or-less all elements heavier than helium were produced in the...

Engineering cells to broadcast their behavior can help scientists study their inner workings

Waves are ubiquitous in nature and technology. Whether its the rise and fall of ocean tides or the swinging of a clocks pendulum, the predictable rhythms of waves create a signal that is easy to track and distinguish from...

If an asteroid hit Earth and all the humans died, would the dinosaurs come back?

Many, many years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Six-year-old Aga knows that a meteorite wiped them out… but could another meteorite bring them back? You can read a print version of this story...

Technology

Pompliano: Bitcoin Will Safeguard Wealth Created by AI in the Next Decade

Anthony Pompliano, venture capitalist and Bitcoin advocate, predicts that Bitcoin will protect wealth generated by AI technologies in the coming decade. He emphasized that both technologies will work together to drive...

Iranian Officials Criticize 'Hamster Kombat' Blockchain Game as Election Distraction Tool

Iranian officials have condemned the popular blockchain game Hamster Kombat, alleging it distracts citizens from the upcoming presidential elections. Deputy Chief Habibollah Sayyari and religious leader Ayatollah Nasser...

Bitcoin Price Fluctuates Amid Stablecoin, Fiat, and ETF Market Dynamics

Bitcoins price is currently influenced by stablecoins, fiat currencies, and spot-based ETFs, as stated by CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju. Despite recent market volatility and political events, these factors are shaping the...

Shiba Inu Faces Uncertainty as 1 Trillion SHIB Dumped on Binance by Whale

Today, June 24, the cryptocurrency world has been flooded with speculative talk due to the emergence of Shiba Inu, the well-known dog-themed meme coin. Amid the tokens price decline throughout the course of the previous...

Shocking Costs: Tesla Cybertruck Repairs Lead to Totals and High Insurance Premiums

Concerns about the price of repairs have led to the appearance of a couple of Tesla Cybertrucks labeled totaled, which means they have suffered a complete loss. Insurance Concerns Arise Over Costly Cybertruck Repairs...