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How EU Fight Against Money Laundering Affects Crypto

On 26 April 2018, the European Parliament confirmed the latest text of the European Commission proposed directive known as the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD). To this day, no specific laws or binding rules have been implemented at EU level to cope with risks in relation to virtual...

, by Darius Lengvinas

Cryptojacking Spreads Across the Web

Is someone else making money on your computer? WICHAI WONGJONGJAIHAN/Shutterstock.com Right now, your computer might be using its memory and processor power – and your electricity – to generate money for someone else, without you ever knowing....

, by Pranshu Bajpai

PayPal’s Remittance Crown is Safe from Crypto…For Now

PayPal’s announcement in April that it would be hiking all cross-border payment fees to USD 4.99 left crypto enthusiasts overjoyed.Source: iStock/RapidEyeA cost almost 5 times as expensive as the average bitcoin transaction, PayPal’s new fee is seen by many as typical of the greedy,...

, by Eiland Glover

Market Manipulation in Crypto – What It Says About the Industry

The crypto community is in uproar after Twitter user @CryptoMedication published an article on Steemit, a blogging and social networking website, this week claiming his screenshots are proof that a number of Twitter influencers are doing pump and dump schemes, among other questionable and downright...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin’s Wild Ride and What’s Ahead For the Cryptocurrency

This 2013 photo shows Bitcoin tokens at a shop in Utah. What does the future hold for the volatile cryptocurrency? (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Bitcoin has been on a volatile ride in recent times, its value rising and falling like a kite caught in variable winds. Its...

, by Thanasis Stengos

What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Blockchain Technology

Dirk Baur, University of Western Australia; Daniel Cahill, University of Western Australia, and Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, University of Western AustraliaAlmost a decade after the introduction of Bitcoin, there is a lot of hype about the blockchain technology on which cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin...

, by Daniel Cahill

Central-Bank Digital Currencies: Toward a Cashless Society?

Sweden is studying the possibility of an “e-krona”, an electronic form of the country’s currency. Shutterstock While private digital currencies such as the bitcoin are in the news daily, countries including China and Sweden are studying the...

, by Pôle Léonard de Vinci – UGEI

That Contract Your Computer Made Could Get You In a Legal Bind

There is a lot of hype in the business world surrounding the emerging blockchain technology and so called “smart contracts” - computer programs which execute the terms of an agreement. But like all computer programs, smart contracts can malfunction and even develop a mind of their...

, by Mark Giancaspro

A Rubbish Idea: How Blockchains Could Tackle the World’s Waste Problem

ShutterPNPhotography Katrien Steenmans, King's College London and Phillip Taylor, University of WarwickCryptocurrencies like Bitcoin may fill news headlines, but attention has been shifting to the technology that underpins them: blockchains. Blockchains are...

, by Katrien Steenmans

The Last Thing the Marshall Islands Need Is a Cryptocurrency

The Marshall Islands, Laura Beach. Stefan Lins/Flickr, CC BY David Glance, University of Western AustraliaThe Micronesian Republic of the Marshall Islands is set to become the first country to base their national currency on a cryptocurrency. The Israeli...

, by David Glance

Can Blockchain Be Controlled?

Blockchain is an exciting technology, but for it to go mainstream governments must be able to regulate it. Name Coin/Flick Vasilis Kostakis, Tallinn University of Technology; Primavera de Filippi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and...

, by Primavera de Filippi

Valuing Your Blockchain Data

Damon Rasheed is a co-founder of Advantage Data, a data consultancy company, CEO and founder of Rate Detective, an Australian financial comparison site. Damon has had more than 20 years experience working with data and has been involved in setting up several successful internet startups that have...

, by Damon Rasheed

Rise of Cryptocurrencies Could Curb American Power

shutterstock.com Nicholas Ross Smith, Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham and Zbigniew Dumieński, PhD Candidate in Political EconomyThere has been a lot of talk in foreign policy circles of the coming post-American world...

, by Nicholas Ross Smith

Why Healthcare Needs Blockchain

Dr Tal Rapke is a trained doctor and former pharmaceutical executive, founder of Australia-based startup ScalaMed, a mobile prescription exchange system powered by blockchain. He is also a mentor at Blockchain Centre Vilnius.Any one of us in the healthcare industry will tell you – we’re...

, by Tal Rapke

Startups Lead the Blockchain Revolution in the Travel Industry

Trond works as a consultant to the travel industry and as advisor to blockchain startups. He is also a hobby cryptocurrency investor, and writes about the blockchain and ICO space. Follow him on trondbjoroy.com and connect with him on LinkedIn.The travel industry relies in large parts on decades...

, by Trond Bjorøy

Why South Korea Could Legalize ICOs

Few issues have divided the financial world – and South Korean society – like last year’s partial crackdown on cryptocurrencies and exchanges. The government’s decision to act against an “overheated” bitcoin and altcoin market that had seen everyone from...

, by Tim Alper

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