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How DePIN Models Are Transforming The Automotive Industry

DePIN models are being applied to the automotive industry, as early use cases demonstrate how car connectivity can transform the sector.

, by Rachel Wolfson

Blockchain News

Crypto KYC Solutions Advance to Ensure Adoption and Better User Experience

Crypto KYC solutions are advancing using emerging technology and blockchain analytics to drive adoptions and better user experience.

, by Rachel Wolfson

Features

Why Fiat Currency Is More Confusing Than Crypto

One common refrain you hear about crypto, at least from laypeople, is that it’s too ‘complicated,’ ‘hard to understand,’ ‘opaque.’ On a technical level this view is understandable, yet it ignores the fact that what cryptocurrencies aim to replace/supplement - fiat currencies - are also more than a little complicated, hard to understand and opaque. Source: AdobeStock / BBbirdZ Sure, everyone knows how to spend a dollar or a euro, but very few people...

, by Simon Chandler

China Has 44,000 Blockchain Firms but Faces a Big Tech Talent Deficit

China’s huge blockchain push means that there are now a staggering 44,000 firms in the country dedicated to the technology – after central and province-level drives to create a network of blockchain hubs that encompasses much of the nation.Source: Adobe/metamorworksHowever, there are...

, by Tim Alper

Bitcoin Goes Sidechain and Becomes More Liquid

It looks like Bitcoin just reached another important milestone on the way to mass adoption. It's called the Liquid Network and it's live now.Source: iStock/Marta OrtizThis is a sidechain built on the Bitcoin network by San Francisco startup Blockstream. A sidechain is a separate blockchain that is...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

The U.S. Losing The Race for Crypto Tech

Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. ___________Source: iStock/narvikkThe technology underlying cryptocurrencies,...

, by Juan M. Villaverde

MultiVAC Targets Triangle of Blockchain Issues

In our Quick reviews series we introduce interesting initial coin offering projects that might inspire you to do your own research and decide whether an idea and its development is worth your investment. It's not an endorsement.Claire Wang, co-founder of MultiVAC. Source: MultiVACToday we are...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Doomsaying About New Technology Helps Make It Better

The doomsayer is just as vital as the visionary. Shutterstock That new technologies could actually be bad for us, by sapping our attention or ruining our memories, is an argument that goes back to Socrates. It’s tempting to summarily dismiss these...

, by Brendan Markey-Towler

Three New Blockchain Use Cases Go Live in Europe

Blockchain adoption seems to be growing, and it is almost hard to track where the technology found its newest application now. Currently, European banks, Crypto Valley and the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) all found a way to integrate distributed ledgers into their operations.Source:...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Russian Spy: Blockchain Will Be Ours!

“The internet belonged to America. The blockchain will belong to the Russians,” or a variation thereof, is what the head of the Russian delegation, Grigory Marshalko, said at a conference in Tokyo, where representatives of 25 countries met last year to discuss setting international...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Majority of U.S. CFOs Don’t Expect to be Affected by Blockchain

It would seem that many Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) believe blockchain and other fintech innovations will not affect their businesses. Source: iStock/haveseenEven those who do are slow to respond, according to a survey by the International Association of Financial Executives Institutes (IAFEI)...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

China Leads by Number of Blockchain Patents Filed

According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, 2017 was a lucrative year for blockchain patents, in which the absolute lead goes to China, as the Financial Times reports.Source: iStock/PixflyOut of a total of 406 patents filed last year, more than half of them — 225, to be exact -...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Facebook’s Problems Could Help Blockchain Growth

After The New York Times and the Guardian's Observer reported Saturday that political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users, many other privacy issues with Facebook came out.Mark Zuckerberg. Cofounder and CEO of...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto Tech: Combine Mining and Heating With a Smart Heater

There is a heater that, when you turn it on, passively mines your cryptocurrency of choice while doing its original job in heating up the room.Qarnot QC1 heaterCrypto mining has always been notorious for its use of power and people have come to the point of using them to warm up during snow storms,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

4 Influential Cryptocurrency Projects

2018 has a number of exciting innovations that might be going live this year. Some of these could potentially change the entire way we interact with cryptocurrency today. They could also impact our financial lives in a far more direct way than we have ever seen before. Today, we will be going over...

, by Robert DeVoe

Bitcoin May Have Bigger Problem Than Scalability

Miner Centralization Issue Bitcoin Needs Privacy Before Going Mainstream Privacy and Scalability are RelatedOver the past couple of years, scalability (or lack thereof) has been by far the biggest topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community. There have been disagreements over how the system...

, by Kyle Torpey

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