Bitcoin
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Bitcoin's 10th Anniversary: A Look Back & Future Outlook
A mysterious, anonymous entity known as “Satoshi Nakamoto” posted a white paper on October 31 2008 entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. It
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Bitcoin's Energy Consumption: A Cost of Innovation?
Bitcoin recently turned ten years old. In that time, it has proved revolutionary because it ignores the need for modern money’s institutions to verify payments.
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Bitcoin Ownership: Legal Experts Question Property Rights
The price of Bitcoin has dropped by 75% in the past year, so anyone who invested heavily at the peak will have lost a lot of money. And now there’s more bad new
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Stablecoins: A More Stable Cryptocurrency Alternative to Bitcoin?
Bitcoin has plunged from a high of almost US$20,000 in December 2017 to as low as US$3,675. So it’s understandable that some cryptocurrency users might be looki
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Bitcoin Price Predictions: Learning from Historical Bubbles
Nearly 170 years before the invention of Bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could “fix their minds upon one object and go ma
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Bitcoin's Potential Downfall: 5 Reasons for a Severe Price Crash
Back in December 2017, when its price reached close to US$20,000, Bitcoin looked like it had finally disrupted financial markets with the potential to enter the
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Blockchain for Transparency & Privacy: How it's Empowering Individuals
Blockchain has already proven its huge influence on the financial world with its first application in the form of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. It might not
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Blockchain Beyond the Buzz: Expert Perspectives on its Real-World Potential
This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates. Let us know what else you’d like covered
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Blockchain Empowers Chinese Users to Bypass Internet Censorship
Thanks to blockchain, internet users have achieved some victories in the fight against China’s strict internet censorship. A historic moment was made on April
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QuadrigaCX Case: The Urgent Need for Cryptocurrency Regulations
A high-stakes legal drama featuring cryptocurrencies has been unfolding in a Canadian court recently. The antics that led to the litigation almost defy creduli
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Blockchain in Energy: Expert Insights & Future Trends
Blockchain technology is a decentralised digital ledger that keeps public but encrypted records of peer-to-peer transactions. All members of a bl
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Web3.0: The Decentralized Web and the Future of the Internet
Have you recently considered deleting your Facebook account, boycotting Amazon or trying to find an alternative to Google? You wouldn’t be alone. The tech giant
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Facebook Cryptocurrency: Expert Analysis of 'Facecoin' Launch
Facebook is reportedly preparing to launch its own version of Bitcoin, for use in its messaging applications, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.
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Understanding Cryptocurrency Scams: Tactics & Prevention
Millions of cryptocurrency investors have been scammed out of massive sums of real money. In 2018, losses from cryptocurrency-related crimes amounted to US$1.7
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Cryptocurrency Adoption: Mainstream Finance Takes Hold - Global Implications
The 21st-century revolutionaries who have dominated cryptocurrencies are having to move over. Mainstream financial institutions are adopting thes
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Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency: Economic Empowerment or Risky Venture?
Facebook is joining the cryptocurrency craze. Should we be concerned? The social network site on June 18 said it’s launching a new cryptocurrency called Libra
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Libra Cryptocurrency: Risks and Concerns for Users
Facebook has unveiled libra, a cryptocurrency that will enable users to make international payments over Messenger and other group platforms like
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Libra vs. Global Currency: Could Facebook Disrupt State Control of Money?
The UN recognises 180 currencies worldwide as legal tender, all of them issued by nation states. It does not recognise cryptocurrencies like bitc
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AI-Powered Bitcoin Forecasting: Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Price Movements?
As Bitcoin tries to regain some of the lustre it held in late 2017 when it nearly reached US$20,000 in value, investors are still questioning how to predict suc
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Libra Cryptocurrency: Impact on Bitcoin and the Future of Digital Finance
Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, libra, is being heralded as the moment that cryptocurrencies and blockchain, the technology that supports them, become truly main
Bitcoin
- Blockchain Technology: Decentralized Trust & the Future of Finance
- Transaction Replay & Replay Protection in Hard Forks: A Comprehensive Explanation
- Bitcoin's Potential Downfall: 5 Reasons for a Severe Price Crash
- El Salvador's Bitcoin Legal Tender: Implications & What You Need to Know
- ProShares Bitcoin ETF Decision Imminent: SEC Deadline This Week
- Bitcoin Segwit2x Fork: Block Number, Date & Segwit2x Distribution
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Long-Term Financial Success: 3 Decisions That Paid OffThese decisions have helped set me o...
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Landlord's Right to Show Rental Property with Current Tenants: State Laws ExplainedUnless a lease specifically prohibits showing a unit while it is already being rented, a landlord may show a property to prospective rental tenants. Essentially, landlords have a right to run their bu...
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Understanding Mortgage Registration: A Comprehensive GuideWhen a borrower purchases a new mortgage, the debt is registered with the local government by the closing agent to record a legal debt. This lists the debt on the deed to the property. This means that...
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Basic vs. Supplemental Life Insurance: Understanding Your OptionsLife insurance is a private contract between you and a life insurance company. The insurance company provides a death benefit to you in exchange for premium payments. Some individuals purchase special...