Blockchain
Dic
24
2019
The predictions for 2019 were numerous: it was to be the year of the DAO, the year of the STO, the year of the decentralized exchange, the year of enterprise blockchain, and the year of dapps… https://www.coindesk.com/looking-backward-to-build-the-future-how-academia-is-shifting-its-blockchain-focus
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Dic
19
2019
A new study of 140,000 crypto addresses finds that few accounts are needed to form majority ownership of many coins… https://news.bitcoin.com/whales-control-most-of-litecoin-many-ethereum-tokens/
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Dic
10
2019
Bakkt has launched two new regulated bitcoin derivatives products. Within hours of launch, Bakkt announced that over 1,000 futures contracts had been traded in Asia. https://news.bitcoin.com/bakkt-launches-bitcoin-options-in-us-futures-in-asia/
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Dic
07
2019
Libra’s ongoing organizational snags and run-ins with regulators continue into December, as EU finance ministers agreed Thursday that Libra cannot be launched in the EU until concerns are adequately addressed… https://news.bitcoin.com/eu-finance-ministers-place-defacto-ban-on-libra/
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Dic
07
2019
Bank of China, one of the four major commercial banks in China, has issued 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) in blockchain-based bonds… https://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-china-issues-2-8b-in-bonds-for-small-businesses-using-blockchain-tech
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Nov
23
2019
With the Supreme Court of India postponing the crypto hearing, the Indian crypto community is calling for better protection when trading on P2P platforms.. https://news.bitcoin.com/what-indian-crypto-exchanges-are-doing-to-protect-p2p-users/
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Nov
15
2019
The BRICS association of major emerging economies has discussed developing a digital currency to ease trade in the bloc and reduce its reliance on U.S. dollars in settlement…
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Nov
15
2019
Custody bank Northern Trust is testing the trading of fractionalized bonds on a blockchain… https://www.coindesk.com/northern-trust-testing-fractionlized-bonds-on-blockchain
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Nov
06
2019
More than six months after the China National Development and Reform Commission proposed to categorize bitcoin mining as an industry to be phased out from the country, it appears the agency has now scrapped that plan… https://www.coindesk.com/china-scraps-plan-to-categorize-bitcoin-mining-as-industry-to-be-eliminated
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Nov
01
2019
On October 31, 2008, on the eve of Halloween, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper… https://news.bitcoin.com/how-bitcoins-peer-to-peer-cash-system-was-revealed-11-years-ago/
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