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The move could signal a desire not to be left behind as other Caribbean countries embrace blockchain tech. Advertisements The Jamaican Stock Exchange (JSE) has partnered with Toronto-based FinTech company Blockstation to allow digital asset trading, according to an August 14 press release. Blockstation’s electronic communication network and order management system is intended to allow […]

Economist Tyler Cowen thinks that, thanks to digital minimalism, America is facing the death of private property and capitalism as we know it. But as Fred Ehrsam alludes to, the birth of cryptocurrency may suggest otherwise. Advertisements On Sunday, Tyler Cowen, a prominent economist and director of the Mercatus Center, a free market think tank […]

Square’s mobile payment app is totally down with bitcoin. Here’s a brief timeline of how it got there. Advertisements According to a recent tweet from the team behind Cash App, the mobile payment app developed by financial services company Square Inc., users can now buy and sell bitcoin across the US, from Alabama to Wyoming […]

A recent yellow paper by Vitalik Buterin simplifies and applies a 99 percent Byzantine fault tolerant algorithm for blockchains. ETHNews explains it in language you can understand (minus the math). Advertisements Last week, Vitalik Buterin published “A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus,” wherein he lays out a simplified version of Leslie Lamport’s 1982 algorithm […]

After recent drops in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the government’s central bank felt the need to remind citizens of the risks of trading, both financial and legal. Advertisements The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) issued a statement yesterday reminding citizens that any dealings with cryptocurrency are still illegal. The central bank’s Sunday […]

ETHNews sat down with Merit founder and CEO Adil Wali to learn about the connection between the eSports and cryptocurrency communities. Advertisements Multiplayer video game competitions, or eSports, are huge. Starting with the Space Invaders Championship of 1980, which saw 10,000 gamers compete for glory and intergalactic domination, contests and tournaments have long been a […]

The duo found that digital currencies don’t behave like stocks or other currencies when it comes to price movements. Advertisements On August 6, Yale economist Yukun Liu and PhD candidate Aleh Tsyvinski published a working paper titled Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency. In it, they argue that there are several factors that predict price trends […]

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has announced it is creating what it claims is the first bond entirely transferred and managed on the blockchain. Advertisements The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has announced that it has partnered with the World Bank to issue a bond on a blockchain platform. According to the announcement, the bond, […]

Giveth and Aragon are joining to create a decentralized organization structure by fusing transparent, independent governance and altruistic purpose. Advertisements On August 9, Aragon One and Giveth, two blockchain enterprises aiming to revolutionize organizational structure through blockchain technology, announced a joint project to develop the Aragon stack. Aragon is a project aiming to decentralize and […]

The Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians plans to hold its Council of Prague prior to the global Ethereum developer conference. Advertisements According to an August 10 announcement from the Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians, a self-organized gaggle of Ethereum developers, the group will meet up for its Council of Prague in the days leading up to the […]