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TOKEN2049 Dubai Concludes with Record Attendance Amid Unprecedented Rainfall

The blockchain and cryptocurrency sector witnessed a significant milestone with TOKEN2049's first-ever Dubai event, held from April 18-19, 2024. Despite facing the UAE's heaviest rainfall in 75 years, TOKEN2049 Dubai not only proceeded as scheduled but also marked a sold-out success with a record-breaking turnout. Overcoming Adversity Alex Fiskum, co-founder of TOKEN2049, commended the resilience and…

April 25, 20240Comments

ByZoran Spirkovski

Altcoins Technology

The blockchain technology aims to transform the ads industry

The blockchain technology has transformed many industries by bringing efficiency, speed and transparency. From the banking industry to insurance and healthcare, the world is benefitting from the new technology in a great way. The latest industry that’s set to be enriched by the blockchain technology is the search engine and ads industry. Bitclave is a…

February 27, 20180Comments

BySteve Kaaru

Altcoins News

BitConnect Faces Class Action Lawsuits

The former cryptocurrency lending platform BitConnect has been hit with a series of class action lawsuits by users who claim to have had their money stolen by the disgraced company. Litigation began at the end of last month, after a group of six BitConnect investors filed a suit with a U.S. district court in West Palm Beach, Florida.…

February 25, 20180Comments

ByKem

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Republic Protocol set to introduce the first decentralized dark pool

Cryptocurrency traders might soon be able to trade in Bitcoin, Ether and ERC20 tokens without revealing their identities. The details of the transaction will also be kept private, protecting the market from the impact of massive transactions which have traditionally affected the price due to panics. Republic Protocol is the startup that is making all this…

February 22, 20180Comments

BySteve Kaaru

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Celebrities and ICOs: Why the two don’t go well together

Steven Seagal, the beloved action films hero, is on the news and this time it’s not because he has a new movie. He is the latest celebrity to endorse an ICO, joining a list that’s growing longer every day of celebrities who have endorsed cryptocurrencies, either during ICOs or even after. This list contains some…

February 21, 20180Comments

BySteve Kaaru

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South Korea to Cooperate with China and Japan on Regulation

South Korea is working towards establishing more extensive cooperation with both China and Japan with regards to regulating their burgeoning cryptocurrency markets. South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) is pressing for a joint effort between regulators in all three countries in order to prevent the sector becoming a facilitator of money laundering and a number…

February 6, 20180Comments

ByKem

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One Week Later: Update on the CoinCheck hack

January 26th marked the date when CoinCheck, a top performing Japanese cryptocurrency exchange publicly shared that they've been hacked. Soon after information was shared that Ripple and XEM were stolen, but the former was dismissed as additional info transpired that Ripple tokens were taken out of the exchange as a precaution. This is a follow up…

February 4, 20180Comments

ByZoran Spirkovski

Bitcoin

What fork? BTC as usual in Southeast Asia

Almost two weeks have passed since the “hard fork”, one of the most significant events in recent times for the Bitcoin network. It was a partial culmination of years of fierce debate surrounding contentious network scaling attempts. Citing loss of confidence in a majority decision to reach compromise via the Segwit2x proposal, a group decided to…

August 13, 20170Comments

BySojourner

Bitcoin

Event Report: BitcoinWednesday Conference in Amsterdam

The first Wednesday of every month in Amsterdam offers a unique opportunity for every Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiast. This month, it was hosted in a different location than the last two times we went there, and we were there to gather information and generate this report for you guys! The hosts Thanks again to BitcoinWednesday for organizing this conference…

August 7, 20170Comments

ByZoran Spirkovski

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Nametoken in a bid to revamp domain name industry

The business of buying, selling and registering of domain names is an industry almost as old as the world wide web itself. But it is currently entrenched in a highly centralized structure, managing more than 326 million domain names as of March 2016. This is a figure that grew more than 10 percent compared to…

August 1, 20170Comments

BySojourner