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Cryptocurrencies came along almost ten years ago, and it caused quite a stir in the global financial markets. Blockchains also gathered a lot of attention since Bitcoin's conception, and the trends have been suggesting that it will overpass the value of the currency in terms of actual results for companies, countries, and individuals. This article is…
A new study published by the Boston College Carroll School of Management has revealed that there is a substantial correlation between the success of an ICO and the level of activity recorded on its Twitter account. The study, written by Dr. Leonard Kostovetsky and Hugo Benedetti, used sample data from more than 4,000 ICOs which took…
Cryptocurrencies are expected to become a mainstream payment solution within the next decade, a new research has proposed. The paper argues that cryptocurrencies are already fulfilling one of the three functions of money - they are acting as a store of value - and that it is only a matter of time before they begin…
Despite the many benefits attributed to cryptocurrency operation, there have been a number of ransomware attacks which have been said to be a product of these digital assets. To dive deep into these claims, Kaspersky, a Russia based cyber-security firm conducted a research, which concluded in highlighting a large spread of cryptocurrency related scams that…
Monero is a privacy-centric digital currency that incorporates transactions not capable of being linked as one of its primary offerings. A research paper questioned this ability. The research probed how this crypto currency’s transactions complicate their origins. It divulged that Blockchain analysis could possibly generate transactions being linked, if those happened prior to 2017. Monero…
