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Powers On... El Salvador is the unlikely leader for sovereign adoption of Bitcoin as national currency
22.6.2021
The question is not whether Bitcoin will be the future of money; the question is how, where and when it will be the future of money
Blockchain-Based Immunity Passports Don’t Resolve Core Privacy Issues: Report
7.12.2020
Proposals for immunity or vaccine passes have resurfaced with promising news about vaccines, but the web standards they’re based on contain flaws
ECB Exec: Sovereign Money Needs To Be Reinvented
27.11.2020
Fabio Panetta. Speech by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), at the Deutsche Bundesbank conference on the "Future of Payments in Europe." Frankfurt am Main, 27 November 2020.
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Retail payments play a fundamental role in our daily lives...
An Internet for Humans: Proof-of-Personhood Explained
27.10.2020
Identity is one of our most fundamental human rights. In the age of surveillance, commodification and centralization, it is under threat
This Self-Sovereign ‘DocuSign’ Uses Bitcoin for Digital Proofs
6.10.2020
Woleet provides a digital ID software suite which allows its clients to authenticate documents and signatures using Bitcoin’s blockchain
Self-Sovereign Identity Will Reshape the Internet (if You Use It)
1.10.2020
Heard the phrase "self-sovereign identity"? Here is what it means and how it could change your practical experience of the internet
World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Indirectly Owns Millions in Bitcoin
21.9.2020
Adobe Aliaksandr Marko
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund, known as the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, indirectly owns nearly 578 bitcoin (BTC) - currently worth USD 6.2 million - through its investment in MicroStrategy, the publicly traded US-based software company that made headlines...
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund indirectly holds almost 600 Bitcoin
20.9.2020
Mainstream finance giants may hold more Bitcoin than you think
Blockchain technology, financial and self-sovereign digital identities
2.9.2020
Discussing a use case that the Brazilian government started developing last year: a digital identity solution called FinID
Venezuela's Madura Shafted From Gold Storage, Self-Sovereign BTC Shines
2.7.2020
Venezuela’s Maduro just lost a ruling regarding his supposed gold ownership
Sovrin Foundation Sheds All Paid Staff in Tale of a Token Issuance Gone Wrong
25.6.2020
The Sovrin Foundation, a digital ID non-profit, laid off all paid employees after failing to secure funding for an SEC-compliant token issuance
The Queens Politician Who Wants to Give New Yorkers Their Own Crypto
19.6.2020
Assemblyperson Ron Kim has proposed a decentralized contact tracing protocol and a blockchain-based public banking system for New Yorkers
Bitcoin is a Sovereign Currency and Much Ahead of Resilience & Robustness— “Antifragile”
17.6.2020
Bitcoin is seen lacking momentum for quite some time now, while alts like Verge and VeChain have enticed a new cluster of investors due to their startling momentum over the past 1 week. BTC recently tested support around $8.95k but rebounded instantly to reclaim $9.5k while currently trades...
Marshall Islands Seeks to Establish a "Self-Sovereign Identity" With New Blockchain-Based Currency
6.6.2020
Joel Telpner reveals some of the steps the Marshall Islands is taking to launch its national digital currency
First Sovereign Wealth Fund Joins Libra Association
15.5.2020
One of the Singapore government’s two sovereign wealth funds, Temasek, is joining the Libra Association, alongside Paradigm and Slow Ventures in the latest round of additions to the stablecoin project
Demand for Non-Sovereign Safe Havens - Bitcoin & Gold - Expected to Rise
12.5.2020
The demand for non-sovereign "safe haven" assets, such as bitcoin (BTC) and gold, to rise considerably as the risk of broad-based currency debasement increases, according to US-based crypto research boutique Delphi Digital.
Gold demand in the past 12-18 months has already been on the rise...
COVID-19 ‘Immunity Passport’ Unites 60 Firms on Self-Sovereign ID Project
13.4.2020
The COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI) is working on a digital certificate to help stop the spread of the virus without compromising user privacy
Marshall Islands’ Sovereign Digital Currency Will Be Based on Algorand
2.3.2020
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has selected blockchain firm Algorand as technology partner for its national digital currency, the SOV
Monopoly Is a Tiny Darknet Market With Big Aspirations
18.1.2020
There’s a certain irony in the smallest market on the darknet being named Monopoly. With less than 150 listings, the monero-friendly Monopoly Market is anything but. What this tiny darknet market (DNM) lacks in size, however, it makes up for in spirit. The cypherpunk ethos permeates this...
Sovereign Powers Could Be Key To Mass Crypto Adoption
27.12.2019
A statist approach to blockchain development, like other industrial policies in the past, might yet prove successful in this market