Bitcoin is not a currency, Bitcoin is a people's movement
Since Xi Jinping called it a core technology in 2019, blockchain has been driving change across China’s ports, cities, and grasslands. Forkast.News with support from the Judith Neilson Institute’s Asian Stories project explores how blockchain and China’s Blockchain-based Service Network is defining today how it could be used tomorrow.
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Home-rental company Airbnb has “acqui-hired” the majority of the team behind ChangeCoin, a startup that runs a bitcoin-based micropayments service, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. The alternative lodging site has been looking at a few bitcoin and blockchain startups, according to two sources, to study what the technology could do for […]
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Banks including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. have successfully tested the record-keeping technology behind bitcoin on credit-default swaps, a move that could help it gain a foothold in mainstream finance. The swaps are essentially insurance contracts that pay off if a bond goes bad, and the process of keeping track of the […]
Read MoreDaniel is a 35 year old computer programmer from Pittsburgh who lives a busy life. Along with balancing work, his marriage, and raising his three boys, Daniel spends much of his time actively involved in all things Bitcoin. After discovering Bitcoin in 2011, his love and obsession for the crypto-currency was born, revealing an uncharted […]
Read MoreSince cryptocurrency cultists began buzzing about bitcoin years ago, they’ve hinted that bitcoin’s technology might have much bigger implications than the ability to just move around digital coins. As Bitcoin startups become fintech’s latest craze, these kinds of applications are starting to rear their head in the startup community. Blocksign, a startup that launches this […]
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