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What Is Blockchain Technology?

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As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). It will also define Bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain broadly, and initial coin offerings, and highlight promising use cases for the technology. Blockchain.

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 Hub’s Bid To Decentralize Trust And Strengthen Digital Ecosystems

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As noted in the whitepaper published by the company, the “trust stake” offers incentive for trustworthy interactions, across conceivable use cases spanning peer-to-peer networks (where transactions can occur), social networks and online communities hosting chats and forums.

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For Banks, A Lesson On Blockchain From The Age Of Internet Startups

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One of the members is UniCredit, an Italy-based bank that recently published a whitepaper exploring the potential use cases for blockchain technology within the financial services industry.

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

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Inside the Walmart ecosystem, consumers can shop on and offline using the same method of payment, send money domestically and cross-border, load cash into their wallets and pay bills. Square Cash enables P2P payments and takes in funds – now including bitcoin deposits. The same holds true in developing countries.

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What We’ve Learned From Libra

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Except that’s not what the Libra whitepaper says. The first two sentence in that whitepaper goes like this: “Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. Particularly when it’s not at all clear that the people Libra says it launched its network to help – those 1.5