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MAY 29, 2018

At the time of this writing, 21 of these “networks” held market capitalizations greater than $1B, including household names like Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to CoinMarketCap. Seventeen of these hit $1B+ in 2017, placing that year in the lead for new unicorn creation. There are some nuances to this analysis.

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APRIL 13, 2018

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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OCTOBER 8, 2020

8) that it has invested $50 million — approximately 1 percent of its total second-quarter assets — to purchase roughly 4,709 bitcoins. “We We believe that bitcoin has the potential to be a more ubiquitous currency in the future,” said Amrita Ahuja , chief financial officer, Square. “As

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JULY 5, 2019

The Facebook Libra whitepaper states that Association Members must agree to operate as validators on the network. What isn’t helping – and I am sure that Facebook has had this same thought – is bitcoin’s surge post-Libra’s launch. Among other things, that will depend on what it means to be an Association Member.

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MARCH 23, 2016

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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JULY 1, 2019

Square Cash enables P2P payments and takes in funds – now including bitcoin deposits. The Facebook Libra whitepaper states that Association Members must agree to operate as validators on the network. What isn’t helping – and I am sure that Facebook has had this same thought – is bitcoin’s surge post-Libra’s launch.

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APRIL 30, 2018

A whitepaper released on Thursday (April 26) said that regulatory burdens should be reduced for smaller firms. According to the whitepaper, IPOs have become unattractive to businesses. Bitcoin, conversely, should be exempt from those laws. Speaking of IPOs, lobbyists in the U.S. Looking Toward International Events….

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

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

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JULY 6, 2017

To gain a deeper insight into blockchain technology and what it is truly capable of, the World Economic Forum and its Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution paired up on a new whitepaper titled Realizing the Potential of Blockchain: A Multistakeholder Approach to the Stewardship of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.

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JULY 15, 2019

To ward off the currency speculators that have tended to plague high-profile crypto projects like bitcoin , Libra will be a stablecoin, with its value pegged to the U.S. Nearly half of the world’s unbanked population lives in one of seven countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan.

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