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Bill Gates says cryptocurrency is 'a rare technology that has caused deaths in a fairly direct way'
Bill Gates does not seem to be a fan of cryptocurrencies. In a Reddit AMA on Tuesday, the Microsoft cofounder expressed his belief that the anonymity behind cryptocurrencies is not "a good thing," adding that society benefits when governments can identify money launderers, tax evaders, and the people funding terrorists.
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Chinese Billionaire Investor Chen Weixing : Don’t Miss Big Blockchain Opportunities Within 6 Months
Amid a heated debate over blockchain, Chen Weixing, a Chinese angel investor and billionaire founder of ride-hailing start-up Kuaidi Dache, said on February 26 that first wave of big opportunities for blockchain have been visible, and there are only 6 months in 2018 for investors to take advantage of these chances.
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Germany Won't Tax You for Buying a Cup of Coffee With Bitcoin
Germany won't tax bitcoin users for using the cryptocurrency as a means of payment, the Ministry of Finance has said. The guidance, published Tuesday, sets Germany apart from the U.S., where the Internal Revenue Service treats bitcoin as property for tax purposes - which means that if an American buys a cup of coffee with bitcoin, it's technically considered a sale of property and potentially subject to capital gains tax.
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Bitcoin Is Falling Out of Favor on the Dark Web
Steep transaction fees and wild price fluctuations have made the cryptocurrency harder to use in the illicit markets that originally made it famous.
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Bitcoin Soars In Africa Because of Increasingly Volatile Fiat Currencies
Africa is definitely not left out as far as the global bitcoin and cryptocurrency revolution is concerned. There is a growing cryptocurrency market in many countries across the African continent. In 2017, the growth in the demand for bitcoin in Nigeria increased by almost 1500 percent, second only to China. This situation has led to the establishment of a number of cryptocurrency market services that are enjoying an unprecedented level of annual turnover.
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Luv Crypto — Latest Cryptocurrency News & Blockchain Updates!
Luvcrypto is an independent publication covering blockchain & cryptocurrency.
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Top Centralized Cryptocurrencies Revealed!
What are the most popular centralized cryptocurrencies right now? We have five of them listed here.
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This article actually explains what REKT means
In cryptocurrency, you will see the word REKT is used a lot. And what exactly it means, the definition, and the history is discussed through this article.
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Russia will Conduct Its Presidential Elections By Using the Blockchain
In 2018 the Russian presidential election will use the blockchain technology to record and protect the results and data of the exit polls. The official announcement was made on the platform of the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTSIOM). The Russian presidential elections will take place on March 18. This event is going to be one of the first of its kind.
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Georgia Looks To Join Arizona In Accepting Bitcoin For Tax Payment.
State senators in Georgia have proposed a bill similar to Arizona’s, allowing people to pay their taxes in Bitcoin. Bill GA-SB464 “requires the state revenue commissioner to accept cryptocurrencies for payment of taxes and license fees.” This allows for people in Georgia to pay their taxes and license fees in cryptocurrencies. Although the bill allows for payment in cryptocurrencies, the government will convert it back into fiat within 24 hours. The tax agency will then credit the payer with the amount of fiat they converted for.
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AI researchers embrace Bitcoin technology to share medical data
Dexter Hadley thinks that artificial intelligence (AI) could do a far better job at detecting breast cancer than doctors do — if screening algorithms could be trained on millions of mammograms. The problem is getting access to such massive quantities of data. Because of privacy laws in many countries, sensitive medical information remains largely off-limits to researchers and technology companies.
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E21 - Crypto the WonderDog - 3-10-18 Dr. Wallace Lynch - Alpha Token
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Sierra Leone just became the first country in the world to let its citizens vote using blockchain
Sierra Leone became the first country in the world to use blockchain technology to verify votes in an election last week. Swiss blockchain company Agora provided the service to Sierra Leone's Western District, which houses the nation's capital of Freetown and is the country's most populous area. After voting, each paper ballot was logged using specialized blockchain technology.
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Coinbase gets e-money license in the UK, will add Faster Payments to speed up fiat deposits
This will be welcome news for cryptocurrency fans in the U.K. and Europe. Coinbase, one of more popular and accessible cryptocurrency exchanges, has been granted an e-money license by the U.K. regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). From a regulatory standpoint, this means that Coinbase is now able to issue e-money and provide payment services in the U.K. and will have passed additional checks in terms of things like the segregation of client funds, which means that customer fiat balances...
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Bitcoin may not last, but blockchain could be the real deal
Economist Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr. Doom since he predicted the 2008 financial crisis, called it “the mother of all bubbles.” The head of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Howard Davies, invoked Dante’s Inferno to warn investors off it. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon flat-out called it a “fraud” – at least initially. The target of this opprobrium was bitcoin, the oldest and most popular of the more than 1,300 so-called cryptocurrencies that were created to provide a globally accepted means of payment that is anonymous, untraceable and outside the purview of governments and banks.
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Kevin O'Leary: NYC hotel wants to use a $400 million cryptocoin offering to sell ownership like a stock
Kevin O'Leary told CNBC on Monday he's working on a deal to allow a "very prestigious brand hotel" in New York sell ownership in the company through a $400 million cryptocurrency offering instead of a stock IPO. "There's a big deal coming in New York in the next three weeks," said the "Shark Tank" investor and chairman of the ETF firm O'Shares Investments. "It's a $400 million coin issuance for a real asset you've heard of."
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Could the Lightning Network become one of the most disruptive global financial technologies?
One of the key promises of cryptocurrency technology is that, eventually, everyone will have the ability to stream money. Micro-payment systems have been researched since the mid 1990s, but viable solutions to process transactions of less than one dollar still elude mainstream payment companies.
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Twitter CEO Dorsey Believes Bitcoin Will become the World’s Single Currency in 10 Years
The founder of Twitter and Square has come out and said that bitcoin will become the world’s single currency in 10 years. Speaking to The Times, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and payments company Square, said that cryptocurrencies using the blockchain would be the next major breakthrough.
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Cryptocurrency Backed by Habanero Peppers Is a Thing in Mexico
A cryptocurrency called Agrocoin is giving buyers a chance to invest in some of the world’s spiciest peppers.
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Healthcare Is Aching for Solutions: Is Blockchain The Answer?
Few are aware that prior to my work as a journalist, I was part of three different senior management teams in healthcare. As a young administrator in my twenties, I found the inner workings of healthcare organizations equally interesting and frustrating. To this day the opportunity to visit a hospital or medical center engenders generally fond memories. In fact when my significant other recently asked whether I would go with her for a diagnostic procedure, I was excited.
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