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Moonday Mornings: Dark Web Bitcoin transactions doubled in 2018
Today is Monday, January 21, which means two things. One, it's time for another Moonday Mornings; and two, it's the most ...
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Government use of blockchain will shape our digital identity
To be honest, I hate the word "identity." There’s a lot of talk about this now, but if anyone is telling you they’re ...
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Blockchain sharding made so simple your dog would understand
Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency ...
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SAP's new blockchain project helps weed out counterfeit drugs
SAP has launched a blockchain-based supply chain tracking system to allow drug wholesalers to authenticate pharmaceutical ...
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Bitcoin Cash has failed to make use of its 8MB block size, analysts say
Over the past 500 days, Bitcoin blocks have been 30 times bigger than BCH blocks, on average, so was the 8MB block size increase ...
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ICOs banked $13B with ‘little work, accountability, or transparency,’ report
Ethereum's ICO process has earned token founders estimated combined profits of $12.8B, made entirely of cryptocurrency created ...
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Oil behemoths join Shell and friends on energy trading blockchain
A host of new petrochemical and oil giants – including Chevron, Total, and Reliance – are joining the likes of Shell ...
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Ford drives cobalt supply chain transparency with IBM blockchain
Ford has become the latest company to jump on the blockchain pilot bandwagon.
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Israel shipping giant opens its blockchain after successful trial
Israel's largest shipping firm is opening up its blockchain to all of its clients of specific trades following a successful ...
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How Spain’s Iberdrola is using blockchain tech to push renewable energy
Iberdrola, one of Spain’s main energy companies, has completed a blockchain pilot to track renewable energy more accurately ...
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HSBC leans on blockchain tech to process $250b worth of fx transactions
Global bank HSBC has processed more than 3 million foreign exchange (fx) transactions using blockchain technology.
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NASA looks to secure flight data with blockchain tech
NASA is exploring potential use-cases for blockchain technology in a bid to safeguard the privacy and security of aircraft ...
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New blockchain center opens in New York amid cryptocurrency market woes
The city of New York has a new Blockchain Center.
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China is forcing blockchain devs to dox users, censor content
The Chinese government is forcing blockchain companies to censor content, store users' identity data and share it with authorities. ...
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South Korean government gives tax break to blockchain trailblazers
The South Korean government is giving the blockchain industry a tax break in a bid to help foster innovation in decentralized ...
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Ethereum Classic hackers steal over $1.1M with 51% attacks
Ethereum Classic, one of the most popular forks of the second most valuable cryptocurrencies by marketcap has suffered a ...
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5 of the best podcasts to get you into cryptocurrency and blockchain
Getting into blockchain and cryptocurrency can be pretty threatening to newbies – especially because the space is so flush ...
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Hackers pocketed $878,000 from cryptocurrency bug bounties in 2018
Blockchain companies have resolved more than 3,000 vulnerability reports in 2018 alone. In return, white hackers pocketed ...
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7 of the best, top, highest rated, essential books on Bitcoin and blockchain
We were all cryptocurrency and blockchain novices once. We tried to overcome our shortcomings by reading endless mind boggling ...
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TNW Answers’ best cryptocurrency and blockchain insights from 2018
A series of prominent figures in blockchain have answered the questions of a curious cryptocurrency community in 2018, here's ...
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Hard Fork's blockchain and cryptocurrency expectations for 2019
The cryptocurrency and blockchain industry has had a particularly turbulent year. In January Bitcoin prices were well over ...
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Moonday Morning: Fortnite accidentally started accepting Monero
It's the first Moonday Morning of 2019 and that means that there's a lot of cryptocurrency and blockchain news to catch up ...
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How blockchain technology can — and can't — prevent sexual assault
This story explores how projects like Callisto and LegalFling are using blockchain technology to store vital information ...
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Vodafone, Huawei, Intel and friends form blockchain industry group
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is getting in the blockchain game, having set up a new industry ...
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Blockchains should have ‘privacy by design’ for GDPR compliance
LTO Network hosted speakers at Hard Fork Decentralized last night to tackle some of the blockchain industry's toughest GDPR ...
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‘Unregulated ICOs are dead’ — welcome to the era of the STO
One of Alan Sugar's earliest apprentices and author of Tokenomics: The crypto shift of blockchains, ICOs and tokens, Thomas ...
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ConsenSys teaches devs how to make their first dApp on the blockchain
Developers from blockchain technology services firm ConsenSys took to the Hard Fork Decentralized stage to demonstrate how ...
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Binance launches a new platform to teach you about blockchain and cryptocurrency
Binance wants to teach you the basics of cryptocurrency and blockchain. The exchange has launched a new education page to ...
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85% of employees at recently launched blockchain startups are male
Recent analysis has discovered men comprise an overwhelming majority of recent blockchain startups - just 14.5 percent of ...
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Scaling blockchain: Sidechains explained in plain English
One emerging technology that is trying to make the blockchain more efficient and scalable is "sidechains." Here's what they're ...
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Samsung could be developing its own blockchain phone
There might be another name joining HTC and Sirin Labs as makers of blockchain smartphones, and it's one of the world's largest ...
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South Korean bank wants to use blockchain to reduce human error
South Korea's second largest bank is in the middle of rolling out a blockchain-based system designed to reduce human error. ...
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Facebook is hiring engineers and researchers for its blockchain team
It seems Facebook is looking to step up its "decentralization" efforts. The social media giant is recruiting blockchain engineers ...
