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Microsoft Inks Partnership With R3 Consortium to Bring Blockchain Tech to Financial Markets
Microsoft yesterday announced a strategic partnership with R3, a distributed ledger consortium of 40-plus global banks to push the…
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Blockstream, Bloq, Gem, ItBit, Thomson Reuters and Others Join the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project
In February, Bitcoin Magazine reported that The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project, a collaborative effort started in December to…
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Bank of England Official Discusses Implications of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Deputy Governor of the Bank of England Ben Broadbent has spoken out on the implications of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the…
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DTCC and Digital Asset Holdings to Test Blockchain Solutions for the $2.6 Trillion Repo Market
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC), a firm at the center of Wall Street’s trading infrastructure, is about to launch an important…
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Angela Walch: 3 Risk Factors to Consider Before Replacing Existing Financial Infrastructure With Bitcoin Blockchain Technology
While Bitcoin may not replace the U.S. dollar anytime soon, the underlying technology of the blockchain is certainly generating hype among…
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MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative Receives a Boost With $900,000 Raised for Bitcoin Development Fund
MIT recently announced that it has raised $900,000 for the Bitcoin Developer Fund as a part of its Digital Currency Initiative (DCI). The…
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IBM Wants to “Evolve the Internet” With Blockchain Technology
This is a guest post by Justin O’Connell. The Aite Group projects the blockchain market could be valued at $400 million by 2019. For that…
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The Bank of England’s RSCoin: An Experiment for Central Banks or a Bitcoin Alternative?
This is a guest post by Leah Zitter. On February 21, 2016, the Bank of England reported that it had partnered with researchers at University…
