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Developments in AI and IMF Positions Can Make Bitcoin Legally Tender

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We have discussed some of the benefits of AI technology in mainstream financial sectors like banking. The IMF’s stance on Bitcoin is significant because it could help sway central banks and other financial institutions to recognize cryptocurrency as a legitimate form of money. IMF’s Stance for Bitcoin.

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Data Privacy in the Digital Age: A Right or a Luxury?

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But as life became more digitized, it also became easier to track and quantify every aspect of it. However, this can be easily tracked when you’re reading a digital version. The current digital economy runs on our data, and allowing these companies to collect it and process it for their benefit seems to be the cost of entry.

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The Role of Blockchain in the Launch and Growth of Cryptocurrency

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Arguably, it was blockchain, rather than the concept of digital coins themselves that was the major disruptive technology that came out in 2009. Ripple was created in 2012 and reached a value of over $5,000 per coin by the end of 2014. The paper introduced the idea of using a distributed network to create a form of digital cash.

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How Blockchain Advances Paved the Route for the Success of Dogecoin

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However, we don’t talk as much about the role of blockchain in the inception of these cryptocurrencies and new digital coins on the scene. Cryptocurrencies have definitely exploded over the last few years and more types of digital cdurrency seem to be popping up here, there and everywhere. Blockchain Made Dogecoin Possible.

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Online Traders Need to Take the Threats of Data Breaches Seriously

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With the increasing reliance on digital transactions and data storage, it has become more important than ever for financial institutions to ensure that their data is secure. Clumsy as it is, the hack was made possible by the hackers obtaining the login credentials of Bangladesh Bank officials through a phishing attack.

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Guidelines on Trading Cryptocurrency Over the Blockchain

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Blockchain is used to authenticate cryptocurrency transactions and keep permanent, unalterable records of them, which has helped make cryptocurrencies viable digital assets. However, you will probably be more inclined to trust blockchain if you know that it is used by some of the world’s largest banks like J.P.

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Death Sentences & Births of Gurus in the Digital Currency Technology!

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Electronic or digital wallets have existed for a little over a decade while mobile wallets have only recently emerged. While both mWallets and eWallets are different solution branches of the same technology tree “The Digital Currency” , they are still mutually integrate-able to a great extent.

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