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by Catherine Frankum Blockchain and Bitcoin. These two words have been linked closely together since their joint creation in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Still to this day people confuse them as being the same. However, since 2014, Blockchain has developed into a technology that can...

by Rae Steinbach The digital age has obviously yielded major benefits for businesses. That said, keeping up with technological shifts can be challenging. A major struggle organizations often face is data management. Solutions businesses may have relied on in the past are no...

Lithuania-based startup Debitum Network has launched a worldwide finance platform, known as Abra 1.0, that will deliver loans of between 10,000 euro and 1 million euro to small businesses in as little as 24 hours, according to a press release CoinReport received from Blue Oceans...

Newport Beach, California-based blockchain-focused investment firm Sustany Capital has announced the results of a cryptocurrency survey it conducted of 1,000 U.S. adults belonging to millennial, X, baby boomer and Z generations and familiar with digital currency to learn about...

Data and analytics company GlobalData said in a press release it sent to CoinReport that although most financial services experts agree that the blockchain technology that is behind crypto has certain value, chiefly from a security point of view, digital currencies are unlikely...

Former FC Barcelona players Carles Puyol, Iván de la Peña and Andrés Iniesta together with Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most notorious hacker, and trained neuroscientist Carlos Grenoir have announced a distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain-powered social network called...

William Hinman, the director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)Division of Corporation Finance, announced at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto in San Francisco that the SEC would not be classifying bitcoin or ether as securities. It should be noted that...

New York-based biometrics security firm HYPR informed CoinReport via emails that it has partnered with BitGo and SpeechPro, introducing the latter to its existing platform. BitGo Partnership The goal of the partnership with BitGo is to “deliver biometric security” to...

The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP) – an open-source, international organization whose goal is to improve financial privacy within the Bitcoin ecosystem – has released its Spring 2015 Wallet Privacy Rating Report. In the report, the OBPP rates the 10 most popular Bitcoin...

Many of the so-called “Altcoins” that have followed in the footsteps of Bitcoin have differentiated themselves through the use of shorter block times. Bitcoin, which has historically used a block time of ten minutes, self-regulates the network to ensure that, on average, a new...