How many Caribbean countries do you know off the top of your head? Out of almost 700 Caribbean islands only about 30 are inhabited, each with their own stance on cryptocurrency. The Caribbean Islands are first and foremost known as tourist destinations, but they have...
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Justin Sun: Tron, BitTorrent and Project Atlas
Justin Sun on the Future of Tron, BitTorrent, and Project Atlas Justin Sun sits at the helm of Tron, a decentralized entertainment content sharing platform governed by users that populate the marketplaces instead of centralized third-party intermediaries. Tron is...
Brock Pierce Interview 2019
Brock Pierce is seemingly everywhere in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. One can trace Pierce’s fingerprints on a dizzying amount of industry-shaping events. Today, Pierce is still behind the steering wheel of some of the space’s largest happenings and...
Palestine: Replace the Israeli Shekel with Crypto?
Palestinian premier Mohammad Shtayyeh has announced that the government is looking to replace the Shekel with cryptocurrencies. According to local news site Al-Monitor, the administration wants to break Israeli hegemony by developing a currency that cannot be...
China’s Digital Currency Wants to Compete With Bitcoin
The Takeaway: A review of over 50 patent applications submitted by the People’s Bank of China shows the design of its central bank digital currency will only resemble a cryptocurrency in limited ways. A senior official at the central bank said the effort will be...
India, US Governments Skeptical About Facebook’s Libra
The Facebook Libra cryptocurrency project is facing pushback from Indian lawmakers. According to Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Garg, the firm’s digital currency is privately-controlled and this fact alone makes the government particularly distrustful and unlikely...