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Apart from blockchain technology, Thailand has also joined a growing number of countries currently exploring the cryptocurrency space.The Bank of Thailand has successfully launched a government savings bond on the IBM (NYSE: IBM) blockchain. Investors in the country can now buy bonds worth the maximum allowed value from a single bank.On the 5th of October, IBM announced that the blockchain-based government savings bond is the first of its kind globally. The announcement also stated that the...

Jay Clayton said the SEC’s door is “wide open” to those who want to learn and understand how to “tokenize the ETF product in a way that adds efficiency.”United States watchdogs, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has provided key answers to some regulatory myths in the blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystems hampering growth while restating commitments to aid the growth of the ecosystem. As reported by The Block, both the SEC...

Using rollups, Vitalik Buterin promises a massive 100x in transaction throughput for the Ethereum network. When combined with Sharding the output can multiple to 6400x.Last week, Ethereum 2.0 developers launched the Spadina testnet, however, failed to garner enough participation from node validators. Today, October 5, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has briefed the developments and the updated roadmap for Ethereum 2.0 in a series of tweets. The existing Ethereum blockchain has been...

Support for Ethereum 2.0 is growing rapidly. In a significant milestone, Eth2’s Medalla test net has expanded to more than 75GB in size. Along with this, the number of staked test ETH on the test net has crossed well above 2 million.Ethereum 2.0 Testnet Size Tops 75 GBAs per the latest reports, two months after the launch of Medalla, every node in the Eth2 test net is already holding more than 75 GB worth of data. It’s predecessor, the parent Ethereum blockchain, has a size of more than 452...

The central bank of Thailand has leveraged blockchain technology running on IBM Cloud to launch the world’s first DLT-based platform for government savings bonds.Within the first two weeks of operations, the blockchain-based platform has issued a total of $1.6 billion of such bonds. The announcement from the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation reads that the platform enables investors to “benefit from speedy bond issuance, reducing a process that previously took 15 days to two...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 984. Im heutigen Video geht’s um folgende Themen: Der E-Euro kommt – möglicherweise vielleicht bald, Bitcoin Nutzung steigt in Ägypten & Bitcoin Volatilität auf 2 Jahres-Tief. 1.) Der E-Euro kommt – möglicherweise vielleicht baldhttps://www.btc-echo.de/der-e-euro-kommt-moeglicherweise-vielleicht-bald/ 2.) Bitcoin use rise in Egypt amid economic...

It looks like the idea that bitcoin is a “safe haven” of sorts has been challenged this weekend. News of Donald Trump and his hospitalization due to the coronavirus infection has brought an end to the electric surge stocks were experiencing, and as a result, bitcoin is also showing signs of weakness, suggesting that the correlation between the S&P 500 and bitcoin is still there and as strong as ever.News Regarding Trump Brings Down Stocks… and BTCFor the longest time, many industry...

Trump may not like crypto, but the crypto-verse sure doesn’t miss a chance to mess with him. As proof that anything can be tokenized – no matter how trivial or influential – a derivative has just appeared on Uniswap to track the President’s health: Please welcome the Trump Health Index (THI).Little is known about this “project” beyond its name and evolution (and, of course, its smart contract). For purists, it should be an index that goes up when the market has a positive perception of the...

Polkadot-Netzwerk Durch die immer weiter voran schreitende Technologie steht aktuell eine neue Blockchain Generation vor dem Durchbruch. Es handelt sich um das sogenannte Polkadot-Netzwerk, welches eine Lösung für die meisten Probleme eines gewöhnlichen Blockchains parat hat. Dabei wird ein neues Ökosystem generiert, welches vor allem vom KILT Protocol beeinflusst wird. Vor-...

Grammy award-winning music creator André Anjos is the latest artist to tap into the cryptocurrency space. Better known by his stage name RAC, Anjos has launched a new Ethereum based community token for artists.The token is also named RAC. With it, the music producer intends to free artists and content creators from the clutches of large-scale corporations that stifle their financial freedom.RAC Gives Back To The Community With Ethereum Based $RACIn the RAC token issuing platform Zora’s latest...