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Swiss Cyber Security Days Zusammenarbeit mit dem WEF Center for Cybersecurity (c4c) und renommierte Referenten an der Ausgabe 2020 Führende Experten im Bereich Cyber Security treffen sich am 12. und 13. Februar 2020 wieder in Freiburg. Die zweite Ausgabe der Swiss Cyber Security Days (SCSD) befasst sich mit dem Thema Vertrauen in eine hypervernetzte, digitalisierte Gesellschaft. Die Digitalisierung ist in den letzten Jahren stark...

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said he thought digital assets such as XRP would play a major role in the movement of money around the world. Recently, Larsen discussed the role of digital assets in the economy and the regulatory environment that must exist to advance blockchain and crypto.Ripple is the blockchain that has the highest number of transactions recorded on its blockchain in recent days. Having 1,151,101 more transfers which were almost 54% higher than the transactions executed on...

Swissquote nimmt CROWDLITOKEN ins Angebot auf Die Swissquote Bank AG listet CROWDLITOKEN (CRT) ab sofort auf ihrer Angebotsplattform. Die grösste Schweizer Online-Bank führt damit erstmals ein STO-Produkt und übernimmt für ihre Kundschaft gleichzeitig die Aufbewahrung der digitalen Immobilien-Anleihe. Innerhalb der Swissquote-Community, die mittlerweile über 300’000 Kunden zählt, entsteht zudem die Möglichkeit eines Sekundärmarkts. Für das...

In recent months, Bitcoin price has slowly descended from the 2019 high of $13,880 to the current levels of just above $8,130. This plunge is beginning to put weak miners out of business. In the past week, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty plunged 7% abruptly. That drop enabled miners to easily solve algorithms and mine blocks.That development means that the weak miners and those that encounter high operating costs are constantly going out of business. The new move does not go well with the bitcoin...

Within the cryptocurrency industry, there are a number of prominent tokens which dominate the industry and get the most attention, and just like any other market, there is a constant struggle for dominance between various firms. Some of the most popular in this regard are Bitcoin and Ethereum. Within Bitcoin, there are certain offshoots that sprung up as a result of hard forks such as Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV, which is backed by controversial figure Craig Wright and while many of the...

Andreas Antonopoulos, one of the most popular Bitcoin proponents, shared his views on the matter of cryptocurrencies and the global financial system in a recent YouTube interview. He discussed Bitcoin’s current and future role in the financial world while also touching on regulations, as well as governmental actions towards digital and fiat currencies.Broken Traditional Financial SystemIn a recent interview, Antonopoulos, who is also a host in the famous Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast, shared his...

Before now, a few car makers in the past have announced blockchain adoption for several features such as automatic toll payments and charging – as in the case of electric vehicles. According to a recent announcement, Lamborghini has now joined the league. The sports car maker has announced that it will be using a blockchain platform provided by Salesforce, for the process of authenticating its cars available on the secondary market.The usual procedure for Lamborghini authentication is a very...

Galaxy Digital Holding Ltd. started two new Bitcoin funds special because, well, they’re meant to be for a specific demographic profile of investors.Mike Novogratz (54) decided to use the fact that there is plenty of wealthy Americans aged 50-80 and, until now, they were pretty much into more traditional types of investing such as stocks or pension funds. Cryptocurrencies surely weren’t one of the ways they thought they could increase their wealth. However, Novogratz thinks there might be a...

On Monday, November 18, the big-four auditing giant KPMG unveiled its ranking for the top 100 companies in FinTech for 2019. The report shows that the Chinese and Asia-Pacific regions have dominated the rankings.Alibaba‘s payments wing Ant Financial topped the 2019 FinTech100 KPMG rankings. Last year in 2018, the payments and transactions companies dominated the rankings along with other companies from the insurance, wealth management, and lending sector. Another observation from the report...

In what seems to be a weird turn of events, top cryptocurrency data and assessment firm CryptoCompare has released its data for cryptocurrency exchange rankings and there are a few surprises in its benchmark report. Firstly, Binance has been dropped from its top ten rankings which comes as a shock as it is currently in the top three cryptocurrency exchanges in terms of the trading volume. Secondly, most of the popular cryptocurrency exchanges didn’t receive the expected rankings as only...