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Dow Jones Has a Blockchain-Based Product for Fighting Fraud and Staying Compliant

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 3:57 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Dow Jones Risk & Compliance has teamed up with a company called EastNets to build a real-time blockchain-based watchlist feed. This watchlist identifies high-risk third parties for business deals and helps maintain a business’s regulatory compliance. This blockchain-based product currently lets users solve problems associated with manually updating these watchlists and protecting data from cyber criminals.Deya Innab, chief strategy and product officer for EastNets, said:“Designing and testing a suitable solution was challenging, but we are delighted to lead the industry with a real-time, secure watchlist update solution that is actively

Confirmed! Brandon Chez Steps Down as Binance Completes Acquisition of CoinMarketCap

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It all started out as a rumor and many thought it was just another April Fool’s prank, but it is now official. Binance has acquired the largest cryptocurrency data tracking site, CoinMarketCap (CMC), the exchange announced today. The coming together of the largest crypto companies is considered an industry milestone, as it could eventually result in significant opportunities, especially in the area of cryptocurrency data tracking, which will contribute to the growth of the industry. While commenting on the development, the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), said that the

Fed’s Quantitative Easing Strategy Holds Long-Term Benefits for Crypto

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 11:30 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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These are perilous times, and it hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that the United States Federal Reserve is doing its part to alleviate the suffering — which began with the coronavirus pandemic and has spread to the global economy. It’s printing more money. “There is an infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve,” Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, told Scott Pelley of CBS on March 22, adding: “We will do whatever we need to do to make sure there is enough cash in the financial

Bitcoin Codebase Preserved for 1,000 Years in Archive Under Arctic Ice

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A snapshot of the Bitcoin codebase will be encoded onto film reels and stored for a thousand years under the arctic ice in Svalbard, Norway. The move is part of the GitHub Archive Program, with a mission to preserve open-source software, for future generations to learn about the culture of today.GitHub has partnered with institutions such as the Software Heritage Foundation, Arctic World Archive, and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library to ensure the long-term preservation of code, which could otherwise be abandoned, forgotten or lost.With the ephemeral nature of much of

How to Trade Bitcoin Using Leverage and Not Worry About Liquidation

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 2:41 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Institutional traders have long known the benefits of derivatives trading, including leverage and hedging. By trading options markets, one can predetermine maximum gains and losses, even with volatile assets like Bitcoin (BTC). Despite being far more complex, such instruments allow traders to generate gains independent of what happens over the next weeks or even months, which is essential for traders’ peace of mind to achieve optimal performance.Retail traders have only recently begun using derivatives, although they have focused almost exclusively on futures contracts offered by BitMEX, OKEx, Binance and so many