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Media’s Role in Blockchain and Crypto, Interview With TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher

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“When you have taxi drivers talking to you about Bitcoin – that’s when you know it’s pretty mainstream.” Mike Butcher, editor-at-large of TechCrunch talks about Blockchain at the World Economic Forum, media’s role in the digital economy, and modern reporter’s responsibility to the market and their readers. #INTERVIEW Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico

George Soros: Bitcoin is Propped Up by Dictators

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Legendary currency trader, hedge fund titan, philanthropist George Soros, 87, delivered his yearly talk at The World Economic Forum 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. At the end of his remarks, an audience question asked the mogul his thoughts on cryptocurrencies generally and bitcoin in particular. Also read: Tezos Swiss Foundation Concept is “Old, Inflexible and Stupid” George … Read more

Goldman Sachs CEO: ‘Bitcoin Trading Desk Rumors Are Not True’

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According to multiple reports back in October and December of last year, it was said that the financial institution Goldman Sachs had plans to create a bitcoin trading desk. Now a month later, Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of the firm, says the reports are “not true” speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos this … Read more

Scientist Deciphers Instructions to Claim Bitcoin In a DNA Sample

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This week a Sander Wuyts, a Ph.D. student from the University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) completed an extraordinary competition that involved bitcoin and DNA-related research. Wuyts was the first to decipher hidden messages in a tube of DNA in a scientific challenge where he won a single bitcoin for his accomplishment. … Read more