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Bitcoin Daily: Brazil Debuts Blockchain Solution For Gov’t Bids; BitFunder CEO Gets 14 Months For Crypto Fraud

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And the operator of BitFunder, a defunct trading platform that was denominated in bitcoin, and WeExchange was sentenced for obstruction of justice as well as securities fraud, CoinDesk reported. The slide deck was reportedly leaked through social media by an accountant. at the World Bank.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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Visa also announced that it had extended the real-time, ubiquitous capability to other disbursement types as well including insurance claims, contractor payments, tax refunds and even merchant account real-time funds settlement. So, we all know this – chip cards were not going to fix the problem of fraud at the POS.

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On Radical Markets

Vitalik Buterin

Harberger taxes can essentially replace eminent domain ), and given that blockchains lack access to trusted human-controlled courts, these kinds of solutions may prove to be be even more ideal for blockchain-based markets than they are for “real life”. Harberger taxes. What do Posner and Weyl talk about? the highest bidder).

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A Brief History Of Libra

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To ward off the currency speculators that have tended to plague high-profile crypto projects like bitcoin , Libra will be a stablecoin, with its value pegged to the U.S. The concept behind the project is to draw a hard and fast line between the Libra rails and the currency they support – and the social media network that is Facebook.