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Blockchain Tracker: How Blockchain Technology Could Impact Voting in U.S. Elections

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There is a technology that’s currently being used by the financial industry — which is starting to gain some commercial success thanks to IBM — that has the likelihood to be a solution for the overall voting process in America to help alleviate any concerns: blockchain technology. that are taking steps in that direction.

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True Tickets, Shubert Partner To Trial Blockchain Broadway Ticketing

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Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. We see True Tickets as a leader in the space and are excited to put their technology to the test on Broadway.”.

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True Tickets Partners With Shubert To Trial Blockchain Broadway Ticketing

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Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. We see True Tickets as a leader in the space and are excited to put their technology to the test on Broadway.”.

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Federal Reserve’s Cunha on the State (and Timeframe) of Digital Dollars

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And there’ll be quite a bit of tinkering with the technology (especially the infrastructure) and the use cases to get there. Earlier this month, as PYMNTS noted , the Federal Reserve said its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency.

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SEC Charges Two Firms With ICO Violations

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Securities and Exchange Commission late last week settled charges with two companies it charged with offering digital tokens in a manner that ran afoul of rules. Back in March the SEC said it would treat most token offerings as the same as securities offerings and that it will impose fines on those that skirted the laws.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become more broadly adopted in everyday commerce. . But as with any nascent payments technology, the bad guys are always lurking – especially with cryptos, where anonymity is prized.

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Australia Central Bank Sees No ‘Public Policy’ Case For CBDC (For Now)

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But: The bank is keeping an eye on the experiences and progress of other nations, and still is researching its own technological and “policy implications” of wholesale forms of CBDC. In at least some nod to the technicalities, back in January, the central bank envisioned that the digital currency might be issued via blockchain platform.

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