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2020 is a turbulent year, for the currency circle, the project circle is very, countless people fell before the bull market, today, a new decentralization of the global sharing matrix project, a decentralization of the divine wave field matrix appeared! Zelator, comes, strong and born. Zelator is the international community of the global decentralized ecosystem and the first ever intelligent contract marketing matrix of the Tron network, developed by a group of network technology geeks and block chain community enthusiasts, without project parties. No manager behind the scenes, all data…

1.The awakening from centralization to decentralization The Internet had entered the human world 18,000 days ago. As people bask in the economic boom of the Internet age, an epic surveillance campaign has spread across the globe. Our civilisation has come to a crossroads as the “surveillance tsunami” engulfing our private spaces. As George Orwell and Aldous Huxley had warned, liberal democracy had been replaced by authoritarianism, and civil liberties are being curtailed. “The weak desire privacy, the strong pursuit of transparency”, privacy is becoming the most scarce resource in this era. The people…

  Upstart cryptocurrency exchange LVL is opening pre-orders for a Mastercard debit card linked to bitcoin and fiat accounts. The card is among Mastercard’s premium products and can be used anywhere globally, said LVL CEO Chris Slaughter. Mastercard did not respond to requests for comment by press time. “It took a couple of months to get [Mastercard] to be comfortable with it being connected to crypto,” Slaughter said. “Convincing them that it was aligned with their premium brand was more involved because their view on crypto businesses is that they’re transactional businesses,…

President Biden needs to reform the global financial system and avoid a 1930s-style depression. Digital currencies can help. Welcome to this week’s Money Reimagined, coming to you two days into a new U.S. presidency. Already, with various executive orders and a host of cabinet and agency nominee names emerging, President Joe Biden has fostered the palpable sense of a slate being cleaned. As for what it means for crypto, the turnover in the White House gave Sheila Warren and me reason to invite Kristin Smith of the Blockchain Association and…

In 2020-2021, the new crown epidemic broke out one after another around the world, and in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, many governments have issued home quarantine measures. This outbreak suppressed offline consumer demand in the global market, but at the same time also prompted further release of online consumer demand, making online shopping the mainstream shopping method and ushering in a new development opportunity for cross-border e-commerce. At the same time, affected by the global financial crisis, many countries in the entry and exit, logistics, customs…

In December of 2017, bitcoin’s price was surging, even fighting towards $20,000. Meanwhile, CNBC and the cable news set featured a constant string of crypto industry insiders bringing the space to a new audience. It was into that environment that on December 17, 2017, CME Group launched bitcoin futures. Three years on, bitcoin has punched past the significant marker of $20,000 to a high of more than $23,000. CNBC is running a bitcoin ticker, and crypto commentators are standard fare. Despite these superficial similarities, the bitcoin and crypto industry of…

The firm acted shortly after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the token’s alleged creator, Ripple Labs Inc., for conducting an unregistered and ongoing securities offering. “Prior to the sale of the asset on December 22, 2020, XRP (-20.72%) was approximately 3.8% of the Fund,” the firm wrote. “The Fund liquidated its position and reinvested the proceeds in other portfolio assets.” Subscribe to First Mover, our daily newsletter about markets. SUBSCRIBE By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms & conditions and privacy policy. The Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund…

“MoneyGram will continue to monitor the situation as it evolves,” a company spokesperson told CoinDesk in an emailed statement. “MoneyGram has continued to utilize its other traditional FX trading counterparties throughout the term of the agreement with Ripple.” The SEC alleged in a case filed Tuesday that Ripple used XRP (-20.47%), the cryptocurrency two of its founders created, to conduct an ongoing, $1.3 billion sale of unregistered securities. Subscribe to First Mover, our daily newsletter about markets. SUBSCRIBE By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms & conditions and privacy…

JCD, as we’ll call him, spent Monday morning changing his passwords, only to get a notification a new device had been added to one of his two-factor authentication (2FA) accounts. He then tried to log into his email. It was locked. “Within minutes I started getting notifications about password changes on Coinbase, Binance, Dropbox,” he later told CoinDesk. “I tried to call T-Mobile over Wi-Fi but it wouldn’t work with the SIM disabled so I reached out to them on Twitter and got someone from Support to lock my account.”…