Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks

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  1. Minimalist

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    https://securityintelligence.com/news/ibm-study-blockchain-adoption-on-the-rise/
     
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    Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new Internet
     
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    https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhvimavadiya/2017/05/29/bitcoin-wannacry-ransomware-attack
     
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    https://www.itnews.com.au/news/victoria-to-explore-blockchain-across-state-economy-463514
     
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    Ethereum Smart Contract Error Costs Cryptocurrency Exchange $14 Million
     
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    Not just millennials, LOL!
     
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    https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitc...ve-security-is-priority-prominent-vc-investor
     
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    There's no meltdown, just the usual monthly ******* of taking profits and forcing the prices down.
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    Scratching my head on your BTC graphs. Showing over 2800 just a few seconds ago. Way higher in some pockets on the globe.
     
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    The newsworthy point of posting here, if any, was that Coinbase crashed, not that bitcoin "crashed."
     
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    "Putin Meets With Ethereum Founder To Create National Virtual Currency...

    ...Putin met Ethereum's young founder Vitalik Buterin on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum last week and supported his plans to build contacts with local partners to implement blockchain technology in Russia, according to a statement on Kremlin’s website...

    ...Speaking at the Economic Forum, Putin said that "the digital economy isn’t a separate industry, it’s essentially the foundation for creating brand new business model" and discussed means to boost growth long-term after Russia ended its worst recession in two decades...

    Russia’s central bank has already deployed an Ethereum-based blockchain as a pilot project to process online payments and verify customer data with lenders including Sberbank PJSC, Deputy Governor Olga Skorobogatova said at the St. Petersburg event. She didn’t rule out using Ethereum technologies for the development of a national virtual currency for Russia down the road...

    Adoption of Ethereum in Russia has been brisk also in the private sector: last week, Bloomberg reports that Russia’s state development bank VEB agreed to start using Ethereum for some administrative functions. Steelmaker Severstal PJSC tested Ethereum’s blockchain for secure transfer of international credit letters...."

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...reum-founder-create-national-virtual-currency
     
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    The URL is bad :(
     
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    Corrected.
     
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    https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/worlds-largest-bitcoin-exchange/
     
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    https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-the-ether-thief/
     
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    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...er-wallet-hacked-users-report-massive-losses/
     
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