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The Last Thing the Marshall Islands Need Is a Cryptocurrency

David Glance, University of Western AustraliaThe Micronesian Republic of the Marshall Islands is set to become the first country to base their national currency on a cryptocurrency. The Israeli company Neema will provide the technology and support to launch an initial coin offering (ICO) that is...

, by David Glance

Can Blockchain Be Controlled?

Vasilis Kostakis, Tallinn University of Technology; Primavera de Filippi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and Wolfgang Drechsler, National University of SingaporeThe headlong pace of technological change produces giant leaps forward in knowledge, innovation, new possibilities...

, by Primavera de Filippi

Valuing Your Blockchain Data

Damon Rasheed is a co-founder of Advantage Data, a data consultancy company, CEO and founder of Rate Detective, an Australian financial comparison site. Damon has had more than 20 years experience working with data and has been involved in setting up several successful internet startups that have...

, by Damon Rasheed

Rise of Cryptocurrencies Could Curb American Power

Nicholas Ross Smith, Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham and Zbigniew Dumieński, PhD Candidate in Political EconomyThere has been a lot of talk in foreign policy circles of the coming post-American world – in which the international system will...

, by Nicholas Ross Smith

Why Healthcare Needs Blockchain

Dr Tal Rapke is a trained doctor and former pharmaceutical executive, founder of Australia-based startup ScalaMed, a mobile prescription exchange system powered by blockchain. He is also a mentor at Blockchain Centre Vilnius.Any one of us in the healthcare industry will tell you – we’re...

, by Tal Rapke

Startups Lead the Blockchain Revolution in the Travel Industry

Trond works as a consultant to the travel industry and as advisor to blockchain startups. He is also a hobby cryptocurrency investor, and writes about the blockchain and ICO space. Follow him on trondbjoroy.com and connect with him on LinkedIn.The travel industry relies in large parts on decades...

, by Trond Bjorøy

Why South Korea Could Legalize ICOs

Few issues have divided the financial world – and South Korean society – like last year’s partial crackdown on cryptocurrencies and exchanges. The government’s decision to act against an “overheated” bitcoin and altcoin market that had seen everyone from...

, by Tim Alper

Why Accountants of the Future Will Need to Speak Crypto

Anwar Halari, The Open UniversityIf you haven’t already heard of Bitcoin, you either haven’t been paying attention or you’re a time traveller who just touched down in 2018. Because by now, most of us will have heard of Bitcoin and some of us have even jumped on the bandwagon,...

, by Anwar Halari

The Two Faces of Crypto Elitism

Whenever a new idea, invention, or any area of human interest surfaces, elitism does as well. It is regarded as a way to discriminate based on the idea that one’s group is somehow above others. It could be argued that this competitiveness and desire to be better than others is part of human...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Blockchain: at the Core of the Energy Sector Revolution

.Inese Dosé, Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Latvia.The Blockchain has created an exceptional hype around its utilisation by many industries. The technology facilitates transactions between parties by using computer algorithms without the need for third-party involvement. It...

, by Inese Dosé

Bitcoin Not the Answer to a Cashless Society

Opinion piece by Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Chair of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), co-authored by Jacqueline Loh, chair of the BIS Markets Committee, published in the Financial...

, by Benoît Cœuré

SEC ICO Probe: Lawyers and Regulators, Beware

Mark Toohey is a lecturer on Digital Currency Regulation at the University of Nicosia (UNIC) with a corporate law background. He is also the Founder and CEO of TBSx3 – a blockchain logistics and supply chain management solutions company. ____Lawyers and regulators who are involved in the...

, by Mark Toohey

Why We Put Money Into Bizarre Cryptocurrencies

Brendan Markey-Towler, The University of QueenslandSome initial coin offerings seem like scams (and some are), but behavioural research shows our emotions are part of why people buy in to cryptocurrencies for fruits and vegetables or crypto trading even if cool-headed rationality screams at us not...

, by Brendan Markey-Towler

Blockchain Challenges Traditional Thinking About Intellectual Property

Alexandra SimsCryptocurrencies are getting a lot of attention, but finance is only one of many applications of the blockchain technology behind it.Blockchain technology is poised to revolutionise almost everything from supply chains (including illegal fishing and human rights abuses), insurance and...

, by Alexandra Sims

Can One Businessman Decide the Future of Crypto in India?

Cryptocurrency seems to be on the ‘to-do list’ of India’s richest person – Mukesh Ambani. He is the founder and chairman of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and is also considered a top influencer on the country’s government.That is why ‘JioCoin’,...

, by Saket Singh

Don’t be Fooled – Venezuela’s Petro is Not Really a Cryptocurrency

Daniele Bianchi, Warwick Business School, University of WarwickVenezuela is suffering one of the worst economic crises of modern times. President Nicolás Maduro’s beleaguered government is overseeing scarcities of food and medicine, soaring crime rates and the collapse of public...

, by Daniele Bianchi

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