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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Earlier this week, blockchain arrived on Capitol Hill by way of the formation of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus focused on examining and educating lawmakers on the payments technology and issues associated with the digital currency. Blockchain database startup BigchainDB just landed a sweet $3.37 Jared Polis (D-CO) and Rep.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Silicon Valley startup Robinhood has signed over 10 million subscribers to its free stock-trading service, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday (Dec. We founded this company to break down barriers to our financial system,” the company said in a blog post. “As

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APRIL 29, 2016

It announced an investment in Digital Currency Group, a bitcoin/blockchain startup-focused investment firm, which includes former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is serving as an advisor and also put money up. Western Union just put its toe in the bitcoin/blockchain waters. This includes fines up to $38,000 (2.5

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APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Consider the money being poured into it. Digital Banks.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Is it a stealth startup from Silicon Valley? Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Visa, and many of the most valuable startups, like Uber, are multisided platforms. Some do — and below we talk about how to increase the odds that you, or the company you are investing in, are one of them.).

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MAY 15, 2017

Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. There’s only so many things you can buy on the dark web though.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The financial sector in India has been largely dominated by government-backed banks – similar to the financial system status in China – with the leading money market fund as state-owned and run by private banks such as the State Bank of India and ICICI Bank. Paytm, which is owned by One97 Communications, received a $1.4

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