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Concerns about the cryptocurrency’s energy use are overblown

Today, all bit­co­in miners con­su­me about as much elec­tri­ci­ty as is gene­ra­ted by the lar­gest hydro dam in the United States, appro­xi­m­ate­ly 6 GW. Also often miss­ing in this rela­ti­on are relia­ble esti­ma­tes of the signi­fi­cant envi­ron­men­tal impact and car­bon foot­print of the tra­di­tio­nal finan­cial sys­tem, e.g. phy­si­cal metals extra­c­tion. The still exis­ting lack of

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Gold versus Cryptos

There are com­pel­ling reasons for using cryp­to as an asset (class) alre­a­dy exist today. Bitcoin offers num­e­rous advan­ta­ges over gold in terms of ease of use, sto­rage, trans­fera­bi­li­ty, veri­fia­bi­li­ty, divi­si­bi­li­ty, pro­gramma­bi­li­ty and cap­ped supply.

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Quotes: Wences Casares, CEO of Xapo, 2019

”Even though right now most of us feel like we do not ful­ly under­stand Bitcoin, but over time we will all under­stand it as well and as intui­tively as we under­stand the inter­net today.” Quotes: Wences Casares, CEO of Xapo, 2019

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Investment Comment Sept 2018

The block­chain Fund is desi­gned to give inves­tors easy access to com­pa­nies with uni­que block­chain sourcing. UCITS-enabled cryp­to­cur­ren­cy assets and non-physical pre­cious metals are inten­ded to round off the fund as inte­res­t­ing alter­na­ti­ve invest­ments. An awful lot has hap­pen­ed in the block­chain uni­ver­se sin­ce the fund launch. Nevertheless, the basic tech­no­lo­gy is still at the

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Blockchain — FAQ

Block­chain is ano­ther invi­si­ble tech­no­lo­gy giant hea­ding into the digi­tal future. Worldwide, work is being done on indi­vi­du­al solu­ti­ons rela­ted to block­chain. The pace is breath­ta­king. If you are not careful, digi­tal demen­tia is about to be threa­ten­ed here. The fol­lo­wing lines can bring – right com­pact – a litt­le light into the dark­ness. Multiple

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Blockchain: Disruptive Technology Forward Together

Blockchain is not just the basis of the cryp­to­cur­ren­cy Bitcoin. Blockchain is much more: With this com­bi­na­ti­on of pro­cess and tech­no­lo­gy, things of any kind can be traded quick­ly and low-risk. A block­chain is a kind of digi­tal data­ba­se for tran­sac­tions bet­ween mul­ti­ple devices that accu­ra­te­ly cap­tu­re each chan­ge and stores it trans­par­ent­ly and decentralized

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UPS, FEDEX and BNSF railway join BITA alliance

Freight trans­port is also tur­ning to block­chain tech­no­lo­gy. UPS, FedEx, BNSF Railway and Schneider Trucking are one of the 200+ big names in an alli­ance explo­ring block­chain tech­no­lo­gies in freight trans­port. The main aim of the con­sor­ti­um is to bring tog­e­ther com­pa­nies in the freight indus­try and crea­te a stan­dards frame­work while test­ing out blockchain

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Supply Chain Management turns to the blockchain

One of the most impres­si­ve fea­tures of block­chain is its abili­ty to pro­vi­de more secu­re, trans­pa­rent moni­to­ring of tran­sac­tions. Supply chains can be seen as a series of tran­sac­tion nodes that are respon­si­ble for moving pro­ducts from point X to the point-of-sale or final deploy­ment. With block­chain, all tran­sac­tions can be docu­men­ted in a decentralized

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The blockchain earns the popularity across crowdfunding sector

The blockchain-based pro­jects are chan­ging the crowd­fun­ding sec­tor by crea­ting glo­bal crowd­fun­ding com­mu­ni­ty and a mar­ket­place for ever­yo­ne by decen­tra­li­zed block­chain for tran­sac­tion veri­fi­ca­ti­on. The evi­dence of gro­wing inte­rests in the blockchain-based crowd­fun­ding initia­ti­ves comes from the movie BRAID that beca­me the first influ­en­ti­al fea­ture film to be finan­ced through a token “crowd­sa­le” on the

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