09-22-2024
Steve Kaaru
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Article by Steve Kaaru
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22 July, 2023
sCrypt hackathon showed students there’s more to blockchain than ‘crypto’ tokens: Brendan Lee
Brendan Lee was a guest at the sCrypt hackathon, and he says the students were eager to learn and full...
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21 July, 2023
Australia revokes FTX subsidiary’s license
Nine months after it imploded, ASIC revoked the FTX Australia license but will allow it to offer limited services for...
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21 July, 2023
University of Exeter’s Jack Rogers talks igniting a spark for Bitcoin through sCrypt hackathon
Jack Rogers has teamed up with sCrypt to hold the four-day hackathon project at the University of Exeter with a...
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21 July, 2023
India’s HDFC bank onboards 100,000 users for digital rupee pilot
HDFC, India's largest private sector bank, has also onboarded 170,000 merchants as India seeks to hit a million daily transactions...
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20 July, 2023
Bain’s Lars-Jacob Boe: Blockchain is more than digital assets
A management consulting veteran, Lars-Jacob Boe says that financial institutions have held on to the myth for too long and...
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20 July, 2023
Nigeria ends 3-year ban on naira payments for remittances
Nigeria has now lifted a ban that it placed in 2020 allowing remittance payments only in the USD—experts say the...
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19 July, 2023
National Australia Bank bans payments to ‘high risk’ digital asset exchanges to curb scams
Binance may be among the targets of the new crackdown, with NAB saying that half of all scams in Australia...
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19 July, 2023
Sega is still exploring blockchain amid reports of scaling back: report
Despite reports claiming he believes blockchain games are boring, Sega COO Shuji Utsumi says he was misquoted and the company...
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19 July, 2023
Philippines eGov super app to transform government services, DICT’s Edwin Ligot tells CoinGeek Backstage
The Philippines, a world leader in adopting new technology, launched a super app in June 2023 that Ligot says will...
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19 July, 2023
Africa’s largest bank wary of digital assets, wants to be a ‘fast follower’
Standard Bank CEO Lungisa Fuzile says that the bank is approaching digital assets cautiously in fear of an implosion, but...
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18 July, 2023
Craig Wright: Demonstrating that Bitcoin works is the best way to educate people about blockchain
Everyone wanted to have their network when the internet started, but today, that looks silly—blockchain will follow a similar path,...
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17 July, 2023
FTC launches first major US investigation into ChatGPT maker OpenAI
The Federal Trade Commission is probing whether OpenAI has breached customer protection laws or caused reputational harm to users, as...
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