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Ghana’s ineffective land administration system has serious implications
TikTok is partnering with blockchain company Audius over Spotify or Apple for music distribution. Here’s why this could be important for independent artists.
Decentralized finance makes it easier for virtually anyone to take advantage of financial markets without the need for a bank, but there are new risks as well.
Financial regulators are increasingly concerned about stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency tied to an asset like the US dollar.
Make 10,000 sheets of coloured dots and give them each a corresponding NFT, and what do you have?
Videos taken by ordinary people can help prosecute those who commit atrocities – but this evidence must be stored reliably.
Some alternative cryptocurrencies, called ‘altcoins’, demand far less electrical power than bitcoin.
Chinese bitcoin mining could consume as much energy as the whole of the UK by 2024.
It’s time to shift focus away from bitcoin and to pay more attention to other blockchain projects promising to make real contributions to the world.
Bitcoin prices have plunged after the world’s second richest person tweeted that Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency.
NFTs are revolutionising the sports memorabilia market. There are huge opportunities to make money, but also big risks.
Bitcoin has been widely criticised for its enormous energy footprint. A new cryptocurrency may solve that problem, but might bring some unintended consequences.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has further destabilized global food chains supplies. Technological innovations like blockchain can help address these challenges.
NFTs don’t even exist in the real world, but the market around them has a big effect on the planet.
NFTs are made the same way as crypto coins, but where every crypto coin is like every other, each NFT is a unique digital item – from images to sound files to text.
It might sound ridiculous but the explosive market of crypto-collectibles and crypto-art is no joke. Here’s an explainer to make sense of it all
A blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork worth US$95,000 and burnt it.
The digital tokens are a way to create scarcity and an aura of authenticity in an online world of infinite copying, pasting and remixing.
To quote the artist: ‘bruh… this crypto space seems super interesting though and i see a ton of potential to do some weird shit nobody has done yet.’
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of East London
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Associate Director, Initiative For Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3); Assistant Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech, and Co-Director, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Cornell University
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, University College Dublin
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Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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