Twitter's 'blue tick' club of influential users was locked out after financial scammers hacked celebrities' accounts. But with ever more trust placed in social media, we stand to lose more than money.
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A decentralised climate organisation, based on blockchain, could help get the world to work together to act against climate change.
This major adjustment to how the cryptocurrency operates happens every four years.
Rumours of the collapse of the cryptoworld have been much exaggerated.
The illicit drug trade is thriving on the dark web because it's seen as safer and more profitable than street dealing, according to encrypted interviews with people who sell drugs online.
Bitcoin is up over 40% in 2020, but the likes of ethereum, bitcoin cash and bitcoin SV have all achieved triple-digit rises.
The Bank of Canada is proposing a federally managed digital currency that flies in the face of the decentralized approach to money that cryptocurrencies have established.
Will 2020 be the year that the new threat to fiat currencies reaches maturity?
Stand by for cryptocurrencies 2.0.
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman sees much more potential in blockchain ID than payments at present. He's absolutely right.
With Wall Street slowly taking charge of crypto, the days of radical outsiders launching successful altcoins may be numbered.
The stage is set for central banks seeking to pull the rug from under Libra by issuing their own digital currencies.
Libra has lost seven of its 28 founding members – but don't expect that to hold it back.
Recent revelations about the lack of privacy protections in place at the companies on Libra’s foundation raise concerns about how much trust users can place in Facebook's new cryptocurrency.
Alarm bells should ring over a global currency that is run by an exclusive club that serves its investor-owners, not the public good.
Facebook's cryptocurrency and digital wallet will give it unprecedented access to personal data, with the power to take on Amazon and eBay.
Iran has long recognised the benefits of using cryptocurrencies to counter US sanctions.
Bitcoin trading is difficult to predict, but artificial neural networks may be able to discern patterns.
We go back to the basics and look at what Libra is, how it compares to other cryptocurrencies and whether you should be concerned about using it when it eventually arrives.
Why the coming generation of cryptocurrencies could force us to rethink the entire monetary system.
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Senior Lecturer in Financial Law and Regulation, University of East London
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer, Finance, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Senior Lecturer & Director of the LLM. Research interests - AI and the law; Social relationships of trust; Sustainable futures, Australian National University
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Research Fellow in Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, University of Reading
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Finance, University of Southampton
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Professor of Institutional Economics, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University
