Here’s what’s in store for you this week: The FATF will be issuing clarifications on AML/CFT guidelines to support innovation, while institutional investors and industry continue to show growing interest in cryptocurrencies. We’ve got thoughts from the Blockchain Review on decentralised cryptocurrency exchanges, as well as insights on UX issues, governance models and use-cases in blockchain and much more. Check it out below!
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Blockchain Could Track the Globes Gold Bullion by 2019
Ethical sourcing is becoming critical in such a high-value sector as precious metals. It will become even more important as reserves of metals such as gold diminish and scarcity develops. Here’s more on providing tracking and transparency to a trillion dollar industry.
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Regulation of Virtual Assets
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which drives the global anti-money laundering agenda, will be issuing clarifications on managing the ML and TF risks of virtual assets, providing guidance to jurisdictions to create a sound AML/CFT regulatory environment in which companies are free to innovate.
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$50 Million Bitcoin Mining Farm Opens in Armenia
Armenia is aiming to create its own Silicon Valley by establishing a free economic zone that will host a state-of-the-art technology center, officials have said. The new mining facility, the country’s first, comes at a time when a number of countries are implementing and expanding blockchain technologies.
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Crypto M&A is on a Tear as Deal-makers See Opportunity in Bitcoin’s Price Slump
Merger and acquisition activity for cryptocurrency companies has more than doubled in the past year amid a 54% slump in bitcoin prices. The industry is in a “land grab” for innovative technology, access to new markets, intellectual property, and talented employees through M&A. Here’s more on the industry’s activity.
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Goldman Sachs and Galaxy Digital’s Mike Novogratz Invest $15 Million in Crypto Custody Firm
In total, BitGo’s series B fund rounding has brought in $58.5 million. Goldman Sachs and Novogratz together contributed, as their clients show growing interest in cryptocurrencies. Goldman Sachs has also reportedly considered creating its own crypto custody. Here’s more on the story.
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How Decentralised Cryptocurrency Exchanges are Bringing Trust Back to the Cryptosphere
If there is a currency in the world, there has to be somewhere to trade it. Trading can be done on two types of exchanges – centralised and decentralised. This article takes a closer look at the problems with centralised exchanges and explains why decentralised crypto exchanges are needed.
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Current User Experience (UX) Issues of the Blockchain Technology
The issue of a blockchain adoption is in the user experience. Overall, the current state of blockchain user experience creates high entry barriers for newcomers, lowers adoption rate and raises more questions than solves actual needs. Here are some distinctive features of any blockchain-based technology that impacts UX and what we can do to improve user-experience and drive blockchain adoption.
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How Blockchain will Allow for Fewer Counterfeit Goods and Faster Product Recalls
There are some promising use cases for how blockchain could help solve some of the problems plaguing retail, and even a few initiatives that are already well underway. It’s worth familiarizing yourself with the areas of retail that could eventually be improved by blockchain. Here are six that technologists, investors, and analysts are excited about now.
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The New Federalism: Blockchain will Decentralise Big Tech’s Power on the Internet
In an era of the rise of decentralised organisations, blockchain governance is becoming a topic of increasing relevance. Platforms similar to the big Internet companies are beginning to emerge, only decentralised and controlled by users, e.g. Steemit (Reddit, decentralised). With no owner/monarch to make unilateral decisions (software updates, pricing policy, revenue distribution), users have to make decisions together. Here are some approaches to governance.
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What China’s Cashless Revolution Can Teach the West About Crypto
The real benefits of China’s cashless revolution lie in how this new, software-based system of value exchange has become a platform on which new business models can be built. So, does China prove that you don’t need a blockchain to build a new Internet of Value, powered by device-to-device exchanges in an Internet of Things economy?
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