The outcome of Ripple’s XRP investigation by the SEC may cause a major “ripple effect” for the crypto industry. In December 2020, the SEC announced its investigation of Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives for violating the Securities Act of 1933. In a press...
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Blockchain and Financial Technology
The global economy is a complex, interconnected web of billions of individuals and businesses that exchange items of monetary value. Innovations like online banking and brokerages have made it easier than ever to engage in financial transactions from home. But...
Decentralized Digital Identifiers: Reforming Data Security in the Hacker Age
Globalization has brought sweeping changes to the availability of goods and services to a consumer. Previous methods of identity verification (prior to the 1980's) required waiting in long lines at a government office, as overworked clerks sifted through dozens of...
Ethereum 2.0
Ethereum 1.0 From the founding of Bitcoin in 2009, to the peak in Bitcoin price in 2017, to now, the world of blockchain has been dominated by Bitcoin, and other altcoins have been relegated to a secondary importance. Non-blockchain enthusiasts brand the entire world...
Decentralization, Disease, and Demand
The year 2020 has witnessed a global pandemic akin to that of the Spanish flu pandemic 100 years ago. With millions sick, countries have turned to emerging technology to dampen the virus’s effects. Blockchain’s decentralized nature is the solution to many of the...
The Synergy of Blockchain and Protests
Since May 25, 2020, the world has been shaken by the killing of George Floyd, a black man who was asphyxiated by a Minneapolis police officer. Tens of thousands of people have marched in protests, expressing their discontent at the systemic discrimination of...
Blockchain will fuel innovation
Christian's Take Has Facebook’s data breach caused ad executives to find alternative avenues to reach their intended masses? Christian Ferri, president and CEO of Geer, believes blockchain technology has an answer. Ferri believes blockchain technology will allow...
Blockchain Technology and Covid-19
The properties of blockchain, like immutability and being a distributed network, makes it an attractive underlying platform for future innovations. It might be too early to say, but blockchain might prove to be a technology as disrupting as the internet was. The...