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A Senate Report Supporting Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies

The report submitted by two senators on the Finance Committee argues that “public authorities cannot ignore the development of virtual currencies.”

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Facebook ushered in an era where companies have become a universal force

Through its currency, there are fears that Facebook will organize new repositories of what’s marketable, what’s accessible and what’s not, explained in his op-ed, Holder of Theory and Innovative Design Methods , Armand Hartour.

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“Numerical techniques are fatally wrong if not based on scientific results”

Technological enthusiasm (blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence) will benefit from facing the realities of computer science research results, observe researchers Michel Raynal and Gérard Roucairol at a forum in “The World”.

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G7 finance ministries to ‘act quickly’ against Facebook’s Libra

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reported “very serious concerns about Libra, which could be misused for money laundering or terrorist financing.”

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The very real theft of virtual currency exchange sites

The BitStamp platform announced Monday, January 5, that it fell victim to a hack and the theft of most of its bitcoin reserves the day before.

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“Blockchain”: Data security for some, independence for others

The technology was born in the 1990s to ensure the security of transactions. It is of interest to both the financial world and utopians who dream of a society free from institutions.