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IBM's Stellar Move: Tech Giant Uses Cryptocurrency in Cross-Border Payments

IBM has been settling real cross-border payments in the South Pacific on a blockchain using Stellar's Lumen cryptocurrency.

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Hours to Go: How to Watch Ethereum's Fork as It Happens

Hard forks have become a kind of spectator sport in the cryptocurrency community. Here's how to watch the latest: ethereum's Byzantium upgrade.

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Collaboration FTW: How Blockchain Came So Far, So Fast

Without further cooperation, DLT risks ultimately recreating the many silos and disjointed systems that already exist, warns an executive at the DTCC.

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Logical or Not, Bitcoin's Coming Fork Is Boosting Its Price

Bitcoin is trading at an all-time high, and with another contentious hard fork coming, the reasons why have experts wondering.

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Basecoin Revealed: A16z, MetaStable Seek Crypto Holy Grail With Stable Token

A high-profile group of investors are backing an unknown startup's token sale, in an effort to evolve the "stablecoin" concept.

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What Hard Fork? Ether's Price Is Climbing Ahead of Tech Upgrade

Ether prices are up 11 percent so far today, indicating increasing market confidence that ethereum may sail through its next big upgrade.

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Bitcoin's Price Keeps Rising, But Is $6,000 in Reach?

Bitcoin hit a new record high of $5,856 this morning, but the question everyone will be asking is, can the rally continue?

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No Token Response: UNICEF Is Open to Doing Its Own ICO

A UNICEF ICO? The idea doesn't seem so far-fetched to those working at the United Nations programme, despite their humanitarian mandate.

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History Repeated? Confidence High Ethereum Will Avoid Blockchain Split

About three days before the Byzantium hard fork, developers are by and large optimistic, even though small protest movements continue.

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Swift Blockchain Success Sets Stage for Sibos

Swift declares its blockchain proof-of-concept a success, but in the build up to its biggest annual event, implementation is far from certain.

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