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NEM Brings Together the Best of a Community-Led Public Chain and an Enterprise-Focused Private Network
The massively popular public blockchain network NEM has been diligently working to expand into the enterprise solutions ecosystem since 2017. Soon this year, NEM will release Symbol, an enterprise-ready blockchain network. This is a significant move on NEM’s part as the team has always focussed on the utility-centric aspect of blockchain technology. NEM’s NIS1 blockchain has many firsts to its credit. It was one of the distributed ledgers to enable the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. NIS1…
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Brave's Basic Attention Token (BAT): Ads that Pay You
Problems With the State of Digital Advertising Digital advertisements are something we all encounter while browsing the internet. While ads are commonplace, they are often implemented at the expense of the user. Ads track users across multiple devices, collect private data, share user information with third parties, and more — digital advertising is a cluttered, underregulated landscape. The digital advertising industry faces a variety of challenges that can result in a lose-lose-lose situation for users,…
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Nexus Mutual Review (NXM): Defi Smart Contract Insurance
Nexus Mutual is an interesting concept built on the Ethereum network and bringing decentralized insurance to decentralized finance. The project launched back in May 2019 and it gives users the ability to insure their smart contract positions using the native NXM token. By creating risk-sharing pools Nexus Mutual gives everyone the ability to cover smart contract positions, or to stake their capital in the pool for a stream of passive income. Do we need DeFi…
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The Crypto Wars and the Future of Financial Privacy
In recent months, the digital asset industry has produced sensational headlines about JPEG rocks selling for millions of dollars, imploding Ponzi-schemes, and even Kardashian family securities law violations.[1] But beneath these headlines, there’s a battle being fought for the future of financial privacy. Governments around the world, including the United States’ government, have set their sights on the “shadowy super coders” pioneering new frontiers in cryptography and encryption-based technologies in order to prevent bad actors…
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How Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Are Influencing the Real Estate Market
Key takeaways: Using digital currency and the blockchain to buy and sell property could be a huge game changer for the real estate industry. Now is the time for real estate professionals and companies to jump on the cryptocurrency and blockchain train. This type of digital transaction has the power to make homeownership possible for people who once thought such was out of reach. Kristin Smith, a real estate agent at Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate…