XRP Earns Academic Praise: University Study Calls It ‘Gold In Your Hands’
According to reports, a bipartisan draft bill in the US Senate has reignited arguments about whether XRP is a commodity or a security. Related Reading: XRP Has Held Its Ground As Most Altcoins Fall, Market Observers Say The Bipartisan Market Structure Draft would divide oversight: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would police digital commodities like XRP and Bitcoin, while the Securities and Exchange Commission would keep authority over traditional securities. Proponents say the move could remove years of legal uncertainty for many tokens. Durham Study Frames XRP As Commodity Based....
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Ledger, a new peer-reviewed scholarly journal, will publish full-length original research articles on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, as well as any relevant intersections with mathematics, computer science, engineering, law and economics. Ledger will be published online on a quarterly basis by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, as an open-access journal. "The journal Ledger invites authors to submit their original research for the inaugural issue of the very first peer-reviewed academic publication devoted solely to the field of cryptocurrencies and its....
Another development happening in the digital currency industry beginning in January 2016 has combined the forces of the University College Cork and Zhejiang University China who have linked together with the International Street State bank for research and development to study crypto-currencies and future investor technologies. State Street Corporation is the second oldest financial institution in the United States founded in 1872 with offices in twenty nine countries and its headquarters in Boston. Divided into three divisions which consist of a custodian bank with assets of $28 trillion,....
The University of Cambridge and the school’s Centre for Alternative Finance has published the third “Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study.” The 71-page in-depth study examines the current growth of the crypto industry, mining, offchain activity, crypto asset user profiling, regulation, and security. The September 2020 third edition of the Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study concentrates on four market segments which include mining, payments, custody, and exchange. A great number of participants from the cryptocurrency industry took part in the University of....
The popular safe-haven asset gold recently posted the lowest settlement in three weeks, as a firm dollar and bond market yields have weakened support for the precious metal. The financial goliath BNY Mellon also published a report about the differences between gold and bitcoin and the study said that the crypto asset “fits the description of a nascent currency.” A Firm Dollar and Treasury Yields Takes Some Steam Out of Gold’s Market Performance The U.S. dollar has gained some strength in the last two weeks, and crypto-assets like bitcoin (BTC) have increased in value as....
The Kenyan government is utilizing Blockchain to develop an immutable and transparent education management system. The Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) is currently collaborating with IBM to enable schools and other educational institutions to issue academic certificates on a cloud-based Blockchain network. In a recently released report, the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), which represents over 10,000 members and 3,500 institutions located across 150 countries, revealed that academic fraud is becoming a serious issue for prominent and reputable....