Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
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Forbes Blockchain 50: Full list of top companies leveraging blockchain
To create our second annual list of big companies innovating with blockchain technology, we vetted hundreds of nominations. The best are leveraging the tech underlying cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to speed operations and increase transparency. Five of the most intriguing are listed below, with their underlying blockchains
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Want to make money in crypto currency? Question everything
If you want to succeed in the crazy, opaque, inefficient crypto market, start by challenging every assumption, every nugget of news, every piece of social media wisdom
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Facebook's cryptocurrency faces second day of critical hearings
The company's plan to introduce Libra, a digital currency, is dogged by its own reputation and scepticism of the legal use of cryptocurrencies
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US Federal Reserve chair raises 'serious concerns' about Facebook's cryptocurrency 'Libra'
Fed chair Jerome Powell says concerns about Facebook's Libra include 'money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability'
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Regulators have doubts about Facebook's cryptocurrency—as do its partners
Companies are hesitant to associate themselves too closely with the Libra project because of Facebook's issues with regulators around the world, the company's shaky track record on privacy and how it treats corporate partners, and the uncertain legality of cryptocurrencies
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What you need to know about Facebook's own cryptocurrency
Called Libra, the company has sky-high hopes that it could become the foundation for a new financial system not controlled by today's power brokers on Wall Street or central banks
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On the crypto fence
Regulatory changes may have put investors into wait-and-watch mode, but believers continue to come in
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Forbes India Investment Special: Hello, good buys
Investors are likely to buy the India story as companies poised to have handsome earnings over the next year
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I see no practical use for cryptocurrency: Paul R Brody
Brody, EY's Global Innovation Leader (Blockchain), spoke exclusively to Forbes India about the unrealistic expectations of blockchain technology, and why it's probably the 'most boring revolution' ever
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Brian Armstrong: Bubble beater
Cryptocurrencies keep swinging wildly in value. Brian Armstrong's Coinbase just keeps getting bigger
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Joseph Lubin: Cryptopia's last hope
Crypto mania made Joseph Lubin a billionaire, and he set out to build a utopian business empire. Then reality got in the way