blockchain
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Blockstream launches bitcoin mining facility and pool. Blockstream, the Canadian Bitcoin technologies company, is launching a bitcoin mining facility and mining pool, the firm announced in a blog post Thursday. Blockstream’s mining data center will host its clients’ mining activities in addition to Blockstream’s own mining operations. The mining facility counts Fidelity Center for Applied…
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Commerzbank Tests a Blockchain-Based Payment Solution. Commerzbank, the second-largest bank in Germany, is exploring a blockchain-based payments solution that won’t require human intervention, according to an announcement Thursday. The bank has already completed testing the first use case of the solution, where it issued euros on a blockchain and provided automobile giant Daimler Trucks, the…
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The past decade has seen the rise of the challenger bank. It’s an agile, tech-savvy new prospect designed to place the consumer at the centre of the financial universe and rob legacy institutions of their fiercely-guarded market hegemony. Whilst measures like PSD2 and the Capability and Innovation Fund have allowed numerous challenger banks to thrive…