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Philippines Bitcoin Exchanges Outperform Traditional Finance Platforms

Bitcoin exchanges and cryptocurrency businesses in the Philippines have been outperforming traditional financial platforms in popularity and user activity throughout 2018.

Practical Policies

On July 2, CCN reported that the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), an economic zone in the northern part of the Philippines supported by the government, will embrace up to 25 cryptocurrency exchanges with friendly regulations and tax policies. Go to full article https://bit.ly/2IR7KyT

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On a level plane Scalable Blockchain System Launches ‘Lead’ Membership Portal

A horizontally scalable Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) blockchain system that aims to cater to consumer-grade applications has launched the Orion membership portal where members of its ecosystem can communicate and contribute to the network, with the company announcing its DAG token has listed on KuCoin.

Constellation Labs says the capacity of its network is proportional to user adoption – with a partitioned consensus allowing the network to scale the number of transactions per second on an infinite  basis. Reputation-based incentives are going to be used to eliminate transaction fees for the blockchain’s users. Read more https://bit.ly/2KIQaPc

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As Hundreds of ICOs Fail, Bitcoin Gains More Dominance Over the Market

Over the past three months, bitcoin, the most dominant cryptocurrency in the global market, has gained more dominance over the market amidst the third worst correction in the market’s history.

35% to 42% in Two Months

In May, the dominance index of bitcoin was at around 35 percent, during a period in which the cryptocurrency market initiated a large corrective rally to previous support levels. However, as hundreds of ICOs died out and the bear market came about, the dominance of bitcoin started to rise. From May to July, within a two-month period, the dominance of bitcoin rose by 7 percent.

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IBM-Powered Blockchain Platform Completes First Live Trades Via Five Major Banks

European blockchain trading platform we.trade confirmed it had completed its first live operations today, July 3, involving twenty companies and five major banks.

The blockchain platform, which claims to provide a “more efficient and cost-effective way” for banks and businesses to trade worldwide, uses IBM’s Blockchain Platform, powered by Hyperledger Fabric

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Zug’s Head of Comms Calls City Blockchain Voting Test a ‘Win’, Despite Low Turnout

The Swiss city of Zug’s first local blockchain-based municipal vote has been successfully completed, the Swiss News Agency reported yesterday, July 2.

Zug, also known as Crypto Valley, announced plans to trial a blockchain voting system using the city’s digital ID (eID) system, launched in November 2017, that allows citizens to vote on their mobile devices.

Dieter Müller, the head of communications for the city of Zug, told the Swiss News Agency that “the premiere was a success” and that the technical details will be examined over the next few months for privacy, voting secrecy, and the verifiability of the results. For more go to Crypto Google