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Blockchain voting mulled in Senate memo as COVID-19 disrupts how Congress operates

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the U.S. Congress’s ability to meet and deliberate – a state of affairs that has forced a rethinking of how America’s national legislature operates in a time of crisis. And according to a Senate memo dated April 30 and obtained by The Block, blockchain-based voting could be part of the solution. …

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US Authorities Freeze COVID-19 Website Alleged Scammer Tried to Sell for Bitcoin

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The U.S. Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) have seized coronaprevention.org, alleging its owner tried to sell the domain for bitcoin after posting about it in a “hacker’s forum.” Announced late Friday, the unidentified owner of the site tried to sell the domain to an undercover agent with the Department of Homeland Security’s …

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From Proof of Health to UBI: COVID-19 Changes Everything

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From domestic manufacturing to economic nationalization by proxy to proof of health on a blockchain, a preview of the decade to come. Joe McCann currently works in cloud and AI at Microsoft and has spent decades in tech, crypto and open source communities. He recently wrote a piece called “A New, New World Order” about the second …

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Bitcoin in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Two Possible Scenarios

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Futurist and author, Daniel Jeffries, shared with Cointelegraph his view on the future scenarios awaiting Bitcoin in the aftermath of COVID-19. Two possible outcomes In one particularly dark scenario, the global economy will plunge into a severe recession and countries will turn to authoritarianism in order to survive. In such a scenario, world governments will …

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Crypto Conference Defies COVID-19 Lockdown by Hosting in Virtual Realm

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The COVID-19 crisis may have put a stop to millions of sports events, work conferences and meet-ups across the world, but it has not halted those in the cryptocurrency space. The Coinfest Conference, which runs until April 4, has found a way to defy the coronavirus lockdown by setting up shop in the digital blockchain …

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