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Pavlos Giorkas

Pavlos Giorkas is a blogger and content creator with a passion for crypto, health, consumer tech and money management. He's been dealing with cryptocurrency since 2013 but didn't take action until 3 years later on 2016. On Bitnewsbot he covers the latest news in the crypto space.

Iceland Venture Studio Wants To Fund The Decentralized Future

January 22, 2019 12:26 AMIn the studio’s vision of a “customer-centric” utopia, centralized data aggregation goes the way of the dinosaur.Iceland is a well-known...

Korean Crypto Exchange Execs Imprisoned For Defrauding Investors

January 21, 2019 11:34 PMThese may be the first exchange operators to be imprisoned for wash trading.Two Korean crypto exchange operators have been imprisoned...

Russia May Sanction Facebook And Twitter For Processing User Data Outside The Country

January 22, 2019 12:12 AMRussia’s internet regulator/censor claims Twitter and Facebook haven’t been processing Russian users’ data inside the country. That would be a...

UAE And Saudi Arabia To Develop Digital Currency For Cross-Border Payments

The cryptocurrency pilot program will test the potential of a central bank digital currency.A Saudi-Emirati joint cryptocurrency pilot was one of seven initiatives announced...

Clearing Up Casper, Proof Of Stake, And Beacon Chain Confusion, Once And For All

An (extensive) summary of the first phase of the beacon chain rollout.Recently, I read yet another conflicting report about the proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism to...

Brave Set To Start Rewarding Users For Viewing Advertisements

January 17, 2019 12:41 AMNow three years into its development, the Brave browser is ready to provide privacy-respecting advertising.As of January 15, users of...

Distributed Digest: Wednesday, January 16, 2019

The Aragon Cooperative encourages community participation, Mintable allows projects to create ERC721 tokens, and the Grin mainnet launches.Your daily distillation of crypto news for...

Developers Push Forward With National Cryptocurrency For Marshall Islands

The national cryptocurrency is planned to be released in 2019, but nothing in the cryptosphere can be that simple, right?Developers of the Marshall Islands'...

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