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The head of Australia’s top securities watchdog said earlier this month that blockchain technology will have “profound implications” for how government officials regulate the marketplace.
Greg Medcraft, who has led the Australia Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) since 2011, was speaking before the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum Roundtable, a discussion forum for public and private finance institutions, at...

Amid a steady stream of positive news, incumbent payment companies are quickly launching products and services incorporating blockchain technology.
To date, payments firms openly offering blockchain services include financial technology provider D+H, online payments startup Dwolla and cross-border payments specialist Earthport, though the latest to launch an offering is PayCommerce, a decade-old...

Imagine a company or service that isn’t controlled by any single individual, board or other central entity.
Known as a decentralized application, or ‘dapp’ for short, the concept has been one of the more novel ideas to emerge from the blockchain community. Armed with self-executing smart contracts, proponents of the technology have envisioned ways to replace...

The US government believes that a former Secret Service agent convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin during the investigation of Silk Road may have been involved with additional thefts from the now-defunct online dark market...