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Sweden’s Riksbank contemplates digital currency

Could potentially develop a new payment system after seeing a substantial dip in the use of conventional currency IFM Correspondent November 22, 2016: Sweden’s central bank — Riksbank — is considering the option of using digital currency. This is mainly due to the fact there has been a drastic decrease in the use of notes...
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NEM launches alternative to Bitcoin

It features a 100% original codebase, an unprecedented Proof-of-Importance algorithm and claims low energy use April 15,2015: NEM is an original blockchain technology platform using a breakthrough innovation for blockchain consensus called Proof-of-Importance (POI). POI is a consensus mechanism that calculates an importance score for an account by taking into consideration its balance, activity of...