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Bitcoin Still Not Ready for Prime Time, Citi Says
Bitcoin is essentially a successful proof-of-concept of a digital currency, states the report, written (like the others) by Keith Horowitz with contributions from Adrien Porter, Frieda Liao, and Michael Cronin. It’s not exactly meant as a compliment, because that is all the group is willing to credit to the cryptocurrency.
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Infoteria and Tech Bureau complete microfinance sector’s first blockchain experiment
According to the press release, this attempt marks the first blockchain experiment in the micro-finance sector. Both companies successfully transferred loan and deposit account data from BC Finance, Myanmar's largest microfinance institution, to the Mijin private blockchain. The blockchain was hosted on Microsoft Azure for this test.
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