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Paul Zalai, Director of the Australian Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA), disclosed the possibility of a future partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Ripple during an interview with TLG.

On September 5 Coinbase revealed that it would expand its bond buyback program from $150 million to $180 million. This adjustment comes as the company strives to repurchase more of its 3.625% senior notes due in 2031. 

On August 18, an unexpected event in the Bitcoin mining space took everyone by surprise. A lone miner, not backed by massive computational power, claimed the full reward of 6.25 Bitcoin for solving block 803,821. 

smart contracts, via, blockchains like Ethereum, and others, have brought a new twist into that logic.Smart contracts: DefinedAlthough the term has always been considered coined by and a part of blockchain technology, the term Smart Contracts was coined, some 20 years ago, by a cryptographer named Nick Szabo. The purpose of coinage was to introduce “highly evolved” practices of contract law and related business practices in, and in conjunction with the design of electronic commerce protocols between strangers on the Internet. In blockchain technology however, a Smart Contract is essentially a computer protocol that can self-execute, self-enforce, self-verify, and self-constraint during the performance of an automated contract. Though rapidly evolving, classic smart contract implementation examples include the ICOs and Crypto Kitties. Aside from its legal impact and perhaps a replacement with legal contracts, smart contracts can certainly lessen the burden and the complexity of writing a new contract. Instead one can include these as terms of a smart contract between two parties automatically.

Abidi, 25, who was born in Pakistan and migrated to the United States as a teenager, created her first NFT a few months ago — a type of asset which uses blockchain to record ownership of digital items such as images, videos and collectibles. The U.K.-based activist is about to launch Women Rise, a campaign to bring 100,000 girls and women into cryptocurrency by the end of 2022.