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Jon Southurst is based in Tokyo and has reported on the Bitcoin and blockchain industry since 2013. He has worked for a number of crypto news websites, and creates videos on Bitcoin SV for the YouTube channels BitcoinSVtrain and MetaNetTV.

Article by Jon Southurst

BSV can easily keep banking, Islamic Finance records secure on a public blockchain
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4 February, 2022

BSV can easily keep banking, Islamic Finance records secure on a public blockchain

The Islamic Finance industry could utilize the BSV blockchain to make commodity trade sequences (or "Murabaha") more efficient, says Bitcoin...
US now defines Bitcoin and digital assets as cash—for large transaction reporting
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31 January, 2022

US now defines Bitcoin and digital assets as cash—for large transaction reporting

The U.S. Infrastructure Bill has a number of new rules aimed at controlling digital asset use, including an eight-word alteration...
No more Ethereum 2.0 as names change to ease scaling stumbles
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27 January, 2022

No more Ethereum 2.0 as names change to ease scaling stumbles

The project to upgrade Ethereum has transformed into organizing a "consensus layer" and "execution layer" as ETH edges toward its...
Real Vision living in fear of BTC cancel culture?
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26 January, 2022

Real Vision living in fear of BTC cancel culture?

Notable anti-BSV campaigner Peter McCormack used his influence to pressure financial channel Real Vision to delete tweets pointing to an...
OKEx rebrands to ‘OKX’ as it evolves to suit decentralized services
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26 January, 2022

OKEx rebrands to ‘OKX’ as it evolves to suit decentralized services

The new name reflects OKEx’s dedication to "the new frontier of this wave of technological revolution"—including a suite of DeFi...
TAAL likes big blocks, increases its max to 4GB—and urges others to follow
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26 January, 2022

TAAL likes big blocks, increases its max to 4GB—and urges others to follow

Enterprise blockchain services provider TAAL has completed an upgrade to its infrastructure that anticipates a big increase in data volumes...

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