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KamaGames CEO: The Whole ICO Thing Will Eventually Collapse

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Last year Dublin-headquartered online gaming platform KamaGames initiated a token sale using the Ethereum blockchain. A... Read more

What Impact Will Blockchain Have On The Asset And Wealth Management Industry?

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Blockchain technology has been gaining popularity in certain areas of the financial services industry in recent years, ... Read more

Mayday, Mayday: Little To Report This Month In Jobs

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Last month, we dubbed the jobs round-up ‘No April showers to bring May flowers’ and this headline has, unfortunatel... Read more

Latest Alexa Hack Shows Echo Could Be Turned Into Scary Spying Device

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Earlier this year, Amazon’s Echo smart assistant creeped a lot of people out with its Alexa software’s spontaneous ... Read more

State Street CTO: Blockchain Is One Of My Biggest Investment Areas

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Prior to joining State Street in 2016, Moiz Kohari was executive vice-president and head of global technology innovati... Read more

BoE Eyes Cryptocurrency Regulation

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Governor of the Bank of England (BoE) Mark Carney has confirmed the UK is set for a new wave of cryptocurrency regulati... Read more

Mythbusting: How Much Do You Really Know About Cryptocurrency?

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Cryptocurrency can seem like a major minefield, with conflicting information circulating online about how digital curre... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: Who Wants To Engineer Tomorrow?

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Which Irish tech sectors are absolutely killing it right now? Image: Peter Eleven/Shutterstock Ireland’s indigenous... Read more

IW Podcast: Unravelling The Hype Around Bitcoin

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In this month's podcast, Investment Week reporters Jayna Rana and Mike Sheen speak to industry figures about the pros a... Read more

Beware If You Are A Speculator: What Wealth Managers Are Telling Their Clients On Bitcoin

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Wealth managers are warning clients the risks are too great to invest in Bitcoin at the current time as demand grows fo... Read more

CryptoWatch: Bitcoin Could Have Been So Much More Than A Foolish Speculation

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Consumers need a cryptocurrency with a fixed exchange rate, writes Gary Smith. Read more

Year-end Takeaway: Silicon Republics Top Story Choices Of 2017

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Dear Dublin, you are in danger of no longer being fun or fair Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge. Image: Kraft_Stoff/Shutter... Read more

Could The 'Bitcoin Rush' Trigger The Next Financial Crash?

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At one stroke, there is a new asset class which is an easily divisible store of value – taking the crown from gold, an... Read more

Microsoft Partners With Start-up To Launch IoT Cryptocurrency Market

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There was some more Irish success in the internet of things (IoT) sector this week with news that Wexford antenna provi... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: Nuggets Of Wisdom About Fintech

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20 of Europe’s hottest fintech start-ups to watch in 2018 Image: Bartolomiej Pietrzyk/Shutterstock Who are the fint... Read more

PwC Global FS Leader: Blockchain Is Not Going To Change The World

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John Garvey is a partner in PwC’s New York office and is the company’s global financial services (FS) advisory lea... Read more

What Kind Of Exciting Career Opportunities Are There In Fintech?

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Last month, we examined the future of work as a whole during Siliconrepublic.com’s Future of Work Week. This week bri... Read more

Hyperledger Chain Gang Man Explains Penguins' Blockchain Play

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Group cultivating Bitcoin's serious cousin LinuxCon, Berlin  Jim Zemlin raises an eyebrow when I say Hyperledger is ra... Read more