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Augmate Awarded BitcoinLatina Grant to Promote Mexican Blockchain Development: Creating Opportunities

February 13, 2018 @ 11:11 am By Erin Hobey |

Augmate, a B2B enterprise company specializing in wearable devices, has received a grant from BitcoinLatina to promote blockchain development in Latin America. BitcoinLatina provides blockchain solutions to scale Latin American consumer, enterprise, government, military, and university services and distributed applications. Its grant, which comes in… Read More

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ICOs are Securities: Token Based Offerings Poised for a Rude Awakening as US Regulators May Soon Act

October 26, 2017 @ 11:10 pm By JD Alois |

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pumped their regulatory brakes on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) earlier this year. Pointing to the DAO debacle, the Feds said if a tokenized offering is a security it will be regulated, end of story. This statement was a long… Read More

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