Cambridge University’s Third Crypto Study Records 101 Million Cryptocurrency ...
The University of Cambridge and the school’s Centre for Alternative Finance has published the third “Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study.” The 71-page in-depth study examines the current growth of the crypto industry, mining, offchain activity, crypto asset user profiling, regulation, and security. The September 2020 third edition of the Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study concentrates on four market segments which include mining, payments, custody, and exchange. A great number of participants from the cryptocurrency industry took part in the University of....
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A report by Cambridge University’s CCAF reveals that the number of people using cryptocurrency today has seen significant growth and rivals the population of small countries. Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has recently published a research paper called Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study, which examines several sectors of the global cryptocurrency industry, including exchanges, wallets, payment providers, mining and more. The study was led by Dr.Garrick Hileman, senior research associate at the CCAF and a researcher at the....
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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Cambridge Judge Business School announced the beginning of the Cambridge Digital Assets Programme today (CDAP). CDAP is a research project aimed at understanding the evolution of digital assets and value transfer systems. Cambridge Research For Crypto The University of Cambridge is launching a new project aimed at […]
Blockchain identity startup Cambridge Blockchain has raised more than $1.7m in new funding, public records show. According to a Form D published today by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Cambridge Blockchain has raised $1,785,000 out of a total $2m, indicating that the startup's funding efforts are ongoing. Previous SEC filings show that the startup began raising funds in March 2016. The documents show that Cambridge Blockchain had raised $635k out of a planned fundraise of $1.5m as of that month, and in a filing from last October, the startup said it had raised $1.09m out of a....
Skyrocketing figures show crypto’s growing global dominance.Skyrocketing figures show crypto’s growing global dominance Researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance recently revealed that 100 million people around the world currently hold Bitcoin (BTC) and other blockchain-based assets.In 2018, the 2nd Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study estimated the number of identity-verified crypto users at about 35 million globally. As of Q3 2020, there are up to 191 million accounts opened at crypto exchanges — a figure which doesn’t include self-hosted wallets.The researchers....