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Foreword: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) classifies virtual currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin as property. As such, the IRS applies general tax principles applicable to property transactions, to cryptocurrency. When cryptocurrency is received, the fair market value at the time of...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is expected to post substantial growth from 2019 through 2024. Researcher A. Holst compiled a schematic of the current and projected trends regarding VoIP from 2019 through 2024. The research found that North America comprises approximately $10.5 billion of the...

The South African economy certainly has its fair share of challenges. Volatility is an innate characteristic of the South African Rand (ZAR), helping to drive wild price fluctuations in cross-currency exchange rates. While the country boasts significant natural resources in the form of coal, gold,...

One of the biggest movements currently taking place in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology space is that of decentralized finance (DeFi). In a nutshell, the phenomenon seeks to transform the way the traditional financial system operates. Whether it’s facilitating loans, banking, or...

Technology is a sector that houses some of the biggest investment opportunities ever seen. In fact, outside of the banking industry, more tech companies are among the 50 largest companies in the world by market cap than any other industry, with companies like Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon.com,...

Binance is actively leading the charge to facilitate the mass-market adoption of cryptocurrencies around the world and one of the ways it is achieving this goal is through its Binance Launchpad platform. Binance Launchpad is branded as a “token launch platform for transformative projects...

A prominent insurance company recently conducted an extensive poll of SMEs (2017) and found that of 1200 businesses, just 336 of them had a business owners policy in place. Even fewer businesses had professional liability insurance, at just 252 businesses. That an estimated 70%+ of SMEs are without...

In the 1970s, the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) made headlines around the world as the “construction of the century.” At the time, the BAM was the world’s longest railway under construction and one of the shortest routes from Europe to the Pacific Ocean, South...

Angola is a mineral-rich African nation, with extensive natural resources including crude oil and diamonds. In fact, Angolan economic activity far outstrips that of any other sub-Saharan African nation by a long margin. The economic growth rate has exploded thanks to vast crude oil reserves which...

When we think about investing in the technology space, we often think of the Apple Inc's (NASDAQ: AAPL), Facebook Inc's (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter Inc's (NYSE: TWTR) of the world. However, looking at all of these stocks over the past year shows that they’ve either lost...

Blockchain enthusiasts dream of a day when the services they enjoy most are offered courtesy of a purely peer-to-peer infrastructure. On the backs of participants’ bandwidth, decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges (DEXs) already provide cross-border, feeless transactions to literally anyone...

In an announcement released through its website, Japan-based Recruit will invest in COTI, the next generation blockchain provider. The investment will be coordinated through Recruit’s RSP funding division. With a $50 billion market cap, the news represents another major investment by Recruit...

Torii CEO Uri Haramati has announced that his company, which offers a platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) management, was able to secure $3.5 million in a successful seed round. Haramati spoke publicly for the first time about the round during his presentation at the Collision Conference in...

Businesses can't escape the need to go digital in today's world. Customers are now looking for comforts that are only available through digital channels and tools. To cope with this demand, businesses must pursue digital adoption and leverage technology to their advantage.  However,...

The biotechnology space is an exciting one with incredible potential for investors. Moreover, due to the fact that several catalysts take place from the time a new discovery is made to the time a new drug is ready to be commercialized, the potential for big gains in value over a relatively short...