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Sep 2020
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The popularity of cryptocurrency is beginning to extend beyond bitcoin as more and more banks are getting hacked. But there can be other uses of this technology and how secure is it all? Ex-hacker and Brand Ambassador for CTRL Group Bastien Treptel is joined by Jacob Yocom-Piatt, project lead for the Decred Project to discuss the security of your cryptocurrency, and how we could potentially move into a new block chain voting system.

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