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The blockchain could have better security than the banks

  • Written by Timothy McCallum, Director USQ Student Guild, Blockchain Programmer, Doctoral Candidate USQ, University of Southern Queensland
imageVoice authentication technology could be used to increase blockchain security. Merrill College of Journalism/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

There are ways to improve the online ledger blockchain by taking some security notes from banks. If people could use both two-step verification and spending limits on the blockchain, this would reduce any economic loss...

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