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In an announcement shared with crypto.news on Nov. 15, Bitfinex Securities Ltd, the first global digital asset platform licensed and registered in the AIFC, has shared the news of its new tokenized bond, which has since gone live. The accompanying capital raise is set to run for two weeks, starting on the same day as the announcement was made. On the liquid network The pioneer tokenized bond, ALT2611, is a 36-month, 10% coupon bond denominated in USDt, issued by Alternative, a Luxembourg-based securitization fund under the management of Mikro Kapital. Quarterly coupon payments are made in USDt, with the minimum initial purchase size set at 125,000 USDt, with secondary market trading available in denominations of 100 USDt.  You might also like: Bitfinex suffers phishing attack, says there is ‘no loss of funds’ The bond itself is issued on the Liquid Network, a Bitcoin side chain designed to facilitate rapid, compliant, confidential settlement and the issuance of dig...

A recently resurfaced video shows Hal Finney discussing the possibility of zero-knowledge proofs at an annual cryptology conference in California some 25 years ago. Early Bitcoin (BTC) pioneer Hal Finney shared his vision for zero-knowledge proofs more than 25 years ago, a full decade before the launch of the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin.  The video, purportedly from the Crypto ‘98 conference held on Aug. 26, 1998, in Santa Barbara, shows Finney discussing in detail, the concept of zero-knowledge proof s — a cryptographic technology that gained immense popularity decades later. ️ NEW: Bitcoin legend Hal Finney discusses Zero-Knowledge Proofs in a newly unearthed presentation, made 25 years ago at Crypto '98 in Santa Barbara. Have you ever heard @halfin's voice before? pic.twitter.com/HdddworTsg — Trust Machines (@trustmachinesco) September 20, 2023 Finney explains how one could hypothetically perform a zero-knowledge proof on a SHA-1 hash, describing the possibility ...