Blockchain, the Core of the CCP’s Digital Currency in Its Ambition for Global Hegemony
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been pushing its digital currency project in recent years. The CCP’s central bank has been conducting research on digital currencies since 2014. In August 2019, a report by the CCP’s mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency said that the Central Bank’s Digital Currency Research Institute, established in 2017, had so far “applied for 74 patents involving digital currency technology.” Another Xinhua report in October 2019 revealed how much importance the CCP attached to digital currency and blockchain technology. According to the report, Xi Jinping, the CCP’s leader, suggested during the 18th collective study session of the Politburo that blockchain technology needs to “play a bigger role in building China into a cyber power, developing the digital economy, and helping economic and social development.”
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IDEX Biometrics Interim Report for the First Quarter of 2021
IDEX BIOMETRICS ASAMay 12, 2021 GMT
Oslo, Norway – 12 May 2021 - IDEX Biometrics ASA, a leading provider of advanced fingerprint identification and authentication solutions for payment cards and adjacent applications, today released its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021. The first quarter report is enclosed in pdf file. This document and other materials are also available on the Company’s website: www.idexbiometrics.com.
First Quarter Results IDEX recorded consolidated revenue of $624,000 for the first quarter of 2021, an increase of approximately 4% from the fourth quarter of 2020 and over 500% from the first quarter of 2020. Revenue recorded in the current period was primarily related to continued shipments to an important early-adopter implementing a global network access co