Blockchain

BUMooN.io, an Indonesian blockchain, IoT, and AI firm, works with Wastelab Indonesia and Sampangan.id to help address environmental issues in support of the government. The cooperation of three environmental management and sustainability companies in response to the Minister of SOEs, Erick Thohir, challenged them to become one of Indonesia’s 50 top startups. As stated by Happy Murdianto, co-founder of BUMooN.io, this cooperation will help manage trash mining. BUMooN.io...

Elliptic – a London-based blockchain analytics firm – has secured $60 million in Series C funding led by Japanese investment manager SoftBank Group and American multinational Wells Fargo. The funds will be used to accelerate cryptocurrency adoption by global financial markets.  Accelerating Cryptocurrency Adoption by Large Institutions Elliptic announced the disclosure of a $60 million fundraising in a press release on October 11th. The company plans to use the funds to...

Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News produced an article about a pair of siblings living in Texas that had created their own successful mining business. Ishaan and Aanya Thakur – 13 (now 14) years of age and nine years of age, respectively – had studied mining videos on YouTube and converted old equipment to extract Ethereum and other forms of crypto from the blockchain. Texas Siblings Take Their Love of Crypto to the Furthest Reaches Now, these siblings are looking to take...

What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices.

Decentralized blockchain interoperability solution, Wanchain, has recently announced the integration of its non-custodial cross-chain infrastructure with the sharded heterogeneous multi-chain blockchain network, Polkadot. Wanchain Connects Polkadot to Other Networks According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, Wanchain has deployed several direct bridges connecting Polkadot to other blockchain protocols, including Ethereum, Moonriver, Wanchain, and Avalanche. The...

Although the regulatory approval is still pending, the popular blockchain project Elrond Network has already agreed to purchase Capital Financial Services S.A – the company licensed to operate an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) in the Euro Economic Area. The press release shared with CryptoPotato explained that Capital Financial Services S.A. is a principal member of two of the largest global financial corporations – Visa and Mastercard. This allows the firm to provide...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] October 12th, Lyon, France, 2021 – iExec, a decentralized marketplace for computing assets, has announced the launch of the iExec Oracle Factory, a developer interface allowing anyone to create their own oracles, from scratch, in minutes, without any blockchain knowledge and directly from their browser. In order for decentralized applications to solve real-world problems, they need to make use of real-world data. Decentralized oracles...

Post lanciert erste Schweizer Bitcoin-Briefmarke Inspiriert vom grossen Erfolg in Österreich bringt die Schweizer Post am 25. November die erste Schweizer Krypto-Briefmarke auf den Markt: die «Swiss Crypto Stamp». Die Krypto-Briefmarke besteht aus zwei Teilen. Zum einen ist sie eine physische Briefmarke im Wert von 8.90 Franken. Zum anderen beinhaltet jede Krypto-Briefmarke ein ihr zugehöriges digitales Abbild. Dieses digitale Abbild zeigt eines von...

As innovative as it may be, blockchain technology faces particular challenges, including high fees, scalability issues, low throughput, and more. Several projects in the DeFi space compete to become the first web-scalable blockchain and ensure that users have the best experience by tackling these common issues. One of these, which is gaining traction in the DeFi community, is Solana. This open-source, censorship-resistant blockchain leverages a comprehensive set of...

Polkadot has undoubtedly become one of the more popular projects in the cryptocurrency field.  However, one of the most innovative aspects of its ecosystem is Kusama, Polkadot’s canary network. While new blockchain projects can seem extremely repetitive and derivative, Kusama stands out as it is genuinely useful. This guide aims to answer some of the following questions about Kusama: What it is, what it can do, and what risks are inherent with a canary network. Overview of...