Blockchain

In a recent interview with Pierre Rochard and Michael Goldstein, hosts of Noded Bitcoin Podcast, U.S. Congressman Warren Davidson suggested that Megatech company, Facebook, would be better off adopting an already ubiquitous cryptocurrency like Bitcoin than creating theirs.The Libra IronyWarren Davidson, who is a member of the United States House of Representative from Ohio’s 8th congressional district, very recently termed Facebook’s new proposed cryptocurrency in Libra a blatant...

Photo: ShutterstockBy Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex.ETH/USD tech analysisEthereum 2.0 is being developed actively but the date of the launch is yet unknownECC will issue a token for the ETH blockchainOn W1, the Ethereum demonstrates a new impulse of decline in the long-term trend. The aim of that impulse in the short term might be this year minimum of $80.86, reached, however, only after a pullback. Further decline of the quotations is confirmed by the descending of the MACD...

The online-streaming media powerhouse Netflix has given strong Q3 earnings numbers resulting in its stock price (309,25 USD, +8.02%) shooting northwards on Wednesday, October 16. Beating street expectations, Netflix reported a 31% jump in its year-over-year revenue which is currently at 45.24 billion.Another impressive thing is its GAAP earning stands at $1.47 per share instead of analysts’ expectations of $1.05 per share. When it comes to growth in the subscriber-base, the U.S. figures are...

Samsung SDS, the IT unit of South Korean electronics king Samsung, has started pilot testing of its medical insurance network based on blockchain. To test the new system of medical claims processing, Samsung SDS has signed a number of medical institutions and insurers that were offered to assess the performance and effectiveness of the system.As CoinDesk Korea has reported, the medical claims processing system is expected to go live later this month. During the Blockchain Seoul 2019 event...

John McAfee – some see him as a legend, some see him as the most controversial figure in the crypto space. For sure, books will be written about his past decade: from his time in Belize to the prison in Guatemala, his US presidency campaign and his endless activities surrounding the cryptocurrency space.This interview was supposed to be conducted live at the recent Blockchain Cruise back in June. However, John McAfee couldn’t attend since he was in jail at the time.So he spoke with us...

Telegram has informed its investors that the TON blockchain project will be launched later than it was previously planned, six months later, exactly on April 30, 2020.In an email to investors Telegram said it had a lot of problems and ‘run-ins’ with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that came by with the restraining order made to forbid this messenger app company from launching TON and issuing its Gram tokens. SEC decided to treat Grams as unregistered securities.This email...

Some of the most important personas in FinTech and banking spoke on Wednesday at the IMF’s ‘Big Tech and the Future of Finance’ seminar, part of its annual meeting.Among them was Calibra’s CEO David Marcus, Bank of England governor Mark Carney, Infosys founder Nandan Nilekani, and Havard economic professor Jason Furman. They spoke about digital payments, stablecoins, and of, course, Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency.The role of big technological companies as is Facebook itself breaking into the...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 730. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: Steemit startet Testlauf für Smart Media Token, Telegram verschiebt Start von TON auf 2020 & Zentralbänker verlangt weltweite Krypto Regulierung. [embedded content] 1.) Steemit startet Testlauf für Smart Media Tokenhttps://www.btc-echo.de/steemit-startet-testlauf-fuer-smart-media-token/ 2.) Telegram verschiebt Start von TON auf 2020 – Dialog mit den Investoren...

Das offizielle Bundesratsfoto 2019 haben Mediamatik-Lernenden des Bundesamtes für Informatik und Telekommunikation (BIT) gemacht. Idee, Hintergrundbild und Foto: Alles stammt von ihnen. Bundespräsident Ueli Maurer hatte ihnen nur eine Vorgabe gemacht: Das Foto sollte mit einem Smartphone aufgenommen werden. Fotoquelle: EDA, Lizenz=? Der Bundesrat wurde an seiner Sitzung vom...

U.S. federal prosecutors have indicted a South Korean national behind the world’s largest darknet child sexual exploitation site that was primarily funded using bitcoin. The website known as ‘Welcome to Video’ was being run by 23-year old Jong Woo Son. The South Korean national is currently serving a prison sentence in his home country for the same crimes. Per the unsealed indictment, Son was arrested in March last year. His website only dealt in child sexual exploitation videos allowing...