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Before the end of October, Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, will be filing a prospectus for its intended initial public offering (IPO). According to the Wall Street Journal, the publication is expected on Oct. 25 in Arabic, with an English version to be published on Oct. 27. Owned by Saudi Arabia, this is in line with the government’s plan to publicly list the company, as it prepares to make a final decision on whether or not to continue with the offering.After the prospectus...

A long-awaited photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc., Instagram’s ‘Throwback Thursday’ finally saw the light of the day. The new feature is now a part of the new Instagram “Create” mode that launches today in Stories, and the app now works beyond the camera.Create is a feature that makes Instagram a more ‘ubiquitous’ social network. However, be it as it may, this social network has the possibility to modify to a wider range of content formats.As for now,...

In a surprise move that will spur further adoption of cryptocurrencies in Asia and globally, the Japanese can now donate unlimited amounts of cryptocurrencies to politicians and need not disclose this to the authorities. This was made known by Sanae Takaichi in a press conference two days ago. Sources indicate that she said that cryptocurrency donations don’t fall under the purview of the Political Funds Control Law and as such don’t need to be disclosed and can be donated without limit to...

Praxxis: Programmierer und Krypto-Legende David Chaum meldet sich mit einem neuen Projekt zurück. Foto: David Chaum an der Korea Blockchain Week, Foto zur Verfügung gestellt von D.FINE Bitcoin and most of its clones are based on elliptic curve cryptography. At the moment, this is considered secure, and it is unlikely that any computer can compute the matching private key from a wallet address. But according to current university theory,...

CU, the largest convenience store chain in South Korea with over 13,000 locations, will soon accept crypto. According to local reports and the statement of Terra’s co-founder Do Kwon, CU will integrate a payment system called Chai, which enables consumers to utilize a Korean won-backed stablecoin called Terra to transact. The stablecoin CU plans to accept is a major KRW stablecoin invested by Binance, OKEx, Huobi, Polychain, Dunamu (company invested by Kakao that runs UPbit), Arrington XRP...

The price of Siacoin (SC) surged almost 25% after it was listed on one of the popular cryptocurrency exchanges – Kraken. Trading starts today with 4 pairs. Additionally, Siacoin also announced the hiring of a new core developer.Siacoin Price SurgeSiacoin’s price marked a notable increase of almost a quarter of its value against the U.S. dollar in the past 24 hours. The lowest price point was at $0.001622 and it spiked to a daily high of $0.00218 and closed at $0.00197. The trading volume...

Bayer und Ant Financial verkünden gemeinsames Blockchain-Projekt für mehr Sicherheit in der Lebensmittelbranche Das deutsche Pharma-Unternehmen Bayer will mit der chinesischen Finanztechnologie-Firma Ant Financial zusammenarbeiten. Beide Unternehmen verkündeten in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung auf der Apsara Konferenz in China, dass sie ein gemeinsames Projekt auf den Weg...

Le Fonds des Nations unies pour l’enfance a annoncé hier la création d’un fonds en cryptomonnaies. L’UNICEF devient ainsi la première agence de l’ONU en mesure de recevoir, de détenir et de verser des dons en cryptomonnaie. Le premier don (100 ethers sur un total annoncé de 8000) a été effectué par fondation Ethereum via le Comité national français pour l’UNICEF qui accepte les cryptomonnaies (bitcoin, ether, litecoin, ripple, DAI,...

Robinhood, the financial services and stock-trading company based in California, has just announced its launch of a new feature called Cash Management. According to the announcement, the new feature which will come with a Mastercard debit card will allow its users to earn an annual percentage yield (APY) of 2.05% on all unused funds left in brokerage accounts. Users can now visit Robinhood and join a growing waitlist, to take advantage of Cash Management and reserve a debit card.In December...

After long waiting, Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally officially confirmed that its upcoming next-generation console will indeed be called PlayStation 5 and will be ‘launching in time for Holiday 2020’.We have already reported of Microsoft and Sony that decided to merge in order to fight competition from Amazon and Google in the provision of cloud gaming services that are expected to take the gaming world by storm in the near future.Playstation never had imaginative names. Since the...