FC Bayern München bekommt eigenen Fan Token Bald wird auf dem digitalen Rasen gekickt, gegrätscht und gefoult; denn Neuer, Coutinho, Lewandowski und Co. sollen als digitale Sammelkarten auf der Blockchain verewigt werden. Anlass ist die Lizenzpartnerschaft von FC Bayern München und Stryking Entertainment vom 10. Oktober. Doch Stryking plant noch Größeres: Das Unternehmen will...
Read More »After PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe and eBay Abandoned Facebook’s Libra
Recently we reported about how PayPal, one of the founding members of the Libra Association abandoned the whole project. However, it seems it wasn’t the only one. Just for a reminder, there were previously 28 members of the association, but it seems that they couldn’t handle the issues Libra is currently facing, most especially the problems surrounding regulatory support from relevant authorities. Now Mastercard, Visa, eBay, and payments firm Stripe have decided not to participate in...
Read More »Verisart Raises $2.5M to Expand Its Blockchain-based Art Verification Services
Verisart is a platform designed to conduct certification and verification of artworks of different types which is carried out with the help of blockchain. Now it has become known that it has managed to get $2.5 mln in seed financing. The list of the most prominent participants of this round included Sinai Ventures, Galaxy Digital, EOS Fund, and Rhodium. The money raised will be used for further expansion of the company’s art platform.Robert Norton, who is a co–founder and CEO of Verisart...
Read More »PayPal Absent From Libra Association Meeting, Might Abandon Facebook’s Project Entirely
Apart from its ongoing antitrust investigation as put forward by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Facebook is also having a rough time regarding its proposed digital currency, the Libra. A few months ago, Facebook announced its plans to float its own cryptocurrency and also released a whitepaper to the effect.As part of the announcement, a Libra Association was announced, an association made up of several big companies including Uber, Mastercard, Visa, eBay, Spotify and many other...
Read More »Facebooks Kryptowährung: Libra wird mit Währungskorb gedeckt doch kein Yuan
Facebook Libra: Facebook plant die Einführung einer Weltwährung. Der Start erfolgt im Januar 2020. Was ist das Problem von Bitcoin? Er schwankt im Wert. Deshalb hat Facebook jetzt seinen Währungskorb vorgestellt, um seine Digitalwährung Libra abzusichern: Der ganze Korb soll aus Bargeld und Staatsanleihen bestehen, die jeweils in Prozent auf einzelne Währungen verteilt sind 50 % in US-Dollar aus den USA, 18 % aus dem Euro-Raum, 14 % aus...
Read More »Facebook Releases Full Details of Libra’s Basket of Currencies
Social media giant Facebook has for the first time indicated the full list of the basket of currencies which will support the proposed stablecoin Libra. While is known publicly that the US Dollar accounts for about 50% of the basket of currencies that will back the cryptocurrency, not much was known about the rest.According to the Der Spiegel report , in response to a request from Fabio De Masi who is the finance spokesperson of the Left Party of the German Parliament (the Bundestag), a...
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