Thanks to Unlock’s solution Forbes can now charge a tiny fee per 7 days of ad-free reading. You can also buy 30 days of reading the website without seeing the hateful banners. Subscription is available through the MetaMask, Opera or Coinbase. The first option allows buying one week of reading for ~0.0052 ETH. If you want to buy the monthly subscription, you will have to send out ~0.02 ETH.A main feature of the offer: it appears only in the crypto dedicated Forbes section. If you read some...
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In recent news, OPay has raised $120 million on a series B round backed by Chinese investors. Their primary initiative for the fundraise is to scale in Nigeria and expand its payments service to Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. The series B round investors, as mentioned above, were mainly from China. The companies include Meituan-Dianping, GaoRong, Source Code Capital, Softbank Asia, BAI, Redpoint, IDG Capital, Sequoia China, and GSR Ventures. In June 2019, OPay also raised $50 million.Opera,...
Read More »Opera Brings BTC to Android; Now Looking to Add TRON
Who would have known Opera and bitcoin could go so well together? We’re not necessarily talking about classically trained singers that wear Viking horns and hit high notes, but rather the Norwegian financial platform that’s been touting the addition of bitcoin to its Android app since July of 2018.Opera and BTC: A Perfect Match?The app was launched privately and was later available to the public in December. Opera inherently became one of the first browsers to support bitcoin directly, and...
Read More »Opera Continues Bullish Crypto Mainstream Drive With Bitcoin Payments
Browser minnow Opera is ramping up cryptocurrency support for Android users in version 54, which has just been released on Tuesday. Among a host of other cosmetic improvements and a new UI, this latest release improves upon the current crypto wallet with support for both Bitcoin and Tron payments. Ethereum has been the staple payment option of the low-flying web browser for more than a year now; however, developers have heeded the calls in recent months for integration with other...
Read More »Brave: Hat der neue Browser tatsächlich schon 8 Millionen Nutzer?
BRAVE Creators: Seit heute geht es los mit dem Brave Reward Programm. Oder "Welcome to the Party" so der Browser. Eine Party ist vor allem dann lustig, wenn sie kostenlos ist und man von Anfang an mit dabei ist: Ab Sofort gehören die Werbegelder allen! Ist der neue Webbrowser Brave eine ernsthafte Konkurrenz für die etablierten Internet Explorer, Firefox und Chrome? Er...
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