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Google‘s parent company Alphabet Inc. announced on Monday that its revenue was $46.07 billion in the fourth quarter of 2019. That represents a rise of 17% on an annual basis. The company reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) at $15.35 in the same quarter that represents a growth of 20% year-over-year.Net income increased by 19.2% to $10.67 billion in the closing quarter of fiscal 2019. Operating income stood at $9.27 billion over the same period, rising 12.8% annually.For the whole year...

Oh, Google… Why does your relationship with bitcoin and cryptocurrency have to be so convoluted and messy?Google Goes After Another Crypto ApplicationGoogle Play has decided to act against a bitcoin-based application known as Bitcoin Blast. The company delisted it, claiming that it was giving rise to “deceptive practices,” only to reinstate it a few days later.Amy Wan – the chief executive officer of Bling, the company behind the app – initially reached out to Google to question what their...

Verasity, the attention-based rewards platform for content creators, finished 2019 on the right note. And 2020 is looking even better.The team has been working hard on key relationships, which culminated in its partnership with Jun Capital, a gateway to the lucrative Asian streaming market. Outside of promising professional relations, Verasity released its metrics for a fervent Q4 2019 that entailed a 20X increase in videos watched and a 10X increase in wallet registrations since the launch...

Google has taken a stance against an Ethereum application it thought was mining cryptocurrency.Google Moves Against Crypto – AgainThe application is known as Meta Mask, and Google has removed the wallet from its Play Store – only to quickly reinstitute it. Following a quick reexamination of the situation, Google has decided that the application was not extracting new coins like it thought and has made the application available for download once again.If this sounds familiar, it’s because...

Linus Neumann bei seinem Referat am Hackerkongress 36C3 Linus Neumann ist Informatiker und Sicherheitsexperte und einer der Sprecher des Chaos Computer Clubs (CCC) am Sonntag auf dem 36. Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) in Leipzig. Und da legt er ein spektakuläres Geständnis ab: Er sei auf eine plumpe PayPal Phishing-Attacke hereingefallen. Es kann also jedem passieren,...

Purported bitcoin creator Craig Wright takes aim at YouTubers, HEX’s Richard Heart and crypto pumpers. Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto paints a very different picture of bitcoin’s future than is found in crypto circles. Says miners will eventually be prosecuted for running nodes that facilitate criminal activity. Self-proclaimed bitcoin creator Craig Wright told CCN he thought the recent YouTube cryptocurrency purge was a long time coming. Wright also gave his opinion on HEX creator...

Yesterday, Live Bitcoin News reported that YouTube was taking down several cryptocurrency-related channels and that it was removing several crypto-based videos. Now, the company is reinstituting all the removed content, claiming that the action occurred due to an “error.”YouTube: Sorry About the Misunderstanding!This seems somewhat fishy. How does an error like that take place, one that constitutes the removal of literally hundreds of videos? On top of that, how does this error get programmed...

Google and bitcoin have never gotten along. The cryptocurrency has always appeared dangerous to the world’s largest search engine, which previously banned cryptocurrency ads in early 2018, though that ban later came to an end before the year was out.Google Still Hates CryptoNow, the parent company of Google – known as Alphabet – has taken the liberty of targeting those who post videos and content related to cryptocurrencies on YouTube and is removing these videos without an explanation. Many...

This follows YouTubes’ recent removal of Vitalik Buterin‘s “Roadmap” video as well. Sources say that a YouTube Spokesperson said that it had made “the wrong call”. Sources also say that the video-sharing giant said:“With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call. When it’s brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it. We also offer uploaders the ability to appeal removals and we will re-review the...

YouTube’s cryptocurrency onslaught worsened over Christmas. Creators face permanent expulsion from the platform as they accumulate community guidelines strikes. Some have claimed responsibility for the attack, but the truth remains obscured. YouTube’s onslaught against cryptocurrency content creators shows no sign of letting up following the initial Christmas attack. In the hours since the social media giant first started removing videos from its platform the number of removals has only...