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Visa, EBay, Stripe and Mastercard Abandon Facebook’s Libra Project
11.10.2019
Visa, EBay, Stripe and Mastercard are dropping out of Facebook’s cryptocurrency project Libra
eBay, Stripe Follow PayPal in Quitting Facebook’s Libra Project
11.10.2019
ebay and Stripe have joined PayPal in withdrawing from the Facebook-led Libra Association
‘Members’ of OpenLibra Disavow Project Days After Its Devcon Unveiling
11.10.2019
The creator of an "open" alternative to Facebook's Libra stablecoin misrepresented which parties are involved in the project, CoinDesk has learned
U.S. Warns Visa, Mastercard to ‘Proceed With Caution’ Regarding Libra
11.10.2019
In the wake of Paypal’s very public exit from the Libra project, U.S. lawmakers are now pressuring Stripe, Visa and Mastercard to rethink their membership of the Libra Association as well. On October 8, three letters from two U.S. senators urged the tech and finance giants to “carefully...
Recipes for Performance Testing Single Page Applications in WebPageTest
10.10.2019
WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. As a Web Performance Evangelist at Theodo, I use it every single day. I am constantly amazed at what it offers to the web development community at large and the web performance folks...
US Lawmakers Call on Payment Giants to Exit ‘Chilling’ Libra Project
9.10.2019
Senators Brian Schatz and Sherrod Brown have called on Visa, Stripe, and MasterCard to reconsider their membership of the Libra Association
Paypal Exits Libra – Mastercard and Visa May Follow
6.10.2019
Facebook’s ambitious financial inclusion project, Libra, continues marching forward in spite of mountainous regulatory obstacles, but key members of the Libra Association are having doubts and dropping out. Paypal has now reportedly left the group due to regulatory concerns. Libra...
PayPal Withdraws From Facebook-Led Libra Crypto Project
4.10.2019
PayPal has withdrawn from the Libra Association, the company announced Friday
DTCC Pushes Back Blockchain Project to Avoid Brexit Complications
4.10.2019
The DTCC has pushed back the release of its blockchain-based post-trade system for derivatives by several months, in part because of Brexit.
Using GitHub Template Repos to Jump-Start Static Site Projects
4.10.2019
If you’re getting started with static site generators, did you know you can use GitHub template repositories to quickly start new projects and reduce your setup time?
Most static site generators make installation easy, but each project still requires configuration after installation. When...
Ohio Removes Option to Pay Taxes With Crypto While Local SLP Project Presses Forward
3.10.2019
The state of Ohio has become an unexpected center of American fintech focus in recent years, thanks to remarkable developments at the intersection of crypto, blockchain and government. That said, the online crypto portal that has allowed Ohio businesses to pay their taxes with bitcoin since last...
SLP Hackathon Produces a Variety of Innovative Token Ideas
2.10.2019
Software developers wrapped up the first Simple Ledger Protocol Virtual Hackathon (SLPVH) which ended on September 30 with the first place prize awarded to the Project Ignite team. The developers’ project, called Hamingja, is a non-tradeable SLP token that utilizes checkdatasig covenants...
Indranee Rajah Says Singapore Is Going to Standardize Project Finance Documents
2.10.2019
Singapore has always been known for cutting through as much red tape as possible and in a new development, it has emerged that the country is going standardize the terms pertaining to project finance documents. Indranee Rajah, the Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office in Singapore stated that...
Ethereum Scaling Project SKALE Raises $17.1 Million for Mainnet Launch
1.10.2019
Multicoin Capital, ConsenSys Labs, Hashed and others are providing fresh funding for the mainnet launch of ethereum's SKALE Network
Decentralized Oracles Lend More Versatility to the Aelf Blockchain Project
30.9.2019
Achieving interoperability between different crypto ecosystems and blockchains is not at all a simple task. And it is something which big projects have been eying on since quite some time. However, the Aelf blockchain project seems to have somewhat moved forward in the space as its recent update...
Facebook’s Libra Project is “Walled Garden”, Says Ripple’s SVP of Customer Success
30.9.2019
Voicing negative sentiments about the upcoming Facebook’s Libra project, Marcus Treacher, Senior Vice President of Customer Success at Ripple, said, that highly guarded and centralized structure of Libra is not in line with the principles of cryptocurrency. Just so you know, Libra project is backed...
XinFin, Black Tier Solutions and Blockchain at Michigan Announce Joint Partnership
28.9.2019
Black Tier Solutions announced a partnership with Blockchain at Michigan.
Black Tier Solutions will be responsible for assisting the University of Michigan Blockchain group to develop a tokenized student rewards program and a tokenized gaming platform using XinFin Hybrid technology.
The post...
Facebook-Led Libra Could Be Boon to UN, Says Crypto Project’s Chief
27.9.2019
The head of the Libra Association has argued that the Facebook-led cryptocurrency could help the U.N. achieve its sustainable development goals
Software Engineer Reveals Oracle Creation Platform for Bitcoin Cash
27.9.2019
On September 23, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developer Gabriel Cardona revealed a project called Oracles.cash, a platform he constructed at the Wyohackathon. The application allows anyone to launch oracles on the BCH chain for things like prediction markets, trust-less wagers, and BCH contracts tethered...
NEO Joins the .NET Foundation as the First Blockchain Project
25.9.2019
As per the official press release published on NEO’s official blog, dated September 24, 2019, NEO has become the first blockchain project to have joined the .NET Foundation. NEO made the announcement during the ongoing .NET Conference. Both the entities envision to empower developers further...