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Report: Russia Remains a ‘Key Market for Crypto,’ Commands the 3rd Largest Bitcoin Hashrate in the World
27.8.2020
The fervor for cryptocurrency assets in Russia has grown wild over the last few years. This week Xangle Research published a comprehensive report about digital currencies and the Russian environment in 2020. The study’s findings show that Russia is one of the world’s key players when...
Minereum Launches Crypto Bond With up To 50% Yield
26.8.2020
Minereum, the project behind the first self-mining smart contract, has released a new crypto bond allowing investors to earn up to 50% a year on their digital assets. The Minereum Crypto Bond is described as a blockchain experiment to prove that it is technically possible to bring traditional bond...
Samsung je největším výrobcem SSD, dotahuje se na něj Western Digital
26.8.2020
Podle agentury Trendfocus se během druhého čtvrtletí 2020 prodalo 81,3 milionů SSD. Čtvrtinu všech dodávek měl na svědomí Samsung, který si zvládne vyrábět samotné paměťové čipy i výsledná úložiště. K jeho 20 milionům SSD se blíží 17milionový Western Digital.
Okolo 10 milionů SSD prodaly
China plans to use its digital yuan at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games
25.8.2020
Details about the official launch date still remain murky
The Bitcoin Network Now Consumes 7 Nuclear Plants Worth of Power
25.8.2020
The SHA256 hashrate that secures the Bitcoin network has grown massively during the last few years, as Bitcoin’s processing power has touched all-time highs in 2020. Moreover, the gigawatts of electrical consumption powering industrial bitcoin mining today consumes as much as seven nuclear...
Corporate Crypto Reserve Status: Software Firm Snappa Swaps 40% Cash Reserves for Bitcoin
25.8.2020
On Monday, Canadian graphics software company, Snappa, revealed that it was holding bitcoin as a reserve asset. Snappa follows the firms Microstrategy and the Canadian restaurant chain Tahini’s by deciding to convert cash reserves into the scarce crypto asset. The graphics software firm...
Brazil’s Central Bank Tasks Group With Laying Out Road Map to Digital Currency Issuance
24.8.2020
The 12-member team will submit their findings – and propose a CBDC issuance model – to the central bank in 180 days
Boston Fed Is Looking at ’30 to 40′ Blockchain Networks for Digital Dollar Experiments
24.8.2020
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is evaluating more than 30 different blockchain networks to determine if they would support a digital dollar
The US is losing the 'tech cold war,' warns Ripple co-founder
24.8.2020
China can reverse Bitcoin transactions, a Ripple exec said
Public interest in central bank digital currencies surpasses Bitcoin in 2020
24.8.2020
The 2020 pandemic could accelerate global efforts to issue CBDCs, say BIS analysts
China's digital yuan trials reportedly limited to small retail transactions
24.8.2020
China’s central bank released a new statement to debunk some rumors
PBoC Says Digital Yuan Tests Focus on Small Transactions After Rumored Property Sale
24.8.2020
The People's Bank of China has apparently played down rumors of a house sale settled with its in-the-works digital currency
China’s Blockchain Service Network to launch stablecoin support in 2021
24.8.2020
China’s national blockchain project BSN could be the best fit for the digital yuan
With Blockchain, Fraud Will Not Be Able to Steal Digital Ad Revenues
23.8.2020
Supply chain transparency is the spanner in the works of the digital advertising machines, but can blockchain help?
Bitcoin.com Wallet Launches Cred’s 1-Touch “Earn” Button
23.8.2020
Bitcoin.com, a global blockchain leader with over 11 million Bitcoin wallets, and Cred, a global blockchain-enabled financial services platform serving clients in 190 countries, today announced a major milestone in their ongoing strategic partnership. The latest Bitcoin.com wallet now features...
Digital Currency, Akoin and Blockchain Voting: Bad Crypto News of the Week
22.8.2020
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast
Central Bank Digital Currencies and Their Role in the Financial System
22.8.2020
What are CBDCs and the risks they possess, and how might they reshape our economies?
Former RBI Governor and IMF Chief Economist Sees Value in Bitcoin and Facebook Libra
22.8.2020
Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), sees value in bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and Facebook-backed libra alongside central bank digital currencies. Former RBI Governor’s View on Bitcoin, Crypto,...
Why the Rise of the CBDC Is Bad for Your Privacy
22.8.2020
Like, hate, or fear them, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are on their way. There will be no stopping them. From Sweden to Thailand and China to Canada, governments the world over are experimenting with CBDCs. While most are being undertaken as pilots at this stage, China’s is all...
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
21.8.2020
leading-trim is a suggested new CSS property that lets us remove the extra spacing in every font so that we can more predictably style text. Ethan Wang has written about it — including how Microsoft has advocated for it — and that it’s now part of the Inline Layout Module Level 3 spec.
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