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LG Pilots Facial Recognition-powered ‘Digital Token’ Payment Platform
23.4.2020
Source: Adobe/S_E
South Korean electronics giant LG’s long-awaited digital token has taken a new and innovative twist in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Per a press release shared with the Green Economic Daily, LG’s IT services arm, LG CNS, has released details about its “digital currency,”...
McDonald’s, Starbucks, Subway May Take Part in Digital Yuan Tests - Reports
23.4.2020
McDonald’s, Starbucks and Subway branches could be set to take part in the Chinese central bank’s digital yuan pilots, with Beijing’s efforts to roll out the world’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC) intensifying.
Multiple Chinese outlets, including the likes of Sina (via JRJ and Ciajing)...
Digital Dollars Can Reduce Unemployment, Here’s How
23.4.2020
A blueprint for a central bank digital currency designed with a specific purpose: stopping layoffs
Starbucks and McDonald's Rumored to Be Testing China's Digital Currency
23.4.2020
Starbucks and McDonald’s shops in Xiong’an will reportedly support payments with China’s digital yuan
Starbucks, McDonald’s Among 19 Firms to Test China’s Digital Yuan: Report
23.4.2020
The food and beverage giants are among the restaurants and retail shops reportedly on a local government list for testing of China's central bank digital currency
Recap of Cointelegraph Talks: Greenback 2.0 — the Digital Dollar
23.4.2020
Recap: Cointelegraph’s Greenback 2.0 panel on the pros and cons of a U.S. digital dollar, with speakers from Binance.US, BRD, and Vanderbilt Law
Anyone Can Host a Crypto Exchange – Tim Draper Backed Startup Launches New WordPress Plugin
22.4.2020
There’s a new plugin available that gives people the ability to launch a cryptocurrency exchange on any WordPress-based website. The project called Wpcryptoexchange is a product created by the Tim Draper-backed startup Draper Goren Holm. With the plugin, anyone can launch a digital currency...
Dutch Central Bank ‘Ready to Play a Leading Role’ with Digital Euro
22.4.2020
A De Nederlandsche Bank report says a central bank digital currency would solve issues such as the decline in the use of cash during the pandemic
Consensys Cuts Hundreds of Jobs This Year – About 25% of Its Staff Slashed
22.4.2020
Ethereum-based company Consensys has cut hundreds of jobs since January. In its latest action, the US-based blockchain development team confirmed it will slash more than 90 jobs – or 14% of its workforce – citing the global impact of Covid-19. The decision comes after a virtual town...
CoinDesk Live: Understanding Our Digital Personas feat. Alex McDougall
21.4.2020
“If we don’t fix the data paradigm...we don’t really have free will,” says Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures
‘Cointelegraph Talks’ Online Meetup to Discuss E-Payments and Digital Dollar
21.4.2020
Cointelegraph invites the crypto community to join its first Cointelegraph Talks event
Just a Test: China Central Bank Confirms Digital Yuan Mobile App Trials
20.4.2020
China’s central bank confirmed it will be testing a mobile app for the digital yuan in four cities, with a fifth in the works, and emphasized it’s a test
America’s Banks Can Simply Bail Themselves Out – Thanks to the Fed’s $27 Trillion Blackrock Deal
20.4.2020
Mainstream media has been awfully quiet about all the fraud and manipulation stemming from the global bureaucracies’ newly enacted covid-19 reaction policies. In the U.S. amid all the commotion and fear, the Federal Reserve granted special powers to the giant private equity firm Blackrock....
Chinese Central Bank Makes it Official: Digital Fiat Tests to Begin
20.4.2020
The Chinese central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), has officially confirmed a number of digital currency testing reports – and has indicated that testing will soon begin in the country’s capital, Beijing.
The PBoC has also rushed to insist that a digital yuan rollout will not spark...
Survey: Consumers Trust CBDCs Over Privately-Issued Crypto Assets
20.4.2020
Half of the respondents would trust a digital currency issued by a central bank, while just 26% expressed trust decentralized crypto assets
Bank Of China Says Digital Yuan Will Not Cause Inflation
20.4.2020
Bank of China officially replies to the public about the digital Yuan and says it will not cause inflation
Talking Digital Future: Music Industry
19.4.2020
The music industry is full of implemented technologies — some are threatening the industry and some are saving it
Western Digital, Seagate i Toshiba čelí naštvaným zákazníkům. Důvodem je použití SMR
18.4.2020
Tento týden se rozhořela kauza, která snad změní chování výrobců pevných disků do budoucna. Nejdříve to propuklo u vybraných disků Western Digital, ale posléze se přišlo i na modely Seagate a Toshiba.
Hlavní problém je, že výrobce jako třeba Western Digital používá u vybraných disků technologii
Seeking Profits: A Number of Large Crypto Exchanges Are Mining and Staking Digital Assets
18.4.2020
During the last 12 months, large cryptocurrency exchanges have been getting into digital currency staking and creating SHA256 mining operations. Just recently, Binance announced the launch of its mining pool following exchanges like Okex, and Huobi. Alongside this, a great number of crypto...
Bankera Launches Bank Account Alternative Focused on Crypto Businesses
17.4.2020
Bankera, an ambitious project to build a neobank for the digital era, has started to offer payment accounts to individual and business clients as a low-cost, fast and convenient alternative to traditional bank accounts. Individual and business clients who sign up to the service can already enjoy...