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President Bukele fires back at critics on 'Bitcoin experiment'
24.12.2021
The adoption of Bitcoin is changing El Salvador's economic landscape according to Salvadoran president
Polkadot is Deutsche Telekom’s New Crypto Experiment
22.12.2021
Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe’s largest telecom business, is backing Polkadot, an interoperable architecture of public blockchains curated by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood. T-Systems Multimedia Solutions (MMS), the subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, does not leave any stone unturned to support...
Working With Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS
16.12.2021
Between Google Chrome experimenting with “following” sites, along with a growing frustration of how social media platforms limit a creator’s reach to their fans through algorithmic feeds, there’s been renewed interest in RSS feeds and they’re primed for a …
Central Banks of France, Switzerland and BIS Complete Cross-Border CBDC Trial
9.12.2021
Bank of France, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), and the Bank for International Settlements have successfully tested the application of wholesale central bank digital currency in cross-border payments. The project used distributed ledger technology and was realized with help from private firms....
Visa Launches Crypto Advisory Services — Says ‘Digital Currencies Are Taking Greater Hold in Popular Consciousness’
9.12.2021
Payments giant Visa has launched global crypto advisory services. The company’s executive says: “We’ve seen a material shift in our clients’ mindset in the last year, from a desire to explore and experiment with crypto, to actually building a strategy and product...
Pálivý experiment: Astronauti si na palubě ISS vypěstovali vlastní chilli papričky
8.12.2021
Na palubě Mezinárodní vesmírné stanice si astronauti pochutnali na tacos s vlastnoručně vypěstovanými chilli papričkami
Nešťastně zamilovaný delfín: Ambiciózní experiment skončil sebevraždou kytovce
7.12.2021
Delfíni, jako jedni z mála živočichů, prokazatelně dokážou komunikovat s lidmi. Zatím jediný pokus naučit inteligentní mořské kytovce vyslovovat anglická slova se však překvapivě zvrtl: Samec Peter se do své cvičitelky bláznivě zamiloval a experiment musel skončit předčasně
Největší kosmické úlety (2): Podivný arabský „vědecký experiment“
21.11.2021
V roce 1985 se na palubě raketoplánu Discovery uskutečnil jeden nenápadný „vědecký experiment“. Jak se později ukázalo, jeho skutečný cíl neměl s vědou nic společného. Pod pláštíkem vědy měl saúdský princ Sultán bin Salmán vyhlížet konec ramadánu
Russia to Change 13 Laws and Codes for Digital Ruble
8.11.2021
Authorities in Russia are gearing up to amend various pieces of legislation to facilitate the issuing and function of the digital ruble. Officials in Moscow believe this version of the national fiat needs to be regulated separately from other digital forms of money such as cryptocurrencies. Russia...
Corporations & Countries Watch and Learn From El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment
17.10.2021
It has now been more than a month since El Salvador officially began enforcing a law making bitcoin (BTC) legal tender within the Central American country. Much has been of the rapidity with which this law was proposed and then passed, with protests suggesting that at least some of the local...
Twitter Offers Sneak Peek Behind Upcoming NFT Integration
30.9.2021
e Engineer and Android Tech Lead at Twitter. Earlier in September, she said that she's working "on some experimentation on integrating NFT in Twitter" and "The 1st experiment would be to download your NFT from OpenSea [an NFT marketplace] and add it as your avatar & banner profile."Meanwh
Jak ochočit lišku: Sovětský experiment, ze kterého vzešla jediná populace skutečně krotkých lišek
23.9.2021
Trvala domestikace psů opravdu stovky, nebo i tisíce let, jak se předpokládá? Že lze zdomácnění divokých zvířat dosáhnout mnohem rychleji, dokázal experiment, ze kterého vzešla jediná populace skutečně krotkých lišek
Mohly by se krávy naučit chodit na toaletu? Experiment ukázal, že je to možné
15.9.2021
Mohly by se krávy naučit chodit na toaletu? Experiment německých badatelů ukazuje, že je to možné. Podle vědců by to prospělo kravám i životnímu prostředí
Maskují pruhy běžce? Co ukázal experiment v hmyzím kině
10.9.2021
Střídavé pruhy zeber prý mají zmást obtěžující mouchy tse-tse, nebo možná jde o účinný termoregulační mechanismus. Je možné, že by díky pruhům byly běžící zebry „neviditelné“?
ECB Officially Starts to Investigate Digital Euro — Development Could Begin in 2 Years
7.9.2021
The European Central Bank (ECB) says it is “starting to investigate” a digital euro by launching a two-year investigation. ECB President Christine Lagarde believes the ECB should be ready to respond to people’s demands for digital currencies and come up with a European-based...
Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Africa to Trial Cross-Border Digital Currency Payments
3.9.2021
The central banks of Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Republic of South Africa have set out to test the use of state-issued digital currencies in cross-border payments. The trial, led by the Bank for International Settlements, aims to establish whether they can simplify transactions and make...
Digital Euro to Handle ‘Almost Unlimited’ Payments, Estonian Central Bank Says After Test
28.7.2021
A blockchain-based digital euro would be highly scalable allowing it to process an almost unlimited number of payments, the central bank of Estonia has concluded following a recent experiment. Central banks from several euro area countries and the ECB participated in the test, which also professed...
Inside El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment: Cointelegraph video report
27.7.2021
Cointelegraph traveled to El Salvador to investigate whether citizens believe its new Bitcoin Law will be beneficial to the nation's economy
French Central Bank Conducts Fifth Experiment on Tunisia CBDC
23.7.2021
The French central bank, Banque de France (BOF), recently carried out its fifth experiment on the Central Bank of Tunisia (CBT)’s central bank digital currency (CBDC). According to a statement from BOF, the latest experiment is part of the banks’ joint effort to create conditions that...
Damien Hirst Starts USD 20M Experiment - NFT vs. Paper
14.7.2021
Damien Hirst’s The Currency. Continuing his dive into the realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), UK superstar artist Damien Hirst has created a collection of 10,000 art pieces that come with accompanying digital artwork. Eventually, their owners will have to decide, however, whether they want to keep...