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Blockchain Bites: Bitmain’s Shakeup, Bitcoin’s Resilience and Ethereum’s Anonymity
4.6.2020
Bitmain's ousted co-founder reportedly retook the company's office building while a protocol update made Bitcoin more resilient to state attacks
Ethereum May Not Be Perfect, but Most DApps Still Like to Run With It
4.6.2020
Security, a viable business model and an active community: why the majority of DApp developers still opt for the Ethereum blockchain
Startup to Launch Blockchain-Based Investment Platform for Music Royalties
4.6.2020
Luxembourg-based startup ANote Music will launch a blockchain-based platform that allows its users to invest in music royalties
Bitcoin Is a Paradigm Shift Beyond Wall Street
4.6.2020
A former Goldman Sachs vice president of investment banking: “We should be glad that traditional Wall Street hasn’t come around to embrace crypto yet.”
Crypto-Powered Brave Browser Reaches Over 15 Million Monthly Active Users
4.6.2020
Cryptocurrency-powered web browser Brave Browser announced that its monthly active user count increased 125% over the past year
Blockchain Gamers Earned $20M in Their First Year
4.6.2020
Research by Flipside Crypto into revenue generated by blockchain games shows that, in some cases, gamers are earning more than the game companies
100k+ Chat App Users Opt in to KakaoTalk’s New Crypto Wallet in 1 Day
4.6.2020
South Korea’s Kakao says that over 100,000, or around 2% of the users of the chat app KakaoTalk have already activated the app’s new crypto wallet function – less than a day after the wallet went live.
As previously reported, KakaoTalk’s Klip wallet went live on June 3, with support for...
Tencent Aims to Establish 100-Member Blockchain Alliance in 2020
4.6.2020
Tencent Cloud — Tencent’s cloud computing arm — is forming a blockchain alliance to further the industrial implementation of the technology
Podcaster Joe Rogan Uses Crypto-Powered Brave Browser
4.6.2020
Joe Rogan and Reggie Watts just talked up Brave to millions of people
Samsung & LG ‘Pursuing Business with Big International Crypto Players’
4.6.2020
Source: Adobe/S_E
South Korean experts say that domestic business big-hitters like Samsung and LG are stepping up their crypto-related activities with overseas companies – rather than domestic players – as part of a strategy that has begun to take shape in the past few weeks.
As previously...
Blockchain Platform to Track $2.5B Worth of Tea Products
4.6.2020
The Chinese province of Yunnan will track their tea supply chain using blockchain technology
Cryptobartender Serves Drinks for Crypto, Doing its Part in Pandemic
4.6.2020
Cryptobartender. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/CryptoTexty
A device called Cryptobartender is doing its part to help social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, by selling drinks for crypto.
Cryptobartender is a device that allows users to buy water, wine, whiskey, or any other type...
Nonprofit Energy Consortium Trials Blockchain Management for Wastewater Tracking
3.6.2020
A U.S. oil and gas consortium says a blockchain-based automated platform tracking wastewater reduced transportation costs
Decentralized Identity Could Replace All Login Functions, Says LG
3.6.2020
A representative of LG’s information technology subsidiary LG CNS told Cointelegraph that blockchain-based identity systems could replace all login functions
Blockchain Bites: Avanti’s Angel Round, Civil’s Closure and a Data Breach
3.6.2020
Ethereum Classic hardforked to become more compatible with Ethereum while a French energy firm is cleared to issue a new ICO
Bitcoin Upgrade, Pu’er on Blockchain, Underground Miners + More News
3.6.2020
Pu'er tea. Source: Adobe/昊 周
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Bitcoin Core version 0.20.0 has been released and is now ready for launch. Per...
Scammer Spoofs SMS Identifier to Steal Funds From Bitcoin User
3.6.2020
A Bitcoin exchange transaction resulted in a user getting scammed as a spoofed SMS message from a payment app made it seem that the attacker executed the payment
Remote Work Isn’t Enough: Shifting Toward a Decentralized System Architecture
3.6.2020
Why and how to shift your business toward a decentralized system architecture amid the global COVID-19 pandemic
Shell, Exxon and More Complete ‘Successful’ Blockchain Pilot
3.6.2020
Major oil and gas companies could be set to do away with conventional payments systems in favor of blockchain-powered solutions – after a 10-company consortium including energy giants such as Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon successfully piloted oilfield water-handling payments at an American shale...
Blockchain Underpinning Much of Germany’s Renewable Energy Evolution
3.6.2020
As Germany shuts down all nuclear and coal-based energy production, blockchain is underpinning many renewable energy platforms