Strike Integrates Shopify To Enable Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments
Strike Partners With Shopify, NCR, and Blackhawk Strike founder and CEO Jack Mallers made the announcement on Thursday (April 7, 2022), while speaking at the ongoing Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami. The latest development would allow merchants globally to receive Bitcoin payments denominated in U.S....
Meta Mulling Plans To Create Non-Crypto Digital Tokens
Facebook’s parent company is once again working on plans to create digital tokens for its users, despite the collapse of the Diem stablecoin project. In this iteration, the virtual coins will not be cryptocurrencies or stablecoins but will serve as vehicles to financialize the Facebook...
United As One Under New Tech – Blockchain Education For All
It's a behemoth. People don't use what they don't understand. Cryptocurrency and the blockchain have the general population lost, big-time. According to The Blockchain Education Network's website, a staggering 3.5 billion adults lack an understanding of basic financial concepts. A colossal 1.7 billion adults globally...
Blockchain Against Crime: Dubai Police With A New Approach
Recently, during the World Police Summit, the Dubai police revealed plans for a new approach to fighting crime. With new technologies, the way criminals conduct their activities is changing and evolving. Law enforcement officers have concluded that they need to adopt these technologies as well,...
DAO Creation Platforms And Management Systems
In the past year alone, the number of DAOs has increased to more than 4000, with the top 20 DAOs holding over $14B in digital assets. Through a DAO, an organization can automatically execute “corporate” actions through the creation of smart contracts, and thus make...
Web 3 Equity – A New NFT Collection Launches And It Embodies Miami Spirit
White sands, neon lights, and palm trees make Florida unique. Home to glorious beaches and stunning architecture, Miami is gorgeous. It's also home to innovative companies, including Web 3 Equity, which is about to launch a brand new NFT collection. NFT enthusiasts, take note! Founded...
Brave Celebrates The Launch Of A New Wallet With A Massive Giveaway
Brave Browser has finally completed the development of its native cryptocurrency wallet. The project is celebrating the wallet’s launch with a giveaway featuring NFTs and popular coins. The giveaway will last from March 8th until March 14th, and randomly chosen winners will find golden tickets...
Why Is Facebook Faltering?
Social media giant Facebook recently rebranded itself as Meta. While Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO, hopes to inspire people and “build awesome things,” the company he helped build has lost more than half a trillion dollars in market value since August of 2021. Meta was...
YouTube Is Considering Adding NFTs
Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, recently discussed the platform’s plans and goals for 2022, noting that the platform is considering the addition of NFTs. Wojcicki expressed her and the company’s ideas in a letter published on the company’s blog this Tuesday, January 25th. YouTube...
What Are DApps, And Why Should I Care?
We use apps every day on mobile, desktop, smart TVs, and IoT devices. In the last decade, apps have evolved to provide user experiences and utility that realize the Web's full potential, e-commerce, high-speed internet, and 5G cellular data connections. But there are fundamental problems...
France Central Bank Completes CBDC Test For Government Bond Deals
A consortium carried out an experiment with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) issued by the Central bank of France, Banque de France, to settle government bond transactions. France Trials CBDC for Government BondsThe consortium was led by financial services company Euroclear, as announced by...
Top 5 Cryptocurrencies that have Smart Contracts – But Don’t See Much Use
But, while ETH may have started it all, it is by no means the only one offering smart contracts and their countless applications in this day and age. Here are 5 other projects that also feature smart contracts, but don’t see nearly as much use....
Artificial Intelligence is a Logical Step for Crypto – How Fetch is Bringing AI to the World
In today’s ever-changing technological landscape, the amount of data we are generating is ever-increasing. The quest to manage, store and efficiently use this data is a crucial component of enterprise strategy. New Technological HorizonsFields like big data, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) are...
Machine Learning And Why It Is Important For Blockchain
Machine learning is not all that difficult to understand. Your brain is a machine of a sort, and it learns. If you walk up to a stranger and he smacks you in the face, you are not likely to approach that particular stranger again. You...
Google Reinvents Post-Pandemic Workspace, Modernizes Googleplex
The main idea is to remove distractions, boost productivity and employee well-being – because, apparently, happy people work better. And now, as some of Google’s offices are reopening after a long and tedious lockdown, it is rolling out a number of innovations to make the...
Technological Puberty: NFTs Get Into Gaming, Approach The Age Of Responsibility
Disruptive and glorious like Cruellas of the digital space, non-fungible tokens go on rocking every sphere of the market that has anything to do with intellectual property, authenticity checks, goods visualization, or digital collectibles. Let's look into the whys and wherefores of that. Gaming Embraces...
The Concise History Of Web 3.0
The web has become an integral part of our life: it both defines the way we communicate, perceive, and consume information – and is defined by it. Of course, during this time, Lee's idea has transformed greatly. So far, we've witnessed two eras of web...
Hybrid Smart Contracts Will Replace The Legal System
While many were considered revolutionary, most — if not all of them — are based on smart contracts. Smart contracts are, therefore, the first and biggest blockchain product that allowed all others to come to be. Smart Contracts - A Major Disruptor Smart contracts started...
Smart Homes To Smart Cities – The Relationship Between Humans And The IoT
What is a Smart Home? Technically, a smart home is a network of physical objects – such as door locks, lights, thermostats, and household appliances – managed through the main controller. Sensors receive information about the air temperature, humidity, amount of light, noise, or movement,...
Time Magazine Planning NFT Subscriptions
Even so, it did come as a bit of a surprise to me to hear that TIME Magazine is planning to introduce NFTs as part of its subscription plans. It’s Official This is also not some simple rumor — it was said by the TIME...
A Look at the NFT Market Decline
NFTs were, and kind of still are, the hottest topic in the financial world. Cryptocurrencies usually make mainstream headlines for two reasons, scandal or price action, though in the past year there has been more focus on what the technology can do in a broader...
Token Of The Freedom: On Snowden’s NFT
Edward himself prefers "whistleblower", which is probably closest to what he did: exposing a case of abuse of human rights for privacy. The same year, Snowden was charged with espionage and theft of government property, lost his US passport, and found asylum in Russia, where...
The NFT Ecosystem And The Price Bubbles
The most recent spike in popularity can be attributed in some part to digital artist Beeple. The graphic designer stole the spotlight after his monumental digital collage, "EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS," was auctioned off for nearly $70 million at the British auction house Christie's....
NFTs are the new Collectibles
Several years ago, trading cards were the rave of the moment in the collectibles world. From sports cards to Pokémon cards, these collectibles were worth thousands of dollars depending on their rarity. However, there were some problems; these cards were prone to damage and had...
How to Unstuck Unconfirmed Blockchain Transaction
The following are ways to help you unstuck unconfirmed blockchain transactions. Wait It Out Sometimes it takes little to no effort but trying to wait for the transactions to go through. More often, there will be free capacity in the network after some hours, days,...
More Than Tweets And CryptoKitties: 5 Smart Ways Of Using NFT Tech
Making contracts smarter Can you imagine a digital contract that is fully customizable and automated? NFTs can be programmed to pay you a certain percentage of royalties every time your artwork is reprinted or your melody is used, giving content creators more convenience and freedom....
Blockchain, Machine Learning, And AR: How Will High Tech Reform Supply Chains?
A supply chain is a full path a product takes from the supply of raw materials to the end consumer. Take the device you are reading this post on. Silica, oils, gas, and a number of metals were mined, processed, and shaped into components. These...