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HTC wants to launch ANOTHER blockchain phone this year

Apr29
by on April 29, 2019 at 3:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer HTC is reportedly planning to launch another blockchain phone before the end of 2019. Phil Chen, HTC’s Decentralized Chief Officer, announced the intention during a keynote speech at an investment forum event held in Taipei on Friday last week, Taiwan News reports. HTC launched its first blockchain phone – called Exodus 1 – last year. It featured a cryptocurrency wallet, accompanied by hardware designed to support decentralized applications (dapps). Other phone makers like Samsung insist smartphones are great cryptocurrency wallets, researchers still advise using an actual hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger. Chen also claimed that…

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Finland’s new cryptocurrency regulation forces AML on industry

Apr29
by on April 29, 2019 at 2:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrency businesses in Finland will now have to register with the country’s financial watchdog. As a result of the ACT OF VIRTUAL CURRENCY PROVIDERS, which comes into force on May 1, businesses will have to adhere with statutory requirements, including holding and protecting client money, segregating client money and own funds, and ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering regulation. The Act is based on the European Union’s anti-money laundering legislation and seeks to bring virtual currency providers within the scope of anti-money laundering regulation, in line with the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5th AMLD). “Going forward, only virtual currency providers meeting statutory requirements…

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What’s behind the curious serenading of cybercriminals in Nigerian hip-hop?

Apr29
by on April 29, 2019 at 2:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Music, syndication, world


Singers use artistic conventions to construct marketable music personas. However, that’s not the full picture. In the US, for example, most American hip-hop and rap songs are also a reflection of the artistes’ living experiences and social communities. These mainly involve gang violence, street hustling and thug life. The late rapper, Notorious B.I.G., summarized a part of this succinctly in his song “Juicy”: “Yea, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothing, to all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustling in front of that called the police on me when I was…

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Dead Facebook users could outnumber the living by 2069

Apr29
by on April 29, 2019 at 1:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Within the next 50 years, Facebook could feel more like a place for the dead than the living. According to academics from the University of Oxford, by 2069, the dead could outnumber the living on the social network.   The number of dead users on Facebook is growing at an unstoppable rate. In 2012, eight years after the platform launched, 30 million users had died. Today, it has over two billion users and an estimation of 8000 users die every day. Based on Facebook’s user statistics in 2018, researchers have predicted the number of dead users could reach at least 1.4 billion or potentially as high as…

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