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50% of American WhatsApp users don’t know it’s owned by Facebook

Oct18
by on October 18, 2018 at 10:59 am
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Just over half of Americans (50.42 percent) who have used WhatsApp in the last six months are unaware that it’s owned by Facebook. This, my friends, is a pretty high figure. The research was carried out by DuckDuckGo, the privacy-protecting search engine. The same survey found that 56 percent of Americans who had used Waze, the navigation app, in the past six months didn’t realize Google owned it. Let’s have a look at a pie chart of the WhatsApp data, because who doesn’t love a pie chart? DuckDuckGo has carried out a similar survey before, finding out that 57 percent of…

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Tencent and Huawei lead Chinese companies in building coinless ‘Ethereum-killer’

Oct18
by on October 18, 2018 at 10:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A consortium backed by major Chinese corporations Tencent and Huawei will debut its new open source “blockchain ecosystem” FISCO BCOS at the Singapore Fintech Festival next month. BCOS is geared towards providing enterprise-grade distributed ledger (DLT) solutions. Much like the Ethereum-based Hyperledger Fabric, its completely coinless. This makes BCOS more of a set application templates geared towards businesses looking to adopt DLTs than a single ‘traditional’ blockchain. Behind the new platform is China’s Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium (FISCO) task force, which features more than 100 members, spearheaded by major financial players like WeBank, Tencent Cloud, and Shenzen Securities Communication. While the press release gives many technical details of the…

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India’s largest Bitcoin exchange moves to Malta to escape regulation

Oct18
by on October 18, 2018 at 9:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork


Zebpay, once India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is moving operations to Malta after having shut shop on its home turf last month. The exchange, which currently supports 20 cryptocurrencies, will serve users in 20 countries across Europe: Malta Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovenia Sweden Unfortunately, the exchange won’t be accessible to users in India. The company had no choice but to leave India shores following strict regulations issued in April by India’s central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). At that time, the RBI directed…

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Top UK security firm to offer vaulted cryptocurrency storage

Oct18
by on October 18, 2018 at 9:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


With over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency being stolen since 2017, British security services firm G4S is taking it upon itself to try and make the wild west of cryptocurrency a little less wild. The FTSE 250 listed firm is perhaps best known for providing security personnel, prisoner transport, and high-value money transport in around 90 countries. But it seems to think more can be done to store and protect high-value cryptoassets. G4S announced on its blog this week that it is launching a new way to store your cryptocurrency to keep it away from the bad guys. Over $1bn…

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Bill Gates and the EU announce a €100M investment fund to combat climate change

Oct18
by on October 18, 2018 at 9:35 am
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Bill Gates and the EU announced that the union and Breakthrough Energy — an investor group led by Gates — will together launch a €100 million clean energy investment fund to combat climate change in 2019. Gates is currently in Brussels working on the pilot project on behalf of the investor group, which counts other world renown billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson. Gates met with Carlos Moedas — EU‘s Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation — to sign a momentous agreement which will create “a joint investment fund to help innovative European companies develop…

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