Month: April 2019

Facebook has sharpened the axe and removed hundreds of propaganda pages in India and Pakistan. It’s one of Facebook’s biggest culls yet as it tried to rein in false political propaganda.  Controversially, Facebook has linked many of these pages to the Pakistan military itself. Other pages were linked to India’s second-largest political party, Indian National Congress.  According to Facebook, the pages were reportedly set up and run by fake profiles, which then dispersed “inauthentic” information about the military and politics. Read more …

A Switzerland-based publishing house is willing to dump fiat currency for a comparatively volatile cryptocurrency in bitcoin. Netzmedien AG announced today that it would begin paying off all wages in bitcoin effectively. The decision followed the company’s earlier plans to convert half of its assets to cryptocurrencies. As the top executives went closer to deploying their fiat-to-crypto plan, they also offered their employees a choice to choose between bitcoin and Swiss Franc. A voting round ensued, and bitcoin emerged as Read more …

Blockchain technology is beginning to change how people buy and sell properties. It’s even gained significant adoption by governments that want to improve land registry systems. How exactly can it improve other areas of the real estate sector? Here are a few ways that blockchain is impacting rental property management, including examples of some projects that are disrupting this industry. In 2019, quite a few blockchain projects have brought innovation to both short-term and long-term rental platforms. The following four Read more …

ConsenSys Ventures, the investment arm of ethereum development studio ConsenSys, has selected 10 blockchain startups for the second cohort of its accelerator program Tachyon. Announcing the news on Monday, ConsenSys Ventures said that the selected startups for the Tachyon 2.0 program are focused on building new blockchain-based solutions across data privacy, encryption, healthcare and decentralized finance, among other areas. All 10 startups will benefit from the accelerator program, which includes meetings and lectures from “prominent” entrepreneurs, ethereum developers and venture Read more …

Investing in cryptocurrencies is still a risky way to handle your money. Despite all the progress that cryptos were able to make since they exploded in mid-2017, they remain just as volatile as ever. The bear market of 2018 damaged a lot of investors who joined the trend lately and were forced to buy the coins at higher prices. However, if your intention is to HODL and waits for the more prosperous times, then cryptocurrencies are probably the best way Read more …

Investing in up-and-coming blockchain startups is now possible without selling your own cryptoassets. CoinLoan lending platform has announced a case on how to acquire tokens while HODLing due to the coming IEO token sale of Paytomat, a cryptocurrency payment solutions company. The token acquisition model proposed by the Coinloan platform offers all the participants an option to borrow fiat funds instead of spending their own cryptoassets. Due to this, the investor remains insured against an unforeseen drop in token price, Read more …

For the first time since the bull market in 2017, the bitcoin price recorded two consecutive green monthly candles, which suggest that the dominant cryptocurrency may be en route to breaking its bear trend. In technical analysis, a green candle forms when an asset climbs higher from its opening price in a certain time frame. If a monthly candle closes as a green candle, it demonstrates a monthly upside price movement. Consecutive Monthly Green Candles are Positive For Bitcoin The Read more …

Bitcoin price completed the close of the Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Q1 in the green. Let’s take a look at the charts to determine what could be expected for the number one crypto asset in the near future. Bitcoin Price: Daily Chart The Daily Chart for Bitcoin price paints an overall positive picture for the bulls. The previous week’s bear blockade at $4050, which was the task at hand for the bulls, was ultimately overcome last Friday. Bulls weren’t the Read more …

Thinking of getting into the blockchain developer game? As well as some underlying understanding of programming, you’ll need a decent set of blockchain development tools at your disposal. Here, we round up some of the best tools that will help a new blockchain developer get up and running on Ethereum. According to a 2018 Upwork report, the demand for blockchain developers increased 6,000 percent compared to the previous year. Blockchain developers can now command salaries upwards of $100,000 per year, Read more …

With the advent of the Internet, it was clear that education was about to go through a significant paradigm shift and shift it did. In our connected world, the portrait of the modern classroom has been truly transformed. Over time, new technologies have made it even easier to maintain the kind of cohesive attention necessary to develop even more powerful learning environment. Whether by pure luck or by design, Blockchain is playing a significant role in various areas of education. Read more …

Increasing blockchain presence in aviation will form the focus of a dedicated conference in Abu Dhabi from April 2 to 4, official news portal Emirates News Agency confirmed in a press release on March 31. Promising attendance by 800 people from almost 100 countries, “Blockchain: Unlock the Potential” aims to bring the possibilities of the technology, as they extend to the aviation industry, to a global stage. The press release notes that the event is held under the patronage of Read more …

The price of Bitcoin seems to be on the rise once more, and while the rise that the coin has been seeing in the past two months has been gradual and rather hesitant — it still proves that the largest crypto is slowly dragging the space out of the bear market. The bearish 2018 left a large mark on Bitcoin price, and the crypto winter still has a minor influence, but the main reason why the coin’s value remains low Read more …