2020-4-8 21:47 |
Microsoft is throwing its weight behind the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition (BSIC) incubator, a six-week hackathon focused on green energy. origin »
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Crypto companies are finding new ways promote social distancing in the fight against COVID-19
2020-3-31 06:00 | |
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Полсотни компаний, включая участников «Ассоциации Libra» Coinbase Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz и Anchorage, займутся созданием мобильных финансовых приложений поверх блокчейна Celo. The Alliance for Prosperity is a mission-aligned network of organizations working towards a more inclusive global financial system and fostering social impact and financial inclusion through the use of blockchain technology. #CeloAlliance Find out more: […]
2020-3-13 21:16 | |
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The Celo Foundation, a nonprofit supporting the development of the Celo open blockchain platform, today announced the launch of the Alliance for Prosperity: a mission-aligned network of organizations fostering social impact and financial inclusion through the use of blockchain technology.
2020-3-13 16:31 | |
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Social impact took center stage at this year's Hyperledger Global Forum, with perhaps less of an emphasis on banking consortia and trade finance blockchains.
2020-3-4 17:00 | |
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On January 20, Monday, the first day of the Emtech Investment Meeting 2020 was held. The meeting participants discussed the topics of innovation and technology in the field of sustainable financing, the problems of mass housing shortages and the implementation of EmTech.
2020-1-21 17:32 | |
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Facebook tends to make a lot of headlines for the wrong reasons. This time is no different, as a data theft event affects roughly 29,000 employees’ data. It would appear that the social media giant has a data breach on its hand with quite a big impact.
2019-12-14 07:00 | |
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IBMR. io, a social impact economic development reserve, and advisory, announced today a partnership with Algorand, the open source, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol. The two companies have joined together to launch a new microfinance ecosystem platform, ARCC.
2019-12-13 23:47 | |
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Proof of Impact closes its first funding round led by American asset management giant Franklin Templeton
2019-12-13 22:27 | |
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Crypto research platform LunarCRUSH has launched a tool ranking the most influential Twitter accounts by their impact on specific cryptocurrencies. The California-based company markets itself as taking a “community-driven” approach to cryptoanalysis and claims to crunch data from more than 100,000 social media posts each day using machine-learning.
2019-12-6 18:12 | |
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Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
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Grammy-winning artist Akon and AKOIN co-founders Lynn Liss and Jon Karas will be presenting the Social Impact Award. Malta AIBC Summit has announced the finalists for the Malta AIBC Awards taking place 7th November 2019, at the InterContinental Hotel, St Julian’s Malta.
2019-10-9 16:29 | |
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Social media websites like Facebook and Telegram, once known for connecting people, have recently shown a keen interest in the cryptocurrency market, both announcing their individual cryptocurrencies.
2019-10-8 15:00 | |
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Nexxus Rewards Has Real Utility to Deliver Real Profits While Lifting Local Communities. Nexxus Rewards is a production-ready community cooperative solution that creates real utility buyer demand for cryptocurrency to produce real profits for token sale purchasers.
2019-9-18 12:33 | |
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Social impact investing isn’t just for bleeding hearts anymore. Investing in companies with strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credentials has grown from an idealistic niche to a highly profitable investment strategy.
2019-9-5 23:08 | |
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Crypto industry needs more specialized education, says Ripple’s head of social impact Ken Weber
2019-8-26 14:17 | |
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Since Facebook’s announcement of its plan to launch a global currency in the form of a cryptocurrency called Libra, financial regulators across the world have spat fire and brimstone at the social media company.
2019-7-30 16:12 | |
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VFarm system is a proven, research backed farming technology licensed by Agrosky Sdn. Bhd (ASSB), a vertical farming specialist. The system provides a DLT blockchain layer that creates an immutable record for each batch of produce as to enable verification of source, planting, packaging and distribution.
2019-6-19 22:37 | |
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The cryptocurrency community does not often impact the traditional financial industry, but the GlobalCoin is causing a bit of a shift. Today, Facebook officially unveiled their Libra project, which will be the new cryptocurrency from the social media platform.
2019-6-19 02:28 | |
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Marlin, a scalability solution for decentralized web platforms, spearheaded by industry frontrunners from BitTorrent, Zilliqa, MIT, and Stanford, joins the Binance Labs Incubation Program San Francisco cohort, securing substantial investment from the social impact fund.
2019-6-12 17:30 | |
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Considering social media’s global impact (hello Trump and Brexit), it’s strange to think just how young the medium is. Hell, before the early 2000s, if you wanted to reconnect with a long-lost friend, you’d have to go full detective to find their contact details.
2019-6-12 18:14 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook’s GlobalCoin cryptocurrency will likely pay interest to its users. That’s the prediction of Wyoming Blockchain regulator and crypto champion Caitlin Long. The social media company is gearing up to announce its much-hyped cryptocurrency this month, but very little is still known about the project, known internally as Project Libra.
2019-6-10 11:13 | |
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A new study on the impact crypto discussions on social media platforms have on the overall market has been evaluated reports Coin Desk. In particular, Data Analysts from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) looked at crypto discussions that took place on Reddit, as a way to qualitatively measure to what extent it can be […]
2019-6-7 06:29 | |
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CryptoNinjas PIVX, a community-driven cryptocurrency, today announced the launch of the PIVX Foundation from the United Nations headquarters in New York. Leaders of the blockchain social impact community are convening for the second year in a row today to discuss how blockchain tech can.
2019-6-5 18:24 | |
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Cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX has hinted it will begin using Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain technology to reduce its impact on the Bitcoin mempool. Bitrefill: BitMEX Should Reduce Fee Impact As part of a social media discussion started by Bitrefill CEO Sergey Kotliar over how major exchanges create higher fees for Bitcoin users, staff said developers were “testing” solutions.
2019-6-3 12:00 | |
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At a recent Ripple Regional customer event for Middle East and North Africa (MENA), two separate speakers highlighted the ability of fintech innovation to deliver social impact for historically underserved populations.
2019-6-20 09:51 | |
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A New York Blockchain Week ended last Friday we spent time at an ethereum hackathon where developers came together to build blockchain tools with social impact.
2019-5-19 18:00 | |
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So far, the Blockchain industry has a reputation of being especially male-dominated and lacking diversity, even within the repelling tech bro-culture. However, there are more than enough reasons to remain hopeful that crypto will use its potential to bring positive social impact, if only we intentionally design it in an ethical way. Rittig had said: […]
2019-5-11 21:03 | |
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just launched a podcast the same day that his company issued its latest quarterly earnings report. But if you’ve been following his public posts on the social network over the few months, you’ve probably already heard the first two episodes.
2019-4-25 08:43 | |
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Influencers have a large following on social media. Their actions have a significant impact including the crypto space. Cryptocurrencies have assembled on all the social media like Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram.
2019-4-6 10:12 | |
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Hyperledger, a multi-venture collaborative effort to bring open-sourced blockchain applications to the mainstream, has announced the addition of nine new companies to its consortium. According to a press release, the community, led by the Linux Foundation, will now welcome special interest groups to its roster.
2019-3-28 23:20 | |
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Every day, startups are innovating ideas that move us towards a sustainable future. It’s more important than ever to make a positive impact on our society and our planet – that’s why these startups should be recognized.
2019-3-18 18:22 | |
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Social Alpha Foundation has awarded a grant to Yale Openlab. The grant is often awarded to companies and projects that use blockchain to promote a positive social impact. Yale Openlab is an initiative headed by both Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. Yale Openlab is […]
2019-3-14 19:05 | |
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CryptoNinjas Social Alpha Foundation, the not-for-profit, grant-making platform which provides no-strings funding to companies and projects utilizing blockchain for social impact, has announced a six-figure anchor grant for the Yale openlab, a newly launched joint initiative between the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at.
2019-3-14 04:19 | |
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CEO Of Twitter Discloses His Trezor Hardware Purchase Powered By Bitcoin Jack Dorsey, Chief Executive Officer of social media giant – Twitter – and also of Square, a mobile payments company, has recently announced on Twitter that he has purchased a Trezor hardware wallet using Bitcoin (BTC) through the Square Cash app. Based on the […]
2019-3-10 16:15 | |
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CryptoNinjas RIF Labs, the purpose-driven organization led by RSK Lab’s founding team and other top executives, has announced that Blockchain for Humanity (b4H), a not-for-profit foundation that supports a pipeline of social and environmental impact projects, is now utilizing the RSK network to bolster.
2019-3-8 01:03 | |
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We live in a world where technology is increasingly ubiquitous and showing no signs of slowing down. Whether in our professional or personal lives, the always-on, always-connected nature of life in 2019 seems to be unavoidable.
2019-3-3 16:30 | |
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The battle against misinformation just signed up a powerful, albeit unlikely ally: Pinterest. Earlier this week, the social network evoked the nuclear option, electing to shut down search queries likely to lead to false or misleading information, according to the Wall Street Journal.
2019-2-28 03:13 | |
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Token4Hope, a transparent donation system running on blockchain technology, has successfully launched its functional application for the Austrian humanitarian organization, Wiener Hilfswerk. The platform aims to alleviate the trust issues pertaining to social impact funds and empower charities with transparency through DECENT’s DCore blockchain. The project... Source
2019-2-20 20:31 | |
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Half-way through 2018, Uganda introduced a Social Media (OTT) tax which required Ugandans to pay a tax if they wanted to access services such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and many others. It turns out, based on released data by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), the tax has had a significant impact on the number of internet users in the East Afrikan country resulting in a drop of 3 million internet users over a 3 month period.
2019-2-18 16:40 | |
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Herve Falciani wants the fledgling technology to produce a positive social impact with the help of his ‘ethical’ cryptocurrency
2019-3-27 19:53 | |
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The International Blockchain Monetary Reserve, IBMR.io, a social impact economic development reserve and advisory, announced today the launch of the Asia Reserve Currency Coin (ARCC), a macroeconomic stablecoin that will be used to support and amplify the economic development of...
2019-2-7 15:03 | |
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If you’ve been following the news and social media discussion regarding Bitcoin for very long at all you’ve likely seen multiple articles castigating Bitcoin as a harbinger of environmental degradation and destruction.
2019-2-5 12:16 | |
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Monitoring huge transactions is something that is made rather easy by the blockchain. Crypto whale watching is becoming an industry of its own and dozens if not hundreds of accounts are popping up on social media for this exact purpose.
2019-1-29 09:22 | |
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Facebook has had a very difficult year for 2018, starting with the discovery that 87 million users were used by a consulting firm that worked with the campaign to bring President Donald Trump to office.
2019-1-23 00:04 | |
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Cryptoxygen is a complete platform, comprising of cryptocurrency exchange and wallet, to provide the users with the most secure, high-speed solutions to buy, sell and store crypto assets, at the cheapest rates.
2019-1-5 21:09 | |
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A report compiled by researchers from Tel Aviv University, The University of Tulsa, and the University of New Mexico has found nearly 5,000 advertisements for cryptocurrency pump and dump signals on social platforms Discord and Telegram posted during the first half of 2018.
2018-12-23 23:00 | |
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The IOTA Foundation announced today its newest hires this December. Mariana De La Roche Wills, Colombian human rights and social entrepreneur has been appointed to the Social Impact and Regulatory Affairs team of the Foundation.
2018-12-11 13:29 | |
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Bounties Network and ConsenSys Social Impact have joined hands for an environmental rehabilitation initiative aimed at saving the Philippines’ beaches by rewarding volunteers with Ether.
2018-12-10 12:52 | |
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There are only five days left until Hard Fork Decentralized, our blockchain and cryptocurrency event in London, UK. If you’re interested in discussing the future of payments with industry leaders, we’ve selected some events you shouldn’t miss: Decentralized finance (University College London) The UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies focuses on the impact of this tech on our socio-economic systems, as well as the promotion of a safe and organic development and adoption of blockchain-based platforms.
2018-12-7 19:14 | |
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