2021-11-29 16:54 |
Nonfungible tokens could be a step toward new social interactions, a notion that might not be as far-fetched as it sounds.
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The new social app has driven over 4,400 ETH ($8.1 million) in trading volume in less than 24 hours since its launch, far surpassing OpenSea’s in the same time frame. But with its mysterious origins, lack of privacy policy and lagging network, it raises some red flags.
2023-8-12 22:25 | |
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New technology will allow GameFi, NFT and social projects to cut their transaction expenses
2022-7-12 13:09 | |
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Billionaire Frank McCourt’s new initiative Project Liberty teamed up with Gavin Wood’s Polkadot to build a blockchain that is capable of storing social media users’ data so they can own and control it.
2022-5-26 06:10 | |
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In the last year, nearly every major social network has rolled out new features to improve the user experience and expand the platform’s functionality. Twitter raised its character count, Snapchat introduced its Lens Studio and Instagram gave users the ability to save “highlights” from their Stories.
2018-9-14 12:00 | |
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Crypto, charity and cycling. It’s an unlikely triad, but two fitness enthusiasts-turned-crypto philanthropists believe that, taken in combination, the three can drive positive change.
2018-9-12 21:42 | |
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Apple is making a play at the publishing business. In March, the company acquired Texture, a subscription-based magazine reader that charges a flat fee to read all the included content you’d like.
2018-9-8 04:29 | |
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LinkedIn has been keeping its finger on the pulse of the United States’ most thriving startups, and crypto organizations are showing tremendous signs of life — and growth.
2018-9-8 23:36 | |
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HashNET is scalable, efficient and high-impact decentralised solution to social innovation challenges leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology (DLTs). This algorithm features faster transaction time, masternodes and will have an open source, community governed crypto-currency – Tolar.
2018-9-7 03:33 | |
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Minted. one, a new mobile app, will provide users with a one-click interface that allows them to create their own personalized crypto tokens. According to the project’s blog: “Minted.
2018-9-5 18:38 | |
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Tsukuba is now the first Japanese city to test a voting system that incorporates blockchain technology. From West Virginia to Switzerland, blockchain’s incorporation into voting systems has created a buzz.
2018-9-4 10:00 | |
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The London and Los Angeles-based artist once dubbed “the next Andy Warhol” by actor Michael Caine, Lincoln Townley, has sold an entire collection of works in exchange for cryptocurrency via popular social media platform Wechat.
2018-9-4 00:05 | |
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A lot of projects aim to utilize blockchain technology to advance society as a whole. Focusing on social media may not necessarily achieve that goal, although it is still an option worth exploring. Uhive aims to become the new comprehensive social network, although achieving that goal will be quite a challenge. Uhive in a Nutshell Becoming […]
2018-9-2 17:00 | |
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For those new to the world of digital currencies, being able to lean on others when entering the trading arena is a huge benefit. Akin to legacy “copy trading,” where a novice forex trader will copy experienced traders’ plays, mutual or social crypto trading is a support system that millions find beneficial. It too comes […]
2018-9-1 13:49 | |
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Various efforts have been undertaken to disrupt traditional social networks of all kinds. LinkedIn may face a lot of competition from Truebase, a new platform aimed at attracting blockchain professionals.
2018-9-1 01:00 | |
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Online Bitcoin casino giant Bitcasino, achieved a great feat in its quest to improve the customer experience of its teeming users. The leading online casino initiated the integration of a Telegram social media login and cryptocurrency SOC login, which is a first in the industry.
2018-9-1 23:51 | |
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Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.
2018-9-4 21:43 | |
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According to new reports, the accounts of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the dark webs Silk Road may have seen some significant whale like movements. Though we can’t guarantee that the accounts in question belong to Ulbricht, many fingers are now pointing in that direction.
2018-8-31 16:00 | |
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New Yorkers using apps including Snapchat, Citi Bike, or The Weather Channel will have noticed that this morning New York had been renamed “Jewtropolis” on both Android and iOS devices. When users zoom in on Snap Maps, it shows that Snap Map has marked Manhattan’s East Village with anti-Semitic language.
2018-8-30 17:05 | |
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Influencers are individuals or organizations with a significant number of audience on social media. Currently, influencer marketing has emerged to be one of the most powerful marketing tools in the global e-commerce market with its market size reaching two billion U.
2018-8-30 11:00 | |
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Russia, they are on the fence about cryptocurrencies, but when it comes to blockchain technology, authorities and services over there see blockchain as a favourable innovation. Latest reports from Russia suggest that the Russian State Pension Fund (PFR), a social service within Russia, are set to start working with blockchain technologies in order to make the most of smart contracts, to issue employment contracts between employers and new employees.
2018-8-30 08:00 | |
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Though TRON (TRX) was initially mocked by crypto enthusiasts for being too ambitious, the project seems to be proving critics wrong with win after win this year. Only a couple of days ago, the platform revealed its new social media dApp a little after announcing its purchase of BitTorrent back in July.
2018-8-30 22:59 | |
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Chanel, Dior, Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren, Armani, Versace, Oscar De La Renta, Jean Paul Gaultier, Pierre Cardin, and Louis Vuitton are just a few of the names of famous fashion designers you may recognize.
2018-8-30 21:36 | |
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TRON CEO Justin Sun has just announced plans for a new blockchain-based social media platform called TronChat. The new dApp will be built on TRON’s recently announced TRON Virtual Machine (TVM) and will be offering TRX token rewards to its users.
2018-8-28 22:52 | |
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Crypto is making its entrance into the world’s academic scene, and students are lining up to learn. A recent Coinbase study reveals that University students want to learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
2018-8-28 22:40 | |
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Last week, Chinese authorities made their vision on cryptocurrencies very clear, as new movements took hold across the country banning certain aspects of the industry, including the spread of crypto news on social media giants, WeChat, a block on over 100 cryptocurrency exchanges via Chinese internet and even a ban on event venues in Beijing hosting cryptocurrency and blockchain related events and conferences.
2018-8-28 15:00 | |
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Influencers are individuals or organizations with a significant number of audience on social media. Currently, influencer marketing has emerged to be one of the most powerful marketing tools in the global e-commerce market with its market size reaching 2 billion U.
2018-8-28 12:30 | |
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The penetration and adoption of the internet have made it the go-to tool for all social interactions, with people both known and unknown. Social media, a relatively new umbrella term has become common talk ever since Facebook, Twitter and other “social media” platforms came into existence.
2018-8-28 09:48 | |
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In this week’s daily editions of Bitcoin in Brief we reported about a new Islamic trading platform, a couple of steps towards self regulation of the industry and a new app for matching buyers and sellers off-exchange.
2018-8-26 14:15 | |
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For those with influence, social media is not only a tool for online interaction but for also generating income. Through blockchain technology, Tron aims to democratize social media monetization with the launch of its new decentralized application TronChat.
2018-8-25 04:00 | |
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A new Reddit post published by a core developer at PascalCoin warns that new proposals being made by Bitcoin Cash could bring “fatal errors” to the BCH network. The developers name is Herman Schoenfeld, and he has taken to social media out of what he claims to be a “moral duty” to protect Bitcoin Cash… The post Crypto Developer Warns “Bitcoin Cash May Introduce Fatal Errors” appeared first on UNHASHED.
2018-8-25 00:54 | |
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Social media platform Kik has recently launched a new app known as Kinit to enable iOS users to earn and spend the Kin digital currency. Details of the Kinit App According to VentureBeat, Canadian messaging app Kik has given iOS users the opportunity to earn and spend cryptocurrency with the launch of its Kinit app.
2018-8-24 00:30 | |
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China is continuing its crackdown on bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related ventures. The country is now blocking access to more than 120 offshore cryptocurrency exchanges utilized for trading purposes by mainland customers.
2018-8-24 00:24 | |
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The first social media influencer search engine in China, Robin8, has announced a new strategic partnership with a social intelligence consulting firm, Kantar Media CIC. The two will be working together to launch a beta of a revolutionary new KOL profiling system, which will help brands verify influencer data performance using blockchain technology.
2018-8-24 18:15 | |
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Chipotle is good at two things: 1. ) making tasty burritos, and 2. ) poisoning the people who eat its burritos with norovirus. But now it’s branching into new territory. Buzzfeed News reports the casual Mexican chain is launching a new startup accelerator.
2018-8-23 14:41 | |
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Zheping Huang, reporter for South China Morning Post, claims to have verified authenticity of online documents urging further crackdowns by the Chinese government as they relate to cryptocurrency.
2018-8-23 12:05 | |
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What follows is an open letter from Jimmy Zhong, co-founder and CEO of IOST, to his team members and shared with Bitcoin Magazine with permission. Recently, I’ve been thinking about an ultimate way of safely storing value — gold, Bitcoin, real estate and power all came to mind.
2018-8-23 22:20 | |
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A lot of exciting projects use Ethereum’s blockchain to offer new services and features to the world. Peepeth is unique in that it is designed to be a decentralized social network. With a Kickstarter campaign being created for this project, it remains to be seen how successful this venture will be when everything is said […]
2018-8-22 21:00 | |
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Whenever a new idea or technology reaches a certain threshold of popularity, Hollywood is bound to make a movie out of it. Virtual reality has the Matrix trilogy, while the popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook eventually spawned “The Social Network.
2018-8-21 16:49 | |
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In a digital world rife with data mismanagement at the personal expense of users, an increasingly social media-dominated social world, and the rapid contagion of fake news, many blockchain projects… The post Interview: Sapien Team on Web 3.0 and a New Social World appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-8-21 02:55 | |
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The European Union is reportedly planning to impose stricter regulations on social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter over the removal of online terrorist propaganda. The Financial Times reported on Sunday that according to new draft regulations to be published next month, the EU plans to impose fines on companies if terrorist content is not deleted within an hour of posting, abandoning its earlier approach of getting internet platforms to remove such content voluntarily.
2018-8-20 07:41 | |
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Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency investment firm SFOX has raked in roughly $22. 7 million in its Series A funding. The round was headed by venture platforms Social Capital and Tribe Capital and earned the participation of other firms like DCG, SV Angel, Blockchain Capital and Y Combinator.
2018-8-17 01:31 | |
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Brendan Eich answered questions from the Brave and BAT community on Reddit today. Brave is the browser that will soon be compensating users via ads, YouTube, and social media with its native BAT token.
2018-8-17 23:17 | |
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Kin, the new cryptocurrency backed by the social media app, Kik, announced $3 million in funding to 40 blockchain-based applications launching on its development platform. First announced back in July, the Kin Developer Program challenged 25 developers to create apps that “successfully create meaningful earn, spend, and peer-to-peer use cases for the Kin cryptocurrency in their… The post Kin Cryptocurrency to Distribute $3 Million Across 40 Blockchain Projects appeared first on UNHASHED.
2018-8-16 01:32 | |
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently revealed that the nation’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, will be used as a unit of account by the state oil company PDVSA.
2018-8-16 00:26 | |
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If data is the new oil, Facebook is the modern version of the Exxon Valdez. Fake news is big business, and it’s easy for central actors to use and abuse their users. Corporate astroturfers will pay handsomely for a well-used Reddit account or social media mention.
2018-8-15 17:47 | |
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Launched in 2009, the social networking app Foursquare was hailed as providing a cutting-edge approach for users to share their location with friends. Called a “check-in,” people would reveal their location through their mobile device by selecting the venue they were frequenting at that time.
2018-8-15 17:34 | |
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Despite constant pressure to ban them, it appears Twitter is actively contributing to the cryptocurrency scam epidemic on its platform and encouraging users to follow obvious scambot accounts. The social media giant was caught recommending a suspicious account impersonating Tesla CEO Elon Musk, as spotted by security researcher Troy Mursch.
2018-8-14 14:59 | |
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Europe-based KamaGames will launch its own token to allow its more than 100 million players a new, easier alternative to purchasing in-game chips. Trading in Ethereum for Chips KamaGames, a European operator of social casino games, is set to make purchasing in-game currency simpler than ever as it prepares to launch its own blockchain token, […] The post Social Casino Game to Bet on Cryptocurrencies appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-8-14 13:00 | |
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The Minds DApp climbed to the number one new app and Top 5 “Other” App within hours of its launch, bringing its million plus users to the blockchain. Minds (https://minds.com), the leading crypto social network with over one million users, today became the top New DApp on the Ethereum Mainnet following its launch just The post Minds surges to # 1 DApp appeared first on ItsBlockchain.
2018-8-14 09:31 | |
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Decentralized data storage company Arweave has launched its “Genesis Block” block to the moon in collaboration with two other companies.
River, an on-chain encrypted messaging protocol, has acquired Llama, a Founders Fund-backed smart contracts platform for decentralized governance. The acquisition will help River buttress its governance across its ecosystem, with the protocol integrating Llama’s open-source smart contracts technology directly into…
Ocean's DATUM is since this weekend putting transaction selection back into the hands of hashers, benefiting Bitcoin's censorship resistance.
Complexities in how blockchains have been designed detract from the powerful benefits they offer with decentralization, censorship resistance, and financial inclusion.
When we think of centralized AI gone wrong, imaginative readers may begin to conjure images of a society ruled by artificial general intelligence-powered robot overlords. Just as the Bitcoin movement was born out of a desire to create a permissionless financial system, decentralized AI aims to democratize access to AI technologies by removing gatekeeper chokepoints.
Blockchain technology undeniably shapes the future of decentralization, especially through application-specific blockchain platforms that promote decentralized networks.
Known for her fiery dissenting opinions, "Crypto Mom" discusses how the SEC operates, why she wants to see crypto thrive and her "Safe Harbor" proposal to allow projects to decentralize.