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8 Ways Blockchain Can be an Environmental Game-Changer.
Blockchain platform's like Soar have the potential to help address these global environmental issues.
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CRYPTOCARZ IS THE WORLD'S FIRST BLOCKCHAIN-ENABLED VR RACING EXPERIENCE
CRYPTOCARZ IS A MULTIPLAYER, VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)-ENABLED RACING EXPERIENCE, DEVELOPED USING THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN.
To play, users will have to load the car assets into the game from an Ethereum wallet, where they are stored as an ERC721 token. The ERC721 token has paved the way for a new class of digital assets called non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These allow users to own, customise and maintain control in the
same way as in the physical world.
Blockchain Studios contends that this new asset class opens up new opportunities for user engagement and ownership. We believe that the first wave of innovation will come from gaming. CryptoCarz is the first platform to bring together blockchain, VR and gaming technologies. By giving gamers new options to visualise, own, adapt and race their own car, we think a new era in gaming has arrived.
WE BELIEVE GAMING IT WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RISE – AND INTEGRATION – OF THREE TECHNOLOGIES: BLOCKCHAIN, E-SPORTS AND VR.
Each of them, independently, represents a paradigm shift for game development and consumption. Their attributes will make technology more individual, inclusive and immersive. The combination of these technologies will give rise to new scenarios, where gamers can own, modify, trade and play in an unprecedented way
THE CONCEPT
Cars, gaming and cryptocurrency are shared passions at Blockchain Studios, so combining them was a natural choice when we started working on CryptoCarz. We see strong synergies between the cryptocurrency community and gamers and we believe there is a market for a game that blends racing, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. CryptoCarz is a multiplayer, fully immersive, VR-enabled racing experience, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. To race in the game, a user will have to demonstrate ownership of a car that is modelled and stored as an ERC721 Ethereum token in the gamer’s private wallet. The car will then be loaded into the game via integration with MetaMask and other proprietary tools
The game will initially offer 20 car models representative of the top cryptocurrencies. Each model will have a maximum of 650 units, hard-coded and numerically defined in the smart contract.No further cars in these models will be produced in the future.
Links:
Telegram Group: https://t.me/cryptocarz
Website: www.cryptocarz.io
Whitepaper: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_WP.pdf
One pager: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_1P.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptocarz
Medium blog: https://medium.com/@cryptocarz
CRYPTOCARZ IS A MULTIPLAYER, VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)-ENABLED RACING EXPERIENCE, DEVELOPED USING THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN.
To play, users will have to load the car assets into the game from an Ethereum wallet, where they are stored as an ERC721 token. The ERC721 token has paved the way for a new class of digital assets called non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These allow users to own, customise and maintain control in the
same way as in the physical world.
Blockchain Studios contends that this new asset class opens up new opportunities for user engagement and ownership. We believe that the first wave of innovation will come from gaming. CryptoCarz is the first platform to bring together blockchain, VR and gaming technologies. By giving gamers new options to visualise, own, adapt and race their own car, we think a new era in gaming has arrived.
WE BELIEVE GAMING IT WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RISE – AND INTEGRATION – OF THREE TECHNOLOGIES: BLOCKCHAIN, E-SPORTS AND VR.
Each of them, independently, represents a paradigm shift for game development and consumption. Their attributes will make technology more individual, inclusive and immersive. The combination of these technologies will give rise to new scenarios, where gamers can own, modify, trade and play in an unprecedented way
THE CONCEPT
Cars, gaming and cryptocurrency are shared passions at Blockchain Studios, so combining them was a natural choice when we started working on CryptoCarz. We see strong synergies between the cryptocurrency community and gamers and we believe there is a market for a game that blends racing, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. CryptoCarz is a multiplayer, fully immersive, VR-enabled racing experience, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. To race in the game, a user will have to demonstrate ownership of a car that is modelled and stored as an ERC721 Ethereum token in the gamer’s private wallet. The car will then be loaded into the game via integration with MetaMask and other proprietary tools
The game will initially offer 20 car models representative of the top cryptocurrencies. Each model will have a maximum of 650 units, hard-coded and numerically defined in the smart contract.No further cars in these models will be produced in the future.
Links:
Telegram Group: https://t.me/cryptocarz
Website: www.cryptocarz.io
Whitepaper: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_WP.pdf
One pager: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_1P.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptocarz
Medium blog: https://medium.com/@cryptocarz
Ivy League U.S. university Yale is said to be one of the investors that helped to raise $400 million for a major new cryptocurrency-focused fund, Bloomberg reports October 5.
The fund, dubbed ‘Paradigm,’ was reportedly created by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang, and Charles Noyes, formerly of stalwart crypto fund Pantera Capital.
Huang was said to have left Sequoia in June to embark on establishing the fund together with Ehrsam, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal at the time.
The fund, dubbed ‘Paradigm,’ was reportedly created by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang, and Charles Noyes, formerly of stalwart crypto fund Pantera Capital.
Huang was said to have left Sequoia in June to embark on establishing the fund together with Ehrsam, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal at the time.
UK Land Registry begins new phase of blockchain research project
The U.K.'s national land registry is moving into the second phase of its ongoing blockchain research effort.
The HM Land Registry announced Tuesday it was partnering with blockchain company Methods, which plans to build on R3's Corda framework to develop a platform able to store land registration information and streamline the process for buying or selling properties, according to a press release.
Dubbed Digital Street, the HM Land Registry's research began last year when it first announced the project. In addition for its desire to streamline the buy-sell process, the agency said it hoped to store more "granular information" using a blockchain platform.
In a statement Tuesday, HM Land Registry Chief Executive Graham Farrant said the agency aims to become "the world's leading land registry," citing "speed, ease of use and an open approach to data" as areas he wants to excel at.
The U.K.'s national land registry is moving into the second phase of its ongoing blockchain research effort.
The HM Land Registry announced Tuesday it was partnering with blockchain company Methods, which plans to build on R3's Corda framework to develop a platform able to store land registration information and streamline the process for buying or selling properties, according to a press release.
Dubbed Digital Street, the HM Land Registry's research began last year when it first announced the project. In addition for its desire to streamline the buy-sell process, the agency said it hoped to store more "granular information" using a blockchain platform.
In a statement Tuesday, HM Land Registry Chief Executive Graham Farrant said the agency aims to become "the world's leading land registry," citing "speed, ease of use and an open approach to data" as areas he wants to excel at.
Orvium - Open and Transparent Science Powered By Blockchain
It is time to get involved and get the control back of the human knowledge.
Orvium is more than another startup — you are about to participate in a project driven by top engineers and scientists with many years of experience driving innovation at CERN, the birthplace of the Web, and NASA.
Orvium aims to disrupt one of the most lucrative industry world-wide, with profit margins reported to exceed those of companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple, while making science more transparent, universal and open than ever. Orvium creates a unique decentralized platform powered by blockchain, decentralized storage, big data and artificial intelligence to create an unprecedented decentralized solution to process, validate, disseminate and preserve scientific knowledge forever.
We want you to be part of our future: Our TGE offers you the unique opportunity to buy ORVIUM tokens and join an excellent team. With your participation, we are going to scale science and become the leading publication platform while returning the benefits of science to society. The Web was originally designed to meet the demand for transparent and automatic information sharing between scientists around the world, lets do it now and for all.
Early-birds will be rewarded with a 10% bonus during our pre-sale.
Join us and be part of this exciting journey:
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It is time to get involved and get the control back of the human knowledge.
Orvium is more than another startup — you are about to participate in a project driven by top engineers and scientists with many years of experience driving innovation at CERN, the birthplace of the Web, and NASA.
Orvium aims to disrupt one of the most lucrative industry world-wide, with profit margins reported to exceed those of companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple, while making science more transparent, universal and open than ever. Orvium creates a unique decentralized platform powered by blockchain, decentralized storage, big data and artificial intelligence to create an unprecedented decentralized solution to process, validate, disseminate and preserve scientific knowledge forever.
We want you to be part of our future: Our TGE offers you the unique opportunity to buy ORVIUM tokens and join an excellent team. With your participation, we are going to scale science and become the leading publication platform while returning the benefits of science to society. The Web was originally designed to meet the demand for transparent and automatic information sharing between scientists around the world, lets do it now and for all.
Early-birds will be rewarded with a 10% bonus during our pre-sale.
Join us and be part of this exciting journey:
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BitGO Adds Stellar XLM and DASH
A leading Palo Alto-located cryptocurrency-related startup has announced that it will be adding Dash’s DASH and Stellar Lumens XLM among the coins it delivers as custodian solutions for. Known for being very selective in the process by which Palo Alto chooses the cryptocurrencies, signal how practical both the coins are.
Speaking for Fortune’s Balancing the Ledger, Mike Belshe – BitGo’s CEO and Founder announced the development. The CEO highlighted that the listing came as a results of both coin’s uniqueness and feature’s they offer.
A leading Palo Alto-located cryptocurrency-related startup has announced that it will be adding Dash’s DASH and Stellar Lumens XLM among the coins it delivers as custodian solutions for. Known for being very selective in the process by which Palo Alto chooses the cryptocurrencies, signal how practical both the coins are.
Speaking for Fortune’s Balancing the Ledger, Mike Belshe – BitGo’s CEO and Founder announced the development. The CEO highlighted that the listing came as a results of both coin’s uniqueness and feature’s they offer.
Recent research by blockchain-focused company Clovr has revealed that cryptocurrency investing is most popular among millennials earning from $75,000 to $99,999 annually. The survey collected responses from over 1,000 Americans between ages 18 and 80.
Per the survey, men are almost twice as likely as any other generation to invest in digital currencies, with 43 percent of men and 23 percent of women investing in crypto. 47 percent of individuals with an annual income not less than $75,000 annually have invested in digital assets, while less than a quarter of those earning under $25,000 said they can afford to significantly invest in crypto.
According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median weekly earnings in the second quarter of 2018 for a man between the ages of 25–34 was $857, or over $44,000 annually.
Per the survey, men are almost twice as likely as any other generation to invest in digital currencies, with 43 percent of men and 23 percent of women investing in crypto. 47 percent of individuals with an annual income not less than $75,000 annually have invested in digital assets, while less than a quarter of those earning under $25,000 said they can afford to significantly invest in crypto.
According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median weekly earnings in the second quarter of 2018 for a man between the ages of 25–34 was $857, or over $44,000 annually.
DApp Developers Are Key In Making Tron (TRX) Great
In the traditional world of investing, when an investor is making a choice as to what stock to buy, they look at...
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DApp Developers Are Key In Making Tron (TRX) Great - Ethereum World News
In the traditional world of investing, when an investor is making a choice as to what stock to buy, they look at the company’s final product and its popularity. This in turn means the company will make more sales, thus increasing its annual revenue. Revenue…
💦 ZERO CARBON - TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE USING BLOCKCHAIN
The Zero Carbon Project is tackling climate change using the blockchain and international carbon credits.
Renewable energy has responded well to the climate change challenge, with impressive cost reductions achieved. However, we are concerned that renewables remain too expensive and so the impact on carbon emissions is slow.
Innovative solution
The Zero Carbon Project has 2 parts:
1. deliver energy at a lower price than existing renewable and fossil fuel energy contracts; and
2. to entice people to use the Zero Carbon Project, provide a blockchain-driven incentive scheme to reward consumers for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project and encourage consumer action.
The first part of our solution consists of a competitive ‘Zero Carbon Market’ which provides consumers access to cheaper energy contracts where the carbon emissions have been offset by international carbon credits.
Secondly, our blockchain economy is based on Energis tokens that have been designed to capture the future value that customers receive form our Market. This is enabled using the distributed ledger, Ethereum smart contracts and crypto exchanges.
Energis tokens are underpinned by concrete value as energy suppliers must use them to pay their transaction fees for using our Market. Therefore, as our consumer base grows, the demand for Energis tokens increases, constrained by a fixed supply.
We intend that up to 70% of the transaction fees received by the Zero Carbon Project will be ‘recycled’ and provided to consumers as rewards for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project. Energy suppliers and consumers (“Customers”) can sell Energis tokens to other customers, including energy suppliers who purchase them to pay transaction fees. This is the Energis economic cycle.
Progress achieved to date
We have been actively building the Zero Carbon Market over the last year. This includes building the Project team, completing the systems, designing the Energis smart contracts and registering energy suppliers in the UK. Our UK Market is now complete and ready for launch in October 2018. This will be followed by a global roll out in 2019.
Track-record of innovation and execution
The Zero Carbon Project is a subsidiary of Beond www.beondgroup.com which is an award-winning energy and carbon consultancy based in London. Beond is a team of 30 energy market professionals who are passionate about helping clients achieve their ambitions and also about tackling global climate change, through the application of new technologies. Our core values are integrity, innovation and quality.
Beond services over 600 energy consumers in UK including Knight Frank, Capita, The Salvation Army and Salford County Council, and has received eight awards over the last three years covering innovation, green business and consultancy services.
Website: https://www.zerocarbonproject.com/
Telegram Group: https://t.me/ZeroCarbonProject
The Zero Carbon Project is tackling climate change using the blockchain and international carbon credits.
Renewable energy has responded well to the climate change challenge, with impressive cost reductions achieved. However, we are concerned that renewables remain too expensive and so the impact on carbon emissions is slow.
Innovative solution
The Zero Carbon Project has 2 parts:
1. deliver energy at a lower price than existing renewable and fossil fuel energy contracts; and
2. to entice people to use the Zero Carbon Project, provide a blockchain-driven incentive scheme to reward consumers for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project and encourage consumer action.
The first part of our solution consists of a competitive ‘Zero Carbon Market’ which provides consumers access to cheaper energy contracts where the carbon emissions have been offset by international carbon credits.
Secondly, our blockchain economy is based on Energis tokens that have been designed to capture the future value that customers receive form our Market. This is enabled using the distributed ledger, Ethereum smart contracts and crypto exchanges.
Energis tokens are underpinned by concrete value as energy suppliers must use them to pay their transaction fees for using our Market. Therefore, as our consumer base grows, the demand for Energis tokens increases, constrained by a fixed supply.
We intend that up to 70% of the transaction fees received by the Zero Carbon Project will be ‘recycled’ and provided to consumers as rewards for engaging with the Zero Carbon Project. Energy suppliers and consumers (“Customers”) can sell Energis tokens to other customers, including energy suppliers who purchase them to pay transaction fees. This is the Energis economic cycle.
Progress achieved to date
We have been actively building the Zero Carbon Market over the last year. This includes building the Project team, completing the systems, designing the Energis smart contracts and registering energy suppliers in the UK. Our UK Market is now complete and ready for launch in October 2018. This will be followed by a global roll out in 2019.
Track-record of innovation and execution
The Zero Carbon Project is a subsidiary of Beond www.beondgroup.com which is an award-winning energy and carbon consultancy based in London. Beond is a team of 30 energy market professionals who are passionate about helping clients achieve their ambitions and also about tackling global climate change, through the application of new technologies. Our core values are integrity, innovation and quality.
Beond services over 600 energy consumers in UK including Knight Frank, Capita, The Salvation Army and Salford County Council, and has received eight awards over the last three years covering innovation, green business and consultancy services.
Website: https://www.zerocarbonproject.com/
Telegram Group: https://t.me/ZeroCarbonProject
The Financial Crime Investigation Services (FNTT) organized the forum which saw representatives from the Bank of Lithuania, various governmental departments, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the State Security Department.
"The Financial Crime Investigation Service is advocating for innovation and for innovative technologies, but they should be subject to certain regulatory and control mechanisms. Virtual currency has huge cash flows, but worries about converting them into dollars and euros as quickly as possible, leaving virtual currencies as quickly as possible, " said Antonio Mikulsk, director of the FNTT.
Virtual currencies are currently not regulated in Lithuania and the growing number of crypto-related businesses combined with the transparent nature of the technology results in a fair amount of risk for the Lithuanian people. As such, the government has proposed a number of bills aimed at regulating the crypto environment.
However, the last year and a half has seen an increase in ICO turnover volume – around €500 million ($576 million) worth which is making the Lithuanian government nervous, calling for stricter anti-fraud mechanisms.
"According to ICO figures, Lithuania is one of the world leaders and shows the highest, 305%, growth from all over the world,” FNTT Deputy Director Mindaugas Petrauskas explained.
The trick, however, will be to ensure that the restrictions don’t cripple the industry.
"The Financial Crime Investigation Service is advocating for innovation and for innovative technologies, but they should be subject to certain regulatory and control mechanisms. Virtual currency has huge cash flows, but worries about converting them into dollars and euros as quickly as possible, leaving virtual currencies as quickly as possible, " said Antonio Mikulsk, director of the FNTT.
Virtual currencies are currently not regulated in Lithuania and the growing number of crypto-related businesses combined with the transparent nature of the technology results in a fair amount of risk for the Lithuanian people. As such, the government has proposed a number of bills aimed at regulating the crypto environment.
However, the last year and a half has seen an increase in ICO turnover volume – around €500 million ($576 million) worth which is making the Lithuanian government nervous, calling for stricter anti-fraud mechanisms.
"According to ICO figures, Lithuania is one of the world leaders and shows the highest, 305%, growth from all over the world,” FNTT Deputy Director Mindaugas Petrauskas explained.
The trick, however, will be to ensure that the restrictions don’t cripple the industry.
CRYPTOCARZ IS THE WORLD'S FIRST BLOCKCHAIN-ENABLED VR RACING EXPERIENCE
CRYPTOCARZ IS A MULTIPLAYER, VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)-ENABLED RACING EXPERIENCE, DEVELOPED USING THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN.
To play, users will have to load the car assets into the game from an Ethereum wallet, where they are stored as an ERC721 token. The ERC721 token has paved the way for a new class of digital assets called non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These allow users to own, customise and maintain control in the
same way as in the physical world.
Blockchain Studios contends that this new asset class opens up new opportunities for user engagement and ownership. We believe that the first wave of innovation will come from gaming. CryptoCarz is the first platform to bring together blockchain, VR and gaming technologies. By giving gamers new options to visualise, own, adapt and race their own car, we think a new era in gaming has arrived.
WE BELIEVE GAMING IT WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RISE – AND INTEGRATION – OF THREE TECHNOLOGIES: BLOCKCHAIN, E-SPORTS AND VR.
Each of them, independently, represents a paradigm shift for game development and consumption. Their attributes will make technology more individual, inclusive and immersive. The combination of these technologies will give rise to new scenarios, where gamers can own, modify, trade and play in an unprecedented way
THE CONCEPT
Cars, gaming and cryptocurrency are shared passions at Blockchain Studios, so combining them was a natural choice when we started working on CryptoCarz. We see strong synergies between the cryptocurrency community and gamers and we believe there is a market for a game that blends racing, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. CryptoCarz is a multiplayer, fully immersive, VR-enabled racing experience, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. To race in the game, a user will have to demonstrate ownership of a car that is modelled and stored as an ERC721 Ethereum token in the gamer’s private wallet. The car will then be loaded into the game via integration with MetaMask and other proprietary tools
The game will initially offer 20 car models representative of the top cryptocurrencies. Each model will have a maximum of 650 units, hard-coded and numerically defined in the smart contract.No further cars in these models will be produced in the future.
Links:
Telegram Group: https://t.me/cryptocarz
Website: www.cryptocarz.io
Whitepaper: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_WP.pdf
One pager: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_1P.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptocarz
Medium blog: https://medium.com/@cryptocarz
CRYPTOCARZ IS A MULTIPLAYER, VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)-ENABLED RACING EXPERIENCE, DEVELOPED USING THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN.
To play, users will have to load the car assets into the game from an Ethereum wallet, where they are stored as an ERC721 token. The ERC721 token has paved the way for a new class of digital assets called non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These allow users to own, customise and maintain control in the
same way as in the physical world.
Blockchain Studios contends that this new asset class opens up new opportunities for user engagement and ownership. We believe that the first wave of innovation will come from gaming. CryptoCarz is the first platform to bring together blockchain, VR and gaming technologies. By giving gamers new options to visualise, own, adapt and race their own car, we think a new era in gaming has arrived.
WE BELIEVE GAMING IT WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RISE – AND INTEGRATION – OF THREE TECHNOLOGIES: BLOCKCHAIN, E-SPORTS AND VR.
Each of them, independently, represents a paradigm shift for game development and consumption. Their attributes will make technology more individual, inclusive and immersive. The combination of these technologies will give rise to new scenarios, where gamers can own, modify, trade and play in an unprecedented way
THE CONCEPT
Cars, gaming and cryptocurrency are shared passions at Blockchain Studios, so combining them was a natural choice when we started working on CryptoCarz. We see strong synergies between the cryptocurrency community and gamers and we believe there is a market for a game that blends racing, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. CryptoCarz is a multiplayer, fully immersive, VR-enabled racing experience, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. To race in the game, a user will have to demonstrate ownership of a car that is modelled and stored as an ERC721 Ethereum token in the gamer’s private wallet. The car will then be loaded into the game via integration with MetaMask and other proprietary tools
The game will initially offer 20 car models representative of the top cryptocurrencies. Each model will have a maximum of 650 units, hard-coded and numerically defined in the smart contract.No further cars in these models will be produced in the future.
Links:
Telegram Group: https://t.me/cryptocarz
Website: www.cryptocarz.io
Whitepaper: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_WP.pdf
One pager: https://www.cryptocarz.io/docs/CryptoCarz_1P.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptocarz
Medium blog: https://medium.com/@cryptocarz
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By the end of the year, an initial coin offering, or ICO, will be launched on bitcoin.
You heard that right – on bitcoin.
While ethereum, the second largest blockchain by market cap, and other smart contract protocols, have been the choice for the majority of entrepreneurs interested in creating new crypto tokens, with a sidechain created by RSK, bitcoin will now have the ability to host the new fundraising mechanism as well.
You heard that right – on bitcoin.
While ethereum, the second largest blockchain by market cap, and other smart contract protocols, have been the choice for the majority of entrepreneurs interested in creating new crypto tokens, with a sidechain created by RSK, bitcoin will now have the ability to host the new fundraising mechanism as well.
Blockchain Tourists : Ecosystem participants (speculators, entrepreneurs, opportunists etc) who come in during the hype cycles and then leave when things get tough. You can’t blame them - by definition, tourists tend to only like good weather...
🗣Vinny Lingham, CEO of CivicKey.
🗣Vinny Lingham, CEO of CivicKey.
Forbes names Ripple Co-Founder Chris Larsen as wealthiest from crypto
Chris Larsen has made this year’s Forbes 400 rich list as the 383rd richest person and is the first to ever make the list with a value accumulated solely from cryptocurrency. Forbes released its latest Forbes 400 list, for 2018, last week, estimating that Larsen is worth $2.1 billion. After gaining $78.5 billion in a single year, Jeff Bezos, with a total fortune of $160 million has finally beaten Bill Gates to the number one spot. Gates previously held the prime position in the list for 24 years. Joining Larsen for the first time on the list is also Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox.
The rich again appear to be getting richer, to make the list individuals need a net worth of at least $2.1 billion, the highest the entry level has been ever. The average net worth of the list’s members has also risen by half a billion to $7.2 billion, again its highest ever.
A Credit Suisse report earlier in 2018 estimated that the world’s richest one percent now own over half of all global wealth, a figure likely to increase to two-thirds of global wealth by 2030. Larsen reportedly owns around 5.19 billion XRP tokens, as well as shares in XRP’s parent company Ripple. Last January, Forbes estimated Larsen’s net worth at $37.3 billion. At that time, XRP was worth $2.39, at the time of writing each XRP coin is worth $0.47 leading to the decline in Larsen’s net worth to its $2.1 billion of today.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse was worth an estimated $9.5 billion in January thanks to Ripple. However, due to the volatility of XRP and cryptocurrency markets, his net worth has fallen below the threshold needed to make the Forbes 400 list.
Ripple may still deliver an increase to both Larsen and Garlinghouse’s fortunes, as well as other XRP investors. News of the launch of Ripple’s xRapid, blockchain-based cross-border payments facility, suddenly pushed the price of XRP upwards in late September.
Yet, the actual launch didn’t cause XRP to maintain value, as its price fell back to the current value. Wider adoption of the xRapid product, the first such payments system to use a cryptocurrency in making transactions, could be a boon to both Ripple and XRP.
Forbes published a 2018 Crypto Rich List in February 2018 which has yet to be updated considering the market decline of this year. That list placed Larsen as the richest in cryptocurrency, followed by Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys. In third place is Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.
Chris Larsen has made this year’s Forbes 400 rich list as the 383rd richest person and is the first to ever make the list with a value accumulated solely from cryptocurrency. Forbes released its latest Forbes 400 list, for 2018, last week, estimating that Larsen is worth $2.1 billion. After gaining $78.5 billion in a single year, Jeff Bezos, with a total fortune of $160 million has finally beaten Bill Gates to the number one spot. Gates previously held the prime position in the list for 24 years. Joining Larsen for the first time on the list is also Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox.
The rich again appear to be getting richer, to make the list individuals need a net worth of at least $2.1 billion, the highest the entry level has been ever. The average net worth of the list’s members has also risen by half a billion to $7.2 billion, again its highest ever.
A Credit Suisse report earlier in 2018 estimated that the world’s richest one percent now own over half of all global wealth, a figure likely to increase to two-thirds of global wealth by 2030. Larsen reportedly owns around 5.19 billion XRP tokens, as well as shares in XRP’s parent company Ripple. Last January, Forbes estimated Larsen’s net worth at $37.3 billion. At that time, XRP was worth $2.39, at the time of writing each XRP coin is worth $0.47 leading to the decline in Larsen’s net worth to its $2.1 billion of today.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse was worth an estimated $9.5 billion in January thanks to Ripple. However, due to the volatility of XRP and cryptocurrency markets, his net worth has fallen below the threshold needed to make the Forbes 400 list.
Ripple may still deliver an increase to both Larsen and Garlinghouse’s fortunes, as well as other XRP investors. News of the launch of Ripple’s xRapid, blockchain-based cross-border payments facility, suddenly pushed the price of XRP upwards in late September.
Yet, the actual launch didn’t cause XRP to maintain value, as its price fell back to the current value. Wider adoption of the xRapid product, the first such payments system to use a cryptocurrency in making transactions, could be a boon to both Ripple and XRP.
Forbes published a 2018 Crypto Rich List in February 2018 which has yet to be updated considering the market decline of this year. That list placed Larsen as the richest in cryptocurrency, followed by Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys. In third place is Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.
✳️In October, the Robinhood mobile app launched in the US states of Rhode Island, Tennessee and Arkansas.
In September, residents of the states of Alaska and Oklahoma also gained access to trade on the platform.
Earlier, the head of the startup, Beich Bhatt, said that Robinhood is planning to go public in the medium or long term.
At the time of adding support for Ethereum Classic (ETC), the application was already available in 19 states.
With Robinhood, you can learn to invest in the stock market as you build out your portfolio. The service is free of charge. It is available for US residents only.
In September, residents of the states of Alaska and Oklahoma also gained access to trade on the platform.
Earlier, the head of the startup, Beich Bhatt, said that Robinhood is planning to go public in the medium or long term.
At the time of adding support for Ethereum Classic (ETC), the application was already available in 19 states.
With Robinhood, you can learn to invest in the stock market as you build out your portfolio. The service is free of charge. It is available for US residents only.
🕵♀🕵♂In France, fraudsters stole about € 31 million of savings from bank accounts. The criminals promised the victims income from investments in cryptocurrency. It is known that at least 700 people were affected by the actions of fraudsters.
The attackers placed their phone number on 200 phishing sites. After talking to criminals, investors transferred money to their accounts.
According to analysts of the Coinhouse Stock Exchange, fraudsters began their activities in Belgium. There they managed to steal € 100 million.
The attackers placed their phone number on 200 phishing sites. After talking to criminals, investors transferred money to their accounts.
According to analysts of the Coinhouse Stock Exchange, fraudsters began their activities in Belgium. There they managed to steal € 100 million.
🕌🌆Citizens of Dubai will be able to pay for government utilities, school fees, purchases and so on with a cryptocurrency called emCash in the nearest future.
It will become a reality thanks to a partnership between Pundi X, ebooc Fintech & Loyalty Labs and emcredit, Dubai’s Credit Bureau.
A new platform will be based on Pundi X POS (point of sale) technology. The stablecoin will be equivalent to UAE dirham.
emCash was launched by emcredit, a government entity under the Dubai Department of Economic Development.
The technology is still in beta version and will need to be approved by the regulators this year.
🗣Pundi X co-founder and CEO Zac Cheah:
Bringing blockchain-based payments technology into the government sphere is a major development for the technology. But to be able to bring it to one of the great cities of the world and the most advanced economy in the Middle East makes today a historic moment for the real-world application of a technology that has promised so much potential until now.
It will become a reality thanks to a partnership between Pundi X, ebooc Fintech & Loyalty Labs and emcredit, Dubai’s Credit Bureau.
A new platform will be based on Pundi X POS (point of sale) technology. The stablecoin will be equivalent to UAE dirham.
emCash was launched by emcredit, a government entity under the Dubai Department of Economic Development.
The technology is still in beta version and will need to be approved by the regulators this year.
🗣Pundi X co-founder and CEO Zac Cheah:
Bringing blockchain-based payments technology into the government sphere is a major development for the technology. But to be able to bring it to one of the great cities of the world and the most advanced economy in the Middle East makes today a historic moment for the real-world application of a technology that has promised so much potential until now.
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It is time to get involved and get the control back of the human knowledge.
Orvium is more than another startup — you are about to participate in a project driven by top engineers and scientists with many years of experience driving innovation at CERN, the birthplace of the Web, and NASA.
Orvium aims to disrupt one of the most lucrative industry world-wide, with profit margins reported to exceed those of companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple, while making science more transparent, universal and open than ever. Orvium creates a unique decentralized platform powered by blockchain, decentralized storage, big data and artificial intelligence to create an unprecedented decentralized solution to process, validate, disseminate and preserve scientific knowledge forever.
We want you to be part of our future: Our TGE offers you the unique opportunity to buy ORVIUM tokens and join an excellent team. With your participation, we are going to scale science and become the leading publication platform while returning the benefits of science to society. The Web was originally designed to meet the demand for transparent and automatic information sharing between scientists around the world, lets do it now and for all.
Early-birds will be rewarded with a 10% bonus during our pre-sale.
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U.S. tech giant IBM has officially launched its blockchain-based food tracking network, Food Trust, after 18 months of testing, the company revealed in a press-release Monday, October 8.
In the same announcement, the corporation revealed that another major food retailer Carrefour is joining their ecosystem. The France-based company that operates more than 12 thousands stores in 33 countries will first test blockchain on their own stores. As IBM’s press release reports, by 2022 Carrefour is planning to expand blockchain to all of its brands around the world.
IBM Food Trust was first announced back in 2016 as a blockchain solution that would connect different parties in the food industry. During the trial period, which started August 2017, the company partnered with Nestle SA, Dole Food Co., Driscoll’s Inc., Golden State Foods, Kroger Co., McCormick and Co., McLane Co., Tyson Foods Inc. and Unilever NV.
In the same announcement, the corporation revealed that another major food retailer Carrefour is joining their ecosystem. The France-based company that operates more than 12 thousands stores in 33 countries will first test blockchain on their own stores. As IBM’s press release reports, by 2022 Carrefour is planning to expand blockchain to all of its brands around the world.
IBM Food Trust was first announced back in 2016 as a blockchain solution that would connect different parties in the food industry. During the trial period, which started August 2017, the company partnered with Nestle SA, Dole Food Co., Driscoll’s Inc., Golden State Foods, Kroger Co., McCormick and Co., McLane Co., Tyson Foods Inc. and Unilever NV.
If you want to use Bitcoin as a method of payment, this strategy is more rational and convenient than doing lots of on-chain tx's:
1. Spend with your credit card with no debt on it.
2. When your credit card bill comes, sell just enough bitcoin to pay the bill.
🗣Jimmy Song, bitcoin educator, developer.
1. Spend with your credit card with no debt on it.
2. When your credit card bill comes, sell just enough bitcoin to pay the bill.
🗣Jimmy Song, bitcoin educator, developer.
