Lisk reported the successful completion of the process of managing the protocol Lisk Core 1.0, which has truly become the most important event in the history of the project. At the same time, there was a release, including the ability to include user messages, new APIs, etc. in the transaction.
Crypto exchange Huobi has completed an acquisition deal to become the largest shareholder of a public firm listed in Hong Kong, inching a step closer to a possible back-door listing.
https://cryptoangel.space/huobi-acquires-public-firm-for-70-million/
https://cryptoangel.space/huobi-acquires-public-firm-for-70-million/
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Walmart’s Latest Blockchain Patent Lets Robots Conduct Deliveries Across Supply Chain
U.S. retail giant Walmart has applied to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to patent a blockchain system for deliveries, according to an official patent document released August 30.
The new patent aims to provide a technology for running “in-field authenticating of autonomous electronic devices” to enable secure deliveries. The patent specifies that “in exemplary embodiments, two autonomous electronic devices, such as delivery drones or household autonomous robots, can authenticate each other using embodiments of security procedures described herein.”
The patent is entitled “Systems, Devices, and Methods for In-Field Authenticating of Autonomous Robots” and was filed in January 2018 by Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The document describes a system of operating multiple robots or drones that conduct package deliveries all across the supply chain. The machines are intended to operate based on wireless signals that enable blockchain-powered secure authentication of electronic devices’ identities.
U.S. retail giant Walmart has applied to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to patent a blockchain system for deliveries, according to an official patent document released August 30.
The new patent aims to provide a technology for running “in-field authenticating of autonomous electronic devices” to enable secure deliveries. The patent specifies that “in exemplary embodiments, two autonomous electronic devices, such as delivery drones or household autonomous robots, can authenticate each other using embodiments of security procedures described herein.”
The patent is entitled “Systems, Devices, and Methods for In-Field Authenticating of Autonomous Robots” and was filed in January 2018 by Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The document describes a system of operating multiple robots or drones that conduct package deliveries all across the supply chain. The machines are intended to operate based on wireless signals that enable blockchain-powered secure authentication of electronic devices’ identities.
Mozilla enters into a fight with mining without consent
Mozilla Firefox over the next three months will make some preliminary changes to your browser, including blocking the possibility of mining without consent.
Mozilla Firefox over the next three months will make some preliminary changes to your browser, including blocking the possibility of mining without consent.
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
The British digital assets trading platform Crypto Facilities has launched perpetual futures contracts in pairs XBT / USD, ETH / USD, BCH / USD, XRP / USD, LTC / USD and XRP / XBT.
Bidding on the Crypto Facilities platform is conducted in 24/7 mode, and as a security, you can use the Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, XRP and Bitcoin Cash crypto-currencies. For comparison, a rival BitMEX as a security can act only bitcoin.
Bidding on the Crypto Facilities platform is conducted in 24/7 mode, and as a security, you can use the Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, XRP and Bitcoin Cash crypto-currencies. For comparison, a rival BitMEX as a security can act only bitcoin.
A Managing Partner and the Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, Tom Lee suggested that the strong performance of assets and ETFs based on emerging markets will likely lead to the increase in the price of Bitcoin, given the correlation between the two dating back to early 2017.
🗣He added:
So why do we think they’re connected? Well, there is two factors. The first is hedge funds — see hedge funds typically rent emerging market stocks. So they do risk-on, risk-off. So when they’re risk-off, Bitcoin also suffers because they are risk off. The second reason has to do with wealth effect. Wealth effect means that if you are living in an emerging market, and you see your stock market fall hugely, that you will have a lot less money to buy Bitcoin.
🗣He added:
So why do we think they’re connected? Well, there is two factors. The first is hedge funds — see hedge funds typically rent emerging market stocks. So they do risk-on, risk-off. So when they’re risk-off, Bitcoin also suffers because they are risk off. The second reason has to do with wealth effect. Wealth effect means that if you are living in an emerging market, and you see your stock market fall hugely, that you will have a lot less money to buy Bitcoin.
🏛✅Colombian government seeks to join the circle of crypto friendly countries, therefore the President of Colombia Iván Duque Márquez proposed a new law under which the work of all crypto-related companies, that plan to open their offices in the country, will not be subject to taxation for ❗️five years.
The President of Colombia himself believes that such innovations will attract many companies, which in return will create a lot of new job opportunities.
He also believes that the blockchain technology will help fight corruption in the country, and improve the legal field, healthcare and state security.
Despite the fact that the Colombians themselves consider the president and his close political circle as puppets of US government, who are responsible for such high level of corruption in the country, many of them still believe that such innovations can positively influence the work of state structures.
The President of Colombia himself believes that such innovations will attract many companies, which in return will create a lot of new job opportunities.
He also believes that the blockchain technology will help fight corruption in the country, and improve the legal field, healthcare and state security.
Despite the fact that the Colombians themselves consider the president and his close political circle as puppets of US government, who are responsible for such high level of corruption in the country, many of them still believe that such innovations can positively influence the work of state structures.
💸🤝Bittrex exchange invested a 10% stake in blockchain firm Palladium.
🗣Paolo Catalfamo, founder and chairman of Palladium: We are excited to have such a global player on board. Bittrex’s investment in Palladium is a confirmation of Malta’s sound decision to be at the forefront of regulating blockchain technology.
Palladium shares are also owned by Investor Holding (85%), and Unikrn (15%), founded by former Microsoft Ventures employee Rahul Sood.
Other board members include a former attorney at the US Securities Exchange Commission and the former managing director of Credit Suisse.
💡Palladium presents customers with a singular, unified interface to manage their various asset classes and to access a wide array of services denominated both in fiat and in crypto currencies.
Also users can pay any bill at any time with any currency, crypto or fiat. Send in one currency and receive in another for the ultimate crypto functionality.
What’s more, platform enables virtual joint multi-asset accounts without ever moving fiat from the bank or crypto from the exchange. The security, transparency, and immediacy of blockchain affordscustomers and investors the rights and protections demanded by European regulators.
🗣Paolo Catalfamo, founder and chairman of Palladium: We are excited to have such a global player on board. Bittrex’s investment in Palladium is a confirmation of Malta’s sound decision to be at the forefront of regulating blockchain technology.
Palladium shares are also owned by Investor Holding (85%), and Unikrn (15%), founded by former Microsoft Ventures employee Rahul Sood.
Other board members include a former attorney at the US Securities Exchange Commission and the former managing director of Credit Suisse.
💡Palladium presents customers with a singular, unified interface to manage their various asset classes and to access a wide array of services denominated both in fiat and in crypto currencies.
Also users can pay any bill at any time with any currency, crypto or fiat. Send in one currency and receive in another for the ultimate crypto functionality.
What’s more, platform enables virtual joint multi-asset accounts without ever moving fiat from the bank or crypto from the exchange. The security, transparency, and immediacy of blockchain affordscustomers and investors the rights and protections demanded by European regulators.
Raincheck-Global loyalty & rewards points exchange aggregator on Stellar
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Built by a team with diverse backgrounds in full stack software development, data/cyber security, global payments, retail, travel, finance and investment; Our two founders pioneered the internet in the early 90’s, founding several tech startups and have a combined 50+ years experience in the ICT sector. The RAIN Token team recognises the faults in current loyalty/rewards schemes and with their wealth of knowledge, and experience, have created a solution.
Plus, unlike some exchanges, RAIN Token has your back if you get stuck. A dedicated customer service team is available 24/7. No more submitting a support ticket and waiting 2 weeks to get an automated response.
The RAIN Token is all about simplifying the reward/loyalty point systems and giving power back to the consumer, allowing them to attain the best value - Creating opportunities for retailers, and customer, alike. Get in on this awesome project before it takes off.
https://raintoken.org/
https://t.me/getraincheck
Want to be able to transfer your existing reward/loyalty points into one digital unit that can be used at any scheme? How about accurately monitoring your points, with the flexibility of transferring them at any time, on a fast and secure network? RAIN Token will give you this power at a fraction of the cost of other providers. Built on the Stellar Blockchain your secure transactions will go through within seconds at the cost of one cent per 100,000 transactions, whereas Ethereum based projects still cost around $0.20-1.45 per transaction. RAIN Token is the seamless and inexpensive experience you’ve been waiting for.
Built by a team with diverse backgrounds in full stack software development, data/cyber security, global payments, retail, travel, finance and investment; Our two founders pioneered the internet in the early 90’s, founding several tech startups and have a combined 50+ years experience in the ICT sector. The RAIN Token team recognises the faults in current loyalty/rewards schemes and with their wealth of knowledge, and experience, have created a solution.
Plus, unlike some exchanges, RAIN Token has your back if you get stuck. A dedicated customer service team is available 24/7. No more submitting a support ticket and waiting 2 weeks to get an automated response.
The RAIN Token is all about simplifying the reward/loyalty point systems and giving power back to the consumer, allowing them to attain the best value - Creating opportunities for retailers, and customer, alike. Get in on this awesome project before it takes off.
https://raintoken.org/
https://t.me/getraincheck
⚡️💣The Bittrex exchange decided to exclude Bitcoin Gold cryptocurrency from their listing, because the developers refused to pay compensation in the amount of 12,372 BTG after the 51% attack that happened in May.
Earlier Bittrex proposed a compromise option, in which it agreed to cover expenses from BTG's own reserves, and offered the remaining amount to be paid by the project.
But the BTG team declined such conditions, as they stated that such big amount is very hard to be covered by a single project, and has no significant impact on the exchange's financial capacity.
Morever, as it was added by the representatives, there is no reason to blame BTG’ developers, as the attack happened due to the vulnerability in the exchange’s system which is based on Proof-of-Work algorithm. The attackers misused a significant processing power on the NiceHash service, that led to such losses.
Earlier Bittrex proposed a compromise option, in which it agreed to cover expenses from BTG's own reserves, and offered the remaining amount to be paid by the project.
But the BTG team declined such conditions, as they stated that such big amount is very hard to be covered by a single project, and has no significant impact on the exchange's financial capacity.
Morever, as it was added by the representatives, there is no reason to blame BTG’ developers, as the attack happened due to the vulnerability in the exchange’s system which is based on Proof-of-Work algorithm. The attackers misused a significant processing power on the NiceHash service, that led to such losses.
⚖️The 2016 global election cycle raised questions about the validity of modern voting systems and had many looking for another solution.
📲💬Japanese city Tsukuba came up with an innovative project that might resolve such problems by implementing a municipal voting blockchain-system. An online portal allows the citizens to vote on important public issues right from their personal devices.
🚫The possibility of cheating is excluded thanks to the feature called My Number, which is a personal identification number. So that means that there will be no chance to vote twice or misuse somebody’s else private information.
❔But there is still a huge chance of human’s error, and the main question of how such innovative way of voting can be adopted globally is still unresolved.
Every new emerging technology faces a lot of systematic problems and criticism during its first baby steps, but it is all about blockchain specialists’ diligence and a matter of time when this revolutionary solution will become a common thing.
And if Tsukuba can work out the difficulties faced with implementation and voter confidence, this could become one of the most important pilot projects in blockchain technology.
📲💬Japanese city Tsukuba came up with an innovative project that might resolve such problems by implementing a municipal voting blockchain-system. An online portal allows the citizens to vote on important public issues right from their personal devices.
🚫The possibility of cheating is excluded thanks to the feature called My Number, which is a personal identification number. So that means that there will be no chance to vote twice or misuse somebody’s else private information.
❔But there is still a huge chance of human’s error, and the main question of how such innovative way of voting can be adopted globally is still unresolved.
Every new emerging technology faces a lot of systematic problems and criticism during its first baby steps, but it is all about blockchain specialists’ diligence and a matter of time when this revolutionary solution will become a common thing.
And if Tsukuba can work out the difficulties faced with implementation and voter confidence, this could become one of the most important pilot projects in blockchain technology.
🔜 Mobu (MOBU)
Mobu is a decentralised platform and end-to-end solution for launching compliant security tokens - "The Future of Security tokens".
The 80 Trillion dollar big securities market is coming to the blockchain. But there are still plenty of problems which occur when launching a security token. One of the main problems which arise when planning on launching a security token is the fact that it is a legal, regulatory and technical nightmare launching one. Furthermore, until now there is also no trusted competitive environment for ICO service providers to ensure lower pricing and better quality.
Those problems MOBU aims to solve.
MOBU is an ecosystem/marketplace that implements a unique MOB20 standard protocol to ensure compliant security tokens and similar to how the HTTP protocol defined the internet, the MOB20 protocol aims to define a set of commands that a compliant security token should implement!
Mobu uses the blockchain technology to create a set of rules that govern the issuance of security tokens while programming them into smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. This way they are transparent and immutable. And they decide on security tokens due to the lower fees, the more complex versions of dividend policies and voting rights, the possibility to execute deals faster and succeed cross-border funding within a larger investor base, as well as suffering fewer manipulations by financial institutions.
In the Mobu ecosystem the token issuers(real future companies on MOBU) post bounties to get service providers, Developers earn MOBU tokens for creating smart contracts, KYC providers pay MOBU tokens to join the network/ecosystem, Investors pay MOBU tokens for KYC process, legal representatives and escrow providers earn MOBU tokens for offering services. Mobu additionally will steel bank partnerships to ensure FIAT can easily be converted to crypto all around the world and MOBU tokens can be earned worldwide. Furthermore, Lockup utility will ensure scarcity of MOBU tokens!
The Pre-ICO with up to 25% bonus will start on 1st of September, you can already put yourself on the interest list on their website by clicking "Register Your Interest" and filling out your data.
🔶 Documents:
📑 Whitepaper — Mobu Whitepaper
🔶 Additional links:
🌐 Website — mobu.io
✈️ Telegram — t.me/mobuCHAT
🕊 Twitter — twitter.com/MobuICO
📓 Facebook — facebook.com/MobuICO
🐣 Reddit — reddit.com/r/Mobu/
📸 Instagram — instagram.com/MobuICO/
🐱 Github — github.com/mobuadmin
🗣 Bitcointalk — bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4726508.0
📚 Bitcoin Wiki — en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/MOBU
📺 YouTube — Mobu YouTube channel
📝 Medium — medium.com/mobu-io
🔶 ICO-Dates:
Symbol: MOBU
Token type: ETH (ERC20)
ICO Price: 1 RBY = 0.15 USD
Min purchase: 0.1 ETH
Total supply: Tokens are only issued when physically sold
(350,000,000 tokens maximum possible supply, as per smart contract)
Soft cap: 1,000,000 USD
Hard cap: 35,000,000 USD
ICO Start date: 1st of December 2018
The Pre-ICO starts on 1st of September and comes with an up to 25% Bonus, visit their website and click on "Register Your Interest" to keep informed.
🔶 Our Score:
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 4.5/5
The Mobu project, which delivers a product which is genuinely needed, is managed by a strong team and advisory board with lots of experience in a broad spectrum. They have a detailed whitepaper and a clear vision while entering a vast market where up until now none competitor is active. Security tokens are apparently "the future of Crypto", and thus, we expect Mobu to be a strong player and a success story in this area. The MVP is announced for this month, just before the Pre-Sale starts, and once we had a chance to test the platform, we will consider to higher the current rating.
🔶 Promotional video: https://youtu.be/ydlXE_E2UUo
Mobu is a decentralised platform and end-to-end solution for launching compliant security tokens - "The Future of Security tokens".
The 80 Trillion dollar big securities market is coming to the blockchain. But there are still plenty of problems which occur when launching a security token. One of the main problems which arise when planning on launching a security token is the fact that it is a legal, regulatory and technical nightmare launching one. Furthermore, until now there is also no trusted competitive environment for ICO service providers to ensure lower pricing and better quality.
Those problems MOBU aims to solve.
MOBU is an ecosystem/marketplace that implements a unique MOB20 standard protocol to ensure compliant security tokens and similar to how the HTTP protocol defined the internet, the MOB20 protocol aims to define a set of commands that a compliant security token should implement!
Mobu uses the blockchain technology to create a set of rules that govern the issuance of security tokens while programming them into smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. This way they are transparent and immutable. And they decide on security tokens due to the lower fees, the more complex versions of dividend policies and voting rights, the possibility to execute deals faster and succeed cross-border funding within a larger investor base, as well as suffering fewer manipulations by financial institutions.
In the Mobu ecosystem the token issuers(real future companies on MOBU) post bounties to get service providers, Developers earn MOBU tokens for creating smart contracts, KYC providers pay MOBU tokens to join the network/ecosystem, Investors pay MOBU tokens for KYC process, legal representatives and escrow providers earn MOBU tokens for offering services. Mobu additionally will steel bank partnerships to ensure FIAT can easily be converted to crypto all around the world and MOBU tokens can be earned worldwide. Furthermore, Lockup utility will ensure scarcity of MOBU tokens!
The Pre-ICO with up to 25% bonus will start on 1st of September, you can already put yourself on the interest list on their website by clicking "Register Your Interest" and filling out your data.
🔶 Documents:
📑 Whitepaper — Mobu Whitepaper
🔶 Additional links:
🌐 Website — mobu.io
✈️ Telegram — t.me/mobuCHAT
🕊 Twitter — twitter.com/MobuICO
📓 Facebook — facebook.com/MobuICO
🐣 Reddit — reddit.com/r/Mobu/
📸 Instagram — instagram.com/MobuICO/
🐱 Github — github.com/mobuadmin
🗣 Bitcointalk — bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4726508.0
📚 Bitcoin Wiki — en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/MOBU
📺 YouTube — Mobu YouTube channel
📝 Medium — medium.com/mobu-io
🔶 ICO-Dates:
Symbol: MOBU
Token type: ETH (ERC20)
ICO Price: 1 RBY = 0.15 USD
Min purchase: 0.1 ETH
Total supply: Tokens are only issued when physically sold
(350,000,000 tokens maximum possible supply, as per smart contract)
Soft cap: 1,000,000 USD
Hard cap: 35,000,000 USD
ICO Start date: 1st of December 2018
The Pre-ICO starts on 1st of September and comes with an up to 25% Bonus, visit their website and click on "Register Your Interest" to keep informed.
🔶 Our Score:
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 4.5/5
The Mobu project, which delivers a product which is genuinely needed, is managed by a strong team and advisory board with lots of experience in a broad spectrum. They have a detailed whitepaper and a clear vision while entering a vast market where up until now none competitor is active. Security tokens are apparently "the future of Crypto", and thus, we expect Mobu to be a strong player and a success story in this area. The MVP is announced for this month, just before the Pre-Sale starts, and once we had a chance to test the platform, we will consider to higher the current rating.
🔶 Promotional video: https://youtu.be/ydlXE_E2UUo
The Japanese city of Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, has recently tested a voting system based on blockchain technology, local newspaper The Japan Times wrote Sunday, September 2.
The city, which The Japan Times described as a “center for scientific research,” held the voting trial in late August. As Cointelegraph Japan reported earlier, in order to vote the participants had to have My Number Card — a 12-digit ID number issued to all citizens of Japan including foreign residents, introduced in 2015.
According to the city of Tsukuba’s official website, the election was dedicated to several social programs. Residents could choose which of 13 proposed initiatives they would like to support, including developing a new cancer diagnostic technology, constructing objects for outdoor sports, and creating sound navigation in the city.
Blockchain technology was reportedly used to prevent any sort of meddling in the voting process and to avoid the falsification of results.
The city, which The Japan Times described as a “center for scientific research,” held the voting trial in late August. As Cointelegraph Japan reported earlier, in order to vote the participants had to have My Number Card — a 12-digit ID number issued to all citizens of Japan including foreign residents, introduced in 2015.
According to the city of Tsukuba’s official website, the election was dedicated to several social programs. Residents could choose which of 13 proposed initiatives they would like to support, including developing a new cancer diagnostic technology, constructing objects for outdoor sports, and creating sound navigation in the city.
Blockchain technology was reportedly used to prevent any sort of meddling in the voting process and to avoid the falsification of results.
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:
https://t.me/orvium
https://orvium.io
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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In the last 24 hours Bitcoin Cash had more transactions than all other cryptocurrencies combined.
🗣Roger Ver, Bitcoin Cash promoter, crypto enthusiast.
🗣Roger Ver, Bitcoin Cash promoter, crypto enthusiast.
IBM announces Blockchain World Wire Payment System based on Stellar
IBM has recently announced the Blockchain World Wire, a new payments system that relies on the Stellar blockchain. The US tech giant is planning to present its system to banking representatives and other parties attending the Sibos conference in Sydney. The event is organized by SWIFT in late October.
IBM’s payments solution aims to offer banks a method to clear and settle cross-border payments within seconds. Thus, Blockchain World Wire might compete with the traditional Swift payment system and Ripple’s blockchain-based xRapid transaction solution.
The new product developed by IBM and Stellar will allow the exchange from fiat currencies to cryptocurrencies like Stellar’s Lumens (XLM).
IBM has launched a webpage explaining the concept behind the Blockchain World Wire. The company says:
“Financial institutions use their existing payment systems - seamlessly connected to World Wire’s APIs - to convert the first fiat currency into the digital asset. World Wire then simultaneously converts the digital asset into the second fiat currency, completing the transaction. All transaction details are recorded onto an immutable blockchain for clearing.”
Retailers noted the new system would be able to streamline the payments processes, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. It will also open the door to new markets and operations, including Open Account trade transactions.
According to IBM, the payments system will use a stablecoin as the bridge asset between two fiat currencies. Thus, two financial institutions will agree on the stablecoin, which will facilitate the trade and define the settlement instructions, and will use their existing payments systems by connecting them to World Wire through APIs.
IBM has previously trialed a stable coin pegged to the US dollar. The coin, named Stronghold, was developed by US-based financial services firm Stronghold and runs on the Stellar network. Users will be able to apply Stronghold in the context of the Blockchain World Wire.
IBM has recently announced the Blockchain World Wire, a new payments system that relies on the Stellar blockchain. The US tech giant is planning to present its system to banking representatives and other parties attending the Sibos conference in Sydney. The event is organized by SWIFT in late October.
IBM’s payments solution aims to offer banks a method to clear and settle cross-border payments within seconds. Thus, Blockchain World Wire might compete with the traditional Swift payment system and Ripple’s blockchain-based xRapid transaction solution.
The new product developed by IBM and Stellar will allow the exchange from fiat currencies to cryptocurrencies like Stellar’s Lumens (XLM).
IBM has launched a webpage explaining the concept behind the Blockchain World Wire. The company says:
“Financial institutions use their existing payment systems - seamlessly connected to World Wire’s APIs - to convert the first fiat currency into the digital asset. World Wire then simultaneously converts the digital asset into the second fiat currency, completing the transaction. All transaction details are recorded onto an immutable blockchain for clearing.”
Retailers noted the new system would be able to streamline the payments processes, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. It will also open the door to new markets and operations, including Open Account trade transactions.
According to IBM, the payments system will use a stablecoin as the bridge asset between two fiat currencies. Thus, two financial institutions will agree on the stablecoin, which will facilitate the trade and define the settlement instructions, and will use their existing payments systems by connecting them to World Wire through APIs.
IBM has previously trialed a stable coin pegged to the US dollar. The coin, named Stronghold, was developed by US-based financial services firm Stronghold and runs on the Stellar network. Users will be able to apply Stronghold in the context of the Blockchain World Wire.
🌐📲Abra crypto wallet now allows the residents of the Single Euro Payments Area to deposit bitcoin with euro and some other currencies through its application.
💡SEPA covers the whole of the EU. It also applies to payments in euros in other European countries: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino.
The SEPA project was launched by the European banking and payment industry represented by the European Payments Council and it allows European consumers, businesses and public administrations to make and receive credit transfers, direct debit payments, card payments under the same basic conditions.
🤝Also the company is in a partnership with crypto payments processor Coinify that supports SEPA-payments from the European banks.
🗣CEO Bill Barhydt:
Abra works with regulated exchange partners in different territories who take our customer's personal identifying information and process deposits, withdrawals and bitcoin purchases. Abra is working with Coinify as our first partner in Europe to enable European bank integration via SEPA ... Users in Europe now have the option of doing a SEPA bank transfer from their European bank account directly to Abra's exchange partner which will cause the equivalent amount of bitcoin to be added directly to the user's Abra wallet.
💡SEPA covers the whole of the EU. It also applies to payments in euros in other European countries: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino.
The SEPA project was launched by the European banking and payment industry represented by the European Payments Council and it allows European consumers, businesses and public administrations to make and receive credit transfers, direct debit payments, card payments under the same basic conditions.
🤝Also the company is in a partnership with crypto payments processor Coinify that supports SEPA-payments from the European banks.
🗣CEO Bill Barhydt:
Abra works with regulated exchange partners in different territories who take our customer's personal identifying information and process deposits, withdrawals and bitcoin purchases. Abra is working with Coinify as our first partner in Europe to enable European bank integration via SEPA ... Users in Europe now have the option of doing a SEPA bank transfer from their European bank account directly to Abra's exchange partner which will cause the equivalent amount of bitcoin to be added directly to the user's Abra wallet.
💠Ethereum Blockchain is the second after bitcoin to be added on the BigQuery, Google's serverless, highly scalable, enterprise data warehouse.
The platform is designed to make all the data analysts productive at an unmatched price-performance.
Because there is no infrastructure to manage, user can focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights using familiar SQL without the need for a database administrator.
Such visualization is very useful for companies and all the crypto enthusiasts who want to come up with business decisions much faster, and to go hand in hand with the latest system upgrades.
The platform uses an online analytical process (OLAP) that enables ad-hoc and general analysis without the need for additional API implementations.
Also their software system allows synchronization of the blockchain with installed on the computers Google Cloud’s Parity and makes daily graphics and analyses of the blockchain data.
While the Ethereum blockchain peer-to-peer software has an API for a subset of commonly used random-access functions (for example: checking transaction status, looking up wallet-transaction associations, and checking wallet balances, for example), API endpoints don’t exist for easy access to all of the data stored on-chain. Perhaps more importantly, API endpoints also don’t exist for viewing the blockchain data in aggregate.
The platform is designed to make all the data analysts productive at an unmatched price-performance.
Because there is no infrastructure to manage, user can focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights using familiar SQL without the need for a database administrator.
Such visualization is very useful for companies and all the crypto enthusiasts who want to come up with business decisions much faster, and to go hand in hand with the latest system upgrades.
The platform uses an online analytical process (OLAP) that enables ad-hoc and general analysis without the need for additional API implementations.
Also their software system allows synchronization of the blockchain with installed on the computers Google Cloud’s Parity and makes daily graphics and analyses of the blockchain data.
While the Ethereum blockchain peer-to-peer software has an API for a subset of commonly used random-access functions (for example: checking transaction status, looking up wallet-transaction associations, and checking wallet balances, for example), API endpoints don’t exist for easy access to all of the data stored on-chain. Perhaps more importantly, API endpoints also don’t exist for viewing the blockchain data in aggregate.
🚀The price of the BitcoinDark (BTCD) cryptocurrency has seen a 400% increase in a day.
According to the analytical resource of CoinMarketCap, as of 13:54 UTC the average rate of cryptocurrency was $76. While throughout August the price of BTCD did not exceed the $ 15 mark.
A significant jump in the price of BTCD with a market capitalization of $ 100 million began on the evening of September 3.
Being at around $ 20 by the morning of the next day, the cryptocurrency has reached $103. The sharp increase returned BTCD to the values of May 11.
On September 2 the trading activity was about $ 35 thousand. BTCD / BTC pairs accounted for 85% of the trading volume on the Poloniex exchange, and about 5% on the BTCD / XMR.
The reasons for such a sharp dynamics are still unknown. In 2018 the creators of BitcoinDark switched their attention to the development of Komodo cryptocurrency (KMD).
After BTCD was left without the support of the creators, the owners of the asset were given the right to exchange coins for KMD until mid-January 2018. However, at the moment there are still about 1.3 million BTCD in circulation.
According to the analytical resource of CoinMarketCap, as of 13:54 UTC the average rate of cryptocurrency was $76. While throughout August the price of BTCD did not exceed the $ 15 mark.
A significant jump in the price of BTCD with a market capitalization of $ 100 million began on the evening of September 3.
Being at around $ 20 by the morning of the next day, the cryptocurrency has reached $103. The sharp increase returned BTCD to the values of May 11.
On September 2 the trading activity was about $ 35 thousand. BTCD / BTC pairs accounted for 85% of the trading volume on the Poloniex exchange, and about 5% on the BTCD / XMR.
The reasons for such a sharp dynamics are still unknown. In 2018 the creators of BitcoinDark switched their attention to the development of Komodo cryptocurrency (KMD).
After BTCD was left without the support of the creators, the owners of the asset were given the right to exchange coins for KMD until mid-January 2018. However, at the moment there are still about 1.3 million BTCD in circulation.
