November 27, 2017 | By admin |
Speaking with news.bitcoin.com, Ray Youssef the CEO of Paxful said: “We have built several wells and a nursery school in Rwanda just recently. Our plan is to build 100 more schools in Africa, all #builtwithbitcoin and to get the entire scene into it.”
November 17, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
Global credit card giant Visa has rolled out the first, pilot phase of its blockchain-based business-to-business payments service, B2B Connect.
First announced last year, Visa plans to use the platform to ease cross-border payments by facilitating direct payments between institutions, cutting out the middleman the industry currently relies on. The platform – developed with the assistance of blockchain startup Chain – is also designed to ensure secure, yet transparent payments between enterprises.
November 14, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
“The history of apps is a long one. Back in 1983, Steve Jobs talked about what is” now known as the app store. At the time, users were required to buy applications before actually trying them out. In this sense, Steve Jobs explained how an app store would disrupt the current norm using a record store analogy. People know what records they want to buy because they get a free sample in the radio.
November 9, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
“Businesses are increasingly investigating ways to make their business models more sustainable.”
November 8, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
“What’s wrong with this picture?
The front page of The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday: “Amazon Lures 238 Bids” for its Second Home.”
It’s not a good thing that a single company can get the political leaders of so many American cities and states to scramble over each other to try to lure $5 billion in spending on some new buildings.
November 7, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
“New trials from the University of Sydney’s Red Belly Blockchain have found that it can process financial” transactions 50 times faster than originally thought, making it quicker than Visa for worldwide payments.”
November 1, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
Topia Technology Announces TopiaCoin and a Secure Decentralized File Sharing Infrastructure.
October 30, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
“Almost a decade ago, Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, silently disrupted trust-providing organizations, like banks, with” an eight-page long research paper describing how money can be decentralized (through Bitcoin). At the time, not many people understood the potential that those eight pages concealed within themselves.”
September 12, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
A massive cyber security incident at Equifax — one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the United States — may have exposed private information belonging to 143 million people — nearly half of the U.S. population.
The breach, which was discovered July 29, includes sensitive information such as social security numbers, birthdays, addresses, and in some instances, driver’s license numbers. The agency said 209,000 credit card numbers were exposed in the breach, which includes customers in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Adding to the scandal, three of the company’s top executives sold Equifax shares just days after the breach was discovered. The breach was not publicly disclosed until Thursday, more than six weeks later.
John Gamble, chief financial officer; Joseph Loughran, president of U.S. information security; and Rodolfo Ploder, president of workforce solutions solutions, all sold shares days after the company was aware of the breach, according to SEC filings. Bloomberg, which first reported this, estimated the total value of shares sold to be $1.8 million.
An Equifax representative told NBC News the three executives sold a “small percentage” of their shares and “had no knowledge that an intrusion had occurred at the time they sold their shares.”
The FBI is actively investigating the cyber incident and Equifax has been cooperating, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
August 2, 2017 | By admin | No Comments
Hackers can shut down entire networks, tamper with data, lure unwary users into cybertraps, steal and spoof identities, and carry out other devious attacks by leveraging centralized repositories and single points of failure.
The blockchain’s alternative approach to storing and sharing information provides a way out of this security mess. The same technology that has enabled secure transactions with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum could now serve as a tool to prevent cyberattacks and security incidents.
Blockchains can increase security on three fronts: blocking identity theft, preventing data tampering, and stopping Denial of Service attacks.
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