Cryptocurrency News
The digital entertainment industry is unfair and largely one-sided. Large streaming and distribution platforms dominate the space and take the lion’s share of creators’ profits, leading to an imbalance between the ability of creators to negotiate the financing of their work and hosting platforms’ ability to justify their pricing. This […]
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – The Sia Classic Foundation, a community-oriented non-profit foundation built to advance decentralized storage platforms, has announced their intent to maintain Sia Chain following an imminent hard fork away from the root chain on October 31st. The eponymous cryptocurrency, SiaCoin, intends to fork, said Sia Classic’s leadership in […]
For enthusiasts, alternative investments professionals, and cryptographers, cryptocurrency is either the next greatest economic revolution, an incredible store of value in addition to being a cryptographic transaction medium, or the best problem to solve seen in decades. Yet, for the general public, even understanding what Bitcoin is remains hard at […]
Decentralized apps, or dApps, operating on the blockchain face a singular problem: scalability. Take a look at Bitcoin 10 transactions per second (TPS) limit, compared to Visa’s 24,000 TPS. While a handful of high-quality projects and companies have partly surmounted this challenge with sidechaining and sharding, nonscalability has inhibited the […]
Exchanges are the backbone of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Yet, though they allow anyone to invest in and trade currencies, there are even more advanced tools that provide enthusiasts with a wider range of opportunities to optimize their investment activity. And, while there are many cryptocurrency enthusiasts, there is scarce understanding […]
The wide array of proof-of-concept blockchain projects is not addressing the need to evolve the entire blockchain, which would enable not only mainstream adoption but enterprise usage as well. New distributed app frameworks are being developed to solve this problem. Blockchain Is Mostly Early Stage Among the top cryptocurrencies and […]
Podcasts are great for helping people learn new things, connect to new subject matter, and access perspectives otherwise difficult to find. Yet not all podcasts are available to everyone. CastBox aims to change that. Podcasts Were Not Always Easy To Find Podcasts are supposedly easy to find. Just go onto […]
The digital content space has a host of problems related to transparency, centralization, and hype, making it difficult for creators to deliver and receive both actual value to users and rightful revenue from platforms that distribute their content. Newly developed blockchain use cases in the industry are emerging to combat […]
Trust is scarce in the digital advertising industry. Data discrepancies, fraud, and supply chain budget misallocations contribute both to waste and a prevailingly tense environment amongst digital advertising agencies. Blockchain technology can help ad executives breathe easier with the knowledge that their money is well-spent and their data is well-managed. […]
ContentBox has launched on Huobi Global at 8 PM PST, according to the Huobi website. The platform is an open-source blockchain infrastructure for creators, a token-based ecosystem comprised of a shared user and content pool along with a unified payment solution for the digital content industry. As a decentralized content […]
The costs of complying with due diligence processes like KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (anti-money laundering) are rising. With financial firms regularly spending 8.4x their average compliance costs on KYC amidst growing client complaints about poor KYC experiences, KYC is becoming a growing balance sheet and relationship management liability. Businesses can benefit […]
New blockchain apps using cryptocurrency as rewards and cash back have the potential to improve the loyalty space. Read on to learn how. Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Loyalty Programs The International Council of Shopping Centers reports that the loyalty space grows by about 30% every year, with 85% of consumers belonging […]