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Bitcoin SV’s Social Platform Twetch Streamlines P2P Payments

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Time Stamp: April 7, 2020 11:46 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin SV powered social media platform Twetch has launched a feature to streamline peer-to-peer (P2P) payments.Twetch is a Twitter-like social media platform where users must make micropayments in order to post and engage with content on the platform. Content creators are directly paid for their activity through a revenue sharing system based on likes and shares. The platform is currently in private beta.Command-line style payments featureTweet has rolled out the ability for users to send BSV to each other by entering the command-line ‘/pay’, a user’s tag, and the dollar

How to Make Things Go Viral: Learn From Coronavirus

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Time Stamp: April 7, 2020 6:13 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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When an idea catches on, what do we call it? “Going viral.” In the age of Coronavirus, we need good messages to go viral. Whether you’re running a business, an organization, or a family, you need good messages to go viral. As a society, we must encourage people to #SlowTheSpread and help our #HealthcareHeroes: we need good messages to go viral. But how do we help good messages to go viral, faster than the virus itself? We spent some time digging into virology research papers, and we have some good

Risky Assets Are Rallying, Bitcoin Back Above $7,000

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Time Stamp: April 7, 2020 3:15 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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“In every generation a man is obligated to feel as if he himself has experienced the exudes from Egypt.” This is one of the core principles of the upcoming holiday of Passover that Jewish people across the globe will celebrate tomorrow. It’s the very reason that we embrace strange customs like eating herbs that are so bitter they make you cry, drinking four full glasses of whine, and of course the famous flat bread known as matzah. Though I will never ever understand what it must have been like to

P2P Exchange Paxful Now Offers Gold Transactions

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Time Stamp: April 7, 2020 10:21 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Paxful, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading exchange, has added an option for users to now make transfers in gold.According to a post from CoinDesk, much like trading Bitcoin, users can decide when and where the trade is meant to happen. From there, funds will be sent into escrow until the trade is confirmed, and Paxful will release the funds. However, it’s worth noting that confirmation must happen within 21 days or the trade will fall through.Speaking a little on the matter was Ray Youssef, the CEO of Paxful. He said to

Secure, Controllable, Decentralized Data Sharing: An Interview With bitYoga CEO Antorweep Chakravorty

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Beyond its primary use case of powering cryptocurrencies, there’s no denying the priceless possibilities embedded in the underlying blockchain technology.  Coinfomania recently spoke to bitYoga CEO Antorweep Chakravorty. The Norway-based startup is a member of the EU-H2020 ARTICONF project and is piloting the adoption of blockchain technology for decentralized and secure data file sharing for the next generation of internet applications. He first spoke to us about how bitYoga got started. Antorweep was an associate professor of the University of Stavanger, Norway along with co-founder, Chunming Rong who was also

BitMEX Operator Gives $400K Sponsorship to Cybersecurity Nonprofit

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 8:09 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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HDR Global Trading, the operator of crypto exchange BitMEX, is giving a $400,000 grant to the cybersecurity nonprofit Shadowserver Foundation.In an April 6 statement on the company’s blog, HDR Global Trading announced that it would offer $400,000 to the organization over the next four years. The BitMEX operator will be acting as a member of the nonprofit’s new industry alliance for Internet security.Richard Perlotto, Shadowserver Director, thanked HDR for “their rapid response to our call for help” and emphasized the organization’s commitment to fighting cybercrime. The director is referring to

Vonage Co-Founder Launches Decentralized Videochat App to Battle Zoom

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 2:03 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Jeff Pulver, a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) pioneer and the co-founder of Vonage, has launched a decentralized application (dApp) that claims to provide the “most secure end-to-end business communications network” available.The move follows reports last week that rival videochat app Zoom exposed personally identifiable information and private conversations on the open web.Centralized data storage provides a centralized point of failureAccording to Pulver, the problem with existing communication solutions is that they route all business and personal data through one central point. This creates a huge security threat to confidential

US Congressional Watchdog Quietly Reveals DLT Prototype Development

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 12:49 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The United States Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Innovation Lab posted ads for job positions to develop “use case prototypes” for blockchain technologies in late-March.GAO is the supreme audit institution of the U.S. government and provides evaluation and investigative services for Congress.GAO to explore prototype applications for DLTThe two positions seek an ‘Interdisciplinary Computer Engineer/Computer Scientist’ and an ‘Interdisciplinary Assistant Director, Computer Scientist/Engineer’ to explore “emerging technologies” including blockchain.Both roles will be overseen by GAO’s Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics (STAA) Team’s Innovation Lab.The listings show that the lab is creating

Introducing the new Blockchain.com monthly newsletter — April Edition: “After the Dust Settles”

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The quality of information and data in crypto has improved in recent years, so you may be asking why another monthly newsletter?There are still some big data and analysis gaps in crypto. Crypto markets are nowhere near as widely served with reliable research and data as traditional markets. Indeed, the March 12–13th crypto stress test demonstrated there are also still some very significant issues with the state of crypto exchange infrastructure.What you can expect from our monthly newsletterOur intention with this newsletter is to avoid repeating what you can find

Darknet Market to Permanently Ban Vendors Preying on COVID-19 Fears

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Time Stamp: April 5, 2020 6:56 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Dark web marketplace, Monopoly Market, has taken a stand against scammers claiming to sell cures and treatments for COVID-19 on its platform.On other darknet platforms, listings are rife with coronavirus keywords — with vendors selling everything from narcotic cocktails marketed as ‘coronavirus vaccines,’ to coronavirus-infected blood and saliva.Monopoly Market to ban vendors using coronavirus as ‘marketing tool’On April 2, dark web journalist, Eileen Ormsby, tweeted a screenshot posted by Monopoly Market’s operator that threatened permanent bans against vendors “caught flogging goods as a ‘cure’ to Coronavirus.”“We have class here,” the

Sophisticated Mining Botnet Identified After 2 Years

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Time Stamp: April 5, 2020 8:03 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Cybersecurity firm, Guardicore Labs, revealed the identification of a malicious crypto-mining botnet that has been operating for nearly two years on April 1.The threat actor, dubbed ‘Vollgar’ based on its mining of the little-known altcoin, Vollar (VSD), targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers — of which Guardicore estimates there are just 500,000 in existence worldwide.However, despite their scarcity, MS-SQL servers offer sizable processing power in addition to typically storing valuable information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.Sophisticated crypto-mining malware network identifiedOnce a server is infected, Vollgar “diligently and