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Africa Using Blockchain to Drive Change, Part Two: Southern Solutions

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Time Stamp: April 5, 2020 12:46 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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With pundits like Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey predicting that Africa “will define” the future of Bitcoin (BTC), cryptocurrency and blockchain technology continue to attract interest from both public and private establishments across the continent. Many of these adoption cases have been moving beyond finance, developing solutions targeted at issues like unemployment, identity management, health care and supply chain, among others.Amid the growing enthusiasm for crypto and blockchain technology in Africa, industry stakeholders interviewed by Cointelegraph identify a lack of education as one of the major hurdles standing in the way of more

April Fools, Celebrity Scams, & Manipulated Markets: Bad Crypto News of the Week

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Time Stamp: April 4, 2020 3:56 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin seems to be settling happily above $6,000 and is currently just north of $6,500 again. Let’s hope we’ve seen the last of those $5,000 movements and we’re ready for a steady climb back to double figures before the halving in mid-May. It’s getting closer.In the meantime, the Federal Reserve now appears to have merged into the federal government. An opinion piece in Bloomberg has described how an alphabet soup of financial programs intended to help the economy through the current crisis is allowing the government to buy up securities

South African National Blockchain Alliance Holds Online Launch

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Time Stamp: April 3, 2020 1:56 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The South African National Blockchain Alliance carried out an online livestream launch while the country is in the midst of a 21-day lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The organization was due to be launched at the beginning of April in Johannesburg but had to be taken online as South Africa and the world tackles a global health crisis.The launch happened during a livestream on YouTube on April 3, which included a panel of speakers elaborating on how SANBA will help nurture blockchain-focused startups and companies that

Beware! Scammers Are Out for Crypto Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

Source Node: https://cointelegraph.com/news/beware-scammers-are-out-for-crypto-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic
Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 3:52 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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As the world continues to battle with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, immoral cybercriminals are once again on the prowl. This time, they are using the chaos and fear through phishing techniques and sophisticated malware hacks to access people’s crypto holdings.On March 27, residents in the United Kingdom received warnings from their local councils “to be on their guard against a series of scams attempting to take advantage of the coronavirus outbreak.” Scammers have been using other tricks to lure victims, including the use of false Bitcoin (BTC) donation channels, fake

Ark’s 1 Million Token Grant Fund Drives Community Innovation

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 3:49 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Interoperable blockchain project Ark (ARK) designated one million ARK valued at roughly $150,000 toward its new development grants program on March 24.While the grant program was launched one week ago, Ark’s Strategic Partnerships Manager, Ray Alvarez, told Cointelegraph that it has already received proofs-of-concept from developers.The program exclusively funds “proposals involving technical deployments and usage of [the] ARK technology stack.”The applications include standalone applications and plugins, including development contributing to Ark’s decentralized private messaging application, desktop wallet, and transaction plugins.In addition to sparking development for specific applications, Alvarez states that

Crypto to the Rescue After Khan Academy’s COVID-19 Traffic Surge

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 7:54 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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The founder of education platform Khan Academy has put out an urgent call for donations following a 250% surge in users due to the coronavirus crisis.CEO Sal Khan asked users to donate fiat — or they can donate Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) via their Brave browsers — to help the platform stay open during the pandemic.Khan said the surge was due to record numbers of students forced to stay home during lockdowns and social distancing requirements. A billion schoolkids are staying home because of COVID-19Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that

How to Run Large Zoom Meetings: 5 Best Practices for Businesses, Churches, Etc.

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 11:16 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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We have entered the age of Zoom. Forget other videoconference programs: they’re slow, buggy, and hard to use. You spend half the meeting trying to get everyone connected. We’ve tried them all, and we’ve found that Zoom “just works.” It’s great for small teams, but it gets a little more challenging for larger griefs. In this CoCo brief, we’ll talk about 5 best practices that we’ve learned from an unlikely source: The Union Church in Newton, Massachusetts. The Union Church has been successfully running their Sunday services on Zoom, with upwards of