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Recognized economist Nouriel Roubini, a professor at Stern School and NYU, recently launched a series of attacks against the crypto sector. All of the False Claims Roubini Made He claimed Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin amassed a wealth of a billion dollars by creating a pre-mined blockchain network, and said public
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Robinhood, the popular commission-free trading app that launched as a change of pace startup company in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, has an antithetical underbelly that was just brought to light. According to a report by Bloomberg, Robinhood makes more than 40% of its revenue by selling its user order data to high-frequency […]
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Switzerland has started sharing financial account information with tax authorities in dozens of countries as a way of fighting tax evasion, but Africa, which loses about $ 60 billion in illicit flows each year, mostly into European banks, is conspicuous by its absence from the deal. Swiss bank accounts have long been stereotyped as enablers of financial opacity, tax fraud and safekeeping of stolen public funds. That era is coming to an end.
Also read: Irresponsible Borrowing Leaves Africa on Brink of Debt Crisis – Again
BlackBerry Limited has now come up with a blockchain solution for secure data sharing among healthcare providers in order to improve patient outcomes. The company is using its network operation center (NOC) to power a blockchain digital ledger that aims to create a secure global system for storing and sharing patient medical data, a release
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In recent years, the crypto industry has been consistently impacted by a range of data breaches, hacks, and scams that have left users wanting for more of the heralded decentralization that crypto is meant to champion. Increasingly, investors and traders are looking for better ways to make sure their investments lay in their own hands.
This is especially relevant in a time where many crypto exchanges have essentially been holding users to ransom and closing accounts and withholding trades at will. Browsing social media shows countless complaints against the big exchanges for refusing to process payouts or closing accounts on the spot.
The chief executive of cryptocurrency-funded web browser Brave has penned a letter to the U.S. Senate calling for legislators to adopt data privacy regulations comparable to those recently implemented in Europe. Brave CEO Calls for a U.S. GDPR Writing in the letter dated Sept. 28 and addressed to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
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Professional services firm Deloitte have announced a new partnership with Jupiter Chain, a partnership that is set to see the development and roll out of a new blockchain based data exchange in Southeast Asia. The system is to be designed to allow users in the area to monetise and profit from their own personal data – a solution to many personal data woes that exist in contemporary society.
The partnership will see both Jupiter Chain and Deloitte working within their own areas of expertise to come together to produce a product that can be used by many different types of person and organization.
The low-cost Robinhood investing app popular with millennials makes up for the lost profits of commission-free trades by selling users’ data to other financial companies.
A Second Quarter SEC filing shows that Robinhood Financial (Robinhood) is actually making millions of dollars from selling users’ data to high-frequency trading (HFT) firms. Recall, this is the same company that espouses values of ethical trading practices that benefit the common man instead of fleecing customers to provide a quick buck for Wall Street traders.
Friend Software is a Norwegian company founded in 2014 and is the company behind Friend – TheInternet OS. Friend isan new open source operating system software that provides users with full control over their data and gives them easy access to it from any device via any browser (e.g operated on TVs, palmtops, laptops, desktops etc.)
The Friend Workspace is essentially a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) and a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) -all in one. It enables the users to access the entire network via their desktop or smartphones. The Workspace can be further optimized for new applications, disks, and services from the Friend Store market places.
Google BigQuery, Google Cloud’s Petabyte-scale data warehousing solution, has made the Ethereum dataset available to enable the exploration of smart contract analytics, the company announced on a blog. BigQuery has made it possible to explore all of Ethereum’s historical data. Ethereum’s ETL project on GitHub includes all source code that can be extracted from the
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Filecoin, a decentralized storage network that turns cloud storage into an algorithmic market monetized through cryptocurrency, has announced that it will go public within the coming months. Filecoin prepares for liftoff This announcement is contained in a blog post by the company, in which it stated that, having passed the critical period when it needed
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Some people like to say that “data is king.” The team at Flux prefers a slightly different term: It believes that “data is a kingmaker.” The ability to collect, store and analyze data is what gives individuals and organizations power.
To date, access to this kingmaking power is very unequal. It has been concentrated in the hands of a select few companies, most of which were already quite powerful to begin with. They alone possess the enormous resources required to collect quality data and turn it into value.
Atlas, a popular Brazilian cryptocurrency investment platform, has been hacked. Although the company claims users’ funds are safe, the personal information of over 264,000 of its customers has been leaked. The security breach was first reported by the Investimentos Digitais (Digital Investments) YouTube channel. In total, there are 14,500 records of leaked data that detail
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Factom, a system for auditing and securing millions of real-time records using blockchain technology, has filed another blockchain patent application for the advancement of its operations this year. CCN reported earlier this month that the data distribution company had filed a patent application for a system enabling document validation on the blockchain, a feature likely
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Chinese bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain has invested an undisclosed amount in blockchain data storage startup Lambda, the latter announced last Friday. Bitmain Expands its List of Portfolio Companies The new investment will see to Lambda further developits “secure” blockchain-based infrastructure and decentralized applications, commonly known as dApps. The Singaporean startup has already conducted a tokenized
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A “price calculation error” on CoinMarketCap led the site to list inflated prices for several coins on the platform.
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Imagine a new digital economy, one that allows everyday people to take full control of their personal data. Complete with a public chain for data transactions and application development, this system would foster a trustworthy, domain-wide data exchange that capitalizes on the torrent of advancements taking place through blockchain technology.
A rapidly growing enterprise known as GXChain is on a steady course toward achieving this milestone. Launched in 2017 and led by a technical team in China, the company has a value proposition that is predicated on the safe, credible, efficient and free exchange of data to maximize its use and value.
CoinMarketCap, one of the most popular crypto data tracking websites, announced a new pro-level and fee-based API on Wednesday.
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