Author: Donald Munn
The CEO of Ripple says that “crypto can’t be used on the broad scale for Russia to evade sanctions”. Brad Garlinghouse criticizes the “stupid and uninformed” views on how cryptocurrencies work and those who paint cryptocurrencies as the Silk Road. Ripple CEO’s explanation of crypto and sanctions on Russia Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, delivered his statement in a roundup of tweets: In order to convert crypto to fiat, exchanges/etc rely on banking partners who could lose their licenses if someone on the OFAC list is able to slip through. Extremely stringent KYC/AML policies are in place to avoid precisely…
Netflix acquires the mobile games developer and publisher based in Helsinki, Finland, Next Games for €65 million. The global streaming giant is now expanding into the gaming sector. Netflix to acquire Next Games for €65 million According to Michael Verdu, Netflix’s new Vice President of Games, the global streaming giant is ready to “develop games around the world” and is doing so by acquiring Next Games. Here’s the announcement from the Finnish game developer on Twitter: Netflix Announced Plans to Acquire Next Games Read the full release: https://t.co/xt6IHD395z — Next Games (@nxtgms) March 2, 2022 “Netflix Announced Plans to Acquire…
SPONSORED POST* Euronin is a cryptocurrency payment platform invisible to the customer and seller. What is Euronin We have created a system that allows us to deal with the 3rd side of this transaction. We deprive business owners of all major problems, namely all accounting, legal, tax and billing. Everything is on the side of Euronin. The business owner receives a lot of simplicity in the operation of his company because he can start accepting payments in cryptocurrencies, therefore expand his offer for clients. In a European country there is an item (or service) worth EUR 100 that you want…
SPONSORED POST* The ArbiSmart project, powered by the RBIS token, is currently valued at under $1. However, the price is projected to soar in the coming weeks and months as it introduces a series of major EU authorized services, massively and rapidly expanding its crypto ecosystem. When investing in crypto, you want to identify and purchase the most promising coin while it’s still cheap in order to make the best possible gains when the price takes off. To get in on the ground floor with the next Bitcoin or Shiba Inu, you need to find the up-and-coming projects that are…
Choosing passwords that are easy to remember could be a double-edged sword, especially when you consider that they may be among the most easily hackable passwords because they are leaked on the dark web. ‘123456’, ‘Iloveyou’, ‘Qwerty’… are just some of the 20 passwords identified by Lookout, a mobile security company, as the most common ones, which you absolutely must change if you don’t want to be hacked. Dark Web: what are the 20 most hackable passwords According to CNBC, a cybersecurity report by Lookout describes that there are 20 passwords that are easiest to be hacked, because they are…
This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool that was launched at the end of February to help refugees from Ukraine: Help Pool [HELP]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool created in the UK to help contribute to the decentralization of the network. This initiative is a point of reference for everything Cardano and every week or two we will invite a Stake Pool Operator (SPO) to answer some questions and give us an update directly from within the Cardano community. Considering that many of our readers are new to the crypto space, we will…
The legislators’ desks are full of drafts and bills that will never see the light of day. Some of them might make a difference, others will hardly be missed. This also applies to the cryptocurrency sector. The European proposal The European legislator, for example, seems to have closed on the proposal put forward in Parliament to introduce into the MiCA (Market in Crypto Asset Regulation) limitations on the use of blockchains based on the so-called Proof of Work. This is the latest frontier in the war on cryptocurrencies: the pseudo-environmentalist one. A restrictive measure is justified by arguments of excessive…
Meta publishes Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report showing which content is the most viewed on the social network. All data refer to the US user base in the last quarter of 2021 (Q4 2021). Meta: users’ favourite content on Facebook? According to reports, the new Widely Viewed Content Report aims to provide more transparency and context on what people are seeing on Facebook by sharing the most viewed domains, links, pages and posts on users’ Feeds in the US in the last quarter. In this sense, in Q4 2021, 86.8% of views came from posts shared by people’s friends, groups…
A couple of days ago, Rolling Stone magazine reported that it had seen an email in which Ukrainian officials allegedly asked ICANN to disconnect all Russian websites from the Internet. Ukraine’s request to block the internet in Russia ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is an international body that assigns IP addresses to domains. If ICANN were to grant the Ukrainian request, it would mean that Russian websites could no longer be accessed anywhere in the world using their domain addresses, and that e-mails could no longer be sent to the addresses of those domains. However, it seems…
Apple has decided to stop selling its products in Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine by Moscow’s military forces. It is the latest big tech company to take drastic action against the nation led by Vladimir Putin. Apple stops selling products in Russia Apple products have been unavailable from the Apple Store for a few days now. Apple has also restricted the Apple Pay service and removed the apps of RT News and Sputnik (two of Russia’s leading media outlets) from the Apple Store. In fact, Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Federov has asked Apple to stop using the…