2019-6-25 07:00 |
Allowing Facebook to mint its own coin would turn it into the greatest monopoly in history, argues Signature Bank's chairman.
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With growing concerns about a perceived censorship bias on social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, the demand for censorship-resistant social media networks is on the rise. A number of blockchain startups aim to use a decentralized model to preserve free speech in the digital age. But can a fully decentralized social media platform work?
2019-6-24 23:00 | |
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Forget about the centralized nature of Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra, forget about its privacy concerns, and let go of every other issue you have with it because Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s CEO says, let’s get everyone in (cryptocurrency) first.
2019-6-24 18:07 | |
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Facebook’s Libra project took the crypto community by the storm, and suddenly everyone is ONLY talking about Libra. Being a journalist, one bad thing that could happen to you after a huge news breaks is that the conversation gets stuck.
2019-6-22 03:30 | |
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Bitcoin‘s hash rate is skyrocketing, setting a new all-time-high and flying in the face of Facebook’s ambitious Libra cryptocurrency — a remarkably healthy sign for the world’s most popular blockchain.
2019-6-20 17:15 | |
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There has been no shortage of opining over Facebook’s foray into crypto this week. Most industry heavyweights are in agreement that Libra is about as far from bitcoin as the greenback is, but the new digital offering will have an impact on the crypto scene, and it may not be that bad.
2019-6-20 10:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Facebook’s Project Libra Will Change Cryptocurrency Industry ForeverSince Facebook revealed its new project Libra, and everything that is related to it, people are starting to wake up and speculate – is Facebook's Project Libra going to take over the cryptocurrency industry? Whether it will be a good or a bad mark, let's see.
2019-6-19 08:20 | |
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Bitcoin has risen above $9,000, as of Sunday. The new Facebook stablecoin may allow for the Winklevoss brothers and Mark Zuckerberg to be “frenemies.” The dispute between Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins – Cameron and Tyler – has been heavily publicized, even providing the basis for the feature film The Social Network. Years ago, […]
2019-6-19 02:59 | |
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While you’re free to air your opinion about a thing, you should also be ready for the comments of others about your opinion. The latter can be summarized into the duel between Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and the Bitcoin community.
2019-6-15 20:16 | |
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Peter Schiff, the CEO of brokerage firm Euro Pacific Capital, believes Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency will outcompete Bitcoin on stability and fees. BTC advocate Anthony Pompliano disagreed, suggesting the two would help each other grow.
2019-6-15 08:56 | |
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Facebook is Bad for Bitcoin? June 18th is nearing, and that means that Facebook’s crypto asset, expected to be nothing like Bitcoin, is on the verge of becoming full public knowledge. For those who missed.
2019-6-15 07:52 | |
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The internet’s often a big bad place, but every once in a while it’ll make you chuckle. In a hilarious prank, two creators have uploaded a deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg on Instagram talking about stolen data.
2019-6-12 11:36 | |
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This week, US President Donald Trump had tea with the Queen, but for Bitcoin and crypto it was all business as usual. BTC Still In Consolidatory Phase In terms of headline price, it might seem like a bad week for Bitcoin .
2019-6-9 16:01 | |
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By CCN: How bad will things get for the FANG stocks amidst the DOJ antitrust probe? Bad. Worse than it already has been. I expect 30% downside for Facebook, Amazon, and Google stocks, and they will bring down Netflix and Apple.
2019-6-4 21:40 | |
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Social media platforms do an indispensable job of connecting us with our families, friends and like-minded people. But of late, they have also become conduits for bad actors to hijack users’ attention to manipulate news, spew conspiracy theories, and propagate toxic viewpoints with an intent to radicalize impressionable minds.
2019-5-3 10:36 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against BitcoinBitcoin’s core value proposition is that it is an uncontrolled, apolitical money.
2019-4-30 20:16 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Facebook might not be the ideal social network for everyone right now, but it’s pretty handy when it comes to discovering or planning events.
2019-4-1 09:39 | |
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Between an outage, the departures of top execs, and legal rumbings, you may have forgotten Facebook's move to encryption. If the tech company indeed has a coin in the works, this week's bad news will make it harder to sell.
2019-3-15 20:25 | |
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Google has become the latest tech giant to admit that it had screwed up when it comes to doing something suspect related to one of its devices and users’ privacy. Google’s Nest home alarm products are embedded with a microphone that was not disclosed to the buyer.
2019-3-4 10:15 | |
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In the consumer world, personal data has been used as a “payment” for services, whether that be a Facebook account or a grocery discount or a loyalty rewards program. If you take the Facebook example, consumers “pay” for the service by supplying data which in turn makes the company money through ads that rely on this data.
2019-3-2 16:30 | |
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Today marks the 15th anniversary’s of Facebook’s existence. The last couple of years have been tumultuous for the company, as numerous reports revealed egregious missteps in keeping user data private and secure.
2019-2-4 14:59 | |
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Matt Cox knew he would be criticized when he forced his 10-year-old daughter to walk 5 miles to school in 36-degree weather as her punishment for being suspended from the school bus twice for bullying.
2019-1-11 14:39 | |
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In a bid to formulate amenable policies to foster cryptocurrency adoption and protect consumers from bad actors, New York state has created a cryptoassets task force. The group is made up of technologists, cryptocurrency holders, institutional and small investors, academics, and blockchain-linked businesses, according to a Facebook post on January 3, 2018, by Clyde Vanel, Assemblymember for the 33rd District.
2019-1-4 16:00 | |
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Happy Birthday, Bitcoin!Bitcoin is turning ten, and like many of us, I feel like a proud parent, having watched it grow into its potential over the years. I guess I’m the estranged father in prison though, who can’t be there to help raise his kid.
2018-10-31 23:57 | |
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Facebook’s had a bad year handling user data and securing its systems. Now, according to The Information, the company is looking to acquire a major cybersecurity firm to help repair its reputation.
2018-10-22 13:30 | |
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The bad headlines continue to stack up for Facebook this year: from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to the New York Times report that Facebook gave Apple, Samsung, and other mobile device makers access to its users personal data without permission, to the revelation that the firm routinely gives user information and preferences to several Chinese telecommunications firms, to last week’s security breach in which hackers took control of 50 million user accounts as well as any third-party sites those users logged into via Facebook.
2018-10-6 19:30 | |
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The latest news out of Facebook this week is that the social network has been subject to yet another mass data hack, one that calls into question once again the integrity of users data on Facebook.
2018-10-3 12:30 | |
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A Gizmodo report on Wednesday detailed the latest in a long series of Facebook privacy blunders. The report said, and Facebook confirmed, that users with two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled had inadvertently been giving their phone number up to advertisers who used it for targeting purposes.
2018-9-29 03:25 | |
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Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.
2018-9-28 23:08 | |
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Facebook had a bad day in the market this week – and the crypto community quickly pounced.
2018-7-27 22:00 | |
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Google just nixed any app that mines cryptocurrencies from its Play Store. With a recent update to the store’s policies, the tech monolith rewrote its stance on cryptocurrency apps.
2018-7-27 20:33 | |
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The Daily Caller — a right-wing news site founded by Tucker Carlson — today published an article doxxing one of the people behind Sleeping Giants, a social media campaign asking companies to boycott advertising on alt-right website Breitbart.
2018-7-18 00:18 | |
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Facebook this week unveiled the schedule for its funded news shows, and it could use a little diversity — the entire slate is dominated by two shows. I really hope you like Anderson Cooper and/or Fox News, because both of those combined take up a hefty portion of the schedule — Fox News in particular is on every single day of the week.
2018-7-12 20:11 | |
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Основанная Марком Цукербергом компания Meta (бывшая Facebook) вступила в Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), участники которого выступают за открытые патенты на технологии, связанные с блокчейном.
Директор Instagram Адам Моссери заявил, что платформа заинтересована в размещении контента, связанного с NFT, и привлечении создателей коллекционных токенов.
Венчурная компания NFX заявила о запуске фонда NFX Fund III», который будет инвестировать от $500 тысяч в стартапы, занимающиеся технологиями и криптовалютами.
Венчурная компания NFX заявила о запуске фонда NFX Fund III, который будет инвестировать от $500 тысяч в стартапы, занимающиеся технологиями и криптовалютами.
Facebook’s foray into blockchain technology has hit a major stumbling block after clashing with regulatory authorities. The need to curb the growing influence of stablecoins and Facebook’s existing controversies are among the reasons for the slow pace of progress of the Diem project.
“When you have a good crypto wallet like Novi will be, you also have to think about how to help consumers support NFTs,” Facebook’s David Marcus said.
David Marcus, the Chief of Facebook’s Financial Services Division, has disclosed that the Novi digital wallet is ready to enter the market. He unveiled this news through a blog post on August 18 while talking about the current state of the payments system in the US.