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Facebook’s Secret Cryptocurrency Led by PayPal Alumni Just ‘Months Away’ from India Launch

By CCN: Facebook’s much-hyped cryptocurrency project, dubbed Project Libra, may launch in India within a matter of months, according to a Bloomberg report. The secretive blockchain project, led by a team of PayPal alumni, is expected to launch a stablecoin for sending peer-to-peer payments to friends and family as well as integrating with major e-commerce players. дальше »

2019-5-9 12:49


Cent, an Ethereum-based Blockchain Blogging Platform, Now Let’s Users Send ETH via Chat

Cent launches payment processing service for cryptocurrency payments. CTO expresses interest in expanding to other sources of content, like video blogging. Cent is a platform that consumers can use for blogging, but it looks like the company is taking a page out of WeChat’s book, creating an opportunity to use the chat function in payment […] дальше »

2019-5-9 00:27


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Dutch central bank tested blockchain for 3 years. The results? ‘Not that positive’

The Dutch central bank developed and evaluated four distributed ledger technology (DLT) prototypes in three years, but so far blockchain hasn’t lived up to the hype, The Banker reports. In fact, the only use-case it can easily envision is cross-border payments, after it discovered that markets with efficient payment systems that exist (such as Nordic countries and the Netherlands) don’t really benefit from blockchain. дальше »

2019-5-1 17:15


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Out of Testnet and Into Alpha: Lightning Labs’ Desktop Application Is Live

Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian. дальше »

2019-4-24 01:38


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PayPal Wins Patent for Ransomware Detection Solution

Global payment processing platform PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks are a form of malware that takes over the victim's computer, locks up the files therein and demands a ransom before the files can be accessed again — often to be paid in cryptocurrency. дальше »

2019-4-19 21:17