2019-1-25 12:15 |
Harvard University, clothing giant Levi Strauss and a U.S. think-tank are launching a blockchain pilot to improve labor welfare. origin »
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Meta, the parent company of social media giant Facebook, continues to decline requests for comments after its plans for a massive workforce reduction set to be announced next week leaked and became the subject of conversations over the internet on Monday.
South Korea’s crypto-sphere has been witnessing a volatile environment in terms of regulatory moves, as bitcoin prices and other altcoins are also having wild moves. Such a scenario hasn’t stopped the country’s middle class to profit from the crypto market, even with very successful stories.
Paying or getting paid with digital coins is the norm in the cryptocurrency sector. Participants in many other industries, however, may also be tempted to take advantage of the benefits offered by decentralized currencies.
Now the small town of Rockdale, about an hour northeast of Austin, is hoping the days of “used to” are used up. A Chinese company plans to open a Bitcoin mining operation in part of the old Alcoa plant just outside of town, bringing with it the prospect of 300-500 jobs, according to local media reports.
Qiwi Blockchain Technologies (QBT), a subsidiary of the Russian e-payments firm Qiwi, plans to incentivize staff by rewarding them with a custom token. To determine how the rewards tokens are divided among staff, a second token will be used to assign voting rights.
Unfortunately for American workers, the average hourly earnings that were published a week ago showed a growth of only 2. 7%. That means that all the increases American’s received in their salaries over the last year have been completely wiped out by inflation.