2019-6-28 00:47 |
U.S. lawmakers questioned FinCEN director Kenneth Blanco about potential terrorist use of Facebook's libra cryptocurrency.
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Facebook‘s Libra partners have reportedly signed non-binding agreements, meaning they’re not obliged to promote or use the digital token and can abandon the project if they decide to do so. According to the New York Times, which cites anonymous executives from seven of Facebook‘s partners, some of the companies are being cautious about associating themselves too closely with Libra due to the company’s ongoing issues with regulators.
2019-6-26 11:25 | |
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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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Facebook’s announcement of Libra has allowed cryptocurrencies to gain mainstream attention, inadvertently helping Ripple, suggested Brad Garlinghouse during the recent Brainstorm Finance 2019 event.
2019-6-22 19:30 | |
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By CCN Markets: TASS, a major news agency in Russia wholly owned by the federal government, has reported that Russia will not legalize Libra, merely days after its highly anticipated announcement.
2019-6-22 17:15 | |
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By CCN Markets: Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said it would be a “record week” for Ripple at a conference this week. The cause? Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project, which has dominated headlines since its inception and reportedly isn’t ready for general use.
2019-6-21 23:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Astrologist Mackenzie Greer believes that Facebook may have trouble living up to the name Libra. In astrology, Libra symbolizes fairness. Greer says that Libras have a right to be upset about the social network’s choice of name.
2019-6-21 22:10 | |
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Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition and a blockchain evangelist, Caitlin Long, recently spoke about Libra, Facebook’s cryptocurrency, during an interview with WhatBitcoinDid. She spoke about whether people would start to use the cryptocurrency extensively, resulting in the devaluation of the local currency owing to a lack of use.
2019-6-20 16:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook confirmed that its new cryptocurrency Libra isn’t designed to kill or compete with bitcoin. David Marcus, the man leading Facebook’s crypto efforts, said Libra and bitcoin can co-exist with differing use cases and that’s he a big fan of BTC.
2019-6-21 14:39 | |
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It wasn’t just Facebook making one of the biggest announcements and steps towards mainstream adoption in the crypto space this week. Ripple also announced a strategic partnership with international money transmission service MoneyGram that would see the company use its XRP crypto token and could possibly drive up XRP price.
2019-6-20 04:01 | |
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Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov says the country will not legalize the use of Facebook's Libra despite recent bills meant to loosen the grip on the use of cryptocurrency.
2019-6-20 00:02 | |
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The biggest headline in crypto this month has been the launch of Project Libra by Facebook, which was announced along with a published whitepaper. Binance Research studied the whitepaper and drew their conclusions as to what Facebook is trying to achieve with their cryptocurrency, June 18, 2019.
2019-6-19 19:22 | |
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Facebook has recently released the Libra cryptocurrency, which aims at improving Facebook’s presence in the financial system. In order for users to use the new digital asset, they will have to install the wallet Calibra, which is expected to be released to the market in 2020.
2019-6-19 00:08 | |
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On Tuesday, Facebook announced its Libra cryptocurrency will be rolled out for use in 2020 and will enable its users around the world to make financial transactions online. Facebook released Libra White Paper with lots of information explaining various important aspects about the new cryptocurrency.
2019-6-18 22:13 | |
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Facebook has finally revealed plans to launch its new digital currency Libra next year. The tech giant said users would be able to use the coin through its apps and on Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp.
2019-6-18 12:49 | |
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Philosophical disagreements with crypto experts have slowed the development of Facebook's GlobalCoin, sources say.
2019-6-15 21:05 | |
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Remember when it was revealed in January that Facebook used to pay teens and gather mobile app usage data from them through an app? Well, the company shut that program down after a huge backlash, but the app’s sorta making a comeback.
2019-6-12 08:33 | |
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Another company joined the long list of organizations that’s cut ties with Huawei. According to a report by Reuters, Facebook has banned the Chinese tech company from pre-installing its apps – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – on Huawei phones.
2019-6-7 15:10 | |
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The popular instant messaging platform now allows its users to transfer Bitcoin and Litecoin via a new bot, ahead of Facebook that also eyes WhatsApp audience for the use of its stablecoin The area of.
2019-5-20 09:36 | |
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Facebook Coin has been in the news cycle for over a year now. They are building a cryptocurrency payment platform for its social network. The platform, codenamed Project Libra, will reportedly let users use digital coins to make purchases on Facebook and third-party sites.
2019-5-15 17:25 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. The bitcoin price has broken $8,000 for the first time since July 2018, with most cryptocurrencies trading in the green.
2019-5-15 19:01 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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Coinspeaker Facebook Reversing Crypto Ad Ban as They are Establishing Their Own CryptocurrencyFacebook has announced that they are relaxing their advertising ban on companies promoting products and services relating to crypto.
2019-5-9 12:55 | |
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Facebook has today announced a relaxing of its advertising ban on companies promoting products and services relating to crypto. The move comes as the social media giant is ramping up its own efforts to create a stablecoin to use within some of its applications.
2019-5-9 02:00 | |
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By CCN. com: In its neverending conquest to take over the world, Facebook is building a network of online merchants and financial institutions to support its secretive new cryptocurrency. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s war machine is looking for $1 billion to fund the secretive stablecoin project, Project Libra, and is talking with heavyweights like Visa and Mastercard to get that cash.
2019-5-5 21:15 | |
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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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In a further sign of endorsement for the crypto industry, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Limited has announced the testing of a crypto payment system. Details released show the development of a smart wallet that allows users to earn while on the road.
2019-4-29 19:58 | |
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By CCN. com: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a megalomaniac who’s launching blockchain and cryptocurrency projects in order to squeeze crypto companies out of the dominance he eventually wants to assert over the space.
2019-4-26 16:17 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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Before there was WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or WeChat, there was BlackBerry Messenger. Launched in August of 2005, BBM was the first popular mobile chat to pull people away from text messages or desktop clients.
2019-4-19 03:53 | |
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If there's one word that we can use for social media companies like Facebook, it's ‘controversial. ' And with a significant degree of power, being the fifth largest company according to market capitalization, and has become the single biggest social media network by a monumental margin.
2019-4-16 14:19 | |
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The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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Five years ago, Facebook began encouraging users to use its standalone Messenger app to chat with their contacts, instead of using the built-in feature in the social network’s mobile apps. It appears that it’s now looking to bring messaging back to the primary Facebook app experience – which indicates a change in strategy for keeping users engaged on the platform App researcher Jane Manchun Wong tweeted a screenshot of a Facebook feature in the works, which shows a new tab for messaging people right within the social network’s app.
2019-4-12 10:48 | |
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Cryptocurrencies opened the gates to an impressive business development opportunity and every day new companies large and small adapt their investment models to incorporate the use of blockchain technologies and acceptance of cryptocurrencies as mechanisms.
2019-4-10 11:11 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olusegun Ogundeji. Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 price range again (after its first reach to that level in 2017) following a sudden breakout on April 2, 2019.
2019-4-4 18:42 | |
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VKontakte (also known as “VK”), which is Russia’s version of Facebook, is planning to issue its own cryptocurrency. The project is currently under development, but a final decision has not yet been made.
2019-4-1 00:45 | |
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Facebook is moving into cryptocurrency, aiming to create some type of stablecoin that will make it possible for users within its gargantuan network to transfer value to each other. Why Facebook doesn’t simply use an existing cryptocurrency is, of course, a mystery.
2019-3-31 23:30 | |
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New York resident Patrick McDonnell AKA “Jason Flack” was arrested and charged with nine counts of wire fraud in a Brooklyn court on Tuesday. McDonnell allegedly convinced others to “invest” in cryptocurrency through Facebook and Twitter, stealing the money for his own use and providing false balance statements in return.
2019-3-28 01:04 | |
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The operator of New York-based company CabaggeTech has been accused of defrauding investors out of more than $200,000 in cash and cryptocurrency, according to a nine-count indictment unsealed in federal court in New York, on Tuesday.
2019-3-27 14:40 | |
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People use virtual private networks for a variety of reasons, privacy chief among them. A virtual private network is a good way to mask your location to websites you visit. For people in countries where governments censor content and content providers – including companies like Google and Facebook – must comply with their demands, a VPN is essential to experience the actual internet.
2019-3-20 01:45 | |
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Despite multiple redesigns and fundamental changes, one thing has remained true since the very first Android phone: you swipe down from the top to access your notifications. But Android Q Beta 1 shows Google is at least considering an alternative.
2019-3-19 00:11 | |
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Facebook’s used its machine learning prowess to filter hate speech and fake accounts— but now it’s turning its focus on fighting revenge porn. In an announcement last week, the company said that it’s introducing new technology to remove non-consensual intimate photos and videos off its platform.
2019-3-18 15:12 | |
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One thing you won’t be able to use Facebook’s new WhatsApp cryptocurrency for is buying or selling revenge porn on the social media platform. Facebook, the company revealed today, just made an AI that’s an expert on porn.
2019-3-15 19:43 | |
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Popular zero-fee crypto Nano recently published a blog in which they highlight the numerous applications that have helped Nano’s adaptability in the previous year. One of the biggest focus of the article had been about tip-bots that help with microtransactions.
2019-3-5 05:40 | |
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It’s no secret that Facebook doesn’t respect your privacy in the least: we learned last October that the company used the phone number you provided for two-factor authentication to enable advertisers to target you.
2019-3-4 12:04 | |
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There have been some rumours related to Facebook plans to launch a new subscription service such as the one offered by Patreon. And indeed, this should already be a red flag for creators that are using the platform.
2019-3-2 20:06 | |
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CoinSpeaker Facebook to Launch Its Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp in H1 2019, In Talks With Exchanges According to the New York Times report, Facebook plans to use its crypto token for in-app payments across its suite of applications.
2019-3-1 11:37 | |
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Mark Zuckerberg hinted in a February 20, 2019 interview that he is considering making use of blockchain technology for data authorization purposes. Data Authorization Facebook has taken its time when it comes to entering the blockchain market.
2019-2-25 13:11 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Of all the things you want to do after losing a loved one, cleaning up their social media profiles will probably be at rock bottom on the list.
2019-2-16 23:09 | |
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A number of blockchain startups are struggling to provide a credible use case for blockchain tech and fund their crypto projects as cryptocurrency prices have taken a deep nosedive, as reported by CNBC on Feb.
2019-2-14 15:29 | |
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