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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing one of the biggest failures of his career - Libra. It can be simply called a Failure to Launch. We all know that 27 companies including luxury brands were backing the new cryptocurrency Libra, a brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg. Among others, Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer Vacheron Constantin, multinational conglomerate LVMH, and online luxury fashion retail platform Farfetch announced that they have joined hands with the likes of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and eBay, to co-found the Libra Association. Read more

Indian Financial system is one of the most tightly regulated one in the world. Their cautious and conservative approach to Distributed Ledger Technology is understandable. A government panel has called for a ban on cryptocurrencies and wants 10-year-jail for violations. It is not like the other option (read regulations) was not considered. Read more

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Donald Trump expressed his mistrust of cryptocurrency Thursday, saying it was ”not money” and warning that those wishing to join the trade would have to abide by banking regulations. ”I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air,” Trump tweeted. Read more

Across the world, there are people working two jobs to lead a normal life. It is probably safe to say that freelancing is providing many households with the extra income that they so desperately require. But with desperation, comes exploitation. The platforms favor the clients, not the freelancers, for the simple reason that the clients are the ones who are spending on the platform. Read more

The American Congress has passed a blockchain-related bill named S. 553, wherein it brings into effect the Blockchain Promotion Act of 2019. I read quite a few messages on social media calling it historic and headed over to the Congress website to read the whole bill. R ead more

3 weeks ago India Dapp (Decentralized Application) Fest 2019 kicked off and now videos with great information are surfacing from the event. Sachin Maheshwari, who is a software integration engineer from Ripple gave the typical Ripple presentation consisting of the current problems of the modern day correspondent banking infrastructure, then leading into how they solve this problem, then finally giving a visual explanation of the three Ripple products xCurrent, xRapid, and xVia.  Read more

Blockchain is definitely one of the most influential technologies of our time. This, despite naysayers pulling Blockchain down every chance they got. With the increased focus on the Smart Cities, Blockchain has found a new application. Many cities across the world are busy experimenting with blockchain technology to shape the urban future. Read more

The way we live our lives has changed a lot over the last few decades. Had you told my father in 1960s, when he was a teenager, that he would be able to watch movies on demand, he would have laughed at you. Now, if you were to tell me 30 years ago when I was a teenager that my house will be controlled by voice and respond to my commands, I would have laughed at you. The same way that a teenager today will laugh at us if we told them that in future there will be no offices, just work desks that you could randomly sit at in an arena. Read more 

Smart contract platform and decentralized blockchain protocol Tezos  recently struck a deal with Latin America’s largest investment bank  BTG Pactual (and Brazil’s 5th largest bank), along with Dubai-based asset management firm Dalma Capital to sell an estimated $1 billion in security token offerings. In an  announcement published on the Tezos Foundation website  (July 3rd), the Tezos Foundation principal Hubertus Thonhauser emphasized.... Read more

Several cryptocurrency analysts and traders are now predicting that the Bitcoin price could surpass $60,000 this bull run cycle. These oddly specific forecasts supposedly come from technical data and historical Bitcoin cycles. Technical and historical data supposedly suggest Bitcoin bull run to $60,000.  Read more 

In this new age economy, data is the biggest asset a company can own. If you think that Facebook is a half-trillion-dollar company because it has millions of users, think twice. Facebook is what it is because of the data being generated by those millions of users. Blockchain might be the nemesis of Facebook, only if it solves the problem of scalability and speed. It is time that millions of people around the world stopped working, unknowingly, for Facebook and started working for themselves. Read more

What is Industry Trust? Industrial Products from around the world are available for consumers today, regardless of its physical presence in the country of purchase. Imagine buying raw material in Ghana from a warehouse in Germany in 1980s. It would have taken 3 middlemen, 2 months, and a stack of correspondence to get it. Now, you can do that with a B2B commerce website in no time. Read more