When China and Other Big Countries Launch Cryptocurrencies, It Will Kick Off a Global...
When China and Other Big Countries Launch Cryptocurrencies, It Will Kick Off a Global Revolution (theconversation.com) Posted by msmash on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:50AM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept. There has been a massive rise in the number of bilateral agreements between central banks that allow two countries to swap currencies directly, a large number…
Margin Lending: Earn the Best Interest Rates in the Cryptocurrency Lending Market
The lending of cryptocurrencies has been an interesting sector to observe over the past year as new products have proliferated in the market. Volatility has always been an active contributor to lending rates, and with the recent spike in volatility, lending rates on crypto exchanges have reached as high as 149% p/a on some cryptoassets…
Unauthorized Bread, a near-future tale of refugees and sinister IoT appliances
Appliance boot loaders, ftw — Cory Doctorow's book, Radicalized, is up for a CBC award. To celebrate, here's an excerpt. Cory Doctorow - Jan 22, 2020 2:05 pm UTC Enlarge / Now that is some artisanal toast.Tor Books"Unauthorized Bread"—a tale of jailbreaking refugees versus IoT appliances—is the lead novella in author Cory Doctorow's Radicalized, which…
Blockchain opportunities for banks
Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) In some areas of their business, banks and financial institutions are already well on their way to completing their transformation journeys. Processes amenable to digitization have indeed been digitized, and the increasing adoption of technologies such as robotic process automation means that huge swathes of banking operations are now touch-free…
This Design Team is Using Legos, Stickers, and Playing Cards to Demystify Blockchain
What the Block received a Notable Design Education Initiative Award in the 2019 Core77 Design Awards.It's not that designers Cyrus Clarke and John Ferreira were necessarily sick and tired of the inundation of requests they'd been receiving to explain what the heck Blockchain is. Rather, the requests made them curious. They were struck by the…
