Shell, one of the five largest oil and gas companies in the world, has invested an unnamed amount in an energy blockchain-startup LO3, Forbes reports. LO3 based in New York is known as the developer of the Exergy platform, which uses the Ethereum blockchain to track power consumption. For Shell, this is the fourth public investment in blockchain projects. Earlier, the Dutch company has invested in platforms Vakt, Komgo and […]
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A new network of futuristic capsule hotels Monotel plans to launch in Ukraine by the end of the summer, while cryptocurrency is also indicated among the methods of payment for services. According to Monotel, the project is being created in the image of already working high-tech Asian capsule hotels. There will be an online check-in, digitally controlled capsules, and you can order any services without the need to communicate with the staff. […]
South Korean giant LG Electronics is presumably working to create a cryptocurrency wallet, as evidenced by the application on the website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The application states that the corporation registers the ThinQ Wallet trademark, which involves several usage scenarios, including a “software computer platform for the blockchain”, a “mobile electronic wallet for cryptocurrencies” and a “payment application for mobile phones”. Remarkably, […]
Representatives of the South Korean technology giant Kakao said that their new blockchain, Klaytn, is 15 times faster than Ethereum, reports The Korea Herald. Also during a press conference in Seoul, blockchain-unit GroundX reported that Klaytn is capable of processing 300 transactions per second. At the same time, the capacity of Ethereum is limited to only 20 transactions per second. The head of GroundX, Han Jae Sung, stated […]
Specializing in private key management solutions, Torus raised $ 2 million seed investment. We're excited to announce our $ 2 million raise with @multicoincap, @BinanceLabs, @coinbase, @Accomplices, Sixth Horizon, and Decentralized Ecosystem! https://t.co/Gq8hQ3ycBm – Torus (@TorusLabs) 9 linis 2019 p. The round of financing was led by the American cryptocurrency fund Multicoin […]
TRON Foundation and BitTorrent service introduced BitTorrent Speed software, which will optimize downloads of torrent files. Today is a huge day for all of us. #BitTorrentSpeed will be the torrent of people to adopt the #cryptocurrency and #blockchain! $ BTT #BTT https://t.co/A3PCIIAfeO – BitTorrent Inc. (@BitTorrent) July 8, 2019 New software, among other things, supports […]
The largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has reduced the number of confirmations required for users to deposit funds in Bitcoin and Ethereum. faster https://t.co/qFgiBnmmlS – CZ Binance (@cz_binance) 9 March 201 p. "Faster," said Changpeng Zhao, head of the exchange. Now, to transfer deposits in Bitcoin, the exchange client only needs to wait for one confirmation of the network, and not two, as it was before. Ethereum and […]
The US rating agency Weiss Ratings first assigned Bitcoin a grade of A-, stressing that at the moment the potential benefits of investing in the first cryptocurrency exceed the risks, its technology is updated, and the network is stable, reports ForkLog.Media. “Bitcoin has come a long way from C + in January 2018 to today. Then the investment risks were extremely high, ”the agency stressed. Representatives of the organization […]
Los representantes de BlockStream, que se especializa en el desarrollo de software basado en tecnologías blockchain, anunciaron que su billetera móvil Green Wallet ahora es compatible con sidechain Liquid Network.…
In an attempt to tackle the lack of privacy Ethereum, developer Kendrick Tan developed a mixing service for the second most capitalized cryptocurrency. The basis of its development called Heiswap formed the basic specifications for such a service, described by Vitalik Buterin in May of this year. The mixer itself is available in the Ropsten test network at heiswap.exchange, and as the founder of Ethereum has already noted, this is […]