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By Mark Williams Blockchain is one of those tricky concepts known by many but understood by few. Despite this, it has been heralded as a true game changer with the ability to revolutionise traditional transactions and processes. Some even compare its potential to that of the internet. But what does blockchain technology do, and how is it impacting the world of work? What is a blockchain? A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger where transactions are recorded and stored in chronological order. When a transaction takes place, a new block is added. Each new block contains information about the transaction and a unique hash – much like an encrypted ‘digital fingerprint’ – for both the new block and the previous block. So, each new block is cryptographically linked to the previous block, creating a chain of blocks all the way back to the original ‘genesis’ block. Instead of being managed by a central entity, the blockchain is distributed openly across...

By Ledger Insights Yesterday the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) announced that they’ve enabled the secondary trades of the World Bank’s bond-i bond to be recorded on a blockchain. Nine months ago CBA arranged the Blockchain Offered New Debt Instrument (bond-i) issuance of A$110 million (US $76m). It’s part of the World Bank’s annual $50-$60 billion bond issuance. “Enabling secondary trading [to be] recorded on the blockchain is a tremendous step forward towards enabling capital markets to leverage distributed ledger technologies for faster, more efficient, and more secure transactions,” said World Bank VP and Treasurer Jingdong Hua. “It speaks to the innovation and commitment of all our partners, including investors, that we were able to achieve this together.” The bond-i platform is a permissioned network with nodes in Sydney and Washington. It features automated bond auct...

By Moris Beracha .- Credit cards are financial instruments that allow users to perform certain operations from an ATM and pay for goods and services in installments. When speaking of credit payments, we must name Visa and Mastercard, two major credit card networks in that global market. Visa has publicly supported cryptocurrency and blockchain as part of the future, while Mastercard has patented in the US a method to “manage cryptocurrency fractional reserves in blockchain”. It means that Mastercard wants to create means for easing payments combined with the benefits of traditional payment systems. Also, it is highlighted that Visa and IBM announced their partnership as part of their new Ethereum payment platform initiative. Their role in what is also known as economy 4.0 can be essential for their development, since payment methods could become quicker, easier and safer processes. The blockchain designers are ready to work with any project requested by...

By Marie Huillet      Data scientists at blockchain infrastructure firm Elementus have published details of recent transactions from crypto exchange CoinBene that they consider to be suspect, beginning with $105 million in crypto swiftly being moved out of the exchange’s hot wallet. The findings, reportedly based on data sourced using the Elementus Query Engine, were published  on March 27. Elementus also provides independently verifiable raw data that readers can download and compare against the Ethereum ( ETH ) blockchain. As previously reported, CoinBene was yesterday prompted to reassure users that a period of unforeseen maintenance was in fact not due to a hack, as some community members had suspected . In presenting its findings, Elementus emphatically states that it is not aiming “to refute what CoinBene is claiming.” It nonetheless presents several key observations based on its findings, arguing that the identified pattern of transf...

  By Moris Beracha .- Different companies that manufacture computer hardware and electronic components have launched campaigns to offer their users, a kind of “passive” mining that will allow them to make profits in cryptocurrencies with very little effort. The decision is basically due to the resounding fall in the prices of the main digital currencies, which have hit hard the assets of these companies. Given this reality, the Taiwanese company Asus, has decided to take action on the matter, specifying an alliance with Quantumcloud to develop a software that allows users of its gaming equipment, to mine cryptocurrencies while our GPU is at rest. To date the Asian technology giant has not offered details of how this tool will work and they have not explained which cryptocurrencies can be mined through it. Although the Quantumcloud website ensures that users of their application “will not get rich quickly,” they argue if they can get some money w...

By Moris Beracha .-  2018 was a negative period for some of the world’s most important cryptocurrencies. The value of Bitcoin, Ethereum, LiteCoin, Ripple among many others, dropped over the previous year and a large number of investors lost millions of dollars. However, countries such as Russia still maintain their hopes in digital assets and despite the price crash, the interest in cryptocurrencies remains. According to financial consultant Olga Prokhorova, the new generations of entrepreneurs are looking to make some kind of investment with tokens, because they trust that this will be the future. In an interview with the news channel of Federal Press, the also representative of the “International Financial Center”, cited data from a study published by the University of Cambridge suggesting that the number of users with identity to perform some type of transaction in the cryptocurrency ecosystem has grown to more than 35 million worldwide. T...

By Yogita Khatri Opera now lets Android users buy ethereum’s ether (ETH) cryptocurrency directly from its browser-based wallet, it announced Wednesday. For the new service, Opera said it has partnered with regulated crypto brokerage Safello to provide the cash-to-crypto exchange. The feature allows payments with credit and debit cards, along with “trusted” payment networks including Swish in Sweden. At launch, ether purchasing is available only in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, however. Safello – which is registered with Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority – will verify users who make purchases using Sweden’s BankID and Denmark’s NemID citizens’ identity solutions. Topping up a wallet with ether should take “less than a minute,” according to Opera. Charles Hamel, Opera’s crypt product lead, said: “We think that the next important phase for crypto will come from usage and that for it to reach wider adoption, it has to be easy to buy and e...

Imagen destacada por  florin  / stock.adobe.com By Aaron Wood Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an Ethereum ( ETH )-based token backed by Bitcoin ( BTC ), has launched today, Jan. 31, according to a press release on the network’s website . The currency is a joint initiative by blockchain security firm BitGo , Kyber Network liquidity protocol and others. BitGo announced the development of the coin backed 1:1 with Bitcoin in October 2018. A statement by the firm then said that Wrapped Bitcoin will provide users with a “wide variety of new decentralized use cases including on decentralized exchanges ( DEXs ), as collateral for stablecoins or lending, for payments and flexible smart contracts within the Ethereum ecosystem.” WBTC is an ERC-20 token, which are tokens designed and used solely on the Ethereum platform that make the streamline the creation of new tokens. ERC-20 tokens provide a sort of template by which developers can build a new token, spari...

ETC Wallpaper - Ethereum Classic Cryptocurrency By Adrian Zmudzinski | Cointelegraph     The Ethereum Classic 51 percent attacker has reportedly returned $100,000 to cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io, a post on the official exchange’s blog reports on Jan. 12. The company further noted that they tried contacting the attacker but didn’t get any reply until now, and that they do not know the reason why the funds have been returned. The exchange declared: “If the attacker didn't run it for profit, he might be a white hacker who wanted to remind people the risks in blockchain consensus and hashing power security.” A white hat hacker is a hacker with a strong professional ethic who uses his hacking abilities for good and not for personal gain. The jargon file , a staple of hacker culture, further explains: “The term white hat [stands] for an ally or friendly security specialist.” On Jan. 9, Gate.io published their analysis of the 51 percent attack, fi...

by   Nick Chong North Korea Still In Love With Bitcoin, Crypto Due to the decentralized, borderless, and censorship-resistant nature of  Bitcoin  and related technologies, North Korea, the world’s most well-known hermit state, has taken a liking to this decade-old innovation. But some would argue that North Korea has taken its crypto penchant a bit too far, with a multitude of reports indicating that the nation is leveraging cryptocurrencies for dubious financial gain. As reported by  Ethereum World News  in mid-October, Lazarus, a supposed North Korea-based hacker consortium, was found to be responsible for five cryptocurrency exchange hacks, including the now-infamous $500 million breach of CoinCheck. A report from cybersecurity firm Group-IB, who first divulged this information, indicated that Lazarus’ constituents used social engineering, phishing, and malware to forcefully visit pertinent databases and access points. Now, per the  South Chi...

  By Matthew Beedham It seems we might never win the battle against fake cryptocurrency apps on Google’s Play Store, as another four have been identified this week. The apps were masquerading on the Play Store as cryptocurrency wallets for NEO, Tether, and MetaMask. The dodgy apps were uncovered by security researcher Lukas Stefanko and had managed to amass a few hundred installs in total and have been available on the Play Store since mid-October. They have since been reported to Google and removed from the Play Store, it remains unclear if anyone was duped by any of these apps. What did they do? Despite all being wallet styles apps, they fall into two broad categories, phishing apps or fake wallets. The fake MetaMask app was the only phishing app of the four. After installing and opening the application, it would ask the user for their private key and wallet password. Once the app obtains this sensitive data, it would send it on to the scammers, si...