“Though now evolved in many ways,” Gavin Wood wrote in Ethereum’s 2015 yellow paper, “the key functionality of a blockchain with a Turing-complete language and an effectively unlimited inter-transaction storage capability remains unchanged.” Five years and thousands of bits later, Ethereum is still chugging along as a decentralized platform for […]
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A Boeing 737 Max aircraft lands following a FAA re-certification flight on June 29, 2020 in Seattle, Wash. The 737 MAX has been grounded for commercial flights since March 2019 following two crashes. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Brashear/Getty Images A Boeing 737 Max aircraft lands following […]
Fintech giant PayPal is leaning on Paxos to handle its crypto services, Mastercard is expanding its crypto program and a prominent Canadian crypto platform has been accused of wash trading as much of 90% of its volumes. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain […]
The Bahamas is betting its mobile phone-based digital currency could be the key to faster post-disaster economic recovery. Source link
TV host Nick Cannon is facing accusations of antisemitism and racism following a bizarre and now-viral interview in which he claims white people are “a little less” and black people are who Jewish people “want to be.” During the discussion with former Public Enemy member Richard Griffin (who left the […]
Nick Cannon is an American actor, singer, producer, rapper and a television host, who was previously married to a singer Mariah Carey. Currently, he hosts his own radio show “Nick Cannon Mornings” at Power 106 in Los Angeles. American actor Nick Cannon received strong backlash over controversial comments on his […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has no idea when countries will open their borders to Russian tourists, because the world’s governments can’t work out what they want to do – and other Europeans don’t even agree with each other. That’s according to the president himself, speaking with Vitaly Savelyev, head of […]
There may finally be an end in sight. Two weeks after Russia’s home-grown Covid-19 vaccine was administered to a group of volunteers, there have been no side-effects, and it seems mass immunization may be just around the corner. “Volunteers of the first group…feel good and have no complaints about their […]
Legislation to make the District of Columbia a state is poised to pass the House on Friday, a major advance from the last time the measure came before Congress 27 years ago and 40 percent of Democrats joined with all but one Republican to defeat D.C. statehood. After decades of […]
The Indian Army has deployed more tanks closer to the Chinese border in the Himalayas following conflict at the Pangong Tso lake. On May 5, a scuffle broke out between Indian and Chinese troops at the Pangong Tso lake, located in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. In the weeks since […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107819/56/1078195683_0:163:2422:1525_1200x675_80_0_0_9c3177c4c93e9a7836d80386e4d785a1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/environment/202006091079570467-bottom-feeder-living-great-white-sharks-feed-closer-to-seabed-aussie-researchers-find/ A new study published by University of Sydney researchers in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science has found that great white sharks off the Australian east coast spend more time feeding near the seabed than previously believed. “Within the sharks’ stomachs we found […]
Byrne Hobart, a CoinDesk columnist, is an investor, consultant and writer in New York. His newsletter, The Diff (diff.substack.com), covers inflection points in finance and technology. The bull case for bitcoin as a store of value is simple: at first nobody owns it. Then it’s owned by people who are […]