Visa just spent $5.3 billion to acquire Plaid, the fintech company powering Venmo and other banking apps. Plaid’s API software allows startups, like the mobile investing app Robinhood and the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini, to connect to users’ bank accounts. According to Visa, one in four people with a US bank account have used Plaid’s technology.
Sorgente: Visa acquires the fintech company behind Venmo for $5.3 billion
Bitcoin was first created by Satoshi Nakamoto so that people could use the internet to safely and privately exchange value with others without the need for a centralized third-party or intermediary.
Today, ten years later, the economy inspired by Bitcoin is still growing — and using the foundations of decentralization, peer-to-peer, and open-source as a means to solve some of the problems of interacting and transacting on the internet.
Facebook Inc. unveiled plans for a new cryptocurrency called Libra this week. When it launches in 2020 or later, it will be a stablecoin–a digital currency that doesn’t fluctuate much because it’s supported by established government-backed currencies and securities.
The world’s largest social media company published a 12-page white paper on Libra and has more than 20 partners for the project. But there are still many questions. After a week of analysis, here’s what Bloomberg reporters and editors know about Libra, along with key unknowns that remain…
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Die Digitalwährung Bitcoin verbraucht sehr viel Rechenleistung von Computern und damit Energie. Wissenschaftler der Technischen Universität München um Christian Stoll haben nun errechnet, wie gross ihr ökologischer Fussabdruck ist. Mit dem Stand November 2018 verbrauchten Rechner, die Bitcoins erstellen, etwa 45,8 Billionen Wattstunden pro Jahr. Dies führt der Studie zufolge zu einem jährlichen Ausstoss von 22 bis 22,9 Millionen Tonnen Kohlendioxid (CO2). Der Ausstoss liege zwischen dem von Jordanien und Sri Lanka. Die Forscher haben ihre Studie in der Fachzeitschrift “Joule” veröffentlicht.
Sorgente: Bitcoin-Währung verursacht mehr Kohlendioxid als Jordanien
Der chinesische Handelsriese Alibaba führt ein neues Blockchain-System für den Schutz von geistigem Eigentum ein.
Sorgente: Alibaba: Chinas führende Handelsplattform setzt verstärkt auf Blockchain | BTC-ECHO
I read this article 120 AI Predictions for 2019 from Forbes and it is a very interesting set of predictions being made by senior executives involved with AI. Some make fairly safe predictions while others really push what may be possible, and some make 2 or more predictions.
Sorgente: What does 2019 hold for AI?
…the big question most financial service executives are likely asking is whether Amazon itself will become a bank…
Here an interesting article: https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/07/09/alexa-please-loan-me-100/amp/
Six, la società che possiede e gestisce la borsa valori svizzera, sta per lanciare un exchange di criptovalute pienamente regolarmentato La mossa arriva dopo il crollo dei prezzi e dei volumi di scambio sofferto dalle criptovalute dall’inizio di quest’anno “È abbondantemente chiaro che gran parte di ciò che sta succedendo nell’area digitale non è un fenomeno passeggero” ha detto il Ceo Jos Dijsselhof. Six, la società che possiede e gestisce la borsa valori svizzera, ha annunciato venerdì che sta per lanciare un exchange di criptovalute pienamente regolamentato, il che dimostra l’interesse istituzionale tuttora esistente nei confronti del settore malgrado il calo dei prezzi. L’azienda ha comunicato che il nuovo Six Digital Exchange sarà supervisionato dalla banca centrale svizzera e dall’ente svizzero di controllo Finma. La Svizzera è stata negli ultimi tempi una delle giurisdizioni più “crypto-friendly” in Europa, tanto che i suoi enti di controllo hanno fornito una serie di
Swiss Re spannt mit Konkurrenten zusammen. Mittels der Blockchain-Technik sollen die Kosten gesenkt werden. Der Standort Zürich hat sich durchgesetzt.
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