Day: February 14, 2020

Meghan Markle’s British Vogue Cover Is Way Less Woke Than You Think

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Royal fans are going wild over an edition of British Vogue with the cover guest-edited by Meghan Markle. After the edition flew off shelves, Markle celebrated with an Instagram video of herself calling the cover models to congratulate them. Meghan’s concept features 16 women who are “Forces for Change.” But she doesn’t include a single scientist, engineer, or businesswoman. Meghan Markle made the latest edition of British Vogue fly off the shelves. It’s the fastest-selling issue in the magazine’s history. Instead of Markle, the cover she guest-edited features 15 influential…

Steemit Sets Up Shop on Tron Network

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Steemit, the blockchain-based social media platform where users can be paid to curate or create content, is partnering with the Tron Foundation to bring Steem dapps and users to Tron. The companies announced Friday that Tron and Steem developers will jointly be looking into migrating Steem products and users to the Tron network, and ultimately swapping the STEEM token for a new Tron-based version. No timeline for this migration was presented. Steem, which was originally founded by Dan Larimer and Ned Scott, claims to have more than 1 million users,…

Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 14, 2020

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With bitcoin holding above $10,000, we’re joined by CoinDesk senior reporter Leigh Cuen to discuss developments and implications in the case alleged against Larry Dean Harmon. Today’s show features a brief interview with CoinDesk senior reporter Leigh Cuen on her story: Disclosure Read More The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Original

Polychain Capital Is Raising a $200M Crypto Venture Fund, Slide Deck Reveals

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Cryptocurrency investment firm Polychain Capital is raising $200 million for a second fund aimed at venture investing, a funding goal that would top its first venture fund by $25 million. According to an investor slide deck obtained by CoinDesk, the second venture fund opened at the beginning of 2020 and is accepting minimum investments of $1 million for up to three years. Like Polychain Capital’s first venture fund, the second fund will back early-stage crypto startups raising pre-seed, seed and Series A funding rounds. The first venture fund, which raised…

After MIT Find Vulnerabilities, Medici Ventures Defends Blockchain Voting App Voatz

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Jonathan Johnson, CEO of Overstock and president of Medici Ventures, has issued a statement supporting blockchain in voting in response to the technology’s vulnerabilities claims published on Feb. 13. Emerging technologies got in the crosshairs of regulators when a mobile software application that had been devised to help calculate the total number of votes in the recent Iowa Democratic caucus reportedly malfunctioned, resulting in the Democratic Party having to delay its public reporting of last Monday’s results. But does blockchain really fail when it comes to elections? Following the Iowa…

Mass Effect Writer Reveals ‘Exciting’ Bioware Turned into Corporate Shills

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Drew Karpyshyn has recently joined 2 other ex-BioWare employees in leaving the company to join Archetype. In a blog post, he claimed that BioWare had become too corporate. This is a cautionary tale for future developers and publisher to not create a corporate culture around their creative endeavors. BioWare has been a bit of a shambles lately. The last Mass Effect game wasn’t exactly ‘top-notch’. They also completely screwed the pooch on Anthem, even though they’ve promised to ‘fix’ it now. Turns out that there’s a reason behind this rapid…

Mass Effect Writer Reveals ‘Exciting’ Bioware Turned into Corporate Shills

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Drew Karpyshyn has recently joined 2 other ex-BioWare employees in leaving the company to join Archetype. In a blog post, he claimed that BioWare had become too corporate. This is a cautionary tale for future developers and publisher to not create a corporate culture around their creative endeavors. BioWare has been a bit of a shambles lately. The last Mass Effect game wasn’t exactly ‘top-notch’. They also completely screwed the pooch on Anthem, even though they’ve promised to ‘fix’ it now. Turns out that there’s a reason behind this rapid…

ASX Sees Industry Benefits Arising From Blockchain Upgrade as July Tests Approach

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The chief of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has said the company’s approaching shift to blockchain tech could bring opportunities to the wider securities industry. In a results call for H1 2020 Thursday, reported by ZDNet, ASX CEO Dominic Stevens said: “We’re very excited about the long term benefits this can bring to clearing and settlement specifically, and to the efficiency of the securities industry in Australia, generally,” Stevens said. Specifically, Stevens was discussing the ASX’s development of a blockchain-based replacement for its now aging clearing system called CHESS. Work…

Pirate Chain Coin Now Available for Trading on Bitcoin.com Exchange, Joins New Alliance

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Pirate Chain (ARRR) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency with non-optional, private-only addresses and transactions. This coin has is now available for trading to users of Bitcoin.com Exchange, soon after the team behind it joined the Blockchain Privacy, Security & Adoption Alliance. Also Read: Users of Bitcoin.com Exchange Can Win Rewards Worth $25,000 in Gocrypto Trading Competition ARRR Now Available for Trading on Bitcoin.com Exchange Bitcoin.com Exchange has added support for trading Pirate Chain (ARRR), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency with non-optional, private-only addresses and transactions that are shielded by ZK-Snarks technology. The developers…

Dow Lacks Conviction as Coronavirus Threatens Consumer Spending

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) lacked conviction during the week’s final trading session. U.S. consumer spending slowed significantly in January as the coronavirus epidemic began to filter into consumer behavior. Health officials warned Americans to brace for a U.S. outbreak, meaning coronavirus could weigh on the economy for months to come. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) traded with little conviction on Friday as U.S. economic data began to sense the first ripples of the coronavirus outbreak. Consumer spending slowed significantly in January as Americans began to alter their…