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Argo Blockchain Slumps to Full-Year Loss on BTC Price Slide

April 28, 2023

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Santa Cruz Adopts Blockchain for Govt Services

April 27, 2023

The County of Santa Cruz in northern California has become the latest local government to adopt blockchain technology for governmental services. At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors on April 25, 2023, members unanimously voted to move forward with implementing digital wallets for government services and official documentation purposes. The white-label digital wallet will be powered by HUMBL and will launch a three-stage pilot program starting in July 2023. During the pilot period, beta testers, such as mobile users seeking access to government services like bicycle registration and RV…

California approves blockchain-based digital wallet for gov’t services

April 27, 2023

The county of Santa Cruz in northern California is one of the latest to adopt and implement the usage of blockchain-based solutions on a governmental level. In a meeting of the Board of Supervisors for the County of Santa Cruz held on April 25, the members unanimously decided to go forward with implementing the usage of digital wallets, for government services and official documentation purposes. According to the final consensus of the meeting, the white-label digital wallet powered by HUMBL will launch a 3-stage pilot program starting in July 2023.…

Deloitte seeks crypto experts | Blockchain News

April 26, 2023

Big Four accounting firm Deloitte is ramping up its crypto expertise, actively seeking individuals with cryptocurrency knowledge to join its team. While other “Big Four” accounting firms like Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers have no crypto-related job openings, Deloitte has over 300 in the United States alone, with almost all of them posted just a week ago on LinkedIn. Deloitte has several job titles related to cryptocurrency, such as Blockchain & Digital Assets Manager, which is available in 97 different locations across the United States. Other job titles include…

Gensler Alleged Crypto Hypocrisy | Blockchain News

April 26, 2023

The cryptocurrency community has criticized Gary Gensler, the current chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), after a video from 2018 surfaced in which he stated that cryptocurrencies are comparable to commodities or cash and are not securities. This has led to criticism of Gensler from the cryptocurrency community. As a result of this, hypocrisy allegations have been leveled at Gensler since his present position seems to contradict his prior views. Gensler explained initial coin offerings (ICOs) and…

Blockchain Fights Climate Change | Blockchain News

April 26, 2023

According to a recent white paper published by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the use of blockchain technology has quickly become one of the most important weapons in the battle against climate change. The report explains how blockchain technology may offer the essential infrastructure to combat climate change “at speed and scale” by increasing market transparency, building trust and ambition within climate discussions, democratizing access to climate action, and funneling more funding to project developers. Brynly Llyr, who is in charge of blockchain and digital assets at the Crypto Impact…

Social Media App MeWe to Bring Frequency Blockchain’s Self-Sovereign Identity to Its 20M Users

April 26, 2023

Frequency is a parachain of the Polkadot blockchain, meaning it sets its own rules and follows its own logic but is compatible with the main Polkadot chain as well as other parachains. Parachains pay a comprehensive lease to Polkadot, often with funds gathered from their communities, instead of a fee for each block. This boosts the system’s scalability and stability, according to Frequency. As such, the Frequency blockchain can handle a lot of throughput, needed for social media applications. Source link

Helium Network’s IOT Token Surges 370% Following Migration to Solana (SOL) Blockchain

April 26, 2023

Blockchain features on WEF whitepaper as a tool to fight climate change

April 26, 2023

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently published a whitepaper that explains how blockchains are able to provide the needed infrastructure to fight against climate change “at speed and scale.” We’ve just published a World Economic Forum @wef whitepaper detailing blockchain technology’s valuable role in the global effort to fight climate change. Thanks @ToucanProtocol @BL4SG_ and more than 60 ReFi organizations that contributed to this research!https://t.co/RUwb9Z5Ipy — Climate Collective (@clim8collective) April 25, 2023 According to the whitepaper, blockchain’s value to the climate action community can be split into four categories.…

Solana Labs’ ChatGPT plugin allows AI to fetch blockchain data

April 26, 2023

Solana (SOL) users will soon be able to interact with the network through an open-source plugin enabled on OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. The plugin will allow ChatGPT to check wallet balances, transfer Solana-native tokens and purchase nonfungible tokens (NFTs) when OpenAI makes plugins available, according to an April 25 tweet by Solana Labs, the development firm behind the Solana blockchain. Solana Labs is also encouraging developers to test out the open-source code to retrieve on-chain data that they may be interested in. (1/2) Solana Labs has created an…