New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Tuesday launched a fact-finding inquiry into the policies and practices of 13 platforms used by consumers to trade virtual currencies like bitcoin and ether. Cryptocurrency exchanges match buyers and sellers of virtual currencies. As part of the attorney general’s inquiry, his office sent questionnaires asking the exchanges …
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Blockchain is all the rage right now, and you’ll soon see the world’s first blockchain-based phone. Finney, created by Sirin Labs, will be a phone that lets people store and use digital currencies without having to pay transaction fees, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. This means you won’t need to carry USB sticks along with your digital wallet. Instead, everything will all be …
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It looks like the blockchain bug might have bitten Google. The tech colossus’ cloud computing group is working on a service that could let customers use the heavily hyped transaction processing technology, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Blockchain is a potentially disruptive technology to track assets and transactions in a digital record held collectively among many computers instead of a single centralized …
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It’s smaller than a grain of salt, but it could soon help guarantee that the products you buy are the real deal and not a knockoff. At IBM’s Think 2018 conference, the company announced the creation of the world’s smallest computer that despite its size and cost (each will be less than 10 cents to make) can “monitor, analyze, communicate …
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The basic attention token, developed by browser maker Brave Software, uses blockchain to oversee online ad payments that can flow among advertisers, publishers and anyone using its browser. Brave Software The Brave web browser can now channel virtual money from its users to people who stream videogame action on Amazon’s Twitch service. Brave announced the Twitch payment support Thursday, a …
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Browser maker Brave Software is giving away another $1 million in crypto-tokens, this time to try to get publishers and YouTube stars to sign up for the technology and get their followers to do the same. The promotion uses Brave’s basic attention tokens (BAT), a digital currency Brave created in 2017 to let advertisers pay publishers and browser users. Publishers …
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Brave Software has embarked on the next phase of its plan to get you to use its browser — and to build a privacy-first alternative to today’s online ad industry. The Brave browser blocks ads and ad trackers by default, a move that makes pages load faster and eliminates some prying into our lives online. But the startup doesn’t want …
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Brave Software on Thursday released a new version of its browser that lets you donate money directly to YouTube stars. The free browser blocks ads by default but lets you distribute money anonymously to websites each month, giving more money to the websites you visit more often and letting you “pin” favorites you always want to fund. Now Brave lets …
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Brave, a new web browser challenging bigger rivals like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, wants to take privacy on the internet to the next level. Like all other browsers, Brave includes a “private browsing” option that leaves no traces of online activity on your computer and makes websites think you’ve never visited before. But the startup is working on adding …
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Brave Software has signed a publishing partnership the browser maker hopes ultimately will help rid the web of privacy-invading advertisements. Brave, the startup led by Mozilla co-founder and JavaScript inventor Brendan Eich, announced the deal Tuesday with CoinDesk, a website with news and information about the Bitcoin digital currency. Under the first phase of the deal, Coindesk has begun promoting …
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