Nearly 120 youths, ages 14-24, now gather weekly in Rio de Janeiro for free courses about financial literacy, computer programming and blockchain technology. World Bank research field coordinator Erick Baumgartner told CoinDesk he went to three high schools in the crime-riddled Pavuna district to recruit students for the nine-month program, which started in May. “Even…
Month: September 2019
IRS enforcement efforts target cryptocurrency transactions
Print Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, referred to as convertible virtual currencies or CVCs, have been held and traded for a number of years by U.S.taxpayers.In 2014, the Internal Revenue Service issued a notice that it considered CVCs to be property and not fiat currency. As a result, any sale or exchange of CVCs or the…
Ethereum to Bitcoin Exchange Rate Points to Slow Altcoin Apocalypse
Home Op-ed Ethereum to Bitcoin Exchange Rate Points to Slow Altcoin Apocalypse What does Ethereum’s performance against bitcoin tell us about altcoins? | Image: Shutterstock Ethereum to Bitcoin Exchange Rate Points to Slow Altcoin Apocalypse By Sam Bourgi @hsbourgi September 26, 2019 Cryptocurrency prices wavered on Wednesday following the biggest 24-hour devaluation in months, leaving…
NBA Taking Conservative Approach With Spencer Dinwiddie’s Contract Token Idea
The National Basketball Association is looking to block Spencer Dinwiddie’s effort to tokenize his contract with the Brooklyn Nets.Dinwiddie wanted to introduce a platform that would allow athletes to link their contracts to a tokenized security based on the Etheruem blockchain technology.Dinwiddie’s unique idea was first explained by The Athletic’s Shams Charania.Dinwiddie would give up…
ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF REVENUE IS WHERE THE FOCUS SHOULD BE: RAY GEORGE SAYS
Former public servant and financial services expert Ray George said that he does not think that the government should sign the Loan Guarantee that was offered by the United Kingdom government and instead pursue suggested revenue infusing opportunities and self-fund the Territory’s recovery and development. George aired his views at a press conference on 13…
Westinghouse to buy Rolls-Royce’s North American Civil Nuclear unit
Most Read Westinghouse to buy Rolls-Royce’s North American Civil Nuclear unit Sept 26 (Reuters) – U.S.nuclear energy firm Westinghouse Electric Co said on Thursday it would buy Rolls-Royce Holding’s Civil Nuclear Systems and Services business in North America, to boost its growth in North American and European nuclear markets.Westinghouse, which supplies products and technological assistance…
Facebook says Libra is out of its control. But Libra’s overseers are a web of Silicon Valley insiders
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business In its effort to bring the Libra cryptocurrency to life, perhaps the biggest hurdle for Facebook is a lack of trust and opposition from regulators around the world, who are concerned about Libra’s potential implications for privacy and financial stability and Facebook’s role in managing it. Facebook’s answer to those…
Facebook says Libra is out of its control. But Libra’s overseers are a web of Silicon Valley insiders –
New York (CNN Business) In its effort to bring the Libra cryptocurrency to life, perhaps the biggest hurdle for Facebook is a lack of trust and opposition from regulators around the world, who are concerned about Libra’s potential implications for privacy and financial stability and Facebook’s role in managing it. Facebook’s ( FB ) answer…
kafkacrypto 0.9.7
Message Layer Encryption for Kafka Available on PyPI at https://pypi.org/project/kafkacrypto/ Available on Github at https://github.com/tmcqueen-materials/kafkacrypto Quick Start On every kafka consumer or producer node, do: pip3 install kafkacrypto Run: ./simple-provision.py and follow the instructions.Use the same root of trust password on all nodes. In your producer/consumer code: from kafkacrypto import KafkaCrypto , KafkaConsumer , KafkaProducer…
Best VPNs for Bitcoin 2019
What is Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency? Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency or an open-source virtual currency that operates using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology.Bitcoin allows you to trade any goods or services over the internet and also let you change it from other currencies.However, there is no ‘middleman’ or the state-controlled bank like we have for traditional currencies. Bitcoin…