ING bank gives clients a compliant way to store crypto

 

Dutch bank ING is building technology that will enable its clients to securely store their digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies.

 

In a written statement, ING told Reuters that it “sees increasing opportunities with regard to digital assets on both asset-backed and native security tokens.” ING added that it was focused on providing a compliant means to access the sector.

 

The custody project is still in its early stages and by no means the first of its kind, but ING is one of the largest banks in the world – will involvement from such a recognisable brand influence others to follow their lead?

 

R3 closes ‘largest open-account trade finance trial ever conducted’

 

There were more big moves in the finance sector this week, as the Marco Polo Network, a trade finance network co-developed with blockchain giant R3, has announced completion of the largest finance trial on R3's Corda Network in its history.

 

The solution “is an integrated solution built to overcome critical trade finance challenges including lack of connectivity, inefficient processes, and high onboarding costs.” The trial involved over 70 global organisations from across a diverse array of sectors, including financial services, information technology, telecommunications, logistics, the maritime industry, real estate, hospitality, and the automotive industry.

 

These included major banks and financial services ABN AMRO, Banorte, Citizens Bank, Commerzbank AG, SBI Holdings, the Bank of East Asia and the Saudi British Bank. Other participants included major German carmaker BMW, the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation, Japanese general trading company Sumitomo Corporation, and more.

 

TikTok owner works to register new blockchain company

 

TikTok is the latest social media craze to crash the market, experiencing phenomenal growth over the last year. Now its owner ByteDance have joined forces with Chinese media company Shanghai Dongfang Newspaper Co. to launch a new company focused on developing blockchain, AI, and other business lines.

 

The company, registered as Pengpai Audiovisual Technology Co, has not released precise details around the exact business lines it will offer, but it reportedly has registered capital of 10 million yuan (around $1.4 million), 49% of which is controlled by ByteDance.

 

43% of Investors Interested in Bitcoin Are Women

 

Is crypto a boy’s club? The overriding impression for many is that it is, with the ‘crypto bros’ stereotype common in the media. But is this fair? Not according to the latest report by Bitcoin fund operator, Grayscale.

 

Grayscale has released research claiming that 43% of investors interested in Bitcoin are women. It further found that they were similarly bullish, with 56.2% of women compared to 56.4% of men saying that they believed in the future of blockchain. The report quoted one female respondent as saying: “Bitcoin might be the future global currency as we rely more on technology and rarely touch real money”

 

Female adoption of cryptocurrency is particularly important given the disparity between the genders when it comes to financial inclusion. In developing countries, just 59% of women have a bank account, compared to 67% of men.

 

Riksbank develops an e-krona in a test environment

 

The Riksbank, Sweden‘s central bank, is set to sign an agreement with Accenture to help develop the pilot of its digital currency – the e-krona. The pilot project is aimed at broadening the bank’s understanding of the technological possibilities for the e-krona.

 

According to a press release issued last Friday: “During the first year of the e-krona pilot project, a technical platform will be developed with a user interface that enables, for instance, payment with the e-krona from a mobile phone, a card and a watch. The platform will also contain simulations of payment service providers, retail outlets and other parts of the Swedish payment system.

 

“The assignment will run to 31 December 2020, with a possibility for extension so that the total maximum period of agreement will be seven years. If the Riksbank chooses to extend the e-krona pilot project, the e-krona will be further developed with increased functions and further tests.”

(written by Luno Team)

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We get it. It’s tough to continuously scroll through your Twitter feed, hoping to find someone who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to the crypto-sphere.

Luckily we’ve sifted through our feeds to find some of the people (listed in no particular order – we love them all) you should be following if you want to astound your friends with your crypto knowledge and prowess.

@fluffypony

One of the few people who is known first by his Twitter handle, Riccardo Spagni is a widely known crypto personality and the Lead Maintainer of the Monero blockchain project.

Spagni’s Twitter is part interesting cryptocurrency/tech information, and part comedic sideline from Mr. Fluffypony, himself.

@laurashin

Laura Shin is a Senior Editor at Forbes, managing their crypto and blockchain tech coverage, as well as the co-lead reporter on the Forbes Fintech 50 list.

Laura also hosts her own podcast entitled: "Unchained: Big Ideas From The Worlds Of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain".

@lopp

Jameson Lopp is a Bitcoin veteran, the CTO of CASA (a personal key system) and the creator of Statoshi — a site that displays statistics surrounding Bitcoin nodes.

Jameson posts crypto musings that border on the philosophical, industry news, and the (sometimes very) odd anecdotal story.

@aantonop

A huge Bitcoin advocate and blockchain expert, Andreas Antonopoulos is the lead host on the podcast “Let’s Talk Bitcoin” and has over 160,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Andreas uses Twitter to deliver his content (videos, books and his podcast), as well as to take part in, and start, discussions surrounding different technologies.

@Melt_Dem

Meltem Demirors is the Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, a company that focuses on crypto investment funds and works with some of the largest companies in financial risk management and capital efficiency.

Demirors can do AND teach, as she is also a course creator and lecturer for the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme in the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.

@barrysilbert

Barry is the founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), a global enterprise which has backed more than 120 companies including Ripple and Circle. In addition to its investment portfolio, DCG owns Grayscale Investments, Genesis Trading, and CoinDesk.

If you’re interested in keeping up to date with the latest in crypto news, and Barry’s companies, head to his Twitter.

@BWarburg

Bettina Warburg is the co-founder of Animal Ventures, an agency that implements emerging tech, such as blockchain. She is an avid blockchain researcher and is the Executive Producer on Tech on Politics, a podcast discussing political and governmental innovation.

Warburg’s Twitter is a great place to read about innovations and breakthroughs in the blockchain industry. And if you’re interested in where a possible decentralised, bot-filled future may lead us, hit follow.

Who are your go-to crypto personalities to follow on Twitter? Tweet us to let us know. We’ll keep updating this list, so bookmark the page and keep coming back.

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In case you’ve been living under a rock, or on Mars (and if that’s the case – what’s it like and how can we join you?) Bitcoin’s hash rate has been in the news.

 

In mid-September, the most popular cryptocurrency on Earth reached a huge milestone by surpassing a hash rate of over 100 quintillion hashes per second.

That’s 100 quintillion. How many zeros is that, you ask? Twenty. 100,000,000,000,000,000,000. To give you a sense of scale, if you laid out 100 quintillion coins flat like a carpet, they would cover the surface of the earth two hundred times over.

 

And it hasn’t stopped there. By the end of October, the hash rate reached 114 quintillion–and it continues to grow. But why is this such a big deal? What does it mean for the health of the network and the price?

 

Bitcoin mining in a nutshell

 

In order to understand the hash rate and its functions, you first need a basic understanding of Bitcoin mining.

 

Bitcoin mining is a computerised process with three main functions:

 

1. Issue new Bitcoins
2. Confirm transactions
3. Ensure the Bitcoin network remains secure

 

Where fiat currencies are issued by central banks, new Bitcoins are “issued” to miners via a block reward for solving a block. They do this by using special hardware to solve a complex computational problem, which produces a hash – a seemingly-random 64 character output.

 

In order to find the hash number, Bitcoin miners use the SHA-256 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm. The data that a miner inputs into the SHA-256 hash function include all the current transactions which fit into the block’s size limit, the previous block’s hash result, and the nonce. The nonce is a random value the miner changes with each hash attempt to get a new output. Even a tiny change in input produces a completely different output.

 

Bitcoin miners are looking for an output with a certain number of zeroes. Today, Bitcoin miners have to find a hash which starts with nineteen zeroes. To get this number requires many, many attempts. Once the hash is found, the block is closed and it is added to the blockchain. After successfully mining a block, miners are rewarded with newly-created Bitcoins and transaction fees.

 

The hash rate, therefore, is the speed at which a miner arrives at a hash – the number of times a hash function is computed per second. As more miners mine Bitcoin, this causes a surge in the hash rate.

 

Higher hash rate = better security

 

A 51% attack would allow bad actors to block transactions and allows them to double spend their own coins. However, the Bitcoin network has been designed to be more profitable to help secure the network than to attack it and the hash rate is a core part of this.

 

In order to carry out a 51% attack, a group of miners would have to control more than 50% of the network's mining hash rate. Therefore, the higher the hash rate, the more difficult it becomes to execute a 51% attack.

 

The higher the hash rate becomes, the higher the mining difficulty. This is because there is more competition. Finding a hash is in large part luck and how lucky/unlucky you are to solve a block or confirm a transaction. Higher hash rate equals more competition.

 

To increase the chances of solving a hash, people are getting more advanced and expensive computers for mining. BTC mining is exclusively on an ASIC equipment because it's the most efficient way to solve a SHA256 equation. These cost upwards of $1000. According to a site that tracks how much it would cost to run a potential 51% attack, it’d set you back at least $1.4 billion. Not quite worth it, is it?

 

Proof-of-work (PoW) vs Proof-of-stake (PoS)

 

So far in this article, we’ve been talking specifically about Bitcoin and its consensus algorithm. Proof of Work. In PoW, the key factor is computational power. Ethereum differs from Bitcoin in a multitude of ways, but it currently uses a similar PoW consensus algorithm. This could soon change, with founder Vitalik Buterin discussing a shift to Proof-of-Stake (PoS).

 

Proof of Stake’s consensus algorithm is dependent on the validator’s economic stake in the network. A set of validators take turns proposing and voting on the next block and the weight of their vote is determined by the size of their deposit, or stake. Anyone can become a validator for the Ethereum blockchain if they send a specific type of transaction that essentially holds their ether in a deposit.

 

This has implications for how the network is secured as hash rate will no longer be a factor when we talk about its security.

 

Wait, does the hash rate really have anything to do with anything?

 

The security benefits aside, a high hash rate is a great indication of a healthy Bitcoin network. Think of a high hash rate as a miner’s vote of confidence in the respective cryptocurrency. Speculatively speaking, the more time and resources miners allocate to mining Bitcoin, and thus confirming transactions, the more confidence they have that the Bitcoin price will increase. You wouldn’t waste your time and precious resources on something you thought would fail, would you?

 

In terms of price, therefore, the confidence that high hash rate will inspire may cause it to go up. However, it is hash rate that tends to follow Bitcoin. When prices are high, miners will invest in the expensive equipment necessary to mine. They are incentivised by the higher price, rather than vice versa.

(Written by Luno Team)

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Customer Support Is Alive And Well…
In Some Cases

I’m sure we’ve all had very trying personal experiences when it comes to contacting customer support on platforms such as Google, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, etc. You’d think the fact they are the tech giants they would have their support systems streamlined and perfected, however, the case is they don’t offer any real customer service at all. 

 

Facebook Support

Facebook, for example, has a market capitalization of around $560 Billion, yet if you have an issue you only have one fundamental option for support. That being the online Report a Problem form which can be found by clicking on the question mark button in the navigation. 

Facebook also controls Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp and it’s interesting to note that they are not obliged to offer any human form of customer service. Many have gone to Google to search for Facebook customer service, only to find a phone number that was a complete scam. According to WikiHow, there is no direct way to contact Facebook’s help center via phone or email. 

 

Google Support

Google has similar limitations when it comes to their support services. You cannot call or email Google’s customer support team. There is no live support for services such as Gmail or YouTube. WikiHow also warns many numbers and email addresses claiming to belong to Google are actually scams. Even Google My Business Help exhibits woeful waiting times.

 

 

LinkedIn Support

It has been documented that it’s virtually impossible to contact LinkedIn by phone or connect with a human being, even if you want to buy ad space on their platform. Although there is a phone number for LinkedIn you can call. It’s 1-650-687-3600. But that number only gives you a recorded message. The only option for talking to a human seems to be if you press 2 for media inquiries. That leads to a voicemail which says for customer service, call 1-650-687-3555. But if you call that number, you get the same options as you did calling the first number — and no human. Talk about getting the runaround! 

A LinkedIn spokesperson did confirm that “phones just aren’t a medium that LinkedIn uses”. They do however provide their members with email, a self-service help center, and a Twitter channel dedicated to customer support. 

 

Twitter Support

Much research has gone into Twitter support only to find it is a hit and miss situation. They rely heavily on their form contact which can help if your issue is a common one, but it’s not very helpful with out of the box cases where the usual solutions don’t work. 

Twitter doesn’t have a good email support network. It is very unreliable. Sometimes your message will simply disappear and you won’t hear back at all. If you do, it’s generally a form letter based on certain keywords you used in your email. This may direct you to a common solution to a problem you’re not having, or a link to the help center you’ve already visited that didn’t help you in the first place. 

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Twitter does have a Twitter support page on Twitter itself. But they do have millions of followers so the chances of your support message being noticed are pretty slim. The bottom line is you still don’t get to interact with a human and the waiting time to get your problem resolved is anyone’s guess. 

 

GetHuman

During my research, I have encountered a non-affiliated Company, GetHuman that acts as an intermediary, if you have no luck in contacting these social media or email platforms support channels. Platforms like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Twitter all have a GetHuman page offering tips and tricks to help you get your issue resolved. GetHuman’s relationship is with the consumers, not the company. 

 

 

You can speak to a human with expert technical knowledge that may be able to help you, however, it will cost you anywhere between $20 – $47.  

 

Markethive Support 

Markethive is real and human. Thanks to the independent messaging service, Telegram, Markethive is able to offer around the clock support. Markethive is a very hands-on 24/7 support system where you are in direct contact with the CEO, Thomas Prendergast who goes by the username Bee Keeper. The CTO, Douglas Yates is also on board, with his technicians at hand, along with Markethive personnel and members. They are all there to help and answer any questions you may have in real-time. 

Any issues you may be experiencing, are corrected on the spot and as we are still in BETA with different facets of the system still being implemented, you will find all the updates right here as they are rolled out. 

There is no reason to be left in the dark or floundering because you don’t understand something. Markethive has the utmost transparency and it has been said by many members that Markethive has the best support system ever. Period!  

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As Markethive is built on blockchain technology and growing at an exponential rate, a support mechanism will be implemented to handle the growth to ensure live and human interaction when it comes to solving any problems or queries you may have. 

Markethive’s mission is to not only assist in creating a universal income for all its members but deliver an all in one platform with a seamless user experience to excel in whatever you do online.

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A Crypto/Blockchain enthusiast and a strong advocate for technology, progress, and freedom of speech. I embrace "change" with a passion and my purpose in life is to help people understand, accept and move forward with enthusiasm to achieve their goals. 

 

Content Curation: What Is It? What Are The Benefits? 

What is Content Curation?

Content curation is a term that has been used in various contexts. Most marketers are familiar with the practice of sharing other people’s content on social networks, what we’ll refer to as social content curation. Content curation actually covers much more than just social sharing and can help your content marketing results in so many other ways. 

Content Marketing is known by any smart marketer to be the pinnacle of any and all marketing strategies. Content is the foundation of your lead generation efforts – if it inspires, educates, and gives answers to your visitors’ questions. Only then it will convert. In other words, your content must resonate with your audience to be effective. 

What’s more, content curation can assist the different departments of your company to share knowledge or reinforce training programs. If you’re just getting started with Content Marketing, then you may find this blog interesting.

 

A Definition Of Content Curation

Beth Kanter, probably the most knowledgeable influencer in curated content, explains what content curation means: 

“Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with its community.”

 

What Is The Curator’s Role? 

Let’s take a good look at the details in 3 steps; 

1. Select

As there is a colossal, ever-increasing amount of data on the web, the curator needs to emphasize the best already existing content on a specific topic. Monitoring the best sources in any given industry and be on the lookout for new ones is first and foremost.

Obviously, the curator would need to evaluate the quality of the source and be able to distinguish the good pieces from the bad ones. This will avoid sharing content of poor quality (or false) and set you apart from the surrounding noise that already exists on the internet. Choosing good quality content is not only the first step of the process, but it’s the cornerstone of content curation as well.  There’s no good curation without good content.

2. Edit & Enrich

To make the distinction between a wise content curator from a simple user who shares content on social media, the difference is clear, expertise. As the curator, you are seen as an expert in your field. You need to add value, provide context to the piece of content you have selected. At this stage, it’s not just about hitting publish, it’s also about editing the post or blog. Beyond simple formatting, bringing context to your audience adds value and helps establish yourself as a thought leader and show your expertise.

3. Share

If you as the curator take the time to select and enrich a piece of content, the next step is to share it to meet your audience. Curation is usually intended for a targeted audience, but it could be done for larger audiences, publicly.  When your blogs are shared and consequently clicked on, they move up in the search rankings. If you’re providing quality content, your readers will want others to know. Of course, the only way to make sure your blogs contribute to your website’s popularity is to value add to your content, provide answers for visitors, and then share your blogs to millions using the Markethve Blogcasting feature.

Notably, content curation is not necessarily public. It can be used for sharing knowledge internally. Companies want to leverage their employees’ knowledge and need them store, share, categorize and disseminate it to the largest possible number. Curation is a good answer to that. The main objective is that everyone can carry on with the same amount of information and is able to make the right decisions. 

Also with Markethive’s ability (feature) to create unlimited Groups each with a different cocktail of content curated, aggregated or from multiple Group memberships, the options to produce meaningful unique content for unlimited WordPress blogs controlled from within Markethive is unlimited. Groups are excellent platforms for blogging. Simply set up a Curating Group for yourself and Swipe the blogs in Markethive as a collection of content you may want to use in your publications

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The Benefits Of Content Curation

If curating content means finding the most relevant content in your space and presenting it to your audience, then the main objective – and benefit – should be to show that you are knowledgeable about your domain by relating the most useful information available to your audience. Yet, there are many more benefits that attract marketers to integrate curated content into their content marketing strategy. Some of these benefits are:

• Keeping a social media presence: Content curation allows to share great content on social media regularly.

• Feeding your website: many marketers, and especially marketers who don’t have time to create content to feed their website. Using content curation and integrate it into their website is an easy way to do so.

• Scaling your content production: If you find yourself buried in marketing tasks and don’t have enough time to write a complete blog article every week, content curation allows you to publish more content easily.

• Be credible: With content curation, you will show that you are not the only one to give a certain argument.

• Establish thought leadership: Sharing the gems in your domain will help you establish as a thought leader.

• Building brand awareness: As you can work your own online reputation with content curation, you can also build your brand awareness;

• Sending love to influencers in your space and interact with the actors in your space: By curating content from influencers and other actors in your industry, you will be identified by them and they will be glad to be quoted.

• Increasing your traffic from search: Sharing fresh, regular and quality content on your website will help you get better SEO rankings for your content and get more traffic from search.

• Creating a space for efficient social selling activities. Social selling is all about using social media to generate relationships, leads, and eventually, sales. The people who do social selling – entrepreneurs and salespeople – are connectors. They aren’t necessarily content creators or writers, and they would find it nearly impossible to keep up with the demands of a sale job as well as write a blog post everyday. 

Content curation is not only helpful for marketing, but it will also be useful in market intelligence too:

• Sharing knowledge with your colleagues in order to get better collectively.

• Monitoring what is being said about your industry: It keeps you posted on what is being published in your space by experts, magazines, competitors, etc. You know what your audience likes to read (given the number of shares of the articles) and you can curate accordingly to answer questions your audience is asking.

 

Formats

After you have found the articles you think would be interesting for your audience, there are four different – and complementary – ways you can curate them. Most marketers already practice social content curation, i.e. sharing other people’s content on social networks, but this is not the only nor the most efficient way curated content can be used to reach marketing objectives.

1. Social Content Curation

When you find a good article on the web and you share it on your company profile (with or without a little note saying ‘great piece’ or ‘a new take on’, etc.), you’re doing social content curation. Social curation is the most spread out form of curation you can find. It is easy to do, it allows you to keep a social media presence even if you don’t have time to write original content, and it helps you get noticed by the other actors in your space (because you’re sharing their content).

2. Curated Blog Posts

A curated blog post is an article on your blog that starts with a quote and a link to another piece of content. You’re using an existing piece as your introduction, and then you add your own commentary/insight to it, making it your own.

3. Curated Content Groups In Markethive

A curated content group is a place where you aggregate your own content and curated content to provide easy navigation and presentation of content with your added insights to introduce it. A curated content group is a great way to show your entire expertise and thought leadership on any given topic.

4. Curated Email Newsletters 

A curated email newsletter provides a useful and engaging roundup on a given topic by combining your own original content and curated posts. This can be done with the Email Autoresponder feature in Markethive. Just one of the many features available to you as a free member.

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How To Curate The Right Way?

To curate content in an effective way you should:

• Select carefully the piece of content you want to curate. It must be fresh and of good quality. No need to share every single piece everybody shares. You have to know why you curate it.

• Be careful with the layout. Whatever media, it’s easier to read when well-formatted. Titles should be catchy, images have to be polished and the subject has to be clearly identified.

• Systematically quote the source, it’s a golden rule. The author must be mentioned and a link must go to the original article.

• A short quote yes, a copy/paste no! Don’t copy the article and make sure to mention the author – those two rules go hand in hand! It’s important not to make another piece of content yours – for ethical reasons obviously, but also for SEO purposes (Google blames severely duplicate content).

• Broadcast it at the right place. Be logical when it comes to your audience and your objectives.

 

Copyright Directive 

With recent legislation enacted in March 2019, namely Article 11 (link tax) and Article 13 This law is designed to stop users uploading copyrighted content by forcing platforms to build massive filters or face huge lawsuits and fines.  Markethive simply gives you your own domain for all your content, videos and images to originate from. 

Solution

When you join Markethive you receive (for free) a CPanel control panel and WordPress system built into your assigned domain, a subdomain of hivesfeed.com AKA username.hivesfeed.com. This way you control all your content, without the worry or hassles of government overreach and anti-freedom regulations designed to stifle the start-ups and small entrepreneur.

 

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Conclusion 

By blogging, you build relationships with your readers, position yourself as an expert in the field, and perhaps most importantly, provide new content for Google to index.

By joining Markethive you build relationships with thousands of others who are actively building a business, blogging, researching, etc. basically being “entrepreneurs” and advancing their businesses and agendas. Often you can join with these people as friends, group members and subscribers of theirs via Blog Casting, Blog Sharing, and Blog Swiping. 

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Deb Williams
Market Manager for Markethive, a global Market Network, and Writer for the Crypto/Blockchain Industry. Also a strong advocate for technology, progress, and freedom of speech.  I embrace "Change" with a passion and my purpose in life is to help people understand, accept and move forward with enthusiasm to achieve their goals. 
 

Sourced from author Helene Brevet

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – the perfect opportunity to show off your expert crypto knowledge to friends and family. Such as, which game is making a comeback with some slick blockchain-related updates? And what’s Bakkt’s CEO up to in the US Senate?

 

What’s that? You don’t have that knowledge yet? Never fear. Keep reading to find out what made crypto news headlines over the weekend.

 

Germany: a new “crypto heaven”?

 

According to reports in a local German newspaper, the Handelsblatt, the German federal parliament has passed a bill which will allow banks to offer customers direct access to crypto assets.

 

The legislation is effective from 1 Jan 2020 and was passed by the German parliament as an amendment to the fourth EU Money Laundering Directive. The original bill didn’t set out to allow banks to act as crypto custodians and initially specified they were to rely on third-party custodians, a change that has garnered significant praise for its forward thinking nature.

 

Sven Hildebrandt, head of the consulting firm DLC, for one, praised the bill. He said: "Germany is well on its way to becoming a crypto-heaven. The German legislator is playing a pioneering role in the regulation of [crypto assets]."

 

German banking association, BdB shared this enthusiasm: "Credit institutions are experienced in the safekeeping of client assets and in risk management, are committed to investor protection and have always been controlled by the financial supervision," it said. As such, banks could "effectively prevent money laundering and terrorist financing" with crypto assets.

 

Bakkt CEO named top candidate for vacant Senate seat

 

Moving stateside, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is reportedly expected to appoint Kelly Loeffler, CEO of Bitcoin futures platform, Bakkt, to the United States Senate seat next week.

 

It's reported that Loeffler will be asked next week to replace of US Senator Johnny Isakson, who has announced plans to vacate his senate seat on 31 December. A local news outlet reported that the decision is an attempt to widen the appeal of the Republican party to women. Loeffler will become just the second woman from Georgia to serve in the US Senate. Yikes.

 

But, someone’s not too happy about all this. Donald Trump had his sights set on another representative by the name of Doug Collins, stating Loeffler is “too moderate”. Let’s keep the popcorn close, and wait and see. But what does this mean for Bakkt? Would she yield the helm to someone else? Either way, it would undoubtedly be a positive development for the cryptocurrency market to have such a bullish voice in the senate.

 

Drone package theft and blockchain tech

 

That’s right – welcome to the future! A future in which you could receive a package you ordered online to be delivered to you via a drone – currently being worked on by the likes of Amazon, DHL and FedEx. We’re sure you’ve got questions – we do too. Is it safe? Will my umbrella pose a threat? And what if a drone could be adapted to steal your package instead of delivering it?

 

Well, worry no more, IBM’s thought of that too. In November, the computer hardware giant won a patent for “preventing anonymous theft by drones” using an Internet of Things (IoT) altimeter. The altimeter sends a signals if a package exceeds a certain altitude. So if, say, a hawk (or a drone) swoops in and snatches your latest purchase off your front porch and carries it into the sky, the sensor will send data to a blockchain platform letting you know something’s not quite right. The sensor then periodically updates the blockchain, and the intended recipient, with the package’s altitude.

 

“The confluence of the increase in drone use and the increase in online shopping provides a situation in which a drone may be used with nefarious intent to anonymously take a package that is left on a doorstep after delivery,” the patent description reads.

 

An admirable goal. But before you get too excited, it’s been reported that IBM doesn’t plan to actually build an operational device. If they want to though (and if they wanted to be the only ones who legally could), now they can. They do say the early bird catches the worm. We’ll keep our binoculars at the ready.

 

1980s gamebook’s revival on the blockchain

 

In years to come, 2019 may be known as the “year of remakes”. Between The Lion King and a very contemporary rendition of Cats, there’s been a rehash of childhood favourites across the board. And there’s another to add to the pantheon – and this time, it’s gone crypto.

 

Microsoft, along with game developer, Eidos and gamebook firm, Fabled Lands have developed a blockchain card game based on a best-selling 1980s gamebook. The new game, based on an original book, titled “The Way of the Tiger”, is called “Arena of Death”, and the aim is for players to fight in fantasy-themed card battles.

 

Jamie Thompson, co-author along with Mark Smith, believes leveraging blockchain technology will yield far better results than a traditional videogame: “We were going to relaunch the series into a computer game format but this new technology (blockchain), just made more sense. Imagine playing Magic the Gathering but knowing if you owned a card, it really does belong to you. Or if we say there are only 100 editions of an item or skill, you know there really are only 100 editions.”

 

The company plans to use non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Vechain blockchain to ensure the ownership of in-game assets. Pretty nifty.

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Bitcoin has been dealing with scepticism since its inception. Some theories are wilder than others, but arguably one of the most latched-onto debates has been around Bitcoin’s energy consumption and its alleged harmful level of emissions. Some have even gone so far as to claim that Bitcoin mining emissions could be responsible for the Earth's temperature increasing 2°C over the next 10 years.

But is Bitcoin mining really as dangerous for the environment as some may have you believe? Do a quick Google search of Bitcoin’s energy consumption and you’ll be confounded by a variety of disparate views. Some say it uses the same amount of energy as countries like Switzerland or Georgia, while some say it conserves more energy than the production of traditional fiat currencies.

 

But what’s the truth? And how is the industry working to minimise its energy usage?

 

Energy guzzler or not?

 

Bitcoin mining is necessary for new Bitcoin to be created. It’s the process through which transactions are verified and added to a public ledger known as the Bitcoin blockchain.

 

Every time a miner verifies a block and it is added to the chain, they are rewarded with Bitcoin. To do this, they must solve a complex computational problem. This is essentially achieved through brute force, relying on computational power to find the solution as quickly as possible – before anyone else gets there.

 

To solve this problem requires many, many attempts. This requires a significant amount of computational power, which requires specialist hardware, unlike a few years ago when you could get away with using a standard GPU to mine. This hardware uses a lot of energy.

 

This means that there’s little denying that mining Bitcoin uses a significant amount of energy. According to a CoinShares mining white paper (May 2019), they estimate the total electricity draw of the entire Bitcoin mining industry to be approximately 4.7GW.

 

It’s difficult to contextualise how much a gigawatt is, so here are some helpful comparisons: 1GW is equivalent to 412 utility-scale wind turbines, or 110 million LED lights. It’s a lot.

 

Miners, where art thou?

 

The real question is not whether Bitcoin uses a lot of energy to create, it’s where this energy comes from. According to the aforementioned CoinShares white paper, the Bitcoin network gets 74.1% of its electricity from renewables. This makes it “more renewables-driven than almost every other large-scale industry in the world” –  far more than traditional banking and finance, for instance.

 

The reliance on renewables becomes clear when you understand where mining activity takes place. Most mining activity is fairly well distributed across the globe, however, there are a few favourable locations in which miners tend to cluster.

 

(Source: CoinShares Mining White Paper, May 2019)

 

 

It’s clear from the map above that they’re predominantly—by volume weight—confined to technologically-advanced, relatively sparsely populated, mountainous regions intersected by powerful rivers.

 

The two geographical clusters of Bitcoin miners can be classified into the following categories: hydro regions and non-hydro regions. As the name implies, hydro mining regions are abundant in hydro-electric power. Non-hydro regions are comprised of a combination of fossil fuels, nuclear, solar and wind generation sources. Some other non-hydro regions, like Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, are dominated by coal, and supplemented with wind. Iran is an anomaly, making use of natural gasses, which are abundantly available in the area.

 

This is further supported by research by the International Energy Agency (IEA), who actually go further in noting that this renewable energy would otherwise go unused: “Around 60% to 70% of bitcoin is currently mined in China, where more than two-thirds of electricity generation comes from coal. But bitcoin mining facilities are concentrated in remote areas of China with rich hydro or wind resources (cheap electricity), with about 80% of Chinese bitcoin mining occurring in hydro-rich Sichuan province. These mining facilities may be absorbing overcapacity in some of these regions, using renewable energy that would otherwise be unused, given difficulties in matching these rich wind and hydro resources with demand centres on the coast."

 

Below it’s clear to see the abundance of available renewable energy and its potential to power the enter Bitcoin network.

 

(Source: Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance: Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, 2017/18)

 

 

The numbers don’t lie

 

So what’s the deal? CoinShares’ assertion that Bitcoin mining is more renewables-driven than almost every other large-scale industry in the world is a bold one given the amount of energy it uses. Perhaps a more useful comparison is how the industry stacks up when compared to gold and traditional finance (see below).

 

(Source: CoinShares Mining White Paper, May 2019)

 

 

It's clear that while there may be issues, the effort the industry makes to use renewable energy sources where possible is huge. And if you’re still concerned about the amount of energy Bitcoin uses, ask yourself: how many devices do you have at home that are permanently using electricity even when you’re not using them?

 

(Source: Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance: Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, 2017/18)

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