Amazon-owned, leading game streaming platform Twitch has brought back bitcoin payments. Amazon-owned, leading game streaming platform Twitch has enabled bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCH) payments again, Cointelegraph Brazil reports on June 25. As Cointelegraph reported at the time, in March Twitch quietly removed bitcoin and bitcoin cash as payment options for subscriptions by removing […]
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How big tech curbed freedom of expression ahead of the Tiananmen Square anniversary. The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph. Our guest authors invite readers to discuss the most polemic, ambiguous and debatable topics within the cryptocurrency, blockchain […]
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Live streaming startup YouNow has filed a public offering with the U.S. SEC to allow users to compliantly earn tokens. Live streaming startup YouNow, which created the decentralized digital video ecosystem Props in 2017 and is backed by Union Square Ventures, has filed a public offering with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) […]
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Ethereum-based decentralized video streaming startup Livepeer announced that it raised $8 million from institutional investors. Ethereum (ETH)-based decentralized video streaming startup Livepeer announced that it raised $8 million from institutional investors in its Series A funding round in a Medium post published on June 17. Per the announcement, the startup will use the newly acquired […]
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In the wake of CCN’s Google saga, CT looks at which centralized companies have been hostile to crypto firms in the past. On June 10, one of the top cryptocurrency media sites, CCN, initially announced that it would shut down, citing a June 3 Google Core Update for stifling its traffic. Writing on the website, […]
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Austrian steel trading company Alukönigstahl is working on a blockchain-based steel trading data system. Austrian steel trading company Alukönigstahl is working on a blockchain-based steel trading data system, local media outlet industriemagazin.at reported on June 13. Alukönigstahl CEO Stefan Grüll is working on the business model of a blockchain-based steel trading database dubbed “STEEL but SMART,” […]
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Precious metals streaming company Wheaton Precious Metals will use blockchain technology to facilitate its metal accounting processes. Precious metals streaming company Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) will use blockchain technology to facilitate its metal accounting processes, mining.com reported on June 12. WPM has reportedly hired software company Blockhead Technologies to deploy its blockchain-based platform STAMP to […]
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Decentralized Media Solutions has hired Hanno Basse, a tech-in-media expert who will work on the organization’s blockchain-based video platform. The former chief technology officer at 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, Hanno Basse, has joined Live Planet as the president of its Decentralized Media Solutions division, according to a press release on June 11. According to […]
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A Galaxy Digital fund led a $1.8 million seed funding round for a blockchain-based gaming rewards program, which uses blockchain-based quizzes to engage players. A fund of cryptocurrency investment bank Galaxy Digital led a $1.8 million seed funding round for Azure’s blockchain-based gaming rewards platform, VentureBeat reports on June 5. Smart Challenge, Azure’s gaming rewards platform, […]
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The CEO of the blockchain bourse, Alexander Wallin, hopes SprinkleXchange will list as many as 1,000 companies in the next four years. SprinkleXchange, a blockchain-powered initial public offering platform, is preparing to list its first company in June, Bloomberg reported on May 17. According to Alexander Wallin, the bourse’s CEO, it is hoped that up […]
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