Throughout history, identity authentication and verification has always remain a chief source of concern to many, and a full-blown nightmare to most. From physical impostors to virtual masqueraders by way of identity peddlers, pretending to be someone has been one of the most devastating crimes against humanity. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article The internet has only had it worst. Who Am I? With over 95% of websites requiring one form of digital identity and authentication or the other in order to access their services, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the internet for Fort Knox. However, the truth is it’sPowered by WPeMatico
More than 3 million graphics cards have been sold to cryptocurrency miners in 2017, with sales reaching $776 million, a new report revealed. According to a major manufacturer, prices of GPUs will continue to increase in 2018, despite expectations of decreasing demand in the mining sector. Also read: AMD Increases GPU Production to Match […]
Even though Bitcoin will remain the world’s leading cryptocurrency for some time to come, there are a lot of competitors to take note of. Zcoin is one of the altcoins bringing more privacy to the cryptocurrency ecosystem as a whole. Its private financial transactions are enabled by the Zerocoin Protocol. What is ZCoin Exactly? On the surface, Zcoin attempts to solve Bitcoin’s privacy problem. Even though a lot of people think Bitcoin is anonymous, that is not the case whatsoever. More specifically, there is no anonymity or privacy involved with Bitcoin, but it remains to be seen if Zcoin can do a better
Accenture reports that artificial intelligence (AI) could become the fuel of economic growth at global scale. By 2035, companies may change the way work is performed with AI implementations. As a collection of technologies that can understand, act, and learn, AI-based apps can perform on their own when given the right data. Trained properly, they transcend and amplify labor, thereby promoting economic growth. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article Although the impact of AI on emerging technologies is visible and may streamline labor productivity, only the largest companies afford the costs involved. Smaller players often do not have the capital
Combining the best of cryptocurrency, blockchain, and commerce has not been done on a large scale so far. Request Network is one of the projects designed to do so, although building a decentralized network for payment requests will not be easy. Now is a good time to see what this project is all about. The Request Network’s Mission It is evident there is an interesting opportunity ahead for blockchain companies looking at the e-commerce sector. Request Network is a decentralized network built on top of Ethereum which focuses on letting anyone request payments. There are no third parties involved, the
This week the ‘bitcoin-friendly’ financial institution Silvergate Bank sold 9.5 million shares that raised a sum of $114Mn USD during the common stock sale. Some of the capital injection was provided by the venture capital firm Digital Currency Group who welcomed Silvergate Bank into the company’s growing list of partners and subsidiaries. Also read: Indians Look […]
Can virtual cities of the future give rise to a Virtual Reality (VR) real estate market? Imagine owning virtual property that can give appreciation in value just as real world property gives today. This property could be of any type business, residential, retail or even community based. The uses of the property would be similar to that of real world property where people would walk through a business for example, browse products and services and make purchases. The purchases would be real and would have real world implications. So for example if a person purchases a pair of sneakers in
Since the mid-2000’s, the sex industry has turned into one of the most profitable markets in the world. To put things into perspective, the porn industry currently rakes in a staggering US$97 billion annually, which is more money than the MLB, NBA, and NFL combined. Also, with the advent of the blockchain, the sex industry is now experiencing a makeover with many content creators now favoring a decentralized business model to distribute their videos, films, pictures, etc. Problems faced by the adult industry With there being so much free pornography available on the internet today, it is very difficult for many