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All is not well in the social media sector, and wherever there is trouble there is usually opportunity too. Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you will likely have heard about Facebook’s data breach trauma. It has sent shockwaves through the industry and crashed the dominant social network’s share price. Amidst the noise there are calls for things…

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Brave software, a privacy-focused web browser, and the Dow Jones Media Group have struck a partnership that will offer premium content to new audiences as well as launch a pilot blockchain-based digital publishing service. The collaboration was announced via a post on the BAT website on April 18, 2018. Users who download the Brave browser on a first-come, first-serve basis…

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Cryptocurrencies shot to limelight in 2017 when bitcoin started soaring from around $1000 at the start of the year all the way to incredible highs above $19,000 by the end of the year. 2018 is shaping up to be particularly interesting for stakeholders in the cryptocurrency trading markets as the industry starts facing serious headwinds on different fronts. The voice…

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Malta Blockchain Summit 2018; 1-2 November, InterContinental Arena, St. Julian’s – Malta. The inaugural edition of the Malta Blockchain Summit promises to be a seminal event on the Blockchain and DLT calendar, and it has just received a boost with a newly-minted partnership with CryptoFriends, who are known for bringing their signature style to the events they work with. CryptoFriends…

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The eSports industry is currently experiencing an unprecedented level of growth. A market that was once measured in millions, eSports is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise encompassing all areas of the globe. While traditional sports are suffering from falling viewership, the complete opposite is true of eSports. Aggressive projects like Blizzard’s Overwatch League bring competitive gaming into the mainstream by…

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Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao plans to launch a cryptocurrency called the PAC Token in late-2018 and supports the regulation of bitcoin and other virtual currencies. Pacquiao said he wants to roll out his own crypto to connect with his fans around the world. “It can be a way to be in touch with the fanbase,” Pacquiao told AFP on April…

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The Stellar organization on April 16, 2018, announced the results of their sixth Stellar Build Projects. According to the Twitter announcement, “there were over 300 submissions.” The non-profit will reward 113 of the 324 submissions with XLM tokens with the overall winners receiving 200,000 XLM. Although the prize pool was initially 550,000, Stellar decided to increase this total by five…

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Coinone have announced that they will be opening up cryptocurrency trading in Indonesia, making them the first South Korean exchange to offer services outside the country. According to the press release, the Indonesian branch opened for pre-registration on April 16 and will launch officially in June. It will initially support only six currencies; bitcoin (BTC), bitcoin cash (BCH), ether (ETH),…

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Parsec Frontiers, an exciting online game devoted to humanity’s colonization of the stars and planets in the Milky Way, is planning to launch crowdsale on April 27, 2018. Parsec Frontiers is a deep and feature-rich space MMO experience built from the ground up with blockchain in mind, where players are free to explore and conquer the whole galaxy. Built with…

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Harbor, a blockchain startup backed by billionaire bitcoin bull Peter Thiel, has received an additional $28 million investment that it hopes will make blockchain real-estate investing a reality. This latest cash infusion was led by Thiel’s Founders Fund, venture-capital fund Andreessen Horowitz, and cryptocurrency investment firms Pantera Capital and Craft Ventures. The San Francisco-based Harbor secured $10 million in Series…

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