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Judge I. L. Antipova of the Kyiv district court satisfied a complaint filed by the lawyer for Anatoly Kaplan, the founder of Forklog, the largest Russian-speaking crypto-media outlet. The complaint was lodged against the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine which failed to pass on plaintiff’s statement of offense into the pre-trial investigation registry in due time. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau…

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Blockstream released the first of their Lightning Apps (LApps) on March 22, as part of their seven days of LApps, with six more planned to be unveiled every day until March 28. By using bitcoin, you will be able to buy and sell digital files with micropayments on the Lightning Network. FileBazaar Builds on Lightning Charge The Lightning Network is…

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Take a look around you. In the day-to-day, we see a massive amount of media and art in the form of graphics, advertisements and all forms of visual descriptions. Behind each of these is a professional and artist who has made it their job to create appealing forms that attract the eye to a message. Each of these images are…

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The video content verification technology on Blockchain of the Prover.io project is coming to the market to help people and organizations proof without any contraction. Now the project is performing token sale to keep its technology stable on the market. The token sale is mainly used for token distribution among contributors. One can obtain PROOF token during a token sale…

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For close to a century now, the entertainment industry has been in the firm grasp of a few major players, including cable networks, large Hollywood studios and film distributors. Even though Netflix has somewhat shaken up the scene by aggregating content from different networks and introducing its own native production, the fact still remains that the company acts as an…

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Forklog, a primarily Russian language cryptocurrency news site has announced that on December 15, the apartment of their CEO Anatoly Kaplan had his apartment raided by the Ukraine Security Service. Agents took a number of cold storage cryptocurrency storage items, and later 305 ether was transferred to a private wallet. At today’s valuation, that would be more than a quarter…

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Content producers in China face strict regulation and censorship. Blockchain-based content distribution systems may help online creators have more control over sharing their work, but may also bring about new government guidelines. Chinese Tradition of Online Censorship In China, internet access and online material are regulated by what is colloquially called the “Great Firewall.” For example, most Chinese citizens cannot…

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What do you do when you are faced with a business model that’s so badly broken, up to 50 percent of revenues go to the middlemen? If you are Adbank, you build a completely new business model. The broken business is digital-advertising; where an estimated 56 percent of website traffic is fraudulent, or generated by bots. Bots, algorithms that generate…

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There’s no doubt that videos have become the prime content choice on the internet. Videos showing everything from spectacular fails to music covers can garner millions of hits in a short time. Overall, a staggering 70 percent of all internet traffic is devoted to video streaming, and experts predict that the percentage will go even higher over the next few…

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For most of the human history, news has been the lot of centralized companies, and, in some instances, governments. By the 20th century, most newspapers, and later radio and TV channels, have lost their independence and joined massive corporations that could dictate whatever agenda they found necessary. This did not change much even when most news channels have moved online,…

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