Now there’s finally a way to carry bitcoins that goes with your outfit. Layer, a London-based design firm, has introduced the Trove, which Layer calls a “form of unhackable, unloseable cryptocurrency storage.” It just happens to also be wearable, and opened via EKG signature - your heartbeat.
Trademark law is no laughing matter, and a UK-based store has been ordered to stop infringing on another company’s trademark. The offending material? T-shirts with the word “Bitcoin.” But some attorneys consider the Bitcoin trademark indefensible, as Bitcoin is a descriptive term in common use.
Blockchain ideas are a dime a dozen right now, and entrepreneurs have scrambled to fill every available niche. There’s blockchain insurance, a bitcoin pawnshop, and various contrivances to chain up anything you can imagine—including a few really, really strange ones you probably can’t.
As GDPR takes effect across Europe, the Liberdy Foundation wants to enable its users to sell internet data, collected from their search history and social media profiles, back to the internet companies who make a profit out of it. But with three years to go until public release, will Liberdy be in time?
