Virtual Reality (VR) didn’t get off to a flying start. After a lacklustre performance for VR headset sales in 2017, critics have argued the technology is a poor substitute for traditional video games and consoles, with others writing it off as the next Google Glasses. Will blockchain change the tempo?
Australians are no strangers to Bitcoin. In fact, it’s possible to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum at over 1,200 newsstands. And Brisbane, one of Australia’s state capital cities, can boast the first airport that accepts a range of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Dash, Steem, Litecoin, and Ethereum.
An Ethereum ASIC miner could be your worst nightmare, or your best friend - depending on your interest in technology. Talk to a gamer about your intent to mine cryptocurrency, and you may get a dirty look. Talk to an Ethereum fanatic about ASIC rigs and you might get an even dirtier one.
Huawei Technologies, a telecommunication equipment manufacturing giant, is giving strong signals that it will be building a smartphone that runs blockchain-based applications. But what is the consumer need for a mobile device that runs blockchain apps? Sirin Labs is betting on first-mover advantage.
Mike Judge may very well be a precog. First, his Idiocracy movie predicted a cartoonish wrestler in The White House, and now his Silicon Valley TV series (which features the Coinbase logo on a stack of bitcoins in the season 5 intro) is starting to seem like a glimpse of the future of the Internet.
Blockchain tech is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, predicted to hit $2.3 billion by 2021. As an emerging disruptive technology that has the potential to transform the logistics industry, can blockchain technology prevent child labor in global cobalt supply chains?
The Trinity Protocol, NEO’s off-chain scaling solution, has announced the Trinity Token (TNC) cross-chain asset converter, which will allow NEP-5 tokens (assets on NEOs blockchain) to be converted to ERC-20 tokens (assets on Ethereum). Blockchain interoperability could lead to both tokens on a DEX.
Twitter, a popular social media platform within the cryptocurrency industry, is reported to be joining Facebook and Google in banning a range of cryptocurrency advertisements. But will the crypto ban actually help long-term adoption, by increasing confidence among retail investors?
