Last week’s partnership announcement with Chainlink was just the most recent blockchain-related move Google has pulled off in a string of similar business deals, suggesting the search engine giant and its data warehousing solution, BigQuery, are prepping for something big.
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Litecoin Foundation To Offer Another Crypto Debit Card
After cutting ties with its first crypto debit card, LitePay, in March 2018, the Litecoin Foundation has partnered with Bibox Exchange and blockchain firm Ternio to release a second physical Litecoin debit card.
Cloudflare Introduces Ethereum Gateway To Its Distributed Web Gateway Toolbox
The Cloudflare gateway will allow any device with access to the internet to interact with the Ethereum network, giving users the opportunity to deploy an executable distributed code contract without having to run a node.
A Closer Look At Calibra, The Wallet Provider For Facebook’s Libra
As a Facebook subsidiary, the Calibra wallet will have its own standalone app for Libra holders, and it will be integrated into the Facebook Messenger app and WhatsApp. With the potential for a huge user base, the wallet provider could…
Ethereum Foundation Proposes January Rollout Of Ethereum 2.0 ‘Phase Zero’
In the biweekly call with Ethereum 2.0 developers, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake proposed that with the code on track to be finalized by June 30, the first iteration of the 2.0 upgrade, dubbed Phase Zero, could come as early…
What Kik’s Kin Can Tell Us About Facebook’s Libra
While Kik hasn’t achieved anywhere near the user count Facebook has, how the messaging service’s base users reacted to and used the Kin token might give us some insight into what Facebook can expect with its Libra cryptocurrency.
Indian Government Officials Ask For Fingerprinted WhatsApp Messages
After kidnapping rumors spread on WhatsApp led to lynchings across India in 2018, two senior government officials are asking that the messaging platform digitally fingerprint every message in order to ensure traceability.
Facebook’s Libra Blockchain Is Actually Block-less
Rather than a collection of blocks that hold transaction records, Facebook’s Libra blockchain looks to be a single data structure that records transaction history, causing some to break out the term “glorified database.”
Polygraph Protocol Looks To Hold Double Spenders Accountable
Developers of the Polygraph protocol hope the system can step in where Byzantine agreement protocols fail, helping to hold blockchain users accountable for double spending and preventing parties with more than one-third of a network’s total mining output from gaining…
Ripple Invests In Money Transfer Service MoneyGram
As part of the partnership, MoneyGram will use xRapid, which settles transactions in XRP on the Ripple network, for its blockchain-based services.