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Telegram recently launched native advertising. One of the first advertisers was Toncoin - formerly Gram. The project purchased advertising not only directly from Telegram, but also from many cryptocurrency channels. Today Durov himself wrote about it on his channel, saying that “Toncoin developers are creating something epic.”
The Zilliqa blockchain has announced its new metaverse called Metapolis, which will appear next month.
Shares of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google have collectively lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization. dollars. Collapsed from their all-time highs, marking an even greater loss in dollar terms than all cryptocurrencies combined in 2018.
Bitcoin was born with a ready-made economic model, but platform developers continue to slowly kill it. First, the Segwit BTC fork happened, and now the ABC team has left the Nakamoto consensus and Proof of Work. It's okay to try new things, but not at the expense of Bitcoin's existence, which hasn't really started yet.
Not long ago, Bitcoin Cash forked, and the newly created blockchains are already facing potential problems. Shortly after the BSV blockchain (Bitcoin Cash fork from nChain) suffered a bug that split the network in two, the developers of BAB (BitcoinABC) released an update that puts the entire network at risk of a 51% attack.
Computer chip maker Nvidia said falling bitcoin prices have caused demand for its products to decline.
According to a new study, hard forks pose a threat to the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. This is because forking the blockchain of a particular cryptocurrency results in a loss of trust. In addition, such ramifications reduce user confidence in the ability of the primary cryptocurrency to continue to develop as a medium of exchange, the study says. Interestingly, 50 new hard forks are predicted to appear this year.
Technology startup Globacap has announced the issuance of digital tokens representing ownership of shares. This “tokenization” process was carried out on the Globacap blockchain platform under the supervision of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as part of the FCA's sandbox program, under which firms can test innovative products.
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