Tag: cryptocurrency
Tech Digest daily roundup: UK Treasury to regulate some stablecoins
Image: https://developers.rsk.co/guides/stablecoin/overview/ The Treasury has announced that it will regulate some cryptocurrencies as part of a wider plan to make the UK a hub for digital payment companies. So-called "stablecoins" will become recognised forms of payment to give people confidence in using digital currencies, it said. Stablecoins are designed to have…
Casino Tech – Why is it Important for Users?
Casino technology is one of the more important aspects of the online world. Many people don’t fully understand how much of a part it has played in the development of different technology that is now widely used. However, a lot of different tech that’s been developed over the last few years first saw it being…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Oppo launches Find N foldable phone
Image: Oppo After teasing its first folding phone last week, Oppo is revealing the Find N in full today. Oppo’s chief product officer Pete Lau told reporters in a briefing that the company has been working on this phone since 2018, with the final Find N the result of six generations…
The Recent Boom in Bitcoin Millionaires and What the Future Holds for Them
If you’ve been following cryptocurrencies to any degree, you’ve likely heard plenty of stories about people netting massive returns on small investments. With Bitcoin only having first breached $1,000 in 2017 and now hovering between $50,000 and $60,000, it isn’t hard to see how even modest investments can make millionaires. While there are major investors…
Blockchain is Changing the Game
If you’ve never heard of blockchains and cryptocurrencies, chances are you don’t spend that much time online. Created in 2008, digital currencies have been the talk of the town in recent years. Many investors, men-on-the-street, and businesses have been finding ways to leverage this valuable but still highly volatile form of currency. Back in the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: PayPal allows cryptocurrencies
Online payment company PayPal is to allow users in the UK to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies using its platform. Available on both its app and website, the service will initially be limited to four cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. It comes after the launch of the same service in the US which…
Tech Digest daily round up: Lenovo ‘quietly announces’ Smart Clock 2
Without any fanfare or an official announcement, Lenovo has unveiled the successor to its Google-powered Smart Clock – quietly allowing the Smart Clock 2 to slip into the world's collective consciousness by way of a product page. Marked as 'coming soon' on Lenovo's official US site, the second generation of Smart Clock presents a reinvented shape, improved speaker…
Tech Digest daily roundup: China tells banks to stop supporting cryptocurrency
China has expanded its clampdown on cryptocurrencies, telling banks and payments platforms to stop supporting digital currency transactions. That follows an order on Friday to shut down Bitcoin mining operations in Sichuan province. The price of Bitcoin slumped by more 10% on Monday but stabilised in Asian trading on Tuesday. The value of the cryptocurrency…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Half of UK adults visited adult website during lockdown
UK adults spent more time online than other large European countries such as France and Germany during the pandemic, according to Ofcom. They spent more than three-and-a-half hours (217 minutes) online each day in 2020 – more than an hour longer than in Germany and France and 30 minutes more than Spain, the regulator’s annual…
Tech Digest daily round up: Airships to offer eco-friendly alternative to plane travel
For those fancying a trip from Liverpool to Belfast or Barcelona to the Balearic Islands but concerned about the carbon footprint of aeroplane travel, a small Bedford-based company is promising a surprising solution: commercial airships. Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), which has developed a new environmentally friendly airship 84 years after the Hindenburg disaster, on Wednesday…
