Tag: Blockchain

  • DOOH in the Hospital and Advertising Revenue from the Washroom

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    By Alex Mardikian Digital signage offers the unique advantage of easy placement in many spaces. VODXS™ Visual On Demand Experience Support ecosystem leverages this unique attribute of DOOH and gives healthcare providers and hospitals to offer an engaging and enriching experience to their patients. Through the brilliantly innovative expedient of using faucets equipped with digital screens provided […]

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  • Months After Raising a $100 Million ICO Kik Founder Calls Blockchain”Unconvincing”

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    At the True North tech conference earlier this week, Kik CEO Ted Livingston expressed his surprising opinion about blockchain: “Almost nobody should be looking at it.” Kin Founder Belittles the Blockchain What made the statement highly pessimistic is the fact that Livingston raised over $100 million via an Initial Coin Offering for his company in 2017. However, […]

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  • Faucet Advertising in Casinos – One-on-One Messaging to Boost Bids

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    By Scott Brown Casinos are uniquely placed to benefit from faucet advertising. Knowing the salient features of having such a system in the washroom can help you generate higher profits from the establishment and also obtain crucial behavioral data that you can leverage to present to your patrons the best you have to offer. VODXS […]

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  • Why Blockchain is Hard

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    By Laura Desmond The hype around blockchain is massive. To hear the blockchain hype train tell it, blockchain will now: Solve income inequality Make all data secure forever Make everything much more efficient and trustless Save dying babies   What the heck is a blockchain, anyway? And can it really do all these things? Can […]

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  • NFC and the Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Payments Practical Again

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    By Laura Desmond Development of Bitcoin‘s core protocol could alleviate many scalability issues facing Bitcoin. Advancements on the new Lightning Network could allow for fast, inexpensive, and convenient retail transactions.   History of the Lightning Network The Lightning Network is a layer on top of the blockchain that utilizes smart-contracts to execute transactions. Such a system enables payments […]

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  • Investor sees blockchain as key to GDPR compliance

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    The rules that govern data are changing rapidly, creating confusion for the companies that use blockchain to support payments, as well as potential investment opportunities for third parties that can ensure compliance. The General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect on May 25, and the Payment Services Directive, which went into effect in January, […]

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  • How to ensure security of your digital signage network?

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    By Alex Mardikian With digital signage, you can reach out to potentially thousands of people. You don’t want the communication to be sabotaged in any way. Not just your communication with an audience, a security lapse or hack can place sensitive data at risk and seriously impact not just a brand’s value but also its finances. […]

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  • $65 Million: Blockchain Assets Platform Paxos Raises Series B Funding

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    Blockchain startup Paxos has closed a $65 million Series B funding round led by existing investors including Liberty City Ventures, RRE Ventures and Jay Jordan. The firm, which rebranded from itBit in 2016, has now raised a total of $93 million to date, according to a release. Paxos said it aims to use the new funds to scale up […]

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  • $7,560: Bitcoin Bulls Fight Back, But Too Early to Call Reversal

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    Bitcoin’s (BTC) bulls have staged a defense after nearly a month of losses, but a short-term bullish trend reversal is not yet confirmed, the technical charts indicate. As of writing, the cryptocurrency is up 5 percent at $7,487 on Bitfinex, having clocked a four-day high of $7,560 earlier today. A minor corrective rally had been […]

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  • EOS Is Coming, If Anyone Can Figure Out How to Vote

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    After a year-long initial coin offering (ICO), what has perhaps become the most hotly anticipated blockchain is scheduled to launch on June 2. That blockchain is EOS, which has raised more than $2 billion in its token sale for Block.one, the company that created what’s being touted as a dramatically more scalable and user-friendly version of […]

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