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Wu Jihan returns as the CEO of Bitmain
The co-founder and billionaire tech Bitmain, Wu Jihan, re-emerged to the front of the giant miner Bitmain with headquarters in Beijing in a recent meeting with clients. According to the publication, it was reported that Wu Jihan made a public appearance at a private event last Saturday in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, southwest of China, where he announced that the co-founder of Bitmain, Micree Zhan Ketuan, had resigned his leadership role in the company. Zhan said previously that he was removed as the legal representative of the company without his consent after Wu Jihan had sent an email saying that Zhan had left the company: Wu Jihan, now firmly back in control, announced new initiatives for sales to attract new customers, which reportedly includes a promise to search for deposits as low as 20% for those who buy platforms mining Bitcoin in bulk.
Nike has patented a system to tokenize shoes
The footwear giant patented by Nike is tokenizado as a token non-expendable (NFT) in the chain of blocks Ethereum, called CryptoKicks. The patent, dated 10 December, describes a digital asset for the footwear and the ways to use it. An implementation of the technology described in the document is a token Ethereum ERC721 or ERC1155 used to authenticate and perform transactions with a shoe physical. The token is “unlocked” with the purchase of a shoe corresponding physical to link an identification code of the shoe 10 digits with the id code of the owner. Apparently, the system aims to provide a way of ensuring the authenticity of products, as described in the patent.
The united states arrest scammers criptominería
The us authorities arrested Tuesday three suspected fraudsters connected to the Network BitClub that defrauded with success to the investors of $ 722 million through a Ponzi scheme of the mining group. According to a press release, Matthew Brent Goettsche, 37, of Lafayette, Colorado; Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks, 38, of Arvada, Colorado; and Joseph Frank Abel, 49, of Camarillo, California, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud (Goettsche and Weeks) and conspiracy to offer unregistered securities through his participation in BitClub Network, a mining group. Two other defendants not identified remain free. The alleged swindlers created false figures intended to demonstrate the earnings of BitClub your group of mining bitcoin to its investors between April 2014 and December 2019.
Russian company test Blockchain to obtain data from the power meter
The national company of electrical networks of Russia, Rosseti, is testing a system for payment of electricity bills based on a book distributed by Waves. Waves Enterprise, the arm of blockchain business of the startup, Russian DLT Waves, said in a blog post that the pilot involving 400 homes in two administrative regions of the Russian federation. In the next phase, which is expected to begin in early 2020, all regions of the oblast of Kaliningrad and the oblast of Sverdlovsk, with a combined population of approximately 5.3 million people, will use the system. The next step will be to expand it to all of Russia, according to Waves Enterprise. The system will access the data of the energy meters in houses and apartments, will store and distribute the payments to consumers from the company that generates the electricity and the operator of the electricity network, according to the announcement. This is intended to make the calculation of payments to be more transparent and to reduce, so that the homes must by electricity, a debt that amounted to more than $ 12.5 million in Russia in 2019. According to the announcement, households will be able to see how much energy you are using through an application and choose a most suitable rate, such as to opt for one that offers a cheaper price during the night hours. Rosseti has not commented on the information at the close of this edition. The following two tabs change content below. Venezuelan, student of the last semester of Social Communication. Attracted by the new technologies and the development that they offer to humanity.