How do you solve a problem like Bitcoin scaling? July 17, 2021 Steve Shadders, Chief Technical Officer with nChain, discusses the Bitcoin scaling problem.
Flood death toll in Germany hits 110 with dozens trapped and hundreds still unaccounted for July 16, 2021 Rescue operations and the search for hundreds still unaccounted for continue across Germany, Belgium and Holland, with at least 110 people having died in devastating floods. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was “stunned” by the devastation and pledged support to the families of those killed and to cities and towns facing significant damage. “In [...]
Making peace with the price of Bitcoin and slowly stacking the Sats July 16, 2021 Another week of lacklustre market performance, low volumes and consistent talk of a possible capitulation by Bitcoin.
Screenshot: Will a streaming overhaul tidy up the UK’s messy music sector? July 16, 2021 This week: **Media Moment of the Week: ‘Oh fiddlesticks’ **Could a streaming crackdown tidy up Britain’s messy music sector? Media Moment of the Week: ‘Oh fiddlesticks’ In a situation you wouldn’t have thought possible in 2021, the BBC somehow found a man in Nottingham on Monday morning who still didn’t know the result of the [...]
Crypto: 95 per cent of ASA’s scam alerts are related to Bitcoin July 15, 2021 Close to 95 per cent of all scam alerts sent by the Advertising Standards Authority to social media platforms have been related to bitcoin scams, the watchdog said today. Last year, the ASA created an ad alert system to pick up false adverts. Since then, the scheme has alerted 145 platforms to date. Crypto scams [...]
Seventy per cent of FTSE 350 companies have no female exec board members July 15, 2021 The pandemic has set back gender parity prospects for top jobs by four years, according to a new report. Seventy percent of companies on the FTSE 350 have no female executives on their main board and will lag behind men until 2036 amid the pandemic. There has been a sudden slow rise for female appointments [...]
The £16 billion digital opportunity for Britain’s professional services July 15, 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic changed the professional services sector overnight. Firms across the UK reacted quickly as the country shut down, adapting to new ways ofworking and adopting unfamiliar technology. And some professional services firms didn’t just react – they thrived. The pandemic acted asa catalyst for these businesses to realise that adopting new technologies can [...]
Online fraud up by a third during the pandemic July 15, 2021 Online fraud has risen by a third during the pandemic as almost all everyday activities went digital, according to a consumer rights group. The number of cases of fraud reported to UK police unit Action Fraud cost consumers £2.3bn last year and had affected over 410,000 victims, according to analysis by consumer rights group Which? [...]
DEBATE: Should we have ID verification for social media? July 15, 2021 England football stars Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancha were targeted with horrific racist abuse on social media after the team lost to Italy in the Euros 2020 final. The abuse was loudly condemned by all sides of politics, with Boris Johnson slamming the “disgusting” comments. It has prompted another disgusting: should there be [...]
MPs call for probe into record labels amid music streaming overhaul July 15, 2021 MPs have urged regulators to probe major UK record labels and Youtube as part of a radical overhaul of the music streaming market aimed at tackling “pitiful returns” for artists. In an eagerly-awaiting report published today, the culture select committee called for comprehensive reform to existing legislation as well as new regulations to “reset” the [...]