Trending Blockchain Social Media News #20 : February 2nd, 2018
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ConsenSys Joins News Industry Leaders to Invest in New WordPress Publishing Platform
"...Blockchain tech firm ConsenSys has joined news industry leaders to contribute to the creation of a new revenue-generating news platform by WordPress, according to an official press release published on Jan. 14.
ConsenSys has invested $350,000 in the new WordPress project called Newspack, an open-source publishing platform for news companies...."
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Funding Hate: The Far-Right’s Pivot to Crypto
"...Cryptocurrencies were never apolitical. The fateful 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto treatise did not appear in an ideological vacuum: Notions of online privacy, proactive use of cryptography for protecting individual freedom, and denationalization of currency that informed the Bitcoin creator’s vision had been brewing for at least two decades, at least since the rise of the cypherpunk movement in the early 1990s..."
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Telegram Plans Multi-Billion Dollar ICO For Chat Cryptocurrency
"...Encrypted messaging startup Telegram plans to launch its own blockchain platform and native cryptocurrency, powering payments on its chat app and beyond. According to multiple sources which have spoken to TechCrunch, the “Telegram Open Network” (TON) will be a new, ‘third generation’ blockchain with superior capabilities, after Bitcoin and, later, Ethereum paved the way...."
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How PATRON Is Revolutionizing Social Media Marketing With Blockchain
"...PATRON makes it easier for advertisers to connect with the right influencers. The intuitive system allows both advertisers and influencers to reach out to one another. Influencers are sorted into genres and ranked according to their following...."
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Are Data Hacks Pushing People Towards Secure Blockchain Identity Systems?
"...However, what is even more concerning is that many people who do enter into these social contracts with internet companies, where their data is stored and collected, are far too trusting. The expectation is that a company on the scale of Facebook, Google, or other similarly large corporations will have an arsenal of data protection fallbacks.
However, more and more data hacks and scandals are hitting the news, and it is often the internet giants that are implicated, spilling millions of people’s information across the web...."
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