Opinion
By aligning hosts and guests in a shared marketplace, decentralized platforms will make good on the promise of the sharing economy.
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Uber News
Uber is an American-based international company that has made an application with the same name for searching, calling, getting and paying for a taxi or private driver. The company was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garett Camp and the main office of Uber is currently headquartered in San Francisco. With the help of the application, a customer can book a cab and follow its track. In terms of cryptocurrency, in Uber, Bitcoin is allowed as a payment for buying gift cards and even, in some countries, rides also can be paid in virtual currencies. However, while the administration is just considering the ability of such ways of payment, some experts think that decentralized technologies, such as blockchain for Uber and other services that work as mediators, can be dangerous since, with blockchain, drivers and other service providers can connect directly to their customers.
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The Adyen CEO expressed concern about Bitcoin's volatility in regards to a payment method, while Uber "quickly dismissed" discussions about purchasing the crypto asset.
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A spokesman for Joseph Sullivan has denied the charges the Uber exec faces for paying hackers $100K in Bitcoin to cover up a data breach.
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A former CSO is accused of trying to conceal Uber’s involvement in a 2016 data breach by paying the hackers $100K in Bitcoin.
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Twitter will add more security training to prevent a repeat of the hack that hit 130 accounts including celebrities.
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The recent high-profile hack of Twitter accounts where 12 BTC was stolen is being investigated, and some exchanges may already know who did it.
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Smaller firms in the sharing economy can find it difficult to compete with established, centralized platforms. A blockchain-based protocol plans to change that.
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A DeFi lending platform for cryptocurrency, Kava Labs, could be described as the “Uber of Bitcoin,” as the platform represents an Uber-like business model.
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U.S.-based payments startup Fold has made Lightning Network payments possible at Amazon, Starbucks, Uber and other big name retailers.
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Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber and others have allegedly each invested around $10 million in the governance consortium.
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SoftBank will enable global users to conduct international money transfers via RCS, SMS, or mobile email with a blockchain payment system.
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The automotive space is finding new and exciting ways to utilize the burgeoning technology that is Blockchain
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World corporations continue to experiment with blockchain, and 66 percent expect the technology to be integrated into their systems by the end of 2018. Will this transformation occur and why hasn’t it happened yet?
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The sharing economy is still in its infancy and fragmented, but Blockchain may have the potential to fuel its growing popularity.
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A company is building a Blockchain-based system to eliminate fragmentation in the sharing economy – and creating a single app that gives users access to “any available asset they wish to rent, borrow or share.”
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