Here’s a thought exercise: what is the most impactful thing you could make in just 10 days? Thirty years before creating the crypto-enabled Brave browser in 2015, Brendan Eich was a young developer at Netscape, the company Marc Andreessen co-founded with fellow entrepreneur and computer scientist Jim Clark after coding the first web browser as a student at the University of Illinois. Eich was charged with creating a working prototype of a new computer scripting language in a week in order to compete with Microsoft. He succeeded, and what is now known as JavaScript is the most popular programming language, used by 68% of developers according to a survey by…
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An Australian university looked at three major cryptos as potential CBDC platforms (Photo: Patty Jansen/Pixabay)XRP beats Bitcoin, Ether as central bank digital currency platform
An Australian report said Ripple’s permissioned network enjoys ‘the trust of many banks as a model for CBDCs’
Ripple is a better platform for central bank digital currencies than Ethereum or Bitcoin, according to a new report from CPA Australia, a large accounting industry association. It said that Ripple and the XRP token that underpins it “enjoy the trust of many banks as a model for CBDCs because it is highly centralized and is based on a permissioned network where only certain network nodes can validate transactions, as opposed to decentralized and permissionless Bitcoin and Ether.”
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ConsenSys snags key partnership with China’s national blockchain project
The deal between the Ethereum development firm and the government-controlled Blockchain-based Service Network puts Quorum front and center with Chinese DApp developers
Five months after ConsenSys acquired the Quorum blockchain from creator JPMorgan bank, the Brooklyn-based Ethereum development firm has announced a major coup: a partnership with China’s national blockchain project.
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Koala's don't really have anything to do with wholesale CBDCs, but they're cute so you looked (Photo: Pixabay)Australia’s central bank to research Ethereum-based CBDC
The Reserve Bank of Australia is working with ConsenSys software on a proof-of-concept using a tokenized digital currency usable for back-end transactions between banks
The alliance will investigate the potential use and implications of a wholesale form of CBDC using distributed ledger technology (DLT), which is not accessible to consumers but only to financial institutions—and in some cases other parties that move large quantities of money.
