The hourly data from Google Trends shows that US-based searches for “Bitcoin” have consistently peaked around 1 AM Eastern time for the past week. This hourly data is only available seven days into the past, so we don’t know if this is an established pattern or a new development. The latest Google Trends data for “Bitcoin” searches. Source: Google Trends. Out of 50 states, California is the most search-happy at this hour, possibly because 1 AM Eastern represents just 10 PM local time on the west coast. Plenty of reasonable browsing time left in the evening. Google Trends data for …

In modern business, there are no areas left where blockchain enthusiasts will not try to use the technology. Distributed ledger technology is used in logistics, manufacturing, games and in facial recognition services. And although many projects cannot offer anything qualitatively new except for the principle of using blockchain, some projects manage to prove their practical benefits. Despite the illusion that marketing/advertising and blockchain tech are completely unconnected, some startups manage to use some of the advantages of blockchain technology in solving marketing problems. Babs Rangaiah, who leads global marketing solutions for the Interactive Experience unit of IBM, said: “Blockchain is …

Despite seeing substantial growth in popularity, topping Google search trends amid the recent halving, the coronavirus pandemic and mainstream coverage, the cryptocurrency industry has somewhat been left out of the advertising world by online ad networks, social media platforms and even national governments. In 2018, Facebook banned cryptocurrency advertising amid the initial coin offering hype. Later that year in March, Google followed, banning all advertisements of cryptocurrencies, especially ICOs, and binary options. In the same month, Twitter also banned all cryptocurrency advertising, except for a few public companies. Several social networks in China also applied bans to crypto advertising, following …

On Thursday, Uphold announced that they will allow users in Latin America to use cryptocurrency to acquire fractional ownership of the world’s leading companies. Uphold supports dozens of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC). In theory, its users could acquire a stake in Amazon, Apple, Google or Tesla for as little as 10,000 Satoshis. Making U.S. equities affordable to Latin America According to the company’s press release, the new service makes equity investments affordable for millions of people in the region: “Uphold, the leading digital money platform, today launches a groundbreaking equities service that gives millions of people in Latin America easy …

Civic Technologies, a San Francisco-based innovator in digital identity solutions, announced on June 16 that its Civic Wallet is now available in the App Store and Google Play. Civic Wallet has also formed a partnership with Circle Medical, a San Francisco hospital. Together, they will act as a Covid-19 vaccination-proofing tool for Circle Medical’s employees. Five hundred Circle Medical employees will be able to test for Covid-19 at a Circle Medical testing site located in the San Francisco Bay Area. They state that new locations will be added in the future. More than 100,000 people signed up for the app’s …

Cybercriminals have reportedly created a fake site version of the legitimate encrypted self-destructing notes service privnote.com. The fake version can be shared with other users to steal Bitcoin. According to a June 14 report from KrebsOnSecurity, the creators of the encrypted notes service complained about a fake clone site, privnotes.com, whose scam scheme consists of the following: “Any messages containing Bitcoin addresses will be automatically altered to include a different Bitcoin address, as long as the Internet addresses of the sender and receiver of the message are not the same.” Privnote.com said in the report that the phishing site does …

The crypto community has rallied in support of the victim of a phishing scheme who lost 12 Bitcoins (BTC) — the entirety of the investor’s holdings that had been accumulated over seven years. On June 12, Eric Savics, the host of Protocol Podcast, tweeted that he has lost his entire Bitcoin savings after entering aftering the seed phrase for his hardware wallet into a malicious imposter of KeepKey’s app from the Google Chrome store. Savics stated that he had hoped to purchase an apartment in future using the funds, stating: “All of my savings are gone, I have zero Bitcoin.” …

Bitcoin (BTC) interest is hitting levels that last appeared during its March crash recovery as hype over the halving finally fades. According to the latest data from Google Trends, as of May 30, search interest was back to the same position as in mid-April. At the time, BTC/USD jumped from $6,800 to over $10,000 over the next three weeks. BTC ditches “halving hype” Google Trends shows that overall interest involving Bitcoin has declined rapidly since the halving on May 11. As Cointelegraph reported, it was this event that triggered an uptick in mainstream interest, coming amid continued economic uncertainty worldwide. …

A company once heralded as a “decentralized alternative” to Google recently settled with the SEC. BitClave suffered a near-immediate collapse in price The project’s token price collapsed almost immediately upon change listing and never recovered. Seemingly the dream of a “decentralized” Google never materialized. The company’s website does not have a link to a GitHub repository. CAT Token Price, Volume & Market Capitalization. Source. Coin360. The company was headquartered in San Jose, California, which may have increased its vulnerability to regulator enforcement. Considering that its market capitalization has collapsed and the overall depreciation of crypto assets since its heyday, it …

Esports and crypto conference streaming app Theta has confirmed its rumored partnership with Google, announcing Google Cloud as an Enterprise Validator and launch partner for Theta mainnet 2.0. The Enterprise Validator Program also includes leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Japanese partner firm Gumi Cryptos, and venture capital fund Blockchain Ventures. Enterprise Validators verify transactions across the Theta network. The announcement coincides with Theta’s mainnet 2.0 roll out, which is also scheduled for May 27. Google to power Theta’s cloud infrastructure Google has also been announced as Theta’s preferred cloud provider, with Theta users able to deploy and run nodes directly from …

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, privacy was already at a premium. Now, we’re facing a further dive into the uncharted territory of pervasive privacy intrusions. Targeted advertising tools in your web browser already track your favorite websites, purchases and habits, and browser privacy is a foregone relic. That data is then centralized under the auspices of a big technology firm’s servers and sold to the highest bidder or leveraged to glean a competitive edge. Governments maintain wide-ranging surveillance on internet communications, and financial privacy is virtually nonexistent for any bank-related activities — encompassing the vast majority of financial transactions. Most people …

In a rare instance of cooperation, Google and Apple, two pillars of the global tech industry, announced a joint effort to create a COVID-19 exposure tracing application for mobile phones in conjunction with world governments. The app, which is set to be available on both Android and iOS phones, relies on Bluetooth technology to warn against potential exposure to a person infected with COVID-19. Due to its participating organizations, all three of which have shoddy track-records on privacy, the application immediately raised the suspicions of privacy proponents. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a staunch supporter of digital privacy, posed questions to …