New York Approves Its First Publicly Available Japanese Yen Stablecoin
The New York State Department of Financial Services, the Bitlicense regulator, has authorized GMO to issue U.S. dollar and Japanese yen-pegged stablecoins. The latter “will be the first of its kind available to the public.” To date, the regulator has given out 27 charters and licenses for companies engaged in crypto activities. First Regulated Yen Stablecoin Approved in NY The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has...
Undercover Cops Arrest Sellers of ‘Pirate’ Amazon Firesticks At Florida Flea Market
Online piracy is traditionally associated with a young and tech-savvy audience, but that image doesn’t always hold up. Piracy has reached the masses with the help of online streaming and easy-to-use devices. In fact, it’s now mainstream enough to have made it all the way to local flea markets. We’re not talking about bootleg DVDs or CDs that have been sold under the counter for decades. No, we’re referring to pirate streaming boxes...
Pirate Site Operators Facing Six Years Prison, Six Million Euros in Damages
In October 2015, an investigation was launched into the operations of Descargasmix.com and associated domains including DDmix and up to 15 variants. According to Spanish authorities, the group was the most important site network serving the Spanish-speaking community and caused significant damages to intellectual property rights holders seeking to exploit the same market. Investigation Carried Out By Three Groups The investigation...
Use the Markdown Editor app in Nextcloud
The advantage of plain text is that there’s no extra computer-specific information cluttering up your otherwise human-readable writing. The good thing about computers is that they’re programmable, and so as long as we humans agree to follow very specific conventions when writing, we can program computers to interpret human-readable text as secret instructions. For instance, by surrounding a word with two asterisks, we not only give a...
10 examples of using Python in 2020
As in recent years, Python proved a popular programming language in 2020. Each year, Opensource.com publishes various articles about Python to pique new users’ interest and help long-time Pythonistas expand their skills. The following are Opensource.com’s top 10 articles about Python in 2020. read more Powered by...
