Hollywood Star Ryan Reynolds on Crypto: ‘It’s Emerging as a Huge Player’
Famous actor Ryan Reynolds says crypto is “emerging as a huge, huge player.” The Hollywood star added that “companies are doing a good job of bringing it into a sort of safer, more mainstream light.” Ryan Reynolds Sees Crypto as a Huge Player Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds shared his view on cryptocurrency in an interview with Bloomberg Tuesday. Reynolds is also the chief creative officer of the self-service ad platform MNTN. He claims...
JPMorgan: Global Regulation Urgently Needed for Banks to Help Clients Invest in Crypto
A globally consistent crypto regulatory framework is urgently needed to allow banks to handle crypto assets on behalf of large customers, said a JPMorgan executive. “We need a globally consistent regulatory framework. It’s important that we get to a solution as quickly as possible.” Global Regulatory Framework Urgently Needed to Allow Banks to Offer Crypto Exposure to Clients, Says JPMorgan Debbie Toennies, managing director and head...
Disaster as “NFT Music Stream” Enrages Artists By Pulling Music From YouTube
The non-fungible token (NFT) craze that’s been sweeping the internet for months now is a truly sight to behold. Huge sums of cryptocurrency are traded for these often Ethereum blockchain ‘items’ alongside dreams that one day they will be worth substantially more. As a result, the hype around NFTs (particularly where they relate to some kind of art) has reached astonishing levels, with new projects appearing all the time promising to...
U.S. Copyright Office Consultation Triggers Massive “Upload Filter” Opposition
Late 2020, Senator Thom Tillis released a discussion draft of the “Digital Copyright Act” (DCA), which aims to be a successor to the current DMCA. The DCA hints at far-reaching changes to the way online intermediaries approach the piracy problem. Among other things, these services would have to ensure that pirated content stays offline after it’s taken down once. This “takedown and staydown’ approach relies on technical protection...
Edit text on Linux with KWrite and Kate
A text editor is often a good example application to demonstrate what a programming framework is capable of producing. I myself have written at least three example text editors in articles about wxPython and PyQt, and Java. The reason they’re seen as easy apps to create is because the frameworks provide so much of the code that’s hardest to write. I think that’s also the reason that most operating systems provide a...
