ECB Promotes Digital Euro as a Sovereign Cash Alternative
Piero Cipollone, member of the ECB executive board, highlighted the relevance of the digital euro for the health of sovereign payments in Europe. He also remarked that such a solution would maintain banks in the financial loop, while stablecoins seek to sidestep them. ECB Defends Digital Euro Thesis as Sovereign Cash Alternative The European Central […] Powered by...
FBI Seizes Gaming Piracy Domains Including ‘Pre-Release’ Target NSW2U
Nintendo and other gaming companies are doing everything in their power to stop the public from playing pirated games. This includes sending a steady stream of cease-and-desist notices, as well as filing lawsuits. And in some rare cases, law enforcement agencies are stepping up to help. Feds Seize Gaming Piracy Domains Today, the FBI seized several domain names linked to well-known game piracy websites, including NSW2U.com,...
Sci-Hub’s Crypto Coin Aims to Power a New Era of ‘Open’ Science
By offering free access to millions of ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is an unauthorized bastion of knowledge. The site is used by researchers from all over the world to access papers they otherwise have a hard time accessing. For some, the site is essential to their work. Major academic publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society, view the site quite differently. They have taken it to court on several...
