Trending Trinity Weekly (October, 8-12)
The second week of October is quickly passing by, and it’s time for us to identify the most exciting digital trends. Based on the bare numbers of your activity stats on Bitnewstoday.com, Trending Trinity reveals what is really important in digital economy right now. Long story short, we’ve got to start!
#3 - Revolution Or Sabotage: Scaling Through A Bag of Bitcoins' Blockchain
Third place this week belongs to Daniil Danchenko and his observation of the new blockchain alternative that has been revealed recently by Mark Friedenbach. It’s called “Forward Blocks”. The method allows to ramp up transaction speeds by 5000 times and to have 11 hassle-free transactions a day for a person. Sounds quite promising, right? But are there any pitfalls in this new approach? Of course, there are, the critics say. Click here and learn about them in the article.
#2 - Sierra Leone: The Reasons Behind UN's Experiments With FInTech
UN struggles to fight and finally defeat poverty in Africa for a long time. Lots of experts suppose that the digital economy is the clue. Some of the African countries have already embraced some blockchain elements, and now Sierra Leone, one of the poorest among them, has drawn its attention to the digital world too. The new protocol, as announced at the 73d session of the UN General Assembly, should extend to a wide range of monetary transactions: bank loans, loans for businesses, basic medical and educational services. Will this one become a magical pill for the country? Who knows.
#1 - Why Crypto Is More Terrifying Than Seven Russian Spies For The US Justice Ministry
Yes, Russian hackers! Again. It would seem everyone is already tired and fed up with these stories. However, the stats prove the opposite. 6300+ views this week and an absolute leader — that’s what this article is! Oleg Koldayev went through the documents, accusing the recently disclosed six Russian spies, and discovered some traces of crypto in the whole story. Some interesting conclusions here. Will you agree with them?