Hard Fork: Activation of RingCT and Bulletproofs Joins Particl with the Big Guns of Privacy Coins

Update: Enables Completely Untraceable Currency Transactions at Low Cost and Precedes Upcoming Particl Open Marketplace Mainnet Launch On the day of its second anniversary, Particl, the open-source privacy platform and a decentralized marketplace for buyers and sellers for cryptocurrency, has announced its hard fork. With the activation of RingCT and Bulletproofs, Particl’s already rigorous privacy …

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Crazy Rich Asians Push Louis Vuitton Owner Past Bill Gates in Wealth

Chinese customers, who still mainly buy luxury items on overseas trips, buy more than a third of luxury sector sale. They and other Crazy Rich Asians have helped boost the shares of LVMH. Chinese consumers purchased $121 billion worth of luxury goods in 2018 which was 32 percent of the worldwide total. This share is …

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Bitcoin Near $13000

Bitcoin has surged to about $12,900, which is the highest it has been other than the two peak months of December, 2017-January, 2018. The All-time high was $20,089 on December 17, 2017. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …

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Are You Accredited Investors Interested in Nextbigfuture Disruptive Technology?

If you are an accredited investor and have an interest in investing in the companies involved in Nextbigfuture style technology then contact me at blwang at gmail dot com. In the United States, to be considered an accredited investor, you need a net worth of at least $1,000,000, not including your home, or have income …

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Using Dynamic LED Billboard Technology to Promote Your Brand

Billboards seem to have been around forever. Putting forward their offering for anyone passing to see. When they were invented they almost reigned supreme. They were big, they were noticeable and they got the message out there.  Now, with smartphones and other technologies capturing attention, static billboards tend to merge into the background unnoticed. With …

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How Heatmapping Can Help Optimize On-Site User Experiences

Heatmaps show website owners what users want on their website, what areas they visit, their mouse movements and actions, as well as their overall engagement on every page. This is done through visually representing their clicks, taps and scrolling behavior with heatmaps. Bottomline, heat mapping will help you analyze and get insights on actual user …

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Debating China’s BRI and Being Home to the Next Silicon Valley

China’s Belt and Road has some questionable economic return potential. However, the Belt and Road is providing geopolitical returns. The Belt and Road has successful projects in Pakistan, Greece and some other countries. The projects are boosting the volume of trade with the countries in the Belt and Road. After the debate, there was a …

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Trusting Zuckerberg and Facebook Is Like Chickens Trusting KFC

In 2010, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Privacy is Dead and for people to get over it. In 2010, Mark said if he were to create Facebook again then all user information would by default be public. Mark Zuckerberg has recently wrote that Facebook will create a privacy-focused social network based upon Whatsapp. Everything that …

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Scott Galloway and Maureen Mullen Predict Amazon Will Keep Winning in 2019

Scott Galloway and Maureen Mullen had mostly successful predictions for digital technology in 2018. They predicted that Amazon would be the strongest of the big 4 (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google). For 2019, they are predicting that Amazon Media Group will quadruple its ad revenue and become a serious player against Facebook and Google. They are …

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