Cryptocurrencies added to Scrabble world list

By Moris Beracha.-

 Although many investors are still skeptical about bitcoins, cryptocurrencies around the world continue to gain ground. Digital currency, as it is also known, has been traded by soccer players, concert companies, bicycles, among others.

In this sense, the latest news that has caused a commotion in the digital domain is the inclusion of the terms bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, among others, to the Merriam-Webster Scrabble dictionary, an official publication used as arsenal by the players of the world’s most popular board game.

Who has not had fun playing scrabble with friends and family?

It should be recalled that Scrabble is a board game, in which each player tries to score more points as they place words on a board with a 15-by-15 grid.

Words can be placed in a straight line horizontally or vertically and can be crossed as long as they appear in the aforementioned dictionary.

Hasbro owns the property rights in the United States and Canada, Mattel in the rest of the world.

It was previously owned by Murfett Regency in Australia, until it was bought by J. W. Spear & Sons (now a subsidiary of Mattel). It is also known as Literati, Alfapet, Funworder, Skip-A-Cross, Scramble, Spelofun, Crosswords, Intelect and Word for Word. The game is sold in 121 countries, in 29 different languages.

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China Seeks Blockchain Experts

By Moris Beracha.-

For several months, different companies in China have been recruiting Blockchain experts, due to the significant restoration of the lost confidence of users and financial institutions in these technological processes.

It should be noted that Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that securely and immediately processes economic transactions, making intermediaries unnecessary.

According to some human and labor resources organizations, the annual wage for this type of professional profiles is 223,000 euros.

The Blockchain, together with the developers of Clouds and Artificial Intelligence, are the sectors of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with a greater future and a growth outlook for the next 10 years.

In this regard, it should be noted that Hong Kong seeks to attract skilled professionals, and thanks to the country’s particular immigration policy, talented workers with experience in Blockchain technology can be easily admitted to work in the Asian giant.

The government of the Chinese province published its first list of skills to attract qualified professionals from all over the world, specialized in 11 chosen professions as the most important profiles necessary for the development of the country’s economy.

“Experts in innovation and technology in Blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), data engineers, robotics, biometrics and chemical and industrial engineering” are among the most in-demand skills.

The government is willing to attract the applicants, enabling their immigration to be potential workers through the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS).

Applicants who meet the prerequisites may choose to be assessed further either under a “General Points Test” or an “Achievement-Based Points Test”.

Blockchain experts can earn “additional points” in the QMAS General Points Test, according to the Government.

To be qualified in the ​​innovation and technology area, applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree or higher education degree, with proven experience in recognized firms and know how to lead the Blockchain to financial services.

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What does Warren Buffet say about Bitcoin?

By Moris Beracha.-

Article published on the website: http://www.medium.com

Unlike buying stocks, bonds or real estate, buying bitcoin is not an investment,” Buffett said. The millionaire investor says that the reason is “because it lacks intrinsic value”.

In an interview with Yahoo Finance he says that “if you buy something like bitcoin or some cryptocurrency, you don’t have anything that is producing anything […] You only feel you’ll find the next guy to pay more.” “You aren’t investing when you do that, you’re speculating,” he said.

To be an investment, what you’re buying has to be worth something on its own, says Buffett.

Famous for his “buy and hold” investment strategy, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO built his company, (and his $82.8 billion net worth), backing companies that have substantial value.

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Invertir o no invertir en criptomonedas, ese es el dilema

Por Moris Beracha.-

Artículo publicado en http://www.alnavio.com

En los últimos meses el debate sobre las ventajas y desventajas de invertir en criptomonedas ha sido recurrente. En algunas oportunidades los argumentos entre el grupo que recomienda invertir en este activo y el que se opone es tan airado que deja sin respuestas a quienes tienen esa interrogante.

Lo primero que hay que explicar sobre el sistema de las criptomonedas es cómo funciona. Existe lo que se denomina blockchain o cadena de bloques, una tecnología que registra las transacciones digitales de una gran base de datos donde aparecen todas las operaciones financieras realizadas con monedas digitales.

Entre las virtudes que tiene esta tecnología está la transparencia, la eliminación de intermediarios, la rapidez y el ahorro en la ejecución. De esta manera se elimina la dependencia y la burocracia bancarias, así como los costos por intermediación financiera.

El hecho de que cada vez más gobiernos reconozcan las monedas digitales y estén conscientes de que hay que ir regulándolas es garantía de que llegaron para quedarse. Sin embargo, no hay que ser naive y pensar que todas las monedas digitales tienen las mismas cualidades. Dentro de ese mercado -como en todos- se debe ser cuidadoso y recabar suficiente información para minimizar los riesgos. Es seguro que con el transcurrir del tiempo muchas de estas criptomonedas desaparecerán, pero otras perdurarán logrando grandes ganancias para sus tenedores.

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High electricity usage is essential for Bitcoin mining

Por Moris Beracha.-

Getting bitcoins requires “mining”. This action does not involve a physical digging, since bitcoins are digital. However, it consumes more electricity. According to figures from Morgan Stanley and Alex de Vries, an economist who tracks the use of energy in the industry, the computer power needed to create each digital token consumes at least as much electricity as the average American household burns through in two years.

On the other hand, the entire network supporting Ethereum gobbles up another country’s worth of electricity each day.

Also, De Vries estimated that each bitcoin transaction currently requires 80,000 times more electricity to process than each Visa credit card transaction.

Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, is not indifferent to this «investment». The Russian programmer is leading an experiment with a more energy-efficient way to create tokens.

«I would personally feel very unhappy if my main contribution to the world was adding Cyprus’s worth of electricity consumption to global warming,” Mr. Buterin said in an interview with the New York Times.

«Electricity usage is really essential,» said Peter Van Valkenburgh, research director at Coin Center, a group that advocates for virtual currency technology. «Because of the costs, we know the only people participating are serious, that they are economically invested. That creates the incentives for cooperation.

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Virgin Mobile Chile será el primer operador móvil que acepte criptomonedas como pago

La implementación de este método de pago se llevará a cabo por medio de la tecnología de Orionx, emprendimiento chileno que ofrece una plataforma amigable y avanzada para comprar y vender criptomonedas.

Virgin Mobile, Operador Móvil Virtual (OMV) que forma parte del conglomerado Virgin Group, lanza por primera vez en la industria de las telecomunicaciones una nueva forma de pago a través de criptomonedas. Este medio digital de intercambio estará disponible a partir del 21 de marzo, y habilitará una nueva opción de pago para los clientes de la compañía.

Esta iniciativa busca acercar a más personas a la tecnología móvil, y entregar un mejor servicio, basándose en la innovación para generar una experiencia de compra aún más completa y conectada. “Queremos que cuando nuestros clientes compren alguno de nuestros productos, se vinculen con la experiencia de pertenecer a Virgin Mobile”, comenta Patricio Núñez, gerente general de Virgin Mobile Chile.

Hace algunos años, solo las personas más osadas invertían en criptomonedas como el Ethereum. Hoy en día, las criptomonedas no solo se utilizan para generar algún tipo de inversión, también se realizan pagos con este tipo de cambio, dado que son una tecnología descentralizada, que permite transferencias de valor a nivel internacional de forma simple y segura.

La implementación de este método de pago se llevará a cabo por medio de la tecnología de Orionx, emprendimiento chileno que ofrece una plataforma amigable y avanzada para comprar y vender criptomonedas.

“Son cada vez más las empresas a nivel internacional que se están asociando a los pagos con criptomonedas, además la comisión es mucho menor comparado con otros medios de pago tradicionales” afirma Nuñez. “Esto permite que las organizaciones mundiales reciban valores directamente en moneda local y además es más rápido para los usuarios, porque acelera los tiempos de transacción”, agrega el ejecutivo.

Fuente: https://tecno.americaeconomia.com/articulos/virgin-mobile-chile-sera-el-primer-operador-movil-que-acepte-criptomonedas-como-pago