World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Leads W3C to Establish Online Payment Standards Including Bitcoin
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started review of a draft Web Payments Working Group Charter. The Web Payments Working Group will launch by the end of September after the end of the review on September 15, start working on an overall Web payments architecture, and prepare key topics for discussion at the next Technical Plenary/Advisory Committee....
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When it comes to online payment standards, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is finding it difficult to engage the bitcoin community. "It's proven easier to get a bank to participate in payments standards than a bitcoin community company," says Manu Sporny, chairman of the W3C Web Payments community group and founder and CEO of web platform startup Digital Bazaar. Because it's still early days for the bitcoin industry, he says, these companies aren’t looking to interoperate, but instead want to dominate the web payments market. Founded by Internet creator Tim Berners-Lee, the....
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, the English computer scientist who is well known for inventing the world wide web has sold a non-fungible token (NFT) in an online auction hosted by the auction house Sotheby’s. The NFT is basically a video of the World Wide Web’s source code created in Python and the collectible sold for $5.4 million. Tim Berners-Lee and Sotheby’s Auction NFT for $5.4 Million This week, Sotheby’s revealed that Tim Berners-Lee sold an NFT of the original source code for the world wide web for a whopping $5.4 million. Before the NFT auction, Berners-Lee....
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has just wrapped up its “Blockchains and the Web Workshop,” which took place on June 29-30 at the MIT Media Lab, with a broad array of innovators exploring digital ledger industry standards throughout the two-day event. W3C Event at MIT Discusses Tying Blockchains to World Wide Web Standardization. W3C was founded by....
The source code for the World Wide Web has been sold by the inventor for $5.4 million. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has sold an NFT of the web's source code for $5.4 million at fine art auction house Sotheby’s. The piece titled ‘This Changed Everything’ includes a time-stamped file of the source code's 9,555 lines, a high-fidelity image, a 30-minute animation of the code being written, along with a letter written by Berners-Lee.While $5.4M is a significant sum, it’s a far cry from the $69 million record set in March for Beeple’s Everydays and less than some....
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is developing a new global standard to enable one-click secure online shopping — and it will include Bitcoin. Bitcoin and Global Standards to Realize Web’s Full Potential. The W3C is working with Apple, Google, Facebook and other e-commerce giants to radically improve online payment processes. These improvements....