Big Fish Games Now Accepting Bitcoin Payments
Following (somewhat) in the footsteps of Zynga, Big Fish Games is reportedly embracing bitcoin, only they're not just testing it. They're fully implementing it into the 3,000 games in their portfolio, according to VentureBeat. "It's a fun project, and it makes sense," company CEO Paul Thelen said to GamesBeat. Big Fish began looking into accepting bitcoin thanks to an engineer on the team who is also a bitcoin enthusiast, and here we are today. Frankly, move makes sense from multiple angles. For bitcoin enthusiasts, they'll be able to easily make purchases using their digital currency. And....
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Big Fish Games has teamed up with Coinbase to bring bitcoin payments to its extensive line-up of casual games. This small, private company is a relatively big player in the casual gaming arena and is the publisher of the Mystery Case franchise and Big Fish Casino, along with over 3,000 casual games from more than 500 developers. Although the company isn't as big as Zynga, it serves over 1,500,000 downloads a day and it has 700 employees. Big Fish Games allows users to try the games before they make the purchase and many of its games allow traders to buy and sell virtual items. Cutting....
A U.K. food co-op is testing blockchain technology to verify that fish providers are not using slave labor, according to The Guardian. The seafood industry is notorious for human rights abuses and illegal fishing. Tesco, the U.K.’s largest supermarket, has stopped using a certain fish provider over the need to ensure it was using sustainable tuna. The blockchain ledger tracks the origins of fish, allowing anyone to see where the fish was caught, processed and sold. It does not stop illegal fishing on its own, but it provides anyone the ability to track the fish through the supply chain.....
U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman has urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go after major cryptocurrency exchanges that traded xrp, which the regulator deems a security. “It’s easier to go after the small fish than the big fish, but the big fish operating major exchanges did many, many tens of thousands of transactions with xrp,” said the lawmaker.
US Lawmaker Urges SEC to Focus on Major Crypto Exchanges
Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Investor Protection, held a hearing Wednesday to....
An unusual and unexpected issue with transporting fish across the globe could be solved with an even more surprising use of technology, as those shipping seafood are looking to implement Blockchain to keep record shipments. It is a little disconcerting to learn that an epidemic of mislabeling plagues the shipping businesses that haul fish and seafood. It has been estimated, over the last decade, that 30 percent of seafood shipped globally is being mislabeled. In fact, certain fish such as snapper, perch and grouper were incorrectly labeled around 80 percent of the time making it almost....
Just prior to the height of the holiday spirit, Namecoin developers got a special surprise in their wallets courtesy of not-so-secret Santa, Discus Fish. Also known as F2Pool, Discus Fish provided the developers with 20,000 Namecoins to fund a reimplementation based on mainline Bitcoin. According to the developer blog, Christmas officially came early for Namecoin. "What's more is that chief Namecoin scientist Daniel Kraft has been working so hard that the code is already usable! Indeed, Discus Fish has been using it in production for a few weeks." The code is still in the experimental....