o3n [ozone] blockchain layer

Blockchain source

Menu
  • Cybersecurity services
Menu

‘Ethical Questions’: Senior Executive Halts Wall Street Journal’s Own Cryptocurrency

Posted on October 3, 2018 by nbelov

The Wall Street Journal managed to issue two units of its own cryptocurrency before red tape stopped the experiment.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) created and then destroyed its own cryptocurrency in a bid to “understand” the industry, the publication revealed in a mini documentary Wednesday, October 3.

WSJ Coin, which journalist Steven Russolillo hoped would shed light on the emerging crypto economy while providing real use cases for the journalism industry, made it to the grand total of two issued units.

A mound of around 150 physical WSJ Coins was further distributed to the audience of a panel discussing the concept at the publication’s D.Live annual technology conference in Hong Kong.

Speaking on the panel were remittance service BitPesa CEO Elizabeth Rossiello and former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas, who both saw considerable potential in a journalism-based crypto asset.

“If you lower the cost of moving money around, the entire economy changes … ‘How do I pay for a news article online?’ changes,” Thomas said by way of example.

Russolillo teamed up with Japanese developer Makuto Takemiya to use Hyperledger’s Iroha blockchain as the basis for WSJ Coin.

The two fixed a supply of 8.4 billion units, which they arrived at by averaging the supply of the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap.

Two coins made it to a local bar to pay for two beers.

When Russolillo pitched a full issuance to investors, however, it was the WSJ’s own ethics head who shut the scheme down. Neil Lipschitz, editor for ethics and standards, said WSJ Coin raised what Russolillo says are “ethical questions.”

“We’re not in the business of getting into the cryptocurrency world; we’re here to report it and to explain it, just like we report on banks but we don’t go out and start a bank,” he said, adding:

“We’re not going to create a currency.”

At the end of August, the Associated Press signed a partnership with content licensing partnership with blockchain-based startup Civil to explore ways to secure intellectual property rights, support ethical journalism, and track content usage with blockchain technology.

Source: Cointelegraph https://cointelegraph.com/

Recent Posts

  • LBank and Adanian Labs Powers Hackathons, Blockchain Education, and Ecosystem Development for Africa | – Bitcoinist May 25, 2022
  • Supply Chain Blockchain for Automotive Market Size And Forecast | Mesosphere, DASH, Bitpay, Shapeshift, Bittrex, Factom Inc, Coinbase, Ripple, IBM, Chain Inc – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain in Retail Market Size And Forecast | IBM, Microsoft, SAP, AWS, Oracle, Bitfury, Cegeka, Auxesis Group, Blockpoint, Coinbase – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • LiteClient: Scaling blockchain with Simplified Payment Verification – CoinGeek May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain In Telecommunication And Post Services Market Increasing Demand and Dynamic Growth with Forecast 2029 | IBM, Microsoft, Juniper Networks, Coinbase, SAP SE – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Metaverse Blockchain Games Market 2022 Regional Trends, Top Leading players – Ubisoft, Sky Mavis, Decentraland, Mythical Games, DAPPER LABS, Forte, Enjin, Voxie Tactics – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Blockstream dreams up a whole new type of multisig called ROAST May 25, 2022
  • OpenEthereum support ends with the Merge fast approaching May 25, 2022
  • 'Code is not law': Seth Green thief stole Bored Apes, not the rights say experts May 25, 2022
  • Cornucopias: A Revolutionary Cardano Blockchain Project That Is Redefining the Gaming Metaverse Industry – Press release Bitcoin News – Bitcoin News May 25, 2022
  • FinTech Blockchain Market to have a Stout Growth in the Near Future – Ripple, Guardtime, Cambridge Blockchain, AWS, Applied Blockchain, etc – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • WeWork founder reinvents himself with $70M crypto carbon credit platform May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain in Pharma Supply Chain Market | Company Challenges And Essential Success Factors |IBM, AWS, Microsoft, SAP, Chronicled, etc – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology Market to have a Stout Growth in the Near Future – Digital Asset Holdings, Capgemini, Accenture, Block chain Tech Ltd, Ethereum, etc – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain in Digital Rights Management DRM Market Size And Forecast | Sony, Binded.Inc, Custos Media Technologies, Scenarex, Publica, Mediachain, Pixsy, Gilgamesh, RecordsKeeper – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain for Land Registry And Asset Tracking Market Size And Forecast | Accenture, Factom, BlockVerify, Applied Blockchain, Digital Asset, Bitfury, Guardtime, Deloitte, ChromaWay, Gemalto – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • What Are Web 3.0 Enabled Blockchain Esops And How Are They Different From Regular Esops? – Outlook India May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain in Education Market Size And Forecast | Blockcerts, DISCIPLINA, Gilgamesh, IBM, Learning Machine, LiveEdu, odem.io, Open Source University, Oracle, RecordsKeeper – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Market Size And Forecast | Chain Inc., IBM, Accenture, Monax Industries, Intel, Deloitte, Earthport, Microsoft Azure, Digital Asset Holdings – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain-as-a-Service Market 2022 Competitive Expectations with Industry Players – Infosys, SAP, Cognizant, IBM corporation, Amazon, etc – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Blockchain in Logistics Market 2022 Competitive Expectations with Industry Players – SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, Maersk, etc – The Daily Vale – The Daily Vale May 25, 2022
  • Uniswap breaks $1T in volume — but has only been used by 3.9M addresses May 25, 2022
  • Could GameFi and carbon currencies reverse blockchain's climate stigma? May 25, 2022
  • CryptoSat’s first nanosatellite blasts off Wednesday on SpaceX rocket May 25, 2022
  • New Luna 2.0 blockchain will not be a fork of Luna Classic – CryptoSlate May 25, 2022
  • Sam Bankman-Fried could spend up to $1B in 2024 to thwart Trump comeback May 25, 2022
  • Crypto, blockchain and NFT firms are bailing out Hong Kong office property segment – South China Morning Post May 25, 2022
  • BSV Global Blockchain Convention Opens With Impactful Speech – Benzinga – Benzinga May 25, 2022
  • ShareRing, A Digital Identity Blockchain Ecosystem, Announces SHR Token Swaps From BNB Smart Chain To – Crowdfund Insider May 24, 2022
  • Low inflation or bust: Analysts say the Fed has no choice but to continue raising rates May 24, 2022

Ad

Ad

©2022 o3n [ozone] blockchain layer | WordPress Theme by Superbthemes.com