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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Expedia and Priceline control up to 95% of the travel market, depending on the region. This gives them almost unlimited power in what they can demand from suppliers like airlines and hotel chains. Price fixing is a common trend in making sure prices are tailored to them rather than the customer and the provider. They also demand massive fees from travel providers, which are then, in some form or another, rolled on the the consumer.Winding Tree aims to improve that by creating a peer-to-peer travel marketplace with no middlemen; connecting providers directly with consumers. They have recently announced a partnership with Lufthansa.And trying to impact a different sector, CarFix creates a decentralized marketplace for all things automotive, aiming to create transparency and avoid price manipulation in the industry.InvestmentIf you’ve heard about blockchain before, you know of blockchain as an investment -basically buy some cryptocurrency and wait for its value to go up.What you might not know is that the decentralized technology is creating many new ways to invest and trade, in both digital and non-digital assets. The first is Zen Protocol which is building a bridge to connect digital and crypto assets to real life stocks and commodities, so people can create options, derivatives and more in a blockchain based trading platform.Another company taking steps to connect the investment world with the digital one is Blackmoon Crypto which is focused on creating a tokenized investment interface, aiming to help people manage funds while taking care of every aspect, such as tech and legal.EnergyThis is where blockchain can impact industries but also the well being of our planet. WePower is allowing green energy consumers to make investments and profit off-of their completed green energy products, as well as provide suppliers with capital to further green and clean energy.If you thought blockchain is a financial tool for geeks, you have another thing coming. Almost every industry is seeing the potential of a decentralized product and a peer-to-peer financial market. I myself am turning into a blockchain addict each and every day.New Post has been published on http://cryptocoin4us.com/bitcoin-news/bitcoin-falling-31-million-crypto-heist/Bitcoin is falling after a $31 million crypto heistREUTERS/Danny MoloshokTether, the company behind a cryptocurrency pegged to the US dollar, said $31 million stolen from its main wallet on Sunday.Heist appears to have shaken markets, with bitcoin, ethereum, and bitcoin cash all falling.LONDON — Major cryptocurrencies bitcoin and ethereum are falling against the dollar on Tuesday morning after a $31 million heist elsewhere in the digital currency world.Tether, which created a cryptocurrency called USDT that is pegged to the dollar, said in a blog post on Tuesday that “funds were improperly removed from the Tether treasury wallet through malicious action by an external attacker.”$30,950,010 was taken in total on Sunday, the US company said.“As Tether is the issuer of the USDT managed asset, we will not redeem any of the stolen tokens, and we are in the process of attempting token recovery to prevent them from entering the broader ecosystem,” Tether said.Tether is down 0.3% against
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