From June 26 to 28, the Sixth International Congress on Blockchain and applications will take place at the Salamanca University, Spain, with the participation of experts in this technology and related topics.

The conference agenda includes conferences, workshops, success stories and developments framed in blockchain technology, distributed ledger technologies (DLT), sustainable use of energy, responsible production, clean energy, cutting-edge technologies, artificial intelligence, analysis of technological models and theories, challenges for the future, among others.

The congress will bring together scientists, researchers, companies with successful experiences to share with the audience as well as enthusiastic newcomers in this field.

As has happened in previous editions of the event, a prize will be awarded to the best speaker and the best student speaker, sponsored by the MDPI Smart Cities magazine.

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Google Labs is the new division created by Google whose mission is to delve into the distributed computing and blockchain space and will be led by the technology corporation’s vice president of engineering, Shivakumar Venkataraman.

According to the recently released report by Bloomberg, the unit will be focused on “blockchain and other next-generation distributed computing and data storage technologies.” Labs will have as its main objective to develop Google’s virtual and augmented reality technology.

Although the word metaverse has not been mentioned at any time by the company’s authorities, it is considered that it will be incorporated into this new division and thus be able to keep up to date and compete with its rivals such as Meta.

Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., with the formation of a working group dedicated to Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), intends to delve deeply into blockchain, but no further details were known about the possibility of developing its own accounting solution. enterprise distributed.

Google focused on blockchain technology

Although Google has not publicly declared that it is carrying out any development on blockchain technology, it has been carrying out different actions that target and impact the sector, such as the fact of offering cloud services to different companies directly linked to this technology and to cryptocurrencies.

According to the statements issued by the company’s president of trading, Bill Ready “Cryptocurrencies are something that we pay a lot of attention to. As user demand and merchant demand evolves, we will evolve with it” he stressed.

During 2021, the company made alliances with other organizations and cryptocurrency exchange houses, such is the case of the association made between Google Pay and Coinbase, with the purpose of storing cryptoactives in “digital cards”, while users continue to pay in currencies. traditional.

Additionally, last September “Google Cloud partnered with Dapper Labs to collaborate on the scalability of the network in its Flow blockchain”, considered as the mainstay of various decentralized applications (DApps) and NFT collections.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will initiate the steps for the design and development of a “sovereign digital asset”. This was reported by the RBI governor, Shaktikanta Das, who admitted that they are expected to carry out the first tests of the project by the end of the year.

“I think by the end of the year we should be ready for that, maybe we would be in a position to start our free trials” and added they are extremely careful about it because “it is a completely new product, not just for RBI, but globally.”

The project aims to evaluate the CBDC in all its areas and especially in the processes related to security, as well as the feasibility, applicability and effects on the internal economic environment of the nation.

The representative of the official financial institution stressed that there is an internal debate in the institution related to the type of book that the new currency should have. They are considering to assume a centralized ledger or just to establish it in the “distributed ledger technology (DLT)”, which would allow greater participation in the system, but regardless of the decision made, the RBI will reserve absolute guardianship of the currency.

As you will recall, the government of India has taken a stance against Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, requesting, more than once their ban in the country. However, the government’s new strategy will be to evaluate, in the remainder of the year, the “media impact” of the new currency and its positioning in relation to other digital assets.

During 2021 the investment made in the cryptocurrency market in India increased “200 times more” compared to 2020, standing out as one of the countries with the largest number of crypto investors, located at approximately 15 million.

M. Rodríguez

Source: cripto247.com

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