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Gossip about Gossip: How Platforms Provide Content Creators with Cryptocurrency Payment
In the rapidly growing world of cryptocurrency, getting paid for certain types of content via the digital medium is a lot more layered than meets the eye. According to Cointelegraph, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened crypto payments as there was an increase of these payments. As content creators use various web platforms to promote and […]
Gossip About Gossip: How Aberdeen Plans to Tokenize Investment Funds on Hedera
Private equity investments are often regarded as higher risk profiles than any other asset classes. Because of liquidity concerns and higher barriers of entry, everyday individual investors are steered away from alternative asset classes like private equity. That’s where fractionalization of large-scale investments through blockchain and DLT technology provides accessibility and privacy among individual investors. […]
Using HIP to Improve Hedera Hashgraph
The Hedera Improvement Proposal (HIP) is a process established to help developers formulate new ideas and improvements within Hedera Hashgraph. According to InfoQ, workplace feedback helps boost efficiency. The method allows the development team’s members to submit their suggestions and receive constructive criticism and opinions from fellow developers. HIP allows Hedera to have an orderly […]
Uber Eats to Offer “Baked Goods” with Canadian Cannabis Partnership
Thanks to the accelerated need for buying goods online since the start of the pandemic, digital on-demand orders are a retail expectation even for a still growing market like cannabis sales. As the cannabis dispensary market continues to grow and with potential industry reform on the way, statistics show consumers would like to see even […]
Cannabis Companies Prepare for Potential Marijuana Banking Reform
The legal marijuana movement saw a glimmer of hope for a more scaled and structured industry in September; the U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would protect banks against federal retribution if they service state-legal marijuana businesses. This amounts to the fifth time in recent memory that […]
Will Cannabis Banking Reform Mean Better Marijuana Marketing Campaigns?
Marijuana companies wait with fingers crossed for recent legislative action to go through the Senate, President Biden’s desk, and finally be codified into law, in hopes of easing the financial and operational burden for dispensaries, product developers, and more. The U.S. House of Representatives, as part of its National Defense Authorization Act, has approved an […]
How One Restaurant Chain Rides the Green Wave
Food is serious business. Now, on The Main Course, host Barbara Castiglia will invite insiders on the front lines of food to share their expertise, strategies, and forecasts for navigating the ever-changing restaurant industry. Established in 1998, Cheba Hut is the first marijuana-themed sandwich “joint” that provides customers with made-to-order food in an eclectic fast-casual environment. Seth […]
Simplifying Cannabis Dosing for Patients and Healthcare Professionals
Cannabis use is growing, particularly for medical purposes. In healthcare, it’s being used to treat a variety of conditions, and it’s now approved for medical use in 36 states and four territories. In other words, the majority of locations in the United States allow for the use of cannabis for medical purposes – which […]
Beyond the Numbers: Should Your Bank Consider Banking Cannabis-Related Businesses?
Cannabis-related products and companies squarely live in a world of a perpetual gray area. To help clear up the opaque nature of banking by cannabis-related businesses on this episode of Weaver: Beyond the Numbers, host Shelby Skrhak sits down with Rachel Mondragon, Weaver Senior Manager in Regulatory Compliance specializing in financial institutions, to discuss. The […]