Decentralised cloud computing project iExec has announced a partnership with one of the world’s largest utility companies. The French energy giant EDF hopes to overhaul its cloud-based infrastructure by building an application on the Ethereum blockchain. GPUSPH will reportedly take advantage of “the decentralized cloud”. The app gets around Ethereum’s scalability issues by ensuring that…
Reports are emerging that the anti-Emmanuel Macron protesters in France, known in English as the Yellow Vests, are planning to stage a bank run this weekend. Although the changes of such an initiative bringing the government to its knees, as the demonstrators hope, are slim, what may very well be the first ever voluntary bank…
One of France’s most iconic buildings lies virtually destroyed after a tragic fire consumed it last night. In response to the incident, which has moved much of the planet, a group of French Bitcoin advocates have set up a crypto appeal. The blaze is now under control but millions of euros worth of architecture and…
France has said it will block the development of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency as it poses a threat to “monetary sovereignty”. At the opening of an OECD conference on cryptocurrencies, French economy and finance minister Bruno Le Maire said: “I want to be absolutely clear: In these conditions, we cannot authorise the development of Libra on…