Dear community! Blockchain world is a rapidly developing industry. Updates and innovations are not rare, so today we are presenting you some interesting facts in the latest #MetaNews.
The new reward system for employees by PayPal
The story:
The innovative reward system, based on the blockchain, was launched in PayPal company.
Details:
One of the most famous payment system PayPal has launched a new reward system for their employees. This system based on the blockchain and were launched on December 6.Employees get tokens for participating in this program, connected with innovations and exchange of ideas. These tokens valid only in PayPal system and can be traded among the participants of the program via “public ledger”.There are more than one hundred experiences where employees can use their tokens such as poker tournaments with the vice president, trail run with CFO or a training session with the CEO.
Why it is important:
New ways of the rewarding of the employees can help increase efficiency. Also, it makes the policy of the company more open to communication between common staff and top management.
Facebook has opened five new company roles for blockchain specialists
The story:
Facebook has listed five new blockchain-related jobs on its careers page.
Details:
All of these positions are is full-time and based at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Facebook is looking for two software engineers, data scientist post, a data engineer and product marketing lead. The precise details of Facebook’s planned — or extant — blockchain initiatives are kept under wraps.
Why it is important:
Specialists in the blockchain sphere are becoming more and more demanded in different fields. And it is not surprising, that biggest social network joined this race. This decision would help to increase the scale to serve “millions of requests per second,” and to do so “with sub-second latency and in a fault tolerant manner.”
The fastest growing technology center in Europe was announced
The story:
The fastest growing tech hub in Europe — Zug, Swiss city, also named as “Swiss Crypto Valley”.
Details:
This top of the tech hubs in Europe was made by Atomico global investment firm, based in London.Zug has increased the number of tech meetups in 2018 on 177% compared to last year.The second place in this rating has Novosibirsk, Russia, specifically Akademgorodok, also known as the Siberian Silicon Valley, with the 173%. The third place — Ghent, Belgium with 165%.
Why it is important:
The progress is going non-stop and covers many different cities and countries. This quick grow once again shows the importance of the blockchain technology.
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