2019-6-1 19:01 |
The code for rendering Ethereum transactions private developed by big four auditing firm Ernst & Young has been released and open sourced
origin »
|
In the technology industry, a lot of features and services are taken for granted. Westerners see no problems with private Wi-Fi networks, but that situation was very different in Cuba. That is, until rather recently, when such private wireless networks were officially legalized in the country.
2019-5-31 22:00 | |
|
|
We have already seen big giants like IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, Deutsche and others getting into the blockchain and even crypto world. Additionally, Samsung’s crypto wallet that is now venturing into private Bitcoin node, and web browser Opera releasing a new version with a built-in crypto wallet, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are gaining ground when it comes […]
2019-5-17 07:13 | |
|
|
Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream. The Bitcoin and blockchain technology company announced on May 15, 2019, the final day of the Consensus 2019 conference, that Liquid Securities, a platform for issuing and managing security tokens on its Liquid sidechain, is ready to go live.
2019-5-16 19:14 | |
|
|
By CCN: Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino told Twitter that the firm was able to raise $1 billion in USDT within a short period because big investors know Bitfinex is “trustworthy. ” Trust, Don’t Verify The New York Attorney General’s office recently opened a very public investigation into the firm.
2019-5-14 03:00 | |
|
|
The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
|
|
Kaspar Korjus, the Founding Managing Director of Estonia’s e-Residency program, shared his futuristic vision on how to get nation states to digitize with attendees of TNW2019 today. The private sector has set the pace for technological transformation, and Korjus thinks it’s time for nation states to catch up.
2019-5-9 19:35 | |
|
|
Kaspar Korjus, the Founding Managing Director of Estonia’s e-Residency program, shared his futuristic vision on how to get nation states to digitize with attendees of TNW2019 today. The private sector has set the pace for technological transformation, and Korjus thinks it’s time for nation states to catch up.
2019-5-9 19:35 | |
|
|
Advertisements follow you everywhere. Google and Facebook have become the de facto diarchs, mining your online attention to track every single move to serve their needs. While it’s becoming increasingly impossible to quench the big tech’s thirst for user data, collect they must in order to sell ads, and for them to thrive and grow.
2019-5-2 15:52 | |
|
|
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
|
|
Ernst and Young [EY], one of the big four accounting firms alongside Deloitte, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, announced the launch of the second generation blockchain analytics tools, EY Blockchain Analyzer.
2019-4-18 20:30 | |
|
|
Big Four firm EY has launched a private beta test version of its new Smart Contract Analyzer tool for the Ethereum blockchain
2019-4-18 16:30 | |
|
|
The CRYPTOTAG is a sleek and sturdy storage solution for keeping your private keys secure forever. Bitcoinist got its hands on the hefty product, and we’re a big fan. Here is our full CRYPTOTAG review.
2019-4-16 18:00 | |
|
|
The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
|
|
Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
|
|
Lyft, the second biggest Uber-like platform in the world, is ready to go public. The move was speculated in Wall Street for a long time now and it looks like, after half a decade of private funding rounds, the company is ready for this new big step. But what has this to do with cryptos […]
2019-4-2 00:35 | |
|
|
When BlockFi began offering interest-bearing accounts earlier this month, it seemed to have struck gold. Giving people a place to securely store their bitcoin or ether is paying off for the company and crypto holders.
2019-3-22 00:42 | |
|
|
The European Union’s antitrust commissioner has emerged as a surprise ally for Facebook, Google, and even Apple as Elizabeth Warren bets her presidential bid on breaking up big tech. Margrethe Vestager, until now a thorn in the regulatory side of technology giants like Amazon and Google, has surprisingly emerged in their support.
2019-3-20 00:00 | |
|
|
Grin Coin is a community-based project that launched with no “funny business”. It’s natively private, lightweight, resistant to ASIC mining, and it has made a big impact on the crypto sector despite the ongoing bear market.
2019-2-1 20:18 | |
|
|
Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
|
|
AI has already taken the private sphere by storm, with massive corporations, dynamic startups, and even our own living rooms playing host to intelligent machine learning software. It’s no big surprise, then, that the world of government is starting to turn to AI to improve its effectiveness in serving populations large and small.
2019-1-13 13:30 | |
|
|
October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.
2019-1-3 07:14 | |
|
|
Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
|
|
Bitcoin Private responds to accusations of pre-mine Data aggregating website CoinMetrics recently released a damning report on Bitcoin Private, popular privacy-focused hybrid fork of Bitcoin and ZClassic.
2018-12-27 14:35 | |
|
|
In this latest roundup of crypto chatter from social media, Vitalik Buterin sparks debate by declaring that he doesn’t believe in proof of work. Also, developer Rhett Creighton is accused of foul play in the Bitcoin Private pre-mine scandal.
2018-12-27 14:15 | |
|
|
Private Internet Access (PIA) has been one of the most trusted and most respected names in the crowded VPN service arena for years. And thankfully for fans of fast, reliable, secure web crawling, PIA hasn’t been coasting.
2018-12-22 17:00 | |
|
|
Last night, we got word of yet another Facebook privacy scandal. What is that, Number 427 for the year? In this case, a report from The New York Times revealed the social media company gave an extreme amount of access to certain partner companies, over and above what users might have expected.
2018-12-19 22:41 | |
|
|
A recent paper report from KPMG, one of the Big Four auditing firms, says this about the cryptoassets industry: “Cryptoassets have potential. But for them to realize this potential, institutionalization is needed.
2018-12-17 20:23 | |
|
|
South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.
2018-12-4 21:41 | |
|
|
Christie’s Auctioneers, a major auction house, has made history by using blockchain technology to sell art amounting to $317. 8 million. The record-breaking auction was held yesterday, seeing a total of 42 masterpieces being sold with everything being recorded on a private implementation of the Ethereum blockchain developed by Artory.
2018-11-16 01:50 | |
|
|
As Bitcoin approaches its 10th anniversary, its community, old and new, has begun taking stock of how a decade has come to alter or define the cryptocurrency — and what Bitcoin has done to alter or define the decade.
2018-11-7 19:56 | |
|
|
Ernst & Young (EY), one of the ‘Big Four’ public service firms, has devised a solution that allows businesses to enjoy the full benefits of private transactions over a public blockchain.
2018-11-1 14:30 | |
|
|
On October 30, “Big Four” accounting firm EY announced a tool that it said would bring private transactions to ethereum – that’s the public blockchain, not a permissioned, enterprise version of the network.
2018-11-1 16:33 | |
|
|
Institutional investors are choosing over-the-counter (OTC) markets over standard exchanges to enter the bitcoin space, revealed Forbes. An OTC market executes trades via a private dealer network as opposed to a formal exchange in which counter parties expose their offers to the party in public.
2018-10-24 16:30 | |
|
|
If blockchain-based identity platform Civic is to go mainstream, then making it simple for as many businesses and consumers as possible to start using its app will be key.
2018-10-23 20:50 | |
|
|
Crypto guru Mike Novogratz views distributed ledger technology (DLT) as split between enterprise-facing private blockchains and open-source public blockchains. IBM is the undisputed leader in enterprise solutions with 65% of companies saying they would choose Big Blue to deploy the technology in their own business, per a Sept.
2018-10-18 18:34 | |
|
|
The Kingdom of Bahrain is an island nation of the Middle East. Home to around 1. 23 million people and a very forward thinking population. Interestingly, Bahrain has a very powerful political position as a result of its location, therefore, cryptocurrency adoption in Bahrain could turn out to have a very significant impact.
2018-10-14 23:00 | |
|
|
The French company Ledger design very popular Nano S cryptocurrency hardware wallets. Now, the CEO of the company, Eric Larcheveque has explained why every trader in the crypto space should be using hardware wallet no matter the size of their investment, big or small.
2018-10-12 13:30 | |
|
|
Today has been a bleak day for Bitcoin. The price looked like it was holding steady at the $6,500 mark but now it has dropped 5% which has dragged everything else down with it, including Ethereum, XRP, Cardano, Stellar and more.
2018-10-11 15:30 | |
|
|
Global professional services firm PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to boost trust in the cryptocurrency space and bring in more traders by advancing stablecoin technology.
2018-10-8 21:30 | |
|
|
Global professional services firm PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to boost trust in the cryptocurrency space and bring in more traders by advancing stablecoin technology.
2018-10-10 21:30 | |
|
|
Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
|
|
Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
|
|
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
|
|
This past week saw a flurry of reports and analyses released by various agencies and companies, speculating on the roles — past and present — of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.
2018-9-29 20:00 | |
|
|
A New Blockchain Hub in South Korea Boomstarter. Network team is back from a big roadshow in Asia which included South Korea and Hong Kong and featured private meetups with funds, blockchain influencers and crypto-community.
2018-9-26 16:15 | |
|
|
Bitcoin is in the news, and we’ve all seen the stories about early investors who’ve made millions and driven away in new lambos. So it’s only natural that people who haven’t invested already are wondering if they should.
2018-9-21 19:18 | |
|
|
A company based in Norwalk, Connecticut is helping small businesses deal with ransomware attacks by negotiating with cybercriminals to reduce ransom amounts and paying them in bitcoin, a Forbes report from September 17, 2018, showed.
2018-9-19 21:00 | |
|
|
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
|
|
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
|
|
The Polygon community has decided against a proposal to deploy $1. 3 billion in stablecoins from its Proof of Stake (PoS) bridge into yield-generating programs on Morpho, an Ethereum-based DeFi platform.
A recent Keyrock report highlighted that 90% of token unlocks exert negative price pressure, though the effects often take up to 30 days to materialize fully. Approximately $600 million of previously locked tokens are regularly circulated.
Justin Sun’s TRON purchased $30 million worth of World Liberty Financial tokens earlier this week, and the investment enabled President-elect Donald Trump and his sons, Eric, Don Jr. , and Barron, to get paid.
Coinbase will disable Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) trading pairs from its exchange and Prime platforms on Dec. 19, citing the token’s failure to meet its listing standards, according to a Nov. 19 announcement.
The US government has swapped its ANT tokens for more liquid Ethereum ahead of a planned crypto phaseout. Related Reading: Did YouTuber MrBeast Make $23 Million From Crypto Scams? Shocking Allegations Emerge The government-controlled crypto wallet that holds nearly $974,000 worth of digital assets has, for the first time in almost 24 months, been activated, […]
Inco Network and Circle Research introduced the Confidential ERC-20 Framework, an innovative solution aiming to bring compliant privacy to public blockchains The whitepaper of the new framework, published on Oct.
Bitcoin’s price has gained momentum over the past weeks and recently touched a high of more than $69,000, which is only 6% away from its all-time high. However, the high amounts of leverage behind the impressive performance raises concerns about its sustainability.