2018-9-18 01:18 |
A recent report highlighted the energy inefficiencies in proof-of-work blockchains, but was ultimately quite positive about blockchain technology's potential impact on the environment.
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Bitcoin is turning 10 years old soon – and a group of international artists are putting on a cryptocurrency art exhibition in France to celebrate its birthday: Bitcoin Art (r)Evolution. Creatives have been challenged to explore how Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies affect the artists’ relationship with their audience.
2018-9-18 16:46 | |
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the popular financial institution will now be in a prime position to embrace the blockchain technology and ultimately help in the campaign to foster wide-spread adoption of the technology as well as cryptocurrencies in the region.
2018-9-16 18:23 | |
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Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.
2018-9-4 21:43 | |
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In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels.
2018-8-30 22:18 | |
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Premined cryptocurrencies are tokens that don’t need to be mined from the blockchain. The concept is a little more complicated than this, but, ultimately for the purposes of this article that’s about as much as you need to know.
2018-8-29 13:30 | |
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Recently at the ChainXchange blockchain conference, Paul Krugman took center stage at a panel of Bitcoin skeptics and supporters including Ripple Chief Market Strategist Cory Johnson and market research guru Thomas Lee.
2018-8-16 16:00 | |
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At the recent Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco, Rick Lewis and Dave Hollerith from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network interviewed a host of different personalities in the blockchain space about digital privacy.
2018-8-15 22:02 | |
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At the recent Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco, Rick Lewis and Dave Hollerith from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network interviewed a host of different personalities in the blockchain space about digital privacy.
2018-8-16 22:02 | |
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This month, we celebrate Ethereum’s third birthday and reflect upon the many milestones that have occured in the industry since the dawn of the original smart contract blockchain.
2018-8-15 21:53 | |
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Launched in 2009, the social networking app Foursquare was hailed as providing a cutting-edge approach for users to share their location with friends. Called a “check-in,” people would reveal their location through their mobile device by selecting the venue they were frequenting at that time.
2018-8-15 17:34 | |
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Over the past decade, the term “decentralization” has gone from relative obscurity to immense popularity. New technological endeavors, especially those that claim to have anything to do with blockchain technology, usually advertise decentralization as a critical selling point.
2018-8-10 12:30 | |
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has revealed a “rough, pre-alpha” demo version of DEX, its own decentralized exchange which could ultimately take over from its current platform. ‘A Big Step’ Introducing a video walkthrough of the exchange, CEO Changpeng Zhao said developers were “very aggressively” on getting a usable product to market.
2018-8-9 18:00 | |
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According to Forrester Research, a US-based market research firm, about 90 percent of currently active U. S. companies’ blockchain initiatives will ultimately be abandoned. The firm predicts that most blockchain-powered projects initiated by American companies will be put on hold in 2018.
2018-8-6 00:59 | |
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The crypto industry has received another boost with the entry of financial services giant Northern Trust in a quiet but significant move. The firm, which manages over $10.
2018-8-3 23:41 | |
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Trustroot and MedChain partnered to create a health record platform. The former platform is a blockchain security protocol, the latter an electronic health platform. The partnership is aimed to protect patient records by preventing fraud, phishing attacks, and cyber threats.
2018-7-28 19:18 | |
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The UK Overseas Territory of Gibraltar launched its Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) July 23, a press release confirmed, opening up cryptocurrency trading. The GBX was first announced by the Gibraltar Stock Exchange at BlockShow Asia conference in November 2017 GBX, which will ultimately function as a multifaceted ICO and trading ecosystem, currently offers three crypto-to-fiat
2018-7-24 19:17 | |
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Encrypted email provider Protonmail is looking into developing on the blockchain, as indicated by a job posting on the site seeking a blockchain developer: Looking forward, we have some exciting blockchain-related ventures underway.
2018-7-24 04:41 | |
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Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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CoinMirror, a Berlin-based startup, is launching the public beta of its platform for ICO investments on the Ethereum mainnet today, July 18, 2018. The platform seeks to provide investment opportunities to investors regardless of available capital.
2018-7-18 18:41 | |
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Sports collectibles have always had a large market, even outside of cryptocurrency. Now, Major League Baseball (MLB) is preparing for an overhaul of the traditional market. The sports league announced that it has tied up with blockchain gaming company Lucid Sight.
2018-7-16 09:00 | |
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When it comes to cryptocurrency, it seems that there are always two sides of the (bit)coin. On the negative side, there’s everything that can go wrong.
2018-7-14 19:30 | |
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Coinbase continues to grow with their new high-end investment product Coinbase Custody, while Binance had to run a system update following some issues with its Syscoin wallet API.
2018-7-7 23:19 | |
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The EU’s Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies released a report entitled “Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead.
2018-7-3 23:28 | |
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Technologist and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak played contrarian at the NEX technology conference in late June, comparing the hype around blockchain to the fervor he witnessed just before the implosion of the dot-com bubble.
2018-6-29 20:29 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Luxxeum Blockchain Solutions is a multidimensional innovation by a group of blockchain enthusiasts, businessmen and experts drawn from various fields to tackle the economic and financial problems of regions and communities by positively affecting one person, organization or business at a time.
2018-6-29 12:07 | |
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Generally, when we see reports of cryptocurrency and blockchain crime, we see reports of either hackers or ICO based scams. I suppose these methods are the most common for stealing crypto assets because ultimately, they are the most covert.
2018-6-22 11:30 | |
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Bitfury, a mining and blockchain software service company, wants to push blockchain development for traditional enterprise and business, and announced that it is introducing Java binding for its blockchain service, Exonum.
2018-6-20 12:30 | |
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IBM iX – Big Blue’s digital strategy arm – and ad software provider Mediaocean are teaming up to form a blockchain consortium aimed to solve some of the biggest issues in the advertising world.
2018-6-20 22:23 | |
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Mining firm and blockchain software service company Bitfury wants to expedite blockchain development for traditional enterprise and business. Working toward this goal, the company announced today that it’s introducing Java binding for its blockchain service, Exonum.
2018-6-20 20:13 | |
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Perhaps we should re-name June, TRON month? With the TRON MainNet launch now in action and the eventual migration of TRON’s TRX token from the ERC-20 format, it has been a promising month for TRON as both a currency and a growing blockchain project.
2018-6-18 12:30 | |
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Blockchain is everywhere these days. From CryptoKitties to the company formerly known as Long Island Iced Tea, blockchain has become one of the most talked-about technologies since the advent of the internet.
2018-6-17 12:50 | |
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]In a fresh new twist, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has admitted to issuing its ban on cryptocurrency-related accounts spontaneously, without taking time to study and understand how cryptocurrencies work.
2018-6-13 23:40 | |
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With crypto scams running rampant across the globe, Human Trust Protocol, aka Hub, is joining hands with Civic, a blockchain identification service provider, to verify users via know-your-client (KYC) data gathered from the Civic secure identity platform (SIP).
2018-6-13 00:23 | |
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A return to proof of work mining, a blockchain built to be fork resistant, and the chance to develop in multiple programming languages. Lessons from history — and an eye to the future.
Authors Don Tapscott and Ricardo Viana Vargas of the Harvard Business Review think blockchain technology can disrupt the construction industry.
South African startup Wala aimed to provide unbanked citizens of African nations with a crypto-centric payments alternative, but conflicting stories highlight the service's struggles leading up to its demise in February of this year.
Researchers for the IOTA Foundation have released details of their plan to combine proof-of-work algorithms with proof-of-stake algorithms to improve the IOTA network's ability to avoid congestion and tackle spam attacks.
As part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded study, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory looked at the conversations being had about bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero on reddit; how quickly those discussions grew; and how effective posts and comments were for each cryptocurrency.
With development starting back in early 2018, the blockchain network built by State Farm and USAA on JPMorgan's private version of Ethereum will allow the two companies to pay each other's insurance claims by 2020.
Partnering with blockchain firm The White Company, Representative Swalwell will accept six different cryptocurrency donations to support his presidential run, including bitcoin, Ether, bitcoin cash, stellar, bitcoin SV, and The White Company's native token.