2019-12-28 14:33 |
People who claim “nothing has happened yet,” or that digital assets and blockchains only have limited use cases, only see patches of the quilt.
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Blockchains faced fierce competition in 2019, with only a handful of altcoins remaining in good condition. Now, a new proposal has been made, a hypothetical merger of Dash and Bitcoin Cash. Both Bitcoin Cash and DASH Brands Cause Resentment Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Dash (DASH) were bandied about as two chains that could merge, producing a “Bitcoin Dash” brand.
2019-12-28 21:15 | |
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The scalability trilemma, coined by Ethereum's creator Vitalik Buterin, stated that a blockchain can "only at most have two" of the three aspects: decentralization, security, and scalability. With ProThe post Ethereum's Buterin: Sharding addresses centralization concerns for PoS blockchains appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-21 21:32 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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While many people can only imagine what Bitcoin is, Blockchain is only part of what makes cryptocurrencies what they are, and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been urged to show interest in it.
2019-10-26 00:46 | |
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Ethereum isn’t the only stablecoin game in town. The number of Ethereum-based stablecoin projects is declining as teams use other platforms, forks, 3.0 blockchains and proprietary blockchains for building price-stable currencies instead
2019-10-13 00:24 | |
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Unlike most blockchains, the XRP network displays transactions that have only been paid in part. Unfortunately for crypto exchange Beaxy, traders exploited this feature to pay a small price for large amounts of XRP, forcing the exchange to roll back a number of trades made at the time.
2019-8-13 19:14 | |
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Every project active in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry will be scrutinized sooner or later. In the case of Tether, there has been a fair amount of scrutiny at virtually every turn. Especially now that everyone’s favorite – or most-hated – stablecoin is migrating to even more blockchains, significant concerns have arisen.
2019-8-3 03:30 | |
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First scalable decentralized social security network Project Introduction Asure Network is a layer 2 scaling network that enables fast, easy and secure transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized smart contract.
2019-7-18 11:03 | |
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Ethereum ran into scalability difficulties, processing only 15 transactions per second [TPS]. Despite the much-hyped 2. 0 version, which was all set to roll out next year, Vitalik Buterin had planned on abandoning its native blockchain for a short period and instead, deploy other blockchains.
2019-7-17 01:00 | |
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Plasma is a scaling solution that can be used with various blockchains. It is commonly associated with Ethereum, but Plasma is compatible with other platforms as well. Essentially, it can help a blockchain perform computations more efficiently.
2019-7-13 20:16 | |
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Blockchains CEO Jeffrey Berns hopes the bank will fund not only his vision, but the blockchain industry's.
2019-7-2 22:30 | |
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Facebook’s “The Libra Blockchain” whitepaper has created quite a frenzy, not only in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, but also with U. S. government officials. Some people claim that Libra is not a blockchain, while others claim that it is going to kill Ripple, XRP and other similar blockchains.
2019-6-19 12:30 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Blockchains are not only about cryptocurrencies, despite Bitcoin being the instigator fo the new technology. More and more, blockchain is being looked at as a viable, and in some instances, a superior method to do a wide variety of tasks in a more efficient manner.
2019-5-18 16:16 | |
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The Neutro Protocol solves the trilemma of scalability, security and decentralization, allows for anonymous transactions and eradicates the need for centralized oracles. Neutro users can create a decentralized version of almost any real-world market that exists now only in a centralized system that we all use currently.
2019-5-15 14:13 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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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 | |
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By CCN: In four-to-six weeks, a blockchain product developed by Ernst & Young (EY), one of the “big four” professional services organizations, will be made public domain (open source). Privacy and Public Blockchains: A Tall Order From Large Enterprise Dubbed “EY Ops Chain Public Edition,” the technology uses zero-knowledge proofs to give permissions to transaction information similar to Monero and other privacy coins.
2019-4-17 19:33 | |
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The ethereum price has ballooned by nearly one-third so far in April, but without bitcoin’s bullish tailwind, ETH might be stuck in a rut. According to Dapp. com, the second-largest cryptocurrency’s network suffered defections in Q1 2019 as users fled the network for rival platforms.
2019-4-10 22:24 | |
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Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.
2019-4-9 23:28 | |
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The China-based crypto exchange giant Binance has announced that it will launch Binance Singapore this month, a fiat-to-crypto exchange with support for the Singaporean Dollar (SGD).
2019-4-4 20:54 | |
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The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.
2019-3-29 16:26 | |
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In a free and unregulated market, it is only natural that competition will emerge, and proponents of free markets believe that this competition helps to propel platforms forward, while simultaneously providing investors with multiple investment options to choose from.
2019-3-29 01:00 | |
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AhrvoDEEX is a peer-to-peer decentralized equity exchange that enables profitable trading by using multifactor ranking systems and deep learning algorithms that create smart equity scores and price targets to streamline the decision-making process.
2019-3-28 21:33 | |
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Wanchain, an Ethereum fork focused on cross-chain integration, announced support for EOS recently. The short story here is that, in the near future, decentralized exchanges facilitating trades between EOS, Ethereum, and Bitcoin – which is increasing its token functionality via Blockstream’s Liquid product.
2019-3-19 01:40 | |
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MinimalWin is an alternative platform for sales, which is based on the principle of lottery and auction. Every object put on sale on the platform will be brought into play in case of successful holding of the lot, only one winner will be designated.
2019-3-16 20:33 | |
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We are excited to welcome Cosmos to the Poloniex family and to be the only exchange to allow Cosmos ICO participants to preview and claim their Atoms’ balance. Cosmos aims to create a network of blockchains all capable of interacting with one another through a consensus engine called Tendermint Core.
2019-3-14 19:03 | |
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Fantasy fans may remember Arwen, the character from the “Lord of the Rings” who guides the main characters through a series of dangerous situations. The Arwen protocol intends to do the same, only for cryptocurrency trading.
2019-3-4 20:14 | |
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Development on $3. 3 billion cryptocurrency EOS has slowed to an absolute crawl, and it’s not the only smart contract platform where GitHub commits have plunged in recent months. Major Crypto Blockchains See Reduced Commits According to data from Longhash, development on EOS, Ethereum, and Tron has drastically slowed over the past three months.
2019-3-2 02:28 | |
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JPMorgan’s controversial blockchain token might not be a real cryptocurrency, but researchers say it could help spark concrete crypto adoption. Binance Argues JPMorgan’s Dubious Crypto Project Will Spur Real Adoption In a new article from Binance Research, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges deems JPM Coin a “stepping stone” toward mass adoption.
2019-3-2 01:32 | |
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Transaction fees make the bitcoin blockchain go round. The miners are compensated for their efforts, not only through inflationary block rewards, but also through fees charged to users for adding their transaction to blocks.
2019-2-14 17:41 | |
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The invention of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology promised to bring a lot of changes in the world's financial market. At first, cryptos were only used for trading, with the idea of someday reaching mainstream usage.
2019-2-12 21:57 | |
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On December 4, 2018, our CEO, David Bailey, made an exciting announcement: Bitcoin Magazine would be returning to its roots and shifting its focus to Bitcoin-related stories only.
2019-1-3 07:24 | |
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ETH-Based Startup Parity Has Just Launched A DIY Blockchain Tool Parity Technologies has launched a new tool today called Substrate. According to the official announcement, the tool will let users create their own customized blockchains for decentralized apps.
2018-12-21 22:52 | |
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Last week, it was reported that a Bitcoin whale had moved thousands of bitcoin into different wallet addresses. Between December 1 to December 6, 2018, the whale split 856,000 bitcoin between 107 wallets, sending an equal 8,000 BTC into each wallet.
2018-12-12 23:53 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges are catching up to their traditional counterparts, a new study suggests. According to a report released by global professional services company Accenture, revenue from cryptocurrency exchanges is now matching that of traditional exchanges.
2018-11-29 20:08 | |
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When cryptocurrencies broke into the financial world, they were identical to their underlying technology, Blockchain and were used reciprocally. Blockchain soon evolved from being just Cryptocurrency’s sidekick into a whole new multi-purpose technology.
2018-11-28 20:23 | |
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DappRadar is an online platform that provides information and insights on all the existing Decentralized Applications on popular blockchains. Up until now, DappRadar had listed DApps on the Ethereum (ETH) and EOS networks only.
2018-11-23 13:49 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-20 04:39 | |
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CoinSpeaker Kik Messenger Giant Chooses Stellar Over Ethereum for Its Kin Token Launch After working for some months on two blockchains simultaneously, Kik has taken a decision to stop building on Ethereum and to work with Stellar only.
2018-11-15 13:45 | |
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The war for bitcoin cash is only beginning.
2018-11-15 08:00 | |
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The main blockchain research body of the European Commission is positive the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and blockchain can co-exist in harmony – but things will ultimately boil down to specific use cases and applications.
2018-11-14 18:49 | |
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With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts. Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain.
2018-10-30 21:45 | |
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Twisted speculations have swirled for months as to the moves and motives of a Nevada-based blockchain-focused company named Blockchains LLC. The latest one being an imminent announcement of a pilot Smart City Project in collaboration with Elon Musk, inside the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, the largest industrial Park in the U.
2018-10-26 20:29 | |
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Despite the inherent security advantages provided by blockchain governance systems, no protection technology is unbreakable. To prove this, a college freshman and security researcher by the online handle of “geocold51” is breaking through blockchain-based security with 51% attacks, reports CoinDesk.
2018-10-25 00:25 | |
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Earlier in October, an ethical hacker who goes by the handle GeoCold on Twitter announced the live-streaming of a 51% attack on the alt coin Einsteinium. The plan was to gain control of the network and expose vulnerabilities that exist in conventional proof-of-work blockchains which allow for double-spending attacks.
2018-10-23 13:00 | |
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In 2009, Bitcoin was ushered in as an alternative to fiat currency, promising to revolutionize the future of peer-to-peer spending. Since then, it has spawned scores of other cryptocurrencies with various value propositions and potential.
2018-10-22 17:11 | |
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Coming in at number 6 as one of the biggest cryptocurrencies in the world is Stellar. Adoption is increasing and the crypto is currently in the green after yesterday’s market crash. A US-based qualified custodian, Prime Trust recently announced that they will support Stellar while it is being actively used as the network of choice to build platforms on due to quick speeds and being trustworthy.
2018-10-12 21:30 | |
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"The bandit needs to be wiped out before the regular army gets in," says Flex Yang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, speaking of China's uncertain crypto regulations.
"The bandit needs to be wiped out before the regular army gets in," says Flex Yang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, speaking of China's uncertain crypto regulations.
Store of value was the most viable and desirable use case across crypto in 2019 and offers a basis to increase adoption in the second decade of crypto, says Ryan Zurrer of Dialectic.
The arc of crypto bends toward regulation, so we might as well be prepared, says Gemini's risk chief and the president of the Virtual Commodities Association, Yusuf Hussain.
Libra was the seminal crypto event of 2019, says management consultant Richie Hecker. But, in its current form, it is doomed to fail.
Benjamin Noys found a link between fringe, online philosophies and digital-native currencies. Here he explains "accelerationism."
Congress isn't likely to pass crypto-favorable legislation in 2020. In the meantime, we have to hope for action from the SEC.