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Influx of Positive Developments for Coinbase is Bullish for Crypto

One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform has had a stellar week, as positive news floods in regarding the platform’s expansive development plans. Coinbase’s Custody Service Secures The Business Of A $20 Billion Hedge Fund Institutional investment seems to be all the rage in cryptocurrency circles, with many citing this form of interest and investment. дальше »

2018-7-24 12:00


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Nanjing Invests $1.5B in Public Blockchain Projects and Token Economy

The capital city of Jiangsu province, Nanjing has launched a $1.5 billion blockchain investment fund to boost the token economy and public blockchain projects in China. Despite its outlawing of many aspects of the cryptocurrency industry, blockchain technology has finally received the support of the government. Consequently, almost 41 percent of all Chinese startups that дальше »

2018-7-24 00:42


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Ross Ulbricht’s Petition Gains Traction From Industry Leaders After Cries For His Release

Ross Ulbricht, who founded the anonymous Silk Road trading site, is currently serving two life sentences in prison for his affiliation with the site, locked away from the eyes of the world. However, many in the cryptocurrency community still think of him as the one who started it all, the one who brought Bitcoin to […] The post Ross Ulbricht’s Petition Gains Traction From Industry Leaders After Cries For His Release appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-23 04:54


Monero [XMR] mining malware Coinhive takes another victim, League of Legends infected

Players of the popular internet game, League of Legends have fallen prey to a malicious software that programs their system to involuntarily mine Monero [XMR]. A Reddit user named Lestergonzaga discovered this through the Garena server, where many players all around the world have been mining Monero without their knowledge. The mining process took place […] дальше »

2018-7-22 02:28


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Notes on Blockchain Governance

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


KoinEx Loop Launches In India As LocalBitcoins Competitor Despite Crypto Ban

India is one of the many countries in the world that has placed a stringent ban on cryptocurrency trading, though the market may soon take a turn. Regulations with the Indian Reserve Bank have not changed at all, but that has not stopped KoinEx from bringing forth competition for the LocalBitcoins platform. This innovative project […] дальше »

2018-7-21 16:53


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Island of Soundness: Steady Coins Keep Drawing in Big-League Investors

As per its name, stable coins are designed to keep their price fixed, making them immune to manipulation trading. On a smaller scale, stable coins allow casual investors to trade seamlessly, swiftly transferring money between crypto exchanges and bypassing conventional, time-consuming bank wire transfers — many cryptocurrency exchanges do not support fiat at all, making дальше »

2018-7-20 17:11


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Justin Sun Bids to Become Tron Super Representative; Reddit All Fired Up for His Election

Tron, China’s very own cryptocurrency, has been shrouded in an air of mystery. Called a scam by some and a genuine token by others, there is no doubt that the project is unique in many ways. Highlighting one of Tron’s most distinctive characteristics — the Super Representative program — founder Justin Sun has announced his […] Justin Sun Bids to Become Tron Super Representative; Reddit All Fired Up for His Election was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. дальше »

2018-7-19 19:34


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Stronghold CEO gives guidance to millennials: ‘Do Something More Productive than Invest in Digital Currencies’

The CEO and founder of the Citadel hedge fund still hasn’t changed his position and insists that Bitcoin has many of the elements of the tulip bulb mania. In November 2017, Ken Griffin compared all this hype around Bitcoin with the tulip bulb mania that was observed hundreds of years ago in Holland. He considered дальше »

2018-7-19 18:09


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Lots Of New Features Coming For UnicornGo!

There are not many games based on blockchain and cryptocurrencies that manage to become mobile, but UnicornGo is about to succeed in this. In fact, there is just few days left to the opening of the mobile version, which offers an extremely simple and intuitive interface in which the user unicorns and those on the market are well highlighted, with all their graphic features and abilities. дальше »

2018-7-18 16:30


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Promoted: The Future of Online Shopping Is Powered by Spl.yt — A Decentralized E-Commerce Protocol

As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba. дальше »

2018-7-16 19:45


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16