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$37 million of bitcoin revenue assist square accelerate increase in q2

Finance Square has reported its Q2 2018 financial results, revealing that $37 million of Bitcoin-related revenue helped the company accelerate its growth during the period. Also Read: Coinmarketcap Launches Professional API and Derivatives Markets $37 Million of Bitcoin Revenue Square Inc (NYSE:SQ), the developer of the mobile payment app Square Cash, has posted its financial дальше »

2018-8-3 21:56


Charlie Lee Compares Bitcoin to Gold, Litecoin to Silver and XRP to diamonds

It’s amazing to see a developer of another cryptocurrency commenting good concerning other cryptocurrencies instead of destroying their reputation to boost his/her own coin in the market. This is no other person but the founder of Litecoin Charlie Lee who has said that he feels less pressure after he had sold all his Litecoins and […] The post Charlie Lee Compares Bitcoin to Gold, Litecoin to Silver and XRP to diamonds appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-7-27 08:58


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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


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


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PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW”

Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining. дальше »

2018-7-14 01:04


Monero’s Riccardo Spagni Complains About BitPay’s ‘Broken’ Bitcoin Fee Payment Service

Riccardo Spagni Complains About BitPay’s Service Monero’s developer and crypto specialist Riccardo Spagni complained on Twitter about the service provided by BitPay. He informed that he paid 9 satoshi per byte to send a Bitcoin transaction, and that BitPay was saying that the transaction had a low Bitcoin fee. Every time a Bitcoin user wants […] дальше »

2018-7-10 20:42


BTC.com Developer Shares Perspective About Bitcoin and Crypto Markets

During an exclusive interview with Cryptovest, Toby, a developer from BTC.com, gave his opinion on Bitcoin’s market manipulation, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and more. BTC.com Talks About Crypto Market Some weeks ago, a Texas University professor presented a study in which he showed that Bitcoin price has been manipulated by Tether (USDT) during bear markets. […] дальше »

2018-7-6 00:23


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‘Miners Are Miners Again’: Bitcoin Core Dev Launches Alternative Mining Protocol

Bitcoin core developer Matt Corallo has launched a mining pool which aims to increase decentralization as Bitcoin mining becomes increasingly monopolized. Corallo: Miners ‘Have No Control’ Beginning June 25 but still with what Corallo describes as “vulnerabilities,” the pool uses BetterHash, a protocol which seeks to offer mining pool users the option to use their own block templates rather than those prescribed by pool owners. дальше »

2018-7-3 20:00


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One to Vote for Network’s Block Producers as ‘Community Member’ Eos Creator Block

EOS developer Block.one has announced it will begin to stake its share of tokens to vote for the network’s 21 ‘Block Producers’ (BPs), in an announcement posted yesterday, June 28. In the EOS ecosystem, EOS holders can stake their tokens to vote for so-called ‘Block Producers’ (BPs) – the equivalent of miners on the Bitcoin дальше »

2018-6-30 23:46