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Netcoins Lists Ripple’s XRP Coin Allowing 21,000 Locations to Accept Payments

After a difficult week in the virtual currency world, XRP had arranged some important partnerships to keep increasing its presence in the market. On August 13, 2018 Mark Binss, CEO of Netcoins, an important Virtual Bitcoin ATM provider for retail stores, informed that they listed XRP on their trading platform. That means that individuals from […] дальше »

2018-8-14 01:13


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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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‘We’re In It For The Long Haul’ — CheapAir CEO on Dropping Coinbase [Interview]

Bitcoinist caught up with CheapAir CEO Jeff Klee to find out why exactly his company just switched from Coinbase to BTCPay Server. CheapAir. com has decided to double down in its support of Bitcoin at a time when many retailers, including Expedia, have made the difficult decision to drop Bitcoin payments due to problems with merchant processors like Coinbase and BitPay. дальше »

2018-7-18 19:00


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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware

One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers. дальше »

2018-7-18 23:18


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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


TxStreet.com Bitcoin Transaction Visualizer Website Offers BTC & BCH Insight Tool

Although Bitcoin has been around for nearly five years, many crypto investors still do not seem to have a complete picture as to how its technology works. With so many specs to consider, including the likes of blocks, transactions, DLT, blockchain and so on, it makes understanding the concept far more difficult. This is where […] дальше »

2018-7-16 10:24


New York State Prepares to Welcome Bitcoin Miners With Cheaper Electricity Rates

The state of New York doesn’t have the best of reputations when it comes to cryptocurrency. Its BitLicense requirement has made operating a crypto business very expensive and difficult. In an effort to turn things around, state regulators are now aiming to attract Bitcoin and altcoin miners. New York and Bitcoin Mining On paper, there […] дальше »

2018-7-14 21:00


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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