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Portal Network Releases Bitcoin Cash Name Service (BCNS) for YourName.BCH Addresses
Portal Network Announces Bitcoin Cash Name Service Portal Network has announced the launch of its new platform, Bitcoin Cash Name Service (BCNS), that turns a long alphanumeric bitcoin cash (BCH) address into a human-readable name. дальше »
2018-10-2 01:24 | |
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Blockchain’s Report Examines Benefits (and Failures) of Today’s Stablecoins
Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U. дальше »
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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AT&T Dives Into Blockchain Solutions With Microsoft Azure, IBM Blockchain
Internet and phone giant AT&T has designed a set of blockchain solutions compatible with both IBM and Microsoft technology to help customers reduce risks and costs and solve other complex business problems. дальше »
2018-9-28 00:04 | |
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Novice, Intermediate or Expert? A Quiz to Test Your Bitcoin Knowledge
Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape. дальше »
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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Cryptocurrency That Works Without Internet, mCoin Launches In Africa
London-based ONEm Communications has announced the launch of its mCoin program across Africa. Designed to be a hybrid currency, mCoin is a digital currency that can be transferred over text or through the smartphone app. дальше »
2018-9-25 21:26 | |
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Battle of the Privacycoins: Verge Offers Little Privacy and Nothing Unique
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
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Berkeley Professor Questions Stablecoin Viability in Unflattering Op-Ed
University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account. дальше »
2018-9-13 18:07 | |
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DevCon 4 Will Set the Stage for Ethereum’s Next Milestone: Constantinople
Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer. дальше »
2018-9-11 18:15 | |
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Gemini and Paxos Both Launch Stablecoins on Ethereum Blockchain
Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD). дальше »
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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The Anatomy of Anonymity: How Dandelion Could Make Bitcoin More Private
Many people know bitcoin as an anonymous digital currency, one whose privacy features prime it for concealed payments in sketchy recesses of the internet’s dark web. дальше »
2018-8-29 17:33 | |
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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”). дальше »
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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Coinbase Seeks Patent for Security-Enhanced Bitcoin Payment System
U. S. -based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new Bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer. The new platform will provide an added layer of security for users’ keys and allow them to make Bitcoin payments directly from their digital wallets. дальше »
2018-8-18 00:52 | |
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PR: Token Creation Now Available on Bitcoin Cash via BITBOX – Bitmain Wormhole Partnership
Bitcoin. com launches a powerful developer framework for token creation on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, adding a significant rival to Ethereum, just days after Bitmain announced their Wormhole protocol. дальше »
2018-8-17 12:30 | |
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Meet Wormhole: The Platform for Bitcoin Cash’s First ICOs
Watch out, Vitalik. There’s a new player in the crowd sale game, and it might give Ethereum a run for its digital money. Bitcoin Cash developers have recently announced Wormhole, a second layer that will allow transactions of asset tokens and crowd sales on the fourth-most valuable blockchain. дальше »
2018-8-15 21:22 | |
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New Transport Layer bloXroute Promises to Solve Bitcoin’s Biggest Problem
bloXroute Labs and a team of Northwestern University students believe Bitcoin’s biggest problem, scalability, can be solved without affecting its chief virtue — decentralization. Northwestern and bloXroute Labs Are Working to Solve Scalability Issue Critics have always identified the limited number of transactions that Bitcoin’s network can process as its most significant problem. дальше »
2018-8-15 12:00 | |
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You Can Now Get Paid (a Little) for Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network
Lightning nodes are making money – albeit not much – displaying the potential for a growing fee market on the layer two tech. дальше »
2018-8-14 07:00 | |
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You Can Now Get Paid (A Little) For Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network
Lightning nodes are making money – albeit not much – displaying the potential for a growing fee market on the layer two tech. дальше »
2018-8-14 07:00 | |
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ConsenSys Ventures Partner Discusses Google’s Push Into Blockchain and Why She Prefers Ethereum over Bitcoin
Kavita Gupta, a founding and managing partner at Consensys Ventures, the venture capital arm of ConsenSys, a blockchain venture production studio, recently discussed in an interview with Bloomberg Market Google’s recent push into the blockchain industry. дальше »
2018-8-3 18:23 | |
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Wormhole Project Launches — $1.2M Worth of BCH Burned So Far
Last week, news. Bitcoin. com reported on the Wormhole announcement of a tokenization and smart contract platform project for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. The Wormhole protocol was initiated by the firm Bitmain Technologies, and the codebase is a fork from the Omni Layer protocol. дальше »
2018-8-1 20:50 | |
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ConsenSys Ventures Partner Discusses Google’s Push Into Blockchain and Why She Prefers Ethereum over Bitcoin
Kavita Gupta, a founding and managing partner at Consensys Ventures, the venture capital arm of ConsenSys, a blockchain venture production studio, recently discussed in an interview with Bloomberg Market Google’s recent push into the blockchain industry. дальше »
2018-8-1 19:36 | |
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Keoken Bitcoin Cash Smart Contract and Token Layer for BCH by Bitprim Launches
An Introduction to Keoken Bitcoin Cash Smart Layer Keoken has released a new platform that may broaden possibilities concerning token creation and decentralization. The platform implements a second-layer protocol allowing for “more advanced transaction types” through BCH. дальше »
2018-7-31 22:39 | |
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More Than a Ledger: How Blockchains Will Democratize Wealth
To Mark Pascall, co-founder of BlockchainLabs New Zealand (NZ) and president of the Blockchain Association NZ, the blockchain space is more than just a new technology layer, it’s a “fundamentally different way for organizations and societies to operate. дальше »
2018-7-31 21:27 | |
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Qtum Platform Now Available Through Amazon Web Services
Singapore-based Qtum has launched its decentralized application (DApp) development platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this launch, AWS users and developers will be able to develop and launch smart contracts using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), made up of Qtum Core, Solidity and Qmix web IDE. дальше »
2018-7-25 16:32 | |
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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 | |
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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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Op-Ed: Bitcoin’s Roots in the Great Law of Peace
Bitcoin, in its nine years of existence, has steadily gained traction, defining itself as a new digital gold. Early adopters of this technology have shown excitement for the potential of this inflation-proof sound money. дальше »
2018-7-14 00:48 | |
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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 | |
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Bitcoin Lightning Capacity Rises 68% in 1 Month, Progress in Scaling and Micropayments
The capacity of the Lightning Network, a micropayment channel that is compatible with Segregated Witness (SegWit) and a layer two scaling solution deployed on top of the Bitcoin protocol, has increased by 68 percent in the past 30 days. дальше »
2018-7-10 01:05 | |
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Monero Lead Supports Off-Chain Bitcoin Scaling ‘For Maximal Privacy’
Monero team member Riccardo Spagni reaffirmed his belief that a so-called ‘layer two’ scaling solution is needed for Bitcoin — stating it is “necessary” for capacity improvements and “maximal privacy. дальше »
2018-6-29 23:00 | |
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Inspection: Low reliability of payment in the lightning network successfully
A study conducted by Diar has revealed that “the reliability of successfully routing a payment on the Lightning Network is still quite low. ” Diar provides analysis of significant developments within the global digital currency industry. дальше »
2018-6-28 09:08 | |
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EOS Founder Wants to Scrap the Platform's Constitution, Start Anew
Daniel Larmier, the founder and technical architect of EOS, has confirmed that he wants to scrap the platform’s current constitution and build a new one. Speaking on the EOSIO Gov Telegram Channel, Larimer claimed he has doubts about the company’s current on-chain governance model and called the existing constitution “unwise. дальше »
2018-6-28 01:44 | |
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Mazzuma is Revolutionising Cryptocurrency Using AI and Blockchain to Enable Instant Payments
Bitcoin Press Release: The Mazzuma platform enables instantaneous transactions using an application layer transaction processing protocol which solves the scalability issues that has plagued a lot of cryptocurrencies. дальше »
2018-6-26 14:17 | |
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Looking Beyond the Lightning Network Hype: Every Day Users Experience Issues
Over the past few months, there’s been a lot of headlines and new wallets created for the notorious Lightning Network — The second layer payment protocol that’s being touted as a solution to the BTC chain’s scaling issues. дальше »
2018-6-26 23:40 | |
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