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Barclay Blockchain Coding Hackaton ‘DerivHack’ Aims to Revamp Derivatives Market

One of the UK's banking giants, Barclays, is pitting blockchain startup companies against one another this year. But the way it sounds is very different to what it actually means, as Barclays is asking the respective teams to help revamp the global derivatives market at a hackathon next month. Taking place in both New York […] дальше »

2018-8-10 00:44


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US DEA ‘Actually Wants’ Criminals to Keep Using Bitcoin

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent has told mainstream press she “wants” criminals to use cryptocurrencies because it makes them easier to track. ‘I Want Them To Keep Using Them’ Speaking to Bloomberg August 7, Lilita Infante, who takes part in the agency’s 10-person Cyber Investigative Task Force, said investigators had “a lot of tools” to monitor criminal activity thanks to Blockchain. дальше »

2018-8-9 20:00


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What A Blockchain Actually Is, Written In Blockchain

Every few weeks I have an experience like the following. I’m sitting at at a bar or a barbecue somewhere, quietly sipping on a drink, and someone asks me about crypto. How does a blockchain work? What’s the story with mining? Why are there 1700+ different currencies? How can I trust money that requires a […] The post What A Blockchain Actually Is, Written In Blockchain appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-8-7 16:31


Ripple’s XRP Community Confusion with the Firm Actually Working for the Good

The San Francisco based blockchain tech related giant  – Ripple Labs has initiated, this year, a process of differentiation from its blockchain token XRP. This comes due the confusion by the crypto-verse between the two as in many headlines, google searches, article and so on, enthusiasts speak of the two in the same manner as […] The post Ripple’s XRP Community Confusion with the Firm Actually Working for the Good appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-8-3 00:39


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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


Canadian Coinsquare Launch A Centralized Cryptocurrency Exchange In Japan.

Canadian Coinsquare, a trading system extremely prominent with cryptocurrency fanatics throughout the North American nation, seems completely familiar with exactly what safety measures a digital properties company needs to take while operating in Japan due to a current crack-down by its monetary controlling body on the heels of the headline-making Coincheck burglary. дальше »

2018-7-13 16:45


Exchange Integration Error Was True Cause of Tether Code ‘Flaw’

According the latest statements from both blockchain security firm Slow Mist and Tether, the issue is actually down to an exchange integration flaw. On Thursday, Slow Mist claimed in a WeChat post that when an exchange is conducting a transaction with USDT, the exchange needs to verify that the transactions details are “true. ” If this is not дальше »

2018-6-29 20:53


Blockchain Personality Kris Bennett On the Potential of the Technology, Why A Solid Market Crash Can Actually Be Good, And More

Kris Bennett, aka the Blockchain Beard Guy, is a decentralized architect, blockchain trainer with the Blockchain Training Alliance, industry… The post Blockchain Personality Kris Bennett On the Potential of the Technology, Why A Solid Market Crash Can Actually Be Good, And More appeared first on Invest In Blockchain. дальше »

2018-6-25 08:29


Why the

A confusing 18 zero hashtag posted on June 19th provokes lots of debate within the crypto community. Members of the cryptocurrency community lost their minds when seeing this confusing code. The hashtag actually represents a cryptographic code known as a hash produced each time new transactions are validated and written onto the bitcoin blockchain. дальше »

2018-6-22 17:06


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Dapps “Could Actually be Revolutionary” Says President of Germany’s Financial Regulator

Felix Hufeld, a Harvard graduate who started his career as a lawyer then switched into banking to end up as president of Germany’s FSA (BaFin), has compared blockchain technology to... The post Dapps “Could Actually be Revolutionary” Says President of Germany’s Financial Regulator appeared first on Trustnodes. дальше »

2018-6-12 16:20