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In once week, Bitcoin has jumped up 20% and is now above $8000

The last time bitcoin traded above that key level was May 23. The digital currency is up more than 20 percent in the past week, mostly buoyed by reports of institutional investor interest. Last week, BlackRock confirmed it assembled a working group to look into cryptocurrencies and its underlying technology, blockchain. Speculation that a bitcoin дальше »

2018-7-24 19:44


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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


Bitcoin Bubbles – This is not our first rodeo – Bitcoin USD … – Looking for alpha

Data Source: blockchain.com On June 10, 2011, the price of a single bitcoin was $35, an incredible high at the time. The Bitcoin bubble of 2011 – analyzing the Bitcoin network’s response Confirmed transactions and Bitcoin price in 2011 During that time, it’s interesting to look at the relationship between the number of daily transactions дальше »

2018-7-21 10:18


JP Morgan Chase Patents an ICO-Like System for Tokenized Stock Trading

JP Morgan Chase, a major investment bank and financial services provider, is turning to blockchain technology once again. A patent describing their new blockchain application was made public today. This time, the firm has plans to handle IPOs in much same the way that ICOs currently operate. IPOs, or initial public offerings, are events in […] дальше »

2018-7-21 04:25


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Wikipedia bubbles – this is not our first rode – searching for alpha

Data Source: blockchain.com On June 10, 2011, the price of a single bitcoin was $35, an incredible high at the time. The Bitcoin bubble of 2011 – analyzing the Bitcoin network’s response Confirmed transactions and Bitcoin price in 2011 During that time, it’s interesting to look at the relationship between the number of daily transactions дальше »

2018-7-20 20:23


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Talk of Bitcoin ‘Moon’ Again on the Cards As Prices Beat $7k: Expert Panel Discusses Potential for BTC As ‘Digital Gold’

On Thursday night, during a panel discussion on CNBC’s Future’s Now, the experts, including Gabor Gurbacs of VanEck/MVIS, were optimistic on Bitcoin’s ability to attract serious “de-risk” investment in the near future as prices top $7,000 for the first time in a while. дальше »

2018-7-20 16:42


DLT for Different Spheres Will Be Discussed in Stockholm

On September 11, the international company Smile-Expo will conduct a large crypto event Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Stockholm for the second time. In the framework of the conference, experts will meet in the capital of Sweden to talk about the decentralized technology usage in various sectors. What is Waiting for the Guests? The conference will […] дальше »

2018-7-20 02:09


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Can SpaceBit’s Blockchain Decentralize Space Exploration?

Until recently, it was only nations that had the resources for space exploration. In 1973 private space missions were simply unthinkable. Who would bankroll the $25.4bn it cost the United States to launch the Apollo missions? The richest American at the time was thought to be Howard Hughes (certainly a man with the right ethos), […] The post Can SpaceBit’s Blockchain Decentralize Space Exploration? appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-7-19 18:06


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Ethereum’s Average Transaction Fees Temporarily Surpassed Bitcoin’s for First Time Ever

For the first time in their inception, Ethereum’s average transaction fees outstripped Bitcoin’s. Ethereum however, has since resumed its place as the more economical blockchain. As reported in a tweet by @JZay, Coin Metrics data revealed the momentary overtaking occurred July 1, 2018: Average transaction fees for Ethereum have surpassed Bitcoin for the first time […] The post Ethereum’s Average Transaction Fees Temporarily Surpassed Bitcoin’s for First Time Ever appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2018-7-19 20:00


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Ethereum’s Average Transaction Fees Temporarily Suprassed Bitcoin’s for First Time Ever

For the first time in their inception, Ethereum’s average transaction fees outstripped Bitcoin’s. Ethereum however, has since resumed its place as the more economical blockchain. As reported in a tweet by @JZay, Coin Metrics data revealed the momentary overtaking occurred July 1, 2018: Average transaction fees for Ethereum have surpassed Bitcoin for the first time […] The post Ethereum’s Average Transaction Fees Temporarily Suprassed Bitcoin’s for First Time Ever appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2018-7-18 20:00


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Blockchain Startup Apollon Begins Token Crowdsale July 16th for a Pan-Entertainment Ecosystem

The Apollon Blockchain project is a visionary means to develop a commercial-level integrated infrastructure to support related businesses applications. Presently, the costs of implementing a blockchain into a business model are time and resource intensive with the requirements of [G1] knowledgeable staff to maintain and operate the system as well as expensive hardware upgrades; it’s […] The post Blockchain Startup Apollon Begins Token Crowdsale July 16th for a Pan-Entertainment Ecosystem appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-17 14:59