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Triple Threat: Ripple Announces Three Preferred Cryptocurrency Exchanges as Part of Expanded XRapid Paradigm

Ripple has announced three cryptocurrency exchange companies as its preferred platforms for carrying out transactions with the XRP token via its XRapid payments protocol. The move comes as Ripple continues in its bid to expand its services across the globe–gaining increased utilization of the XRP coin in tandem with its legacy ledger. дальше »

2018-8-18 21:26


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Ethereum Is The Scammers Favourite Coin

According to new research by Kaspersky Labs, Ethereum is the favoured coin for cryptocurrency scammers worldwide. As the most notorious cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin, Ethereum is the obvious choice for a scammer, built on a huge network but with little mainstream attention, it allows scammers to remain hidden, yet still able to access a huge network filled with the potential to commit fraud. дальше »

2018-8-16 06:00


Bank For International Settlements (BIS) Continues Bashing Bitcoin As A Currency

The debate over the legitimacy of Bitcoin as a currency has persisted since the beginning of the creation of the coin. When the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto rolled out the Bitcoin blockchain years ago, skeptics almost immediately began to argue that the currency would quickly peter out, losing value as quickly as it had gained notoriety. […] дальше »

2018-8-10 11:18


Initial Coin Offerings Projects Only Make Up 2% Of All Security Lawsuits

A litigation consultancy firm called Cornerstone Research recently put out a report, regarding the current lawsuits involving securities in the United States. Even though there has been plenty of bad publicity in the press lately, the research found that cryptocurrency ICOs only contribute to a small fraction of the cases. In fact, out of the […] дальше »

2018-7-27 14:33


CoinMetrics Says Sad Truth is Majority of Bitcoin Transactions are Worthless

The Sad Truth: Majority of Bitcoin Transactions are Worthless It turns out most of Bitcoin’s transactions don’t really do anything. About two-thirds of transactions made with the cryptocurrency are not for anything specific, meaning the exchanges have nothing to do with trading, buying or selling goods. A large number of actions taken by coin holders […] дальше »

2018-7-26 21:15


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Justin Sun Officially Adds 100 Million BitTorrent Users To Tron (TRX) Ecosystem

No doubt, Tron (TRX) is one big coin that cannot be rubbished in the cryptocurrency space. After Justin Sun announced that Tron would be moved out of Ethereum Network, the cryptocurrency war lord, declared on the go that there is going to be a huge competition between the two altcoins, like that which existed between […] The post Justin Sun Officially Adds 100 Million BitTorrent Users To Tron (TRX) Ecosystem appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-24 14:20


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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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World’s First Legal Literature on ICOs Calls Out Fundraising Method

A University of Pennsylvania legal research report concluded Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have mostly “failed” to reflect on their contractual promises as described in their whitepapers. ICO Projects a Far-Fetched Endeavour Titled “Coin-Operated Capitalism,” the paper was released on July 17, 2018, and aims to explore ICOs as a legitimate option of fundraising. дальше »

2018-7-20 19:00