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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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Insiders: Nasdaq Intends To Offer Crypto Price Prediction Product

Source: Nasdaq To Launch Crypto-Centric Analytics Product By November  Unlike a majority of traditional financial institutions, Nasdaq, the world’s second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization, has taken a friendly approach when it comes to crypto assets, taking a series of measures to seemingly prepare for the arrival of the next ground-breaking technology — blockchain and […] The post Insiders: Nasdaq Intends To Offer Crypto Price Prediction Product appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-9-12 04:02


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BitMEX Rents World’s Most Expensive Skyscraper, Rising Status of Crypto Exchanges

Popular crypto exchange BitMEX, widely recognized for its Bitcoin and Ethereum margin trading system, has rented out the world’s most expensive skyscraper located in Hong Kong. Experts have said that the expansion of BitMEX from Seychelles to Hong Kong demonstrates an improvement in the status of crypto exchanges as regulated financial institutions in a rapidly. дальше »

2018-8-23 15:00


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


Ethereum Foundation Assists Stanford University in Launching their Blockchain Research Center

Stanford University, one of the most reputable institutions of research and higher learning now has a blockchain research center, thanks to the support from Ethereum foundation. According to a statement on its website, Stanford University’s aim of establishing the center is to find out how distributed ledger technology can transform traditional businesses. дальше »

2018-6-22 23:53


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