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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Stellar, Ripple in Consideration for New Zero-Fee Trading Platform Voyager

The commission-free cryptocurrency market gained more competition on July 25, 2018, when the Voyager revealed the intent to offer free trading for at least 15 different cryptocurrencies. Voyager, a startup backed by Uber co-founder Philip Eytan, will function as an aggregation engine for cryptocurrency prices across more than a dozen trading companies. дальше »

2018-7-27 17:00


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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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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Talks About Big Challenges Ahead For Cryptocurrencies

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin has said that blockchain technology and digital currency have at least a few more bigger challenges left until they can finally reach a mainstream appeal. Buterin sat down the economist Tyler Cowen in a new interview whist explaining that scalability and making it easier for the users are imperative for the success of new technology. дальше »

2018-7-19 16:30


Vitalik Buterin Estimates Ethereum Spam Transaction Fees at $15 million

According to Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s recent spam congestion transactions have racked up at least $15 million in gas fees. Facing record congestion in the form of soaring gas fees and pending transaction times, the Ethereum network has been recently stung with a gas price manipulation attack caused by thousands of spurious transactions. дальше »

2018-7-19 08:00


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