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The Bank Of Canada State That A CBDC Would Benefit Canada And The USA

The Bank of Canada, Canada’s central bank have hit headlines on a few occasions this month, after a sudden spike in interest within cryptocurrency and blockchain technology from the bank. According to Coindesk, The Bank of Canada have published a new paper that discusses how a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) would be beneficial to both the economies of United States and Canada. дальше »

2018-7-27 15:30


Testing blockchain is needed because we are behind

Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Christopher Giancarlo outlined his agency’s interest in blockchain technology during a Congressional hearing Wednesday, July 25. The chairman emphasized the need for the appropriate procedures that would enable the CFTC to examine innovative blockchain tech for potential future use cases. The hearing, titled “Examining the Upcoming дальше »

2018-7-26 06:01


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Bitwise Files With SEC for Cryptocurrency ETF

Bitwise Asset Management is the latest venture to apply for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF). Called the Bitwise HOLD 10 Cryptocurrency Index Fund, the ETF will track the returns of the company’s HOLD 10 Index, a “market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies” that captures roughly 80 percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization. дальше »

2018-7-25 02:18


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Bitcoin Up 20% in One Week, now valued above $8,000

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 »

2018-7-25 00:15


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Augur: ‘Inevitable’ Assassination, Terrorism Markets Worry Community

Decentralized prediction market Augur is attracting criticism following its launch as potentially illegal markets begin to surface on its platform. ‘This Was Inevitable’ Augur, which finally launched in full July 9 after a beta phase lasting two years, currently has almost $2 million in open interest on its Ethereum DApp. дальше »

2018-7-24 21:00


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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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Blockchain CEO Predicts Big Things Ahead for Bitcoin This Year

The CEO of Blockchain recently appeared in an interview to discuss the current state of the cryptocurrency industry, highlighting institutional interest as the primary talking point. Peter Smith: We Will See Positive Consolidation Over Q3 Of 2018 In a Bloomberg interview conducted on July 20th, Peter Smith, the CEO of the popular crypto infrastructure firm. дальше »

2018-7-24 15:00


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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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Be aware that there are 5 things one should stay clear of before investing in a new cryptocurrency.

by Gianluca Giancola As the blockchain and crypto space continues to grow and thrive, the industry has become increasingly mainstream and piqued the interest of many first-time investors. As the industry is still very much in its nascent stages, people getting involved with cryptocurrency investing … The post [Guest Post] 5 things to be aware дальше »

2018-7-19 23:17


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


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Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin is Mining Ethereum with His Son

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of tech giant, Google, and one of the richest people in the world, said on July 8 that he is mining Ethereum’s token, ether. Brin’s Interest in Ethereum Brin, who is also the president of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, made the revelation at the Blockchain Summit held at Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island. дальше »

2018-7-12 05:00


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CryptoKitties finally finds a real use-case in charity auction for sea turtles

CryptoKitties, the cutesy blockchain game where you can collect, customize, breed, and inevitably pimp out virtual cats is still apparently still a thing. Once so popular that it brought Ethereum to its very knees, dwindling interest has spurred them to adopt a more holistic way to get people to spend money on seemingly worthless vanity tokens. дальше »

2018-7-11 17:31