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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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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


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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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


Swiss National Bank is Skeptical of National State-Issued Crypto

Business Insider reported that Thomas Moser, a key member of management at the National Swiss Bank, believes that governments have lost interest in state-issued crypto or digital currencies. Thomas Moser: “Enthusiasm Has Slowed” For National Crypto While at a cryptocurrency conference in Zug, Switzerland, the representative of the bank gave a Business Insider journalist an. дальше »

2018-6-24 06:17


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