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Crypto Price Week in Review: All Major Currencies Fall After SEC Postponement

Bitcoin (BTC) At press time, bitcoin is trading for just over $6,400, a price it managed to secure yesterday afternoon. The currency has been the victim of several price swings over the last few days, which likely stem from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) announcement that it was postponing its decision regarding the VanEck […] дальше »

2018-8-10 21:59


Crypto Price Watch: Most Major Currencies in the Red as Market Stumbles

Bitcoin (BTC) At press time, bitcoin is trading for about $7,485. This is roughly $60 less than where it stood 24 hours ago. Wall Street player Goldman Sachs explains that bitcoin’s recovery was a fluke; that the currency will never dominate the financial infrastructure, and future declines are expected. On the contrary, new payment company […] дальше »

2018-8-4 21:55


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


JP Morgan Chase Patents an ICO-Like System for Tokenized Stock Trading

JP Morgan Chase, a major investment bank and financial services provider, is turning to blockchain technology once again. A patent describing their new blockchain application was made public today. This time, the firm has plans to handle IPOs in much same the way that ICOs currently operate. IPOs, or initial public offerings, are events in […] дальше »

2018-7-21 04:25


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Bitcoin mining companies have joined list of unicorns for the first time

Three bitcoin mining companies have joined a list of “unicorns” – private companies valued at over $1 billion – for the first time. The Shanghai-based Hurun Research Institute published its Q2 Unicorn Index for the Greater China region on Wednesday, which notably included the names of several major bitcoin mining firms: Bitmain, Canaan Creative and Ebang. дальше »

2018-7-18 15:35