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Google Set to Take Advantage of Blockchain After Much Lagging

Google set to adopt Blockchain after much lagging. Blockchain, as decentralised distributed ledger technology (DLT), gains more ground in defining the future technology. Google still leak its wound for not buying into the initiative at the early stage of innovation, which has already been adopted by many of its rivals and relatively small companies. дальше »

2018-7-24 21:18


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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


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. 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


Crypto Week In Review: Institutional Investors are On-Boarding, Bithumb Recovers $16 Million

The week did not leave much to be desired for, with the market seeing a variety of positive institutional news amidst volatile price movements. Institutional Investment Dominates The News Cycle The presence of traditional institutions has been an important topic of discussion in the cryptocurrency community. дальше »

2018-7-1 12:00


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3 Reasons Bitcoin is Singing the Blues

The price of Bitcoin has been resting at around $6,000 recently — a disappointing 2018 low point. With so much talk and news coming out about cryptocurrency, many dejected investors are wondering ‘What is holding Bitcoin back?’ ‘Chain Gang Blues’ Bitcoin has had many great upgrades recently, especially with the addition of the Lightning Network earlier this year. дальше »

2018-7-1 04:00


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Reserve Bank Of India Ruling Could Mean Zebpay Customers Can No Longer Withdraw Their Rupees

The saga surrounding The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and their attempt at banning cryptocurrencies continues. We have recently seen confirmation from the RBI that they failed to do any prior research before making a move to ban cryptocurrencies, and of course a team of legal officials are working on determining how much say the RBI have in this matter, but regardless, the RBI deadline of the 5th of July now nears. дальше »

2018-6-25 13:00