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Why Bitcoin-Collateralized Loans Still Work in a Bear Market

Despite talk of Bitcoin heading higher in the second half of 2018, many long and short-term holders are growing impatient – or are even being squeezed out of the market. HODL The Pain Or Reap The Gain? The result of a long, slow decline in Bitcoin price which began following the cryptocurrency’s all-time highs in December 2017, social media and community forums are awash with commentators slowly – and highly reluctantly – exiting their positions. дальше »

2018-8-9 23:00


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Blockchain Research In The UK Is Big Industry

Blockchain research in the UK is a growing industry, with a new sort of workforce dedicated to researching and investigating this new technology. Whilst the blockchain remains one universal concept, it is now apparent that it boasts many advantages for many companies and industries, therefore it seems that research within the United Kingdom is now at an all time high, a sentiment that is no doubt reflected internationally too. дальше »

2018-8-7 16:00


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Bahrain Central Bank Approves Stellar As ‘Sharia Compliant’

According to reports out today, the Bahrain Central Bank (CBB) have approved the Stellar. org project as Sharia compliant. This means that under the guise of the CBB, Stellar can carry a Sharia certification that means the project and its entities are approved by Islamic law and that interaction between the Stellar project and the Islamic faith is not forbidden in anyway. дальше »

2018-7-31 13:30


Bitcoin ETFs: Taking a Closer Look at VanEck’s Letter to the SEC

The push for SEC-approved Bitcoin ETF listings has been receiving heavy amounts of news coverage over the last week. As several companies seek to be the first to bring crypto to Wall Street, a letter has been published by New York-based investment giant VanEck refuting many of the concerns laid out by the Commission’s recent… The post Bitcoin ETFs: Taking a Closer Look at VanEck’s Letter to the SEC appeared first on UNHASHED. дальше »

2018-7-31 01:59


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Five Steps to Building Your Cryptocurrency Community

It’s interesting to see that throughout the history of cryptocurrencies, every successful project has a strong, supportive, and encouraging community backing the project’s vision and mission. While there are many factors to take into account like the quality of the product, the development roadmap, and going-to-market, building out a motivated community, is one of the best investments for a cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-7-25 23:00


Joan Laporta, lawyer and former president of FC Barcelona, joins Blockchain Technology Company Urbit Data

Joan Laporta has joined the Advisory Board of the company Urbit Data. This way, the company consolidates its growth strategy with a solid project with an enormous global projection. Urbit’s new consultant has stood out for many years for his successful and relevant career, both in the field of senior sports management and in his […] The post Joan Laporta, lawyer and former president of FC Barcelona, joins Blockchain Technology Company Urbit Data appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-7-24 23:50


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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