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Mike Novogratz Leads $50 Million Dollar Investment in Crypto-Lending Startup BlockFi

The merchant bank belonging to billionaire and Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz, Galaxy, has led a $52. 5 million dollar fundraising round for New York-based crypto-lender BlockFi. BlockFi allows investors to borrow as much as $10 million dollars in fiat currencies against their balances of Bitcoin or Ethereum. дальше »

2018-7-25 04:27


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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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Schnorr on its Way to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Improvement Since SegWit

Bitcoin is close to achieving a new improvement proposal. Known as Schnorr, this unique technology has been cataloged by several analysts as Bitcoin’s Biggest improvement Since SegWit. Despite not having much hype during the early stages of its development, the slow but steady work of Pieter Wuille, an influential personality in the Bitcoin ecosystem, bore […] The post Schnorr on its Way to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Improvement Since SegWit appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-18 19:45


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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


Why do we have Ethereum [ETH] vs ETC today? CZ retaliates to Vitalik Buterin’s comment

Mr. Changpeng Zhao [CZ], the CEO of Binance, countered Vitalik Buterin’s comment at the TechCrunch event which stated: “I definitely hope centralized exchanges go burn in hell as much as possible. ” Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, gave his strong perspective on centralized and decentralized exchanges. дальше »

2018-7-12 12:24


Ethereum Accelerator Service to Provide Resources and ‘Reality Check’ for Cryptocurrency Coders

Starting in September, up to 15 projects will receive between $75,000 to $100,000 in investments, plus access to an eight-week program. Gupta said: “It’s [about] having a reality check about how mature this space is, which is not really very much, and who are the real users. Applications are open to anyone with a project дальше »

2018-6-21 20:35


Ethbay is Revolutionizing the Online Marketplace Industry

Ethbay is the newly launched blockchain based platform that aims to disrupt the traditional online marketplaces using the power of decentralization. It is an online marketplace much like eBay that allows users to buy or sell tangible and non-tangible products using Ethereum charging only a 1% fee, which is significantly lower than fees charged by eBay and other such marketplaces. дальше »

2018-6-20 00:00


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Мошенники украли $18 млн из-за уязвимости приложений для майнинга Ethereum

Киберпреступники смогли похитить более $18 млн из приложений по майнингу Ethereum из-за информации, предоставляющей открытый доступ RPC (Remote Procedure Call) через порт 8545. Об этом говорится в заявлении разработчика антивирусов Qihoo 360. дальше »

2018-6-13 15:41