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Storonsky: ‘No Interest from Big Institutional Investors’ (Why He’s Wrong)

Last week, Bitcoinist argued that cryptocurrency enthusiasts should stop waiting for institutional investors to arrive — because they’re already here. Not everyone shares that opinion.   According to a recent report from Bloomberg, institutional investors don’t have much of an ‘appetite’ for digital currencies. дальше »

2018-11-10 08:00


Crypto Market Worth $1.4 Billion by 2024: Blockchain as a Service the Next Billion-Dollar Industry?

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology have been around for nearly 10 years now, and they keep finding other ways to be applied into other industries. Recently, PR Newswire and Zion Market Research decided to examine the research available on both of these markets to see how much they’ve grown since their origination. Over the years both […] дальше »

2018-10-24 18:18


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Federal Election Committee Asked to Consider Crypto Mining for Political Contributions

OsiaNetwork LLC has reached out to the Federal Election Committee (FEC) in the hopes that it will allow computer sharing for crypto mining for campaign donations. Osia says it would like to be the platform in which volunteers share their computer power to mine cryptocurrencies, which are then donated to political campaigns of their choice. дальше »

2018-10-5 23:57


BitMEX Research: Реальный остаток по счетам ICO-проектов не может обрушить курс ETH

Команда BitMEX Research опубликовала новый отчет, в котором говорится, что ICO-проекты вряд ли смогут обрушить цену Ethereum (ETH), поскольку существенная часть цифровых активов уже продана за фиатную валюту. дальше »

2018-10-1 18:32


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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


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Estimated 4 Million Bitcoin is Lost Forever by Users’ Forgetfulness

As much as 20 percent of all the Bitcoin in existence is lost forever, Chainalysis has revealed — as the research firm says it handled contracts worth $750,000 since 2016. ‘We Don’t Help People Find Lost Bitcoin’ In comments to The New York Times, Chainalysis said that user failures to create robust methods of password storage meant as much as $20 billion of Bitcoin is locked out of reach. дальше »

2018-7-7 03:00