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After XRP Went Crazy, Is Stellar Next?

XRP just wrecked the crypto china shop, but there may be another bull right behind the Ripple run.  As the market sweeps up the wreckage and fragments, one question is still looming: is Stellar lumens next? Although Ripple predates Stellar by several years, the tokens of the two protocols act more more like twins than ordinary […] The post After XRP Went Crazy, Is Stellar Next? appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-9-24 19:22


Berkeley Professor Questions Stablecoin Viability in Unflattering Op-Ed

University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account. дальше »

2018-9-13 18:07


Telling the truth about defects in technology should never, ever, ever be illegal

Congress has never made a law saying, “Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects in their products,”— and the First Amendment wouldn’t allow such a law — but that hasn’t stopped corporations from conjuring one out of thin air, and then defending it as though it was a natural right they’d had all along. дальше »

2018-8-18 11:00


A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We’ve heard for a long time that it’s possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcasted by any honest node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within some known time period (if an attacker has more than 50%, they can perform a “51% attack”, and there’s an analogue of this for any algorithm of this type). дальше »

2018-8-9 04:03


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Can Blockchain Technology and Video Games Inspire a Universal Basic Income?

Indiana video games and virtual economies University Professor Edward Castronova published a whitepaper in 2016 about the nature of video games and the future of work. While the gaming industry is one predominantly for leisure, Castranova argued that video games will have a significant impact on the future of work as it will act as a haven for low-skilled workers. дальше »

2018-8-6 18:00


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


Ethereum [ETH] based blockchain technologies may be the next internet: Circle CEO

On 19th July, Jeremy Allaire, the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Circle has stated that blockchain and cryptocurrency would be as broadly adopted as the internet. He also went on to say that blockchain technologies built by Ethereum will act as a foundation for future applications. He remarked: “One of the things that really […] дальше »

2018-7-20 22:52


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Connecting Blockchain Tech with Traditional Market claims INGOT Coin.

Having achieved its soft cap with ease during private TGE, INGOT Coin will act as a bridge between blockchain tech and regular financial market. A great disconnection between blockchain technology and traditional market is currently considered as one of the biggest issues faced by crypto community in penetrating mainstream financial markets. The INGOT Group was frustrated with дальше »

2018-7-12 21:57


Maltese Parliament Passes Three Bills on Distributed Ledger Technology

The Maltese Parliament passed four bills — one to establish Infrastructure Malta and three others for the regulation of the distributed technology sector in the country. According to Maltatoday, the three new bills for the blockchain industry include “Malta Digital Innovation Authority Act,” “Innovative Technological Arrangement and Services Act” and the “Virtual Financial Asset Act. дальше »

2018-7-6 15:26


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DOJ, U.S. Agencies Seize Over $12M Bitcoin in a Slew of Dark Web Busts

The U. S. Department of Justice, in cooperation with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Secret Service (USSS), the Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have apprehended more than 35 dark web drugs and arms dealers in a nation-wide bust. дальше »

2018-6-27 20:26


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