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Wrongfully Accused ‘Pirate’ Wants $62,818 Compensation
For more than a decade, file-sharers around the world have been pressured to pay significant settlement fees, or face worse in court. The practice is particularly common in the United States. While there is only a small group of independent companies involved, thousands of people are taken to court each year. These efforts, often characterized […] дальше »
2018-8-8 06:36 | |
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10 Companies Exploring Blockchain Without Prior Expertise
Various companies have added “blockchain” to their names or created subsidiaries allegedly focusing on this technology. In most cases, such companies are looking into completely new industries. дальше »
2018-8-7 18:00 | |
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Goldman Sachs Could Have a Crypto Custody Service in the Works
One of the world’s largest investment banks may soon bring cryptocurrencies into its trillion-dollar investment fold. Goldman Sachs is allegedly devising a cryptocurrency custody service, individuals familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. дальше »
2018-8-7 20:57 | |
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4 Issues Centralized Bitcoin Exchanges Need to Address in 2018
Centralized exchanges are a convenient way for consumers to enter the cryptocurrency world. Even so, these centralized platforms are not without issues and drawbacks. Various problems can arise when using these exchanges, which only highlights the need for decentralized trading solutions. дальше »
2018-8-6 20:00 | |
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Securities Exchange Commission to Review Behavior of Bitcoin Brokers
While cryptocurrency allows users to remove the middleman, some investors still rely on their brokers to ensure that their assets are safe. The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is now looking at this relationship and just how involved these intermediaries actually are. дальше »
2018-8-6 02:00 | |
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These Are The Stellar Partnerships That Will Send XLM To The Moon
Stellar (XLM) is now most known as a direct competitor to Ripple and XRP. When it comes to cross border remittance payments, Stellar are working very hard to pip Ripple to the post, and indeed, over recent weeks it seems that Stellar really are going the right way about it. дальше »
2018-8-5 23:00 | |
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“Not a Great Precedent”: Commissioner Discusses the SEC’s Latest ETF Decision
When the SEC announced its rejection of the Winklevosses’ latest bitcoin ETF filing, the industry found itself reckoning with a problem on repeat: striving toward the goal of approval, another Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) proposal faced the SEC’s death knell. дальше »
2018-8-4 22:49 | |
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Millions of webstores can now accept cryptocurrency through Coinbase
Coinbase announcements are dropping faster than exchange hacks these days. It’s just released a brand-new plugin that makes accepting cryptocurrency way easier for millions of websites. The new plugin, spotted by DailyHodl, enables WooCommerce webstores to accept major cryptocurrencies directly into a user-controlled Coinbase wallet. дальше »
2018-8-3 13:43 | |
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Audits and Quality Assurance: Patching the Holes in Smart Contract Security
On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23. дальше »
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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An AI that ‘hears’ machine failure might soon be used for roller coasters
How do we know when the things we own or the items we use everyday need maintenance? In most cases, people only take corrective measures when things stop working. For some organizations, periodic maintenance checks are the order of the day; however, these can be costly as planned downtime is needed to carry these out. дальше »
2018-8-2 11:51 | |
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Korean Crypto Exchange Bithumb Suspends Opening New Virtual Accounts
Bithumb has suspended issuing new virtual accounts to crypto traders starting on August 1 after failing to renew the contract with its bank. These accounts are part of the real-name system enforced by the Korean government earlier this year. дальше »
2018-8-2 08:50 | |
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Bodhi Bets on the Decentralized Prediction Marketplace
As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring. дальше »
2018-7-31 15:58 | |
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Banks Don’t Really Want to Use ‘Blockchain’ for FX Settlement After All
It seems that whenever members of the legacy financial establishment talk about Bitcoin these days its only to bash it in comparison to ‘Blockchain’, claiming that they can usurp the technology while ditching the cryptocurrency. дальше »
2018-7-31 16:05 | |
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Some Cryptos Trading 500% Higher on Bithumb, Market Manipulation Woes
Bithumb traders have recently experienced an abnormal surge in the price of some crypto, with tokens like Ethos trading six times over its average value only on the South Korean exchange. Many traders began to attribute these ludicrous prices to the Kimchi Premium, which local cryptocurrency traders have grown accustomed to over the most recent months. дальше »
2018-7-30 08:04 | |
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It’s time to confront Amazon’s secret monopolies
At 3 PM ET on July 16, tens of millions of shoppers flocked to Amazon to celebrate the cornucopia of capitalism known as Amazon Prime Day. However, rather than finding deals, these shoppers were largely greeted with photos of cute dogs, Amazon’s now infamous error page. дальше »
2018-7-29 15:30 | |
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Lyn Ulbricht and the Effort to Free Ross: Looking at "the End of the Road”
The darknet site founded by Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, has been offline for years now. But the legal questions behind his conviction and subsequent sentencing to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2015, remain fresh, raw and real to Ulbricht’s advocates. дальше »
2018-7-28 23:38 | |
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Bitcoin Price Drops Back Below $8000 but Outperforms Facebook’s 20% Plunge
Yesterday, Facebook stock price opened at $176 after closing the previous day at $217, an almost 20% drop. Gaps like these can occur in the stock market due to opening hours being limited to only part of the day. дальше »
2018-7-27 17:19 | |
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These satellite images show how much damage climate change has caused
Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University The average rainfall for the first two weeks of July in England was 6mm, while only 15mm fell throughout all of June, according to the UK’s Environment Agency. дальше »
2018-7-27 13:18 | |
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How To Buy Crypto’s Bitcoin (BTC) And Ethereum (ETH) Without KYC ID
How To Buy Bitcoin And Ethereum Without Identification While many people are interested in buying and trading bitcoin and ethereum, they are often hampered by the highly rigorous verification process used by many exchanges. дальше »
2018-7-26 22:03 | |
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Yes, Stablecoins Can Secure Official Audits from Major Firms
“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized. дальше »
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Wasabi Bitcoin Wallet: Privacy Focused, BTC Crypto Wallet Launches August 1
Wasabi is a unique desktop friendly wallet which is only compatible with the anonymizing Tor browser. It boasts of being the pioneer mainstream light wallet to offer CoinJoin transactions. These transactions will be dispatched simultaneously effectively hiding their sources. дальше »
2018-7-25 23:53 | |
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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 | |
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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
Here is a file that contains data, extracted from geth, about transaction fees in every block between 4710000 and 4730000. For each block, it contains an object of the form: { "block":4710000, "coinbase":"0x829bd824b016326a401d083b33d092293333a830", "deciles":[40,40. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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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 | |
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STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day
Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help and explanations, and Justin Drake for reviewing In the last part of this series, we talked about how you can make some pretty interesting succinct proofs of computation, such as proving that you have computed the millionth Fibonacci number, using a technique involving polynomial composition and division. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
Looks like it’s blockchain split season again. For background of various people discussing the topic, and whether such splits are good or bad: Power laws and network effects (arguing the BTC/BCC split may destroy value due to network effect loss): https://medium. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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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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Wells Fargo Patent Uses Blockchain to Protect Sensitive Information
Yesterday, Wells Fargo released a patent for a tokenization system built to protect sensitive financial information on the blockchain. This system uses encryption to process sensitive but previously unrestricted data into restricted tokens, and these tokens can only be received and ‘detokenized’ by a specific user. дальше »
2018-7-19 12:35 | |
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Line’s Cryptocurrency Exchange BITBOX Is Now Open for Business
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange BITBOX, which is also a division of Japanese internet giant Line Corporation, is now up and running. Operations began on July 16, 2018, and services are available in roughly 15 different languages to traders of every country except Japan and the U. дальше »
2018-7-19 22:38 | |
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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware
One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers. дальше »
2018-7-18 23:18 | |
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Promoted: The Future of Online Shopping Is Powered by Spl.yt — A Decentralized E-Commerce Protocol
As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba. дальше »
2018-7-16 19:45 | |
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0x Flying High Today
This morning the markets are looking steady. The major cryptocurrencies are up, albeit only slightly, with few stand out currencies really taking hold of the positive markets. One of these however is 0x, the native token to the 0x Project, the open protocol for the decentralised exchange of Ethereum based tokens. дальше »
2018-7-16 13:00 | |
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July 2018 Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conferences
The number of blockchain conferences around the world continues to grow. This technology is reportedly as innovative as the Internet and thus only a matter of time before it is a necessary technology to have to compete in the business world. дальше »
2018-7-15 02:00 | |
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Quick guide to understand the hype around ‘deep learning’
You’ve probably heard the phrase ‘deep learning’ bandied about in conversation, or maybe you’ve read about it in a post like this one. It seems like almost every tech conversation happening today somehow touches on the topic of AI, machine learning, or deep learning. дальше »
2018-7-14 22:30 | |
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The fact that we want blockchain to solve every problem is a problem
Like the Holy Trinity, the blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs are all independent and interdependent of each other in the crypto space. And, as these three faces of the ecosystem help expand it, there needs to be some consolidation. дальше »
2018-7-14 21:00 | |
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Worried About Bitcoin’s Future? Hear These 4 Crypto Experts Insight
Bitcoin has had a very rough year in 2018. The cryptocurrency was skyrocketing when the year began and it saw its price plummet from almost $20,000 USD to under $6,000 in only six months. Even with the price drop, some specialists are still very enthusiastic about Bitcoin, though. Here are five experts that believe in […] дальше »
2018-7-14 11:02 | |
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Plasma Could Enable CBCCs, Says Ethereum's Buterin – But Scalability Isn’t The Only Hurdle
Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum’s upcoming plasma implementation could make ERC20 central bank digital currencies viable. We’ll discuss which governments have considered these sovereign tokens and whether Plasma could, in fact, make Ethereum a good fit. дальше »
2018-7-14 01:54 | |
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Plasma Could Enable CBDCs, Says Ethereum's Buterin – But Scalability Isn’t The Only Hurdle
Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum’s upcoming plasma implementation could make ERC20 central bank digital currencies viable. We’ll discuss which governments have considered these sovereign tokens and whether Plasma could, in fact, make Ethereum a good fit. дальше »
2018-7-14 01:54 | |
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Abra Announces New Credit Card Payment Options for Bitcoin Purchases
Bitcoin payment startup Abra has announced the addition of Visa and Mastercard payment options for buying bitcoin on its platform. The new payment option is in partnership with fintech company Simplex, per the company’s blog post. дальше »
2018-7-13 00:38 | |
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Scientists genetically modified gerbils to hear light through an implant
A team of German scientists recently developed a spectacular new cochlear implant that uses light to simulate sound. So far it’s only been tested on gerbils, but the results are promising. Cochlear implants are a decades-old invention that uses electricity to stimulate or bypass deadened auditory nerves in order to trick the brain into “hearing” something. дальше »
2018-7-12 18:46 | |
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AI can kick your ass at all these games
Since the inception of artificial intelligence in the 1950s, we’ve been trying to find ways to measure progress in the field of AI. For many, the golden criteria for AI the Turing Test, an evaluation of whether a computer can exhibit human behavior. дальше »
2018-7-12 18:06 | |
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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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Which Of These Big Companies Will Create A Cryptocurrency First?
As crypto popularity grows, we expect a number of large companies to branch out into creating their own cryptocurrencies one day. This is because not only will unique, corporate cryptocurrencies benefit many products, they will also ensure that customers get access to a better and more fulfilling product. дальше »
2018-7-12 16:30 | |
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