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Op Ed: Making Friends With Time in the Cryptocurrency Space
What follows is an open letter from Jimmy Zhong, co-founder and CEO of IOST, to his team members and shared with Bitcoin Magazine with permission. Recently, I’ve been thinking about an ultimate way of safely storing value — gold, Bitcoin, real estate and power all came to mind. дальше »
2018-8-23 22:20 | |
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Twitch is reportedly making a play for YouTube’s top talent
Rumors this week have surfaced that Twitch is trying to encroach on YouTube’s territory by offering deals to its top stars if they’ll come and stream on Twitch instead. Twitch‘s motivation appears to be hunger for a slice of that sweet YouTube advertising pie. дальше »
2018-8-18 22:52 | |
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The Smash Bros fighters may all be undead, according to theory
Nintendo yesterday announced new fighters for its super-popular series of fighting games, Super Smash Bros, including Castlevania‘s heroic vampire hunter Simon Belmont. Simon’s inclusion has raised a bit of speculation that there’s something a little bit undead about the rest of the fighters. дальше »
2018-8-11 02:01 | |
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Which inexpensive IKEA stool does the Galaxy Home look like?
Today, at a standing-room only event in New York City, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Home. This is the first smart speaker from the South Korean tech giant, and comes with the Bixby smart assistant at its heart. дальше »
2018-8-10 20:10 | |
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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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Facebook follows YouTube in suspending Alex Jones
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech. It’s about damn time. Just this week, Jones ran afoul of YouTube guidelines, getting himself a slap on the wrist and finding four of his more egregious videos deleted. дальше »
2018-7-28 03:42 | |
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Bitcoin Is Not the Only Fruit: The Seven Shades of Crypto-Assets
Mention cryptocurrency to many people and they imagine just one thing: Bitcoin. But the creation of Bitcoin and the blockchain has spurred the development of a wide range of crypto-asset types. In fact, there are at least seven types you should be aware of, according to the authors of Blockchain Revolution. дальше »
2018-7-27 07:00 | |
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Bitcoin Is Not the Only Fruit: The Seven Shades of Crypto-Asset
Mention cryptocurrency to many people and they imagine just one thing: Bitcoin. But the creation of Bitcoin and the blockchain has spurred the development of a wide range of crypto-asset types. In fact, there are at least seven types you should be aware of, according to the authors of Blockchain Revolution. дальше »
2018-7-27 07:00 | |
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IBM’s Hello Quantum is a devilishly difficult puzzle game about qubits
IBM’s Hello Quantum is now available on Android. If you only like easy puzzle games that don’t explain anything about how quantum computers work, you’re going to hate it. The game, which debuted on iOS last month, was designed by University of Basel physics professor James Wootton and members of IBM’s quantum computing team. дальше »
2018-7-24 00:01 | |
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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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Markets are decentralized and the software that runs them should be too
In today’s world, each firm in a market has an insanely complex IT estate with hundreds or thousands of corporate applications, many of which do the same thing as their competitors. But it’s worse than that. дальше »
2018-7-20 02:25 | |
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AI is finding out when the person using your account isn’t you
A few months ago, security researchers at 4iQ uncovered a 41-gigabyte file being sold on the dark web that contained 1. 4 billion username and password combinations from online services such as Netflix, Last. дальше »
2018-7-13 11:17 | |
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Crypto Bounty Chasing Is Advertising A Way Out of Poverty
But as chipper as his demeanor made him out to be, Crypto Shaolin calls this past work “frustrating.” “I managed to escape poverty,” Crypto Shaolin says of what came next. The man presented Crypto Shaolin with ether, the cryptocurrency that powers ethereum, asking for only one thing in return: that he research the technology. Bounty0x дальше »
2018-7-9 11:05 | |
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Decentral Introduces the Jaxx Liberty Multi-Coin Wallet
There can never be enough cryptocurrency wallet options. As this industry continues to grow, giving users more ways to secure their funds can only be considered a good thing. Decentral has introduced the Jaxx Liberty wallet, which is slightly different from its regular Jaxx wallet. дальше »
2018-7-6 01:00 | |
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How to Slow Down a Startup: Erik Voorhees’ Hard Lesson
The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network has added a new show to its lineup, “What Bitcoin Did. ” The WBD podcast is hosted by U. K. -based Peter McCormack, an “accidental Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency investor, miner, blogger and podcaster. дальше »
2018-6-26 20:34 | |
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Orozu – Allows You to Make and Transfer Money
The modern world is fast-moving, and the last thing that should hold you up from doing business or earning an extra coin is unreliable money transfer methods. Conventional money remittances services such as interbank transfers have not only been accused of being unreliable, but also opaque, slow and cumbersome. Orozu brings a new way of дальше »
2018-6-22 16:53 | |
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The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It
All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name. дальше »
2018-6-15 23:31 | |
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Мошенники украли более $20 млн из-за неправильной настройки приложений для майнинга Ethereum
Киберпреступники смогли украсть $20 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 | |
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From Chatroom to Classroom: The Evolution of Blockchain Education
With the creation of Bitcoin and its blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced an entirely new practical application for cryptography, unearthing an unexplored area for computer science and technological development. дальше »
2018-6-11 17:04 | |
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