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Paul Krugman: Bitcoin Will “Set the Monetary System Back 300 Years”

Bitcoin (BTC)–Bitcoin is again in the headlines being criticized by a Nobel Prize winning economist. Paul Krugman, one of the most accoladed and celebrated economists of our time, has again written in his contribution to The New York Times that Bitcoin fails to constitute money, but could also be responsible for erasing much of the […] The post Paul Krugman: Bitcoin Will “Set the Monetary System Back 300 Years” appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-31 20:03


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An Australian Blockchain Experiment: Tracking Global Almond Shipments

Following a successful 2016 trial of blockchain technology in an interbank open account transaction, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has partnered with five international and Australian companies to ship 17 tonnes of almonds from Melbourne, Australia, to Hamburg, Germany, using a new distributed ledger platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. дальше »

2018-7-31 23:13


Pakistan Embraces Cryptocurrency Amidst Deteriorating Economic Situation

The people of Pakistan are gradually turning towards cryptocurrency as the Pakistani economy continues to experience a steep decline. With a new administration set to take office, there are questions on whether the government will be able to resolve the current economic crisis that has rocked the country since the beginning of 2018. Pakistani Economy […] дальше »

2018-7-28 12:13


Pakistan Embraces Cryptocurrency Amidst Deteriorating Economic Situation

The people of Pakistan are gradually turning towards cryptocurrency as the Pakistani economy continues to experience a steep decline. With a new administration set to take office, there are questions on whether the government will be able to resolve the current economic crisis that has rocked the country since the beginning of 2018. дальше »

2018-7-28 00:34


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China Leads the way in Government Blockchain Adoption as Xiongan Signs MOU with ConsenSys

The Chinese city of Xiongan is set to become the site of a groundbreaking blockchain deployment program, the first of its kind anywhere in the world. According to the South China Morning Post report on July 23, the new blockchain development and deployment scheme is the product of a new partnership between Xiongan and global blockchain development company, ConsenSys. дальше »

2018-7-27 09:00


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Margin Trading Borrowing Limits Could Be Set in Japan as Recommended by the JVCEA

The Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) is now recommending the exchanges providing margin trading services to introduce borrowing limits for crypto investors. The self-regulatory organization is proposing the rules to protect traders who could suffer because of lack of borrowing restrictions in margin trading transactions. дальше »

2018-7-26 18:14


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Malta Is All Set to Become a Blockchain Hub for Crypto Companies With Financial Services Act Soon Coming Into Force

Malta previously released a new set of regulations in a bid to become the first blockchain island in the world. A triad of laws, namely the Virtual Financial Assets Act (VFA Act), the Innovative Technology Arrangement and Services Act (ITAS Act) and the Malta Digital Innovation Authority Act (MDIA Act), was passed earlier this month. дальше »

2018-7-24 12:59


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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


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


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


South Korea’s Finance Watchdog’s New Crypto Division

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has revealed it is setting up a department dedicated primarily to cryptocurrencies and blockchain. The FSC said the new department – dubbed the Financial Innovation Bureau – will focus on developing policy-making initiatives for the domestic blockchain and fintech industry, The Korea Times reported on Thursday. The decision to set up the дальше »

2018-7-20 21:30


This Silicon Valley-Backed Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others. дальше »

2018-7-21 20:14


This Silicon Valley Backs Blockchain Startup Wants to Become the Wikipedia of Data

DIRT, a blockchain startup that plans to develop a trusted platform for structured data, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The San Francisco-based company said investment firms that participated in the round include General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and others. дальше »

2018-7-20 20:14