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It’s Possible To Spend Cryptocurrencies with More Than 5,000 Chilean Merchants

Cryptocurrency adoption is taking a new shape in different nations while the US is still busy figuring out how digital currencies could be regulated. According to local sources, over 5,000 merchants in Chile are currently accepting payments in premier cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Stellar Lumens. дальше »

2018-7-31 17:37


Wondering Why Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee seems to be a Bitcoin Fan ?

Many within the cryptocurrency community might be perplexed that a founder of a Popular and Actively used cryptocurrency could be a strong Bitcoin fan instead of him solely making voices for the promotion of the activities of the cryptocurrency Litecoin he founded in 2011 while still working as a Google engineer, and then Coinbase before […] The post Wondering Why Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee seems to be a Bitcoin Fan ? appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-7-28 01:09


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Coinbase Lures in the Big Boys, Might Start Offering Security Tokens Soon

Coinbase is still the reigning number one cryptocurrency exchange and broker in the US and won’t likely step down from that spot anytime soon. The San Francisco based firm has already shown some success in luring in institutional investors after onboarding a $20 billion hedge fund and has recently shown signs that it could soon […] Coinbase Lures in the Big Boys, Might Start Offering Security Tokens Soon was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. дальше »

2018-7-26 14:29


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


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PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW”

Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining. дальше »

2018-7-14 01:04


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Bottle Caps Or Bitcoin, Crypto’s Use During Times Of Crisis

They say that in an apocalypse, during the crash of the financial system, humans may turn to items like bottle caps for currency. I do wonder why bottle caps would be the chosen item but I guess that they are easily accessible as a result of our questionable drinking habits, right? Joking aside, we want to explore how cryptocurrency could come into its own during times of crisis. дальше »

2018-7-13 12:00


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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