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Bitcoin Staves Off Drop Under $7,500, Investors Remain Bullish

Bitcoin saw a breathtaking run-up over the past few weeks, with the price of the asset rebounding off lows at $5,800 to a yearly high of $8,500 last week. Many attributed this most recent recovery to a series of positive technicals and fundamental indicators, such as the influx of institutional money, along with a resurgence […] The post Bitcoin Staves Off Drop Under $7,500, Investors Remain Bullish appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-8-3 23:31


Augur’s Prediction Market Is Underwhelming

2018 will likely be remembered as a landmark year in cryptocurrency, as a period in which many of the early initiatives and well-funded ICO startups launched. While many of these projects have exciting and potentially paradigm-shifting capabilities, it’s also important to recognize that the realities of such developments do not always mirror the anticipated possibilities. […] дальше »

2018-7-28 22:00


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Central City Rockdale Reinvents Itself from Mining Coal to Mining Bitcoin

Rockdale, a town in central Texas, has made headlines due to plans of converting their town from mining coal, into mining bitcoin according to local reports on July 20, 2018. Bitmain Invades, Again In a post-industrial society, many areas that relied on the extraction of raw resources such as coal are beginning to face an economic struggle. дальше »

2018-7-27 01:00


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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


Crypto Market Leaders Call For Twitter to Ban ‘Scam Bots’

Crypto scam bots have become a common sight in the Twitter landscape, with many premier cryptocurrency personalities seeing an influx of fraudulent accounts commenting on their posts. This has become such a large problem that well-known cryptocurrency figures, like Binance’s CEO and Charlie Shrem, have signed an “open letter” calling for these scams to end. дальше »

2018-7-19 15:30


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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


Cryptocurrency Wealth Concentration: Exploring the Problem and Possible Solutions

There are many criticisms of cryptocurrencies thrown about by the media, bankers, government officials, and other defenders of the economic status quo, and although many of these criticisms may have some truth to them, members of the cryptocurrency and blockchain community can just as easily counter most of them with their own arguments. Criticisms such […] дальше »

2018-7-13 14:45


Cryptocurrency Wealth Concentration: Exploring the Problem and Possible Solutions

There are many criticisms of cryptocurrencies thrown about by the media, bankers, government officials, and other defenders of the economic status quo, and although many of these criticisms may have some truth to them, members of the cryptocurrency and blockchain community can just as easily counter most of them with their own arguments. дальше »

2018-7-13 00:03


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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


Ethereum Scalability Issues Will End this year – Joe Lubin

While cryptocurrencies such as ethereum and others have many groundbreaking and life-changing potentials, the issue of scalability remains a pain in nether regions for crypto enthusiasts. However, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain project, Joseph Lubin has revealed that Ethereum’s scalability problems will be over this year as the network moves into “phase two. дальше »

2018-7-11 12:07


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Mastercard, Deloitte And PwC Now Recruiting Crypto Enthusiasts

Some say that the best jobs come from monetising your hobby. If you love surfing, become a professional surfer. If you love decorating, become a painter, if you love brains, become a brain surgeon, as opposed to becoming a zombie?   Obviously, in many instances, it’s not quite as easy as just ‘becoming a professional surfer’ however, the blockchain industry does offer enthusiasts a way into the workplace. дальше »

2018-7-9 15:05


Bitcoin is Money Because Of This Characteristics

Many people have refused to welcome the idea that, Bitcoin should be recognized as a legal tender. There have been different opinions whenever the subject of this comes to play. Some people do see the coin as such as many companies and schools last year, made it clear to the public about their intentions to […] The post Bitcoin is Money Because Of This Characteristics appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-7-7 23:25