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No, the EU is Not Issuing a State-Backed Cryptocurrency

Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), said that the authority does not see a “concrete need” for a digital token alternative to the euro, according to Reuters. No Time for Crypto Highlighting the stability of fiat money and the infamous volatility of cryptocurrencies, Draghi told parliament members that a lack of robustness […] The post No, the EU is Not Issuing a State-Backed Cryptocurrency appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

2018-9-16 22:00


Ether Price Analysis: Market Indecision Could Cause Short Covering Rally

When we last discussed the ETH-USD pair, the price was testing support in the mid $200 range. Since then, the market has dropped another 30% as ether tests the waters in the upper $190 range:Figure 1: ETH-USD, 1-Day Candles, Macro TrendThe volume on the current drop has been exceptionally high compared to the beginning of its descent from the $800s. дальше »

2018-9-11 01:02


Does It Matter Who Has the Longest Chain in Bitcoin? Not Really

Bitcoin exists on the blockchain. As bitcoin transactions occur, they’re batched into blocks, and the blocks get added to the chain. The chain gets progressively longer over time – but does the length of the chain really matter? Jonald_Fyookball attempted to answer that question earlier today in a post on Yours.org. In that post, Fyookball […] дальше »

2018-9-10 07:45


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Leave Your Inheritance To Litecoin

Inheritance and cryptocurrency, it’s a grey area but it’s one that could become a very big deal in a few years time. Is there an advantage in using cryptocurrency in a will, over standard cryptocurrencies? Indeed, there are already services out there that does this for you, is it a wise move though? This sort of investment, is like any investment, it’s risky and it requires a bit of research. дальше »

2018-9-3 21:30


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When These 5 Things Happen, Ethereum Will Rule Supreme

Ethereum was set to take the world by storm. But is it living up to its full potential? We hear about the ‘new Ethereum’ from the likes of Stellar and NEO all the time – what’s wrong with the old one? And what does Ethereum need to do to blast past Bitcoin, put these pretenders […] The post When These 5 Things Happen, Ethereum Will Rule Supreme appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-8-18 17:17


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G20 Crypto Regulation Decision Boosts Bitcoin to Two-Month High

Bitcoin has hit a two-month price high of $7,820, at the time of writing, amidst its ongoing resurgence following a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Buenos Aires on 21 and 22 July 2018. At the meeting, ministers discussed cryptocurrency and issued a communique stating that while it remains under scrutiny, it does not pose a threat to the global. дальше »

2018-7-24 15:00


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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