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Tron’s Justin Sun to Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin; “Don’t think Ethereum transaction volume will ever catch up to TRON’s again.”

Cryptocurrency developers are not one to keep mute, especially when their token hit a major milestone. Justin Sun, the founder of the world’s 11th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is still in excitement over the consistency in trading price that has overthrown the world’s second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum. дальше »

2018-11-10 15:27


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HSBC Executes India’s First Overseas Blockchain Payment for Major Company

The British banking giant HSBC has reportedly executed the very first overseas financial transaction of Reliance Industries (RIL) to a US-based client using blockchain technology. “The Use of Blockchain Offers Significant Potential” Despite the tension surrounding cryptocurrencies in India, HSBC has purportedly carried out the very first overseas financial transaction using blockchain-based technology. дальше »

2018-11-6 11:00


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ZCash “Sapling” Upgrade Arrives on Coin’s Second Anniversary, Transaction Speed and Scaling Boosted

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency ZCash executed a hard fork and network upgrade on October 28, 2018, on its second anniversary. According to ZCash’s blog post, the Sapling activation will introduce new shielded addresses which will boost ZCash’s performance by improving the network’s transaction speed. дальше »

2018-10-30 02:00


Litecoin Will Fly If It Makes The Most Of Social Media

The pursuit for cryptocurrency adoption seems to focus on three major cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Indeed, this isn’t to disregard the likes of XRP and Stellar, both of which also provide a solid use in mainstream society, however in terms of worldwide societal adoption, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin tend to be the go-to currencies. дальше »

2018-10-10 16:30


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Move Aside PayPal and Discover, Bitcoin Transaction Value Exceeds $1.3 Trillion Eyeing VISA Next

This news story should be shown to people who hold the opinions that we are approaching the doom of Bitcoin. The value Bitcoin transactions hangs around the $1.3 trillion mark in 2018 alone, outpacing those of enormous payment processors such as PayPal and Discover while coming in second to Visa. Yassine Elmandjra, a New York-based […] дальше »

2018-8-31 21:20


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