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Fraudsters In Thailand Have Stolen $34 Million Worth Of Bitcoin From An Investor, Police Pursuing Suspects

Police in Thailand are hunting for about 6 suspects after a Finnish investor was conned of $34 million worth of bitcoin by a gang posing as an investment group. The case, one that involves a famous actor, Jiratpisit “Boom” Jaravijit, is still under investigation by the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) of the Thai police. дальше »

2018-8-14 23:19


A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We’ve heard for a long time that it’s possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcasted by any honest node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within some known time period (if an attacker has more than 50%, they can perform a “51% attack”, and there’s an analogue of this for any algorithm of this type). дальше »

2018-8-9 04:03


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


‘Expert’ states XRP [XRP] is a security, Ripple adopted a “wrong regulatory approach”

The XRP [XRP] token is under regulatory scrutiny, as its status has not yet been decided by the United States Securities and Exchanges Commission [SEC]. Even as Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH] have been safe from being declared as securities, the status of the third largest cryptocurrency is still mired in confusion. This is reflected […] дальше »

2018-7-20 14:27


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Kick off the second half of 2018 at a rally in Bitcoin -. Com

Last week, bitcoin skidded to its lowest level since November, under $6,000, which traders attributed to CME futures contracts expiring and overall lackluster interest from new buyers. The world’s largest and first cryptocurrency has struggled from that lack of enthusiasm, and prices have dropped 52 percent since January, according to CoinDesk. Still, bitcoin is up дальше »

2018-7-3 08:55


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Bitcoin kicks off moment half of the year with a 12% rally

Last week, bitcoin skidded to its lowest level since November under $6,000, which traders attributed to CME futures contracts expiring and overall lackluster interest from new buyers. The world’s largest and first cryptocurrency has struggled from that lack of enthusiasm, and prices have dropped 52 percent since January, according to CoinDesk. Still, bitcoin is up дальше »

2018-7-2 20:05