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Crypto Week In Review: Sentiment Starts To Shift As Bitcoin Moves Up 15%

Sentiment regarding the cryptocurrency market took a large shift this past week, as Bitcoin rallied 15% due to a series of positive technical and fundamental indicators. IBM To Use Stellar-Based Stablecoin For Faster Financial Payments IBM, one of the largest technology firms in the world, has just announced that it will be exploring the utilization. дальше »

2018-7-22 20:30


Indian Central Bank Makes a Case Before Supreme Court Against Allowing Crypto Use

India’s central bank told the country’s supreme court on Friday that “allowing dealings in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin would encourage illegal transactions. ” Other crypto petitions being heard include one asking the government to “take emergency steps to restrain the sale and purchase of illegal cryptocurrencies. дальше »

2018-7-22 02:34


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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


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Survey: 45% of security professionals reuse the same password

There’s a saying — “practice what you preach. ” If you give advice, make sure it’s something you follow personally. Turns out, some security pros aren’t doing that. A survey of 306 infosec professionals at London’s Infosecurity Conference 2008 from Lastline showed that 45 percent commit one of the biggest security cardinal sins — reusing passwords across accounts. дальше »

2018-7-18 11:29


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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware

One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers. дальше »

2018-7-18 23:18


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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


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A Bank In Australia Uses Mortgage Funds for Crypto Speculation

One of Australia’s oldest financial institutions, Bank of Queensland, has prohibited the use of home equity loans for virtual currency speculation. Also Read: Tether Announces Appointment of New Chief Compliance Officer Bank of Queensland Cracks Down on Customers Using Mortgage Funds to Trade Crypto Bank of Queensland has banned its customers from using loans that are дальше »

2018-7-14 11:26


Crypto and the online casino industry: Could they be the perfect match?

Blockchain technology has taken the online sphere by storm. Revolutionizing the traditional financial system by enabling instant and anonymous transactions of capital, it has forced us to rethink our views on money; its physical manifestation, how we use it, trade it, and even the role it plays in our wider world.    If there is one […] дальше »

2018-7-13 08:20


Best Binance Cryptocurrency Trading Exchange Platform Alternatives to Try

Binance is one of the world's most popular cryptocurrency exchanges because it is easy to use, allows a great deal of liquidity due to the large number of cryptocurrencies that it supports, and offers a significant discount for users who pay their transaction fees with the platform's internal currency. However, as all cryptocurrency users should […] дальше »

2018-7-13 07:09


Trade.io to List SelfKey (KEY) Token & Use Blockchain Identity System For Exchange

Trade. io Forms Alliance With SelfKey to Make Registration Processes on Crypto Exchanges Proficient Cryptocurrency exchange, trade. io has revealed that it will be partnering with SelfKey, a self-sovereign identity system, to rid the typical registration processes for exchanges into one that is simple, effective and time-saving. дальше »

2018-7-13 05:45


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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


nChain Blockchain Researchers Awarded 3 Digital Rights Management Patents

One of the world’s leaders in research and development of blockchain technologies, nChain, has announced that it has received another three patents by the European Patent Office. These three patents, issued on July 11, 2018, are all methods to enforce digital rights through the use of blockchain technology. These latest patent grants follow nChain's earlier […] дальше »

2018-7-12 12:54


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Bitcoin Remains the Best Cryptocurrency Investment, According to Wall Street Trader

Bitcoin has had a rough 2018. However, it is still hands down the best cryptocurrency investment — an opinion shared by one prominent Wall Street trader.   ‘The use case for bitcoin is valid today’ While the vast majority of the cryptocurrency market remains speculative at best, Bitcoin remains one of the only cryptocurrencies which people are actually using. дальше »

2018-7-11 19:00