2020-6-20 15:22 |
The widespread use of public / private key pairs will change how assets are held and funds are managed.
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2020-6-20 15:22 |
The widespread use of public / private key pairs will change how assets are held and funds are managed.
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
Today, Blockstack PBC, the company building core protocols for Blockstack, a project for a user-owned internet, has officially launched the Stacks 2.0 Testnet. A key milestone on the road to the mainnet, this public testnet will allow blockchain developers and miners to participate in the deployment of Blockstack’s new consensus mechanism, dubbed Proof of Transfer […]
2020-4-24 19:59 | |
Stablecoins account for a rapidly growing sector of the crypto industry and have viewed by many industry-advocates as tools that will ultimately help bridge mainstream finance with the nascent and highly volatile crypto market.
2020-4-16 13:30 | |
Twice a week, the Lockdown Edition will feature discussions and public AMAs via Zoom with key speakers from the Consensus: Distributed agenda.
2020-4-16 22:57 | |
Neutrino, a stablecoin protocol based on the Waves blockchain, announced today that four months after the public beta launch, the stablecoin project has reached a key milestone; with $5 million worth of WAVES now having been deposited to the smart contract to generate USDN.
2020-3-7 21:21 | |
Remme, a developer of a distributed Public Key Infrastructure (PKId) protocol and PKI-enabled apps, today announced it has finalized a partnership with leading identity services provider GlobalSign, a GMO Internet Group company.
2020-1-29 01:59 | |
MyEtherWallet (MEW) users are now able to send and receive ETH and ERC-20 tokens using their own personalized “human-readable” address instead of the standard 42-character public key. Unique addresses can be created on MEW in the form of “[name].
2020-1-24 03:35 | |
REMChain, a public blockchain providing redundant decentralized storage for public keys has now gone live to mainnet. The REMChain ecosystem replaces conventional public key infrastructure (PKI) with a decentralized network of trust.
2020-1-16 17:27 | |
Popular crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX is now supporting native SegWit address format, Bech32 to withdraw Bitcoin, announced the exchange on Dec. 12. This upgrade is effective immediately. Starting now, BitMEX customers can withdraw to all three address formats, Bitcoin’s original address format Pay to Public Key Hash (P2PKH) whose address starts with number 1, Pay […]
2019-12-12 21:58 | |
Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
A group of veteran Ethereum ecosystem supporters formed a new DAO tasked with public outreach and marketing for the protocol, called The Marketing DAO. The organization includes former chief marketing officers from ConsenSys and Shapeshift among other key founders.
2019-11-7 09:59 | |
Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
"Enterprises will not go on to the public mainnet without privacy and security," EY's Paul Brody told CoinDesk.
2019-10-16 13:01 | |
“Enterprises will not go on to the public mainnet without privacy and security," EY's Paul Brody told Coindesk.
2019-10-15 13:01 | |
Institutional crypto custodian Copper adds support for GRAM token - CryptoNinjas Copper, a London-based institutional custodian for bitcoin and blockchain assets, announced today it will integrate the Telegram Open Network (TON) key generator.
2019-10-8 14:53 | |
When the Australian Federal Environment Minister, Sussan Ley, went snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef in August, she told waiting reporters on the shore that she’d seen “amazing wildlife, fish, turtles, clams…a reef teeming with life.
2019-10-3 15:43 | |
Recommended pre-reading: https://ethresear. ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413 Alice slowly walks down the old, dusty stairs of the building into the basement. She thinks wistfully of the old days, when quadratic-voting in the World Collective Market was a much simpler process of linking her public key to a twitter account and opening up metamask to start firing off votes.
2019-10-2 04:03 | |
Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.
2019-9-24 04:03 | |
Cryptography is all about security. The notion of having a public and private crypto wallet key and multiple hashes adds to those layers of security but at the bottom of it all is a computer processing all of the data.
2019-9-13 23:00 | |
Crypto transactions are carried out via two keys, a private and public key, that link cryptocurrency assets to their owners. Digital wallets are software that store those keys, enabling users to monitor their funds and send and receive coins by interacting with various blockchains.
2019-8-15 23:50 | |
The public perception of Facebook’s digital currency project remains all over the place. Despite a lot of initial excitement regarding Libra, it remains to be seen how well the project will fare when everything is said and done.
2019-7-9 18:00 | |
A new research study has found that Venmo continues to make it easy for third-parties to scrape users’ public transaction history without their permission. Dan Salmon, a computer science student at Minnesota State University, has published a new data set of over seven million Venmo transactions on GitHub collected over a six month period.
2019-6-17 10:24 | |
The 2019 BLOCKWALKS conference will be held by Bratislava Castle. The event will host several highly reputed key speakers, connecting blockchain technology as well as other new techs with the public sector.
2019-6-16 20:36 | |
Bitcoin Press Release: Bratislava Castle is to host the 2019 BLOCKWALKS conference. The event will host notable key speakers, connecting Blockchain and smart technology with the public sector. 15th June 2019, BRATISLAVA – This October the halls of the Bratislava Castle will resonate with the ideas, thoughts, and discussions from some of the brightest minds […] The post BLOCKWALKS 2019 Public Conference Opens Dialogue About How Blockchain Technology will Drive the Future appeared first on Bitcoin PR Buzz.
2019-6-17 17:57 | |
MoonTrader team has developed and is supporting the trading terminal (MoonBot - moon-bot. com) which was introduced in October 3, 2017. Currently, the performance of MoonBot surpasses that of most existing trading systems as a result of its advanced functionality and the high security features designed to protect your trading activities.
2019-6-13 21:03 | |
Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
By CCN: Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is underway, and while most of the focus is on iOS3, Apple quietly revealed a new upgrade for developers called CryptoKit. Apple also released its new icon set for designers which feature four bitcoin logos.
2019-6-4 15:49 | |
“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
By CCN: The Encrypto watches by Franck Muller, which will cost you anywhere between $9,800-$55,880 to acquire, has a built-in cold storage system. The public address is accessible on the outside of the watch, while to get the private key, you need to get inside the watch.
2019-5-24 09:30 | |
In my last article, I explained how to prove ownership of a specific address by signing a message with a public and private key pair. That’s just one way of proving ownership and verifying a valid signature, as BCH users can also anchor a document to the chain using the Bitcoin Cash protocol’s Script language.
2019-5-19 04:01 | |
For Austria, blockchain is more than just a means of crypto-trading. Ulrike Huemer, the CIO of the capital city of Vienna, gave us an in-depth look at how the country seizes the potential of the nascent technology in order to provide public services and to help transform Vienna into a “smart city”
2019-5-19 22:00 | |
Facebook’s biggest money-spinner is its News Feed, and the company has announced yet another key change to the algorithm. In a fresh announcement, the social network said that it’s leveraging new signals such as user surveys to prioritize posts from close friends and content you might find worthwhile.
2019-5-17 16:28 | |
Facebook’s biggest money-spinner is its News Feed, and the company has announced yet another key change to the algorithm. In a fresh announcement, the social network said that it’s leveraging new signals such as user surveys to prioritize posts from close friends and content you might find worthwhile.
2019-5-17 16:28 | |
Bitcoin and its recent parabolic run has everyone across the crypto market in shock and awe as the first ever cryptocurrency smashes through each powerful psychological resistance level with relative ease.
2019-5-14 23:00 | |
Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
CryptoNinjas Remme, a developer of the distributed Public Key Infrastructure (PKId) protocol and PKI-enabled apps, announced it has joined forces with customer identity management company Ubisecure.
2019-5-8 15:08 | |
Ever since the QuadrigaCX case opened up to the public, the risks of blockchain technology are becoming a huge topic for conversation around cryptocurrency circles. The loss of over $190 million USD of users’ funds due to the lack of a private key to the cold wallet storage highlights these types of risks a blockchain […]
2019-5-3 20:38 | |
One of the exciting projects in the cryptoverse is one headed by CasperLabs, the ADAPtive Holdings-backed research and development innovator building the next generation of ‘blockchain for public enterprise’ networks, which has unveiled the first key update for developers, Node 0.
2019-4-30 01:00 | |
On April 23, the security consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) published a document concerning a number of unsound public and private key pairs tied to the Ethereum blockchain. The probability of chance needed to crack 256-bit encryption would take years for hackers to access random private keys.
2019-4-25 16:58 | |
RIF Labs has announced the integration of its public blockchain, RSK Smart Contracts, on Microsoft's Azure Marketplace. The RSK Smart Contract Network is an open-source platform that seeks to extend the functionality of Bitcoin using smart contracts and the Azure Marketplace is an app store for Microsoft’s cloud computing service.
2019-4-18 18:57 | |
CryptoNinjas CasperLabs, an ADAPtive Holdings-backed research and developer building ‘blockchain for public enterprise’ networks, has unveiled the first key update for developers, Node 0. 2, which significantly reduces barriers to downloading, building, and running a network of Correct By Construction (CBC) CasperLabs nodes.
2019-4-16 14:59 | |
New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
Several outlets and crypto programmers have pointed out for a year or more that MetaMask, by default, broadcasts your Ethereum public key (address) to websites you visit. The assumption is that this is a privacy vulnerability – most sites have no need for such information, after all.
2019-4-2 21:13 | |
The French hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has joined forces with a Hong Kong public trust company, Legacy Trust, to launch a cryptocurrency custody solution geared towards institutional investors.
2019-3-30 06:30 | |
The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.
2019-3-29 16:26 | |
As Ripple emerges as the latest form of global transaction company, it continues to shine as one of the world’s top blockchain projects. Ripple’s accomplishment is a result of strategically building its implementation of blockchain technology to service existing financial tycoons and banking corporations.
2019-3-25 20:06 | |
From its inception, EOS was designed to crack the scalability challenge, promising speeds up to millions of transactions per second. It’s true the infrastructure is mostly in place and EOS is operating faster than many other public blockchains on the market.
2019-3-25 10:00 | |