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China now downplaying the fact that blockchain could be social construct in efforts to enhance its presence.

However, that does not mean that China is opposed to the potential revolutionary technology that comes from cryptocurrencies and their underlying base — blockchain. In fact, China is building toward being a nation that separates the decentralized cryptocurrencies from the underlying blockchain. дальше »

2018-7-24 20:09


Bitcoin Price Up Nearly 3 Percent, Is the Market Turning Bullish?

Ever since December 2017 when the price of Bitcoin reached its all-time high of $19,511, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stuck in a very bearish market. Over the last six to seven month’s, the top-ranked cryptocurrency‘s value fell approximately 70 percent and even fell below $6,000 during the end of June 2018. However, despite […] дальше »

2018-7-24 13:28


Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Hype Could Be A Whale Ploy To Lower Altcoin Prices Before The Next Rally

Bitcoin (BTC) is up today against most altcoins, trading at a price of $7,700 as shown by the daily BTC/USD chart above. It seems to have met resistance short term and the price might pull back short term, but a strong FOMO for Bitcoin (BTC) is clearly visible as investors refuse to sell even under overbought conditions. дальше »

2018-7-23 18:00


Amidst Mastercard’s Outage, Bitcoin Community Compares Its Payment Advantages

Mastercard experienced a major glitch last week, which kept their customers from charging anything on their cards. Instead, the transactions were declined. However, rather than impacting a city or even a single state, this outage had a worldwide impact, which led to a very unhappy group of users voicing their opinions on social media. Even […] дальше »

2018-7-23 09:20


Coindar Online Cryptocurrency Events Tracking Calendar Site Launches

Coindar is designed as a web-based events calendar, which offers a direct line to developers of various blockchain projects. The tool is designed to be utilized on the desktop. It creates an ecosystem where users are able to efficiently display meetings, technological updates, and even report new milestones they have hit. All of these things […] дальше »

2018-7-22 08:38


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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