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Bitcoin Engineer, Crypto Advocate, Jameson Lopp Gets ‘SWATted’ & Offers $100,000 Bounty For Help

Jameson Lopp is many things – he’s a SegWit2x opponent, the creator of statoshi.info, a BitGo engineer, and most recently – is known for being the subject of a false police report alleging that he had murdered someone and held others hostage at his in Durham North Carolina. Lopp published in a Medium article his […] дальше »

2018-7-30 23:03


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Crypto Week In Review: Nasdaq Leads Regulation Talks, Legitimizing Bitcoin

Discussion about cryptocurrency-related regulation continued into this past week, as Bitcoin took the lead, driving the market up by just under 10% overall. Winklevoss Twins’ Revised ETF Gets Shot Down By The SEC On Thursday, the announcement of the most recent verdict regarding the Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin ETF hit headlines all across the industry. дальше »

2018-7-29 10:00


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Breaking: Winklevoss Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Gets Rejected Yet Again

It was just announced that the most recent proposal for a Bitcoin ETF from the Winklevoss Twins, the owners and founders of the fittingly named Gemini exchange, was just rejected by the SEC. Old News Rehashed, Or Something Entirely New? At first glance, many saw this as another bout of old news that was reposted […] The post Breaking: Winklevoss Bitcoin (BTC) ETF Gets Rejected Yet Again appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-7-27 00:55


BitGo’s ‘Coin Selection’ Technology For Predictive UTXO Management to Cut Crypto Fees

Bitcoin’s ‘Coin Selection’ Technology Gets First Major Integration BitGo is going to be the first major crypto company that will adopt the coin selection technology from Bitcoin. This scaling tech has been touted as a way to ease the obsession with lowering fees since they hit over $20. Although the fees have since dropped to […] дальше »

2018-7-27 23:21


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MetaMask Google Extension Suddenly Gets Dropped From The Chrome Store

As per a tweet from the official MetaMask team, its popular Ethereum interfacing application was suddenly removed from the Google Chrome web store. For the uninitiated, MetaMask is an innovative plugin that allows its users to run and interact with Ethereum decentralized applications (DApps), requiring nothing but your browser and an internet connection. дальше »

2018-7-26 21:12


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Google Docs gets an AI-powered grammar correction tool

Suck at grammar? You’ll be happy to know that Google’s introducing a grammar checker into its Docs app; it’ll use the power of machine learning to spot your mistakes as you type. The company says that its AI can identify a wide range of errors and suggest fixes for them, “from simple grammatical rules like how to use articles in a sentence (like “a” versus “an”), to more complicated grammatical concepts such as how to use subordinate clauses correctly. дальше »

2018-7-25 08:12


Bitcoin [BTC] bashers list gets another addition with billionaire investor’s statements

It is a running joke among the Bitcoin [BTC] community that bull runs will ensue when prominent investors and players in the investment space bash it. The star-studded line-up of individuals who have spoken against the coin now has another addition in the form of billionaire investor Howard Marks. Marks’ firm, Oaktree Capital, reported that […] дальше »

2018-7-22 15:55


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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


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