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Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts in Africa Need to Understand the Industry Before Investing

More and more investors in Africa are hopping on the Bitcoin bandwagon. However, they need to ensure that they are aware of what decentralization actually means when it comes to investing.   Africa is a continent rich in diversity, natural resources, beautiful landscapes, and common occurrences of political turmoil. дальше »

2018-7-28 14:00


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This Expert Believes Bitcoin Will Reach $250,000 In Just Four Years Time

With the current momentum of Bitcoin clear, Bitcoin hitting $250,000. 00 by 2022 isn’t a totally unrealistic prospect. Although in order to reach this point, we do need to see some very significant gains and of course, Bitcoin needs to locate some stability at a number of other benchmarks too, considering that at the time of writing, Bitcoin is valued at just $8,262. дальше »

2018-7-26 15:30


Humaniq Named One of Most Promising FinTech for Financial Inclusion Companies in Two Landmark Industry Analytical Reports

Humaniq is a financial ecosystem built on blockchain, focused on simply and quickly connecting unbanked people to the global economy. The post Humaniq Named One of Most Promising FinTech for Financial Inclusion Companies in Two Landmark Industry Analytical Reports appeared first on CoinSpeaker. дальше »

2018-7-24 20:13


Who is the King of the Ethereum Decentralized Apps ? Two shameful Pyramid Ponzi Schemes

Two ‘self-sustaining’ pyramid schemes briefly became the most popular decentralized apps (DApps) on Ethereum this week. It describes itself simply as “the original autonomous pyramid, improved.” ‘Consider The Alternative’ Pyramids The sheer amount of interest in the schemes would usually be unlikely to see support from cryptocurrency proponents. https://t.co/fRizFx9CxK — JP Koning (@jp_koning) July 22, дальше »

2018-7-24 19:37


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Etherscan rushes to plug vulnerabilities following strange hacking attempts overnight

Etherscan, the most widely used Ethereum blockchain explorer, has quickly patched security vulnerabilities overnight as hackers exploited certain parts of its service. Hackers successfully manipulated the Disqus API – a third-party service used by Etherscan that allows for comments to be left on Ethereum wallet addresses. дальше »

2018-7-24 13:00


Blockchain Technology: It’s Incredible Capabilities And How They Change The Way We Live

Blockchain is blowing up our news feeds, and there’s good reason why: its ability to record and protect digital data will change the way we live in most facets of our life. MichaelWuensch / Pixabay While the newest technology may sound intimidating, the reality is the concept is pretty straightforward. Simply put blockchain is basically […] дальше »

2018-7-23 07:12


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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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Can SpaceBit’s Blockchain Decentralize Space Exploration?

Until recently, it was only nations that had the resources for space exploration. In 1973 private space missions were simply unthinkable. Who would bankroll the $25.4bn it cost the United States to launch the Apollo missions? The richest American at the time was thought to be Howard Hughes (certainly a man with the right ethos), […] The post Can SpaceBit’s Blockchain Decentralize Space Exploration? appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

2018-7-19 18:06


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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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Taiwanese Dollar Tethered Stablecoin Introduced

Reports out today highlight that a new stablecoin has been introduced that will exist as a tether to the Taiwanese Dollar. As this will be a stablecoin, the idea is simply that the coin will follow the price of the Taiwanese Dollar and will offer a crypto alternative for the FIAT currency, in the same way Tether currently operates alongside the US Dollar. дальше »

2018-7-13 16:00